VI. Outline of Contents:

1. 1 to 11.  God’s Dealings with the Human Race.

2. 12 to 50.  God’s Dealings with the Chosen Race.

VII. Key Verse: 1:1 in part:  “In the beginning God—­”

VIII. Leading Thought: God before all and in all and over all.

IX. Leading Phrases and Verses:

4:9—­“Am I my brother’s keeper?”

15:1—­“Fear not, Abram:  I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”

18:4—­“Is anything too hard for Jehovah?”

X. Leading Chapters with Names:

1.  The Six Days of Creation.

3.  The Temptation, the Fall and the Promise.

4.  Cain and Abel.

6 to 8.  The Flood.

11.  Babel.

12.  Abraham.

22.  The Sacrifice of Isaac.

23.  The Wrestling of Jacob.

37.  Joseph.

49.  The Blessings of Jacob.

XI. Leading Characters. See Device.

XII. Leading Lessons:

1.  God’s Intimate Acquaintanceship with Man.

2.  The Wide Influence of One Person. (Let teacher and scholar illustrate these.)

XIII. What of Christ:

(a) Symbol:  (The blood of Abel.  Heb. 12:24.)

(b) Type:  Adam.  Rom. 5:14.

Melchizedek.  Heb. 6:20.

(c) Analogy:  Noah.  Joseph.

(d) Prophecy:  3:15:  “I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed:  he shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.”

12:3:  “In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”  See Matt. 1:1.

49:10:  “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh come:  and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.”

XIV. Questions:

1.  Name the first two great institutions established by Jehovah.

2.  Name the beginnings recorded in Chapters 3 and 4.

3.  Name five facts mentioned about the Garden of Eden.

4.  Name God’s first recorded words, Satan’s, Adam’s.

5.  Name the curses pronounced upon the serpent, upon the woman, upon the ground for man’s sake.

6.  Name the first blacksmith, the first musician, the first piece of poetry, the first city, the first and second tithers.

7.  Give ages of Adam, Methuselah, Noah, Abraham, Joseph.

8.  Name the cause of the flood and the number of people saved.

9.  Name the three sons of Noah and the prophecies regarding the descendants of each.

10.  Why did the people build the Tower of Babel?

11.  Name the seven promises made to Abraham in Chapter 15.

12.  By what quality was Abraham saved? 15:6.  See Gal. 3:8.

13.  Who was Melchizedek?  Hagar?  Ishmael?

14.  Name the wife and sons of Isaac.