The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism
(Hebrew: Bereshit) The first book of the Five Books of Moses, which tells the story of the creation of the world and of the first generations of humankind, ten from Adam, the first human being, to Noah, the one righteous man of his generation, and ten from Noah to Abraham (Genesis 1–11).
It proceeds to narrate the patriarchal story of the beginning of Israel as the family of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Genesis 12–38). The story of how the Israelites went down to Egypt in the time of Joseph, Jacob’s eleventh son, who was especially favored by his father and was an object of jealousy for his brothers, fills out the remainder of the book (Genesis 39–50), including Jacob’s final blessing of his twelve sons, the founders of the TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (Genesis 49).
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