Characters & Episodes in Genesis
Swipe chapter-by-chapter across Genesis (50 chapters total).
Genesis 1
God the Father (Yahweh)
The eternal Creator, Covenant LORD (Yahweh), and righteous Judge of all the earth — who provides the Lamb, answers by fire, and reigns unrivaled on Heaven's throne.
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The third Person of the Trinity — the Breath of God who raised dry bones in Ezekiel's valley, descended as tongues of fire at Pentecost, and seals every believer for redemption.
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Jesus Christ
The eternal Son of God and promised Messiah — who calmed the Galilean storm, washed His disciples' feet, bore our judgment on the cross, rose as Firstfruits, and returns on a white horse as King of Kings.
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Satan (The Accuser)
The fallen adversary and relentless prosecutor who points at Joshua the High Priest's filthy garments in Zechariah 3, is unmasked as the Great Red Dragon in Revelation 12, and is evicted from Heaven's court forever.
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Genesis 12
Genesis 16
Genesis 17
Abraham
Father of the covenant nation and head of the Messianic genealogy — who split the altar wood before dawn, climbed Mount Moriah for three days with his promised son Isaac, and named the mountain Jehovah Jireh.
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Isaac
The miracle son of Abraham and Sarah who carried the altar wood up Mount Moriah, asked 'Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?', and was spared when God provided the ram in the thicket.
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Wife of Abraham and matriarch of Israel who conceived the promised son Isaac at age ninety, turning decades of barrenness into covenant laughter.
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Isaac
The miracle son of Abraham and Sarah who carried the altar wood up Mount Moriah, asked 'Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?', and was spared when God provided the ram in the thicket.
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Wife of Abraham and matriarch of Israel who conceived the promised son Isaac at age ninety, turning decades of barrenness into covenant laughter.
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Abraham
Father of the covenant nation and head of the Messianic genealogy — who split the altar wood before dawn, climbed Mount Moriah for three days with his promised son Isaac, and named the mountain Jehovah Jireh.
✦ Inspect DossierGod the Father (Yahweh)
The eternal Creator, Covenant LORD (Yahweh), and righteous Judge of all the earth — who provides the Lamb, answers by fire, and reigns unrivaled on Heaven's throne.
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Isaac
The miracle son of Abraham and Sarah who carried the altar wood up Mount Moriah, asked 'Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?', and was spared when God provided the ram in the thicket.
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The Ram Caught in the Thicket
The substitute ram discovered behind Abraham on Mount Moriah with its horns entangled in a thicket of thorns — offered up 'instead of his son' as a prophetic shadow of Christ crowned with thorns.
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The heavenly Messenger of Yahweh who calls from heaven to stay Abraham's knife on Mount Moriah and presides as Advocate over Joshua the High Priest's cleansing in Zechariah 3.
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Genesis 25
Abraham
Father of the covenant nation and head of the Messianic genealogy — who split the altar wood before dawn, climbed Mount Moriah for three days with his promised son Isaac, and named the mountain Jehovah Jireh.
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Son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham who wrestled with God at Peniel, received the covenant name Israel, and fathered the twelve tribes including Judah in the Messianic line.
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Genesis 29
Genesis 32
The People of Israel
The covenant nation delivered from Egypt — who drank from the smitten Rock at Rephidim, trembled before the fire of Sinai, reaped Canaan's first grain at Gilgal, and fell on their faces on Mount Carmel crying, 'The LORD, He is God!'
✦ Inspect DossierJacob (Israel)
Son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham who wrestled with God at Peniel, received the covenant name Israel, and fathered the twelve tribes including Judah in the Messianic line.
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Genesis 37
Genesis 38
Judah
Fourth son of Jacob and Leah, ancestor of the royal tribe of David and Jesus, who confessed 'She is more righteous than I' regarding Tamar and offered himself as surety for Benjamin.
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Son of Judah and Tamar whose birth 'broke forth' ahead of his twin Zerah, founding the Perezite clan that produced Boaz, King David, and Jesus.
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The first woman named in Matthew's Messianic genealogy — a wronged Canaanite widow whose bold pursuit of covenant justice preserved the royal line of Judah through her son Perez.
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Genesis 46
Genesis 49
Jacob (Israel)
Son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham who wrestled with God at Peniel, received the covenant name Israel, and fathered the twelve tribes including Judah in the Messianic line.
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Fourth son of Jacob and Leah, ancestor of the royal tribe of David and Jesus, who confessed 'She is more righteous than I' regarding Tamar and offered himself as surety for Benjamin.
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