The Structure of Genesis: A simple approach to understanding the structure of Genesis is to look at its content and style. The book is divided into two sections: Genesis 1-11 and Genesis 12-50. The first is ancient history which covers the period between creation and the Tower of Babel. The length of time it is covered is greater than the total length of the rest of the recorded Bible. The second part of Genesis is the story of the Israelite fathers. Time in this section slows down the pace and focuses on one man, Abraham and his family for four generations. It relates that God initiates his salvation to humanity since the call of Abraham, with his blessing, who leaves his homeland for Canaan; to the death of his descendant Joseph at the end of the book. Interestingly, both sections begin with the word of God. In Gen 1:1: God says: “Let there be light…”, God initiates the creation of the world through his word. And in Genesis 12:1: “The Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country… I will show you…” God introduces Abraham to his election plan also through his word. Both sections are built from a creation by the Word of God. The power of His Word creates the universe (1:1) as well as a new destiny of a special people, a nation through one man (12:1). Not only is similarity shown at the beginning of both sections, as in the fifty chapters of Genesis, many repeated words and expressions have been carefully adopted. Let's compare the two creation accounts in Gen 1 and Gen 2-3 and explain what I found. The description of the creation of the world varies from each other in terms of content, word, sentence and style.1. The author of Gen 1 chooses repeated words and phrases to describe God's creation: "And God said" or "Then God said" (vv. 3,6,9,11,14, 20,24,26) ; u...... middle of paper ...... with the new nations after the flood (10:1) and the emphasis on the descendants of the chosen nations (11:10, 27) until the prologue d 'Abram. Another 5 episodes are being constructed in the History of the Israelite Fathers section, three record the story of Abraham and Isaac (12:1-25:18), the story of Jacob (25:19-36:43 ) and the story of Joseph. (37:1-50:26). The other two episodes tell of Ishmael at the end of the cycle of Abraham (25:12,18) and Esau at the end of the cycle of Jacob (36:1, 43). Therefore, using a genealogical approach, counting and listing generations by generation. , connects separate ancient stories and respects them, the writer A constructs the book of Genesis and brings a sense of unity to it. And in a broader sense, the writer constructed the sections of Ancient History and the History of the Israelite Fathers with a common beginning: the creation of God with the power of His Word..