Hebrew Bereshit (In the Beginning), the first book of the Old Testament. Its name derives from the opening words: In the beginning . . . . Genesis narrates the primeval history of the world (chapters 111) and the patriarchal history of the Israelite people (chapters 1250). The primeval history includes the familiar stories of the Creation, the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, and the Tower
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