The Strand Study Bible

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF GENESIS

TEXT

SUBJECT HEAD

DATE

The heaven and the earth are created and then remade (vs. 2) by the Triune Godhead

Sometime in eternity past...

Genesis 1:1-2

Genesis 1:3-5 Genesis 1:6-8 Genesis 1:9-13 Genesis 1:14-19 Genesis 1:20-23 Genesis 1:24-26 Genesis 2:4-7 Genesis 2:8-17 Genesis 2:19-20 Genesis 2:18,21-25 Genesis 1:28-30 Genesis 1:27,31 - 2:3

The first day (Light and time) The second day (Water and sky)

c. 4000 BC

The third day (Oceans, land, and plant life)

The fourth day (The sun, moon and stars become visible)

The fifth day (Fowl and sea creatures) The sixth day (Beasts and the first man)

Creation summarized

God places man in Eden (Map #1) Adam names the first animals The creation of the first woman

Man is given dominion

Creation completed (God is satisfied)

The first sin; the first promise of salvation through CHRIST

Genesis 3:1-24 *Religious Note -

c. 4000 BC c. 4000 BC

Mythology and Polytheism begin (Gen 3:5)

Messianic Christianity begins with the promise of grace via the Gospel of Christ given to Adam and Eve (Gen 3:15/Titus 1:2)

*HIStorical Note -

c. 4000 BC

Genesis 4:1-2

The first children (Cain and Abel)

c. 3950 BC

Messianic Christianity continues with the promise of grace via the Gospel of Christ given to Abel (Gen 4:4/Lk 11:49-51)

*HIStorical Note -

c. 3900 BC

Genesis 4:3-15 Genesis 4:16-24 *Historical Note Genesis 4:25-26 Genesis 5:1 - 5:3

The first murder (Cain kills Abel)

c. 3900 BC

The descendants of Cain

Babylonian Pre-Flood Period (c. 4000-2344 BC)

The birth of Seth

3870 BC

The descendants of Adam The birth of Enos The birth of Cainan The birth of Mahalaleel

Genesis 5:6 Genesis 5:9 Genesis 5:12 Genesis 5:15 Genesis 5:18 Genesis 5:21

3765 BC 3675 BC 3605 BC 3540 BC 3378 BC 3313 BC

The birth of Jared The birth of Enoch

The birth of Methuselah

Messianic Christianity continues with the promise of grace via the Gospel of Christ given to Enoch (Gen 5:21-24/Jude 14)

*HIStorical Note -

c. 3200 BC

Genesis 5:25

The birth of Lamech

3126 BC

Egyptian Pre-Flood Period (c. 4000-3100 BC) Assyrian Pre-Flood Period (c. 4000-2344 BC) Egyptian history begins (First Egyptian Period)

*Historical Note - *Historical Note - *Historical Note - Genesis 5:4-5 Genesis 5:22-24 Genesis 5:7-8 Genesis 5:28-29 *Historical Note - Genesis 5:10-11 Genesis 5:13-14

c. 3100 BC

The death of Adam

3070 BC 3013 BC 2958 BC 2944 BC

Enoch is raptured to heaven

The death of Seth The birth of Noah

Egyptian history cont. (Old Kingdom Period)

c. 2700 BC

The death of Enos The death of Cainan

2860 BC 2765 BC

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