| Creation, earliest people | 1:1-4:26 |
| First creation account | 1:1-2:4 |
| Second creation account | 2:5-24 |
| The Fall | 2:25-3:24 |
| Cain and Abel | 4:1-16 |
| Cain's descendants | 4:17-24 |
| Seth | 4:25-26 |
| Adam's descendants | 5:1-6:8 |
| Genealogy | 5:1-32 |
| Early humanity | 6:1-8 |
| Noah | 6:9-9:29 |
| The Flood | 6:9-9:17 |
| After the flood | 9:18-9:29 |
| Noah's descendants | 10:1-11:26 |
| Genealogies | 10:1-32 |
| Japheth's descendants | 10:2-5 |
| Ham's descendants | 10:6-20 |
| Shem's descendants | 10:21-31 |
| Tower of Babel | 11:1-9 |
| Shem's descendants | 11:10-11:26 |
| Terah's descendants (Abram/Abraham) | 11:27-25:11 |
| Terah's family | 11:27-32 |
| Abram moves to Canaan | 12:1-9 |
| Abram goes to Egypt | 12:10-20 |
| Abram and Lot separate after returning from Egypt | 13:1-18 |
| Abram rescues Lot | 14:1-24 |
| God's covenant with Abram | 15:1-21 |
| Ishmael born | 16:1-16 |
| God renews covenant, renames Abram and Sarai | 17:1-18:15 |
| God discusses Sodom with Abraham | 18:16-33 |
| Lot rescued from destruction of Sodom | 19:1-29 |
| Lot and his daughters | 19:30-38 |
| Abraham to near Gerar, deceives Abimelech | 20:1-18 |
| Isaac born | 21:1-7 |
| Hagar and Ishmael sent away | 21:8-21 |
| Abraham and Abimelech make a treaty | 21:22-34 |
| God instructs Abraham to sacrifice Isaac | 22:1-19 |
| Nahor's family | 22:20-24 |
| Abraham buys burial plot for Sarah | 23:1-23:20 |
| Finding a wife for Isaac | 24:1-67 |
| Abraham has more children and then dies | 25:1-11 |
| Ishmael's descendants | 25:12-18 |
| Isaac and his descendants (Jacob) | 25:19-35:29 |
| Jacob and Esau born | 25:19-26 |
| Esau sells birthright | 25:27-34 |
| Isaac moves to Gerar, interacts with Abimelech | 26:1-35 |
| Jacob steals Esau's blessing | 27:1-28:9 |
| God appears to Jacob at Bethel | 28:10-22 |
| Jacob marries Leah and Rachel | 29:1-30 |
| Jacob's children | 29:31-30:24 |
| Jacob returns to Canaan | 30:25-33:20 |
| Jacob and Laban agree on payment | 32:1-31:2 |
| Jacob discusses leaving with his family | 31:3-16 |
| Jacob leaves, Laban pursues | 31:17-31:55 |
| Jacob prepares to meet Esau | 32:1-21 |
| Jacob wrestles with God | 32:22-32 |
| Jacob and Esau reunite | 33:1-33:20 |
| Dinah raped, revenge by Simeon and Levi | 34:1-31 |
| Jacob moves to Bethel | 35:1-15 |
| Jacob heads toward Ephrath, Rachel dies | 35:16-22a |
| Jacob's sons | 35:22b-26 |
| Jacob returns to Isaac, Isaac dies | 35:27-29 |
| Esau's descendants | 36:1-43 |
| Jacob and his descendants (Joseph) | 37:1-50:26 |
| Joseph's dreams, sold into slavery in Egypt | 37:1-36 |
| Judah and Tamar | 38:1-30 |
| Joseph in Potiphar's service, thrown into jail | 39:1-23 |
| Joseph interprets dreams of fellow inmates | 40:1-23 |
| Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams | 41:1-57 |
| Joseph reunited with brothers | 42:1-45:15 |
| Brothers' first trip to Egypt | 42:1-38 |
| Brothers' second trip to Egypt | 43:1-45:15 |
| Jacob and family moves to Egypt | 45:16-47:12 |
| Genealogies | 46:8-27 |
| Joseph during the famine | 47:13-26 |
| Jacob blesses his sons | 47:27-48:22 |
| Jacob dies | 49:1-50:13 |
| Joseph dies | 50:14-26 |