Genesis (in Greek, creation, birth, origin), is the first book of the Bible and of the Pentateuch, named in the Hebrewcanon B'reshith (in the beginning), from the term with which it commences. From the Greek translators it received the name it is now commonly known by. Genesis consists of two great but closely-connected divisions: (1) The history of the creation, the fall of man, the flood, the dispersion of the human race, (2) The history of the fathers of the Jewish race. A certain apparent difference of style and language, the occurrence of what seem gaps on the one hand, and repetitions and contradictions on the other, and the different use of the term for the divine name (Jehovah, Everlasting; and Elohim, Almighty), led very early to the question of the integrity of the book, and various critics have assumed larger or smaller interpolations. Research Genesis
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