Introduction to the patriarchal story: Genesis 12-50 -- Structure and growth of Genesis 12-25 -- Transition to the story of Abraham: Genesis 11:27-32 -- Promise to Abraham and migration: Genesis 12:1-9 -- The ancestral mother in danger: Genesis 12:10-20 -- Abraham and lot on the way: Genesis 13:1-18 -- Abraham and the kings: Genesis 14:1-24 -- The promise to Abraham: Genesis 15:1-21 -- Sarah and Hagar: flight and promise of a son: Genesis 16:1-16 -- The covenant with Abraham: Genesis 17:1-27 -- Abraham and the three guests: Genesis 18:1-16a -- Abraham queries the destruction of Sodom: Genesis 18:16b-33 -- The destruction of Sodom and the rescue of Lot: Genesis 19:1-29 -- Lot's daughters: Genesis 19:30-38 -- Abraham and Abimelech: Genesis 20:1-18 -- The birth of Isaac: Genesis 21:1-7 -- The expulsion and rescue of Hagar and her child: Genesis 21:8-21 -- Dispute over the wells and treaty with Abimelech: Genesis 21:22-24 -- Abraham's sacrifice: Genesis 22:1-19 -- The descendants of Nahor: Genesis22:20-24 -- Sarah's death and the purchase of the burial cave: Genesis23:1-20 -- The wooing of Rebekah: Genesis 24:1-67 -- Conclusion of the Abraham story: Genesis25:1-18 -- The Abraham story in retrospect: Genesis12-25 --

Structure, origin and growth of Genesis 25:19-36:43 -- The birth of Esau and Jacob: Genesis 25:19-28 -- The pot of lentil soup: Genesis 25:29-34 -- Isaac and Abimelech: Genesis 26:1-35 -- The firstborn cheated of his blessing: Genesis 27:1-45 -- Jacob's departure and Esau's wives: Genesis 26:34-35; 27:46; 28:1-9 -- Jacob's dream and vow at Bethel: Genesis 28:10-22 -- Jacob and Laban: marriage with Leah and Rachel: Genesis 29:1-30 -- The birth and naming of Jacob's sons: Genesis 29:31-30:24 -- Jacob outwits Laban: Genesis 30:25-43 -- Jacob's separation from Laban: Genesis 31:1-54 -- Preparation for the meeting with Esau: Genesis 32:1-22 (Eng., 31:55-32:21) -- The attack on Jacob at the Jabbok: Genesis 32:23-33 (Eng., 32:22-32) -- The meeting of the brothers: Genesis 33:1-20 -- Dinah and the Shechemites: Genesis 34:1-31 -- Jacob in Bethel and Hebron, Jacob's sons, Isaac's death: Genesis 35:1-29 -- Esau's descendants: Genesis 36:1-43 -- Conclusion to Genesis 12-36.