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GENERAL OUTLINES

Fivefold Fractal

PART Α: Creation of the world and a fallen human race (ch. 1–9)

PART Β: Abraham called out of a degenerate people; Isaac brought forth from a barren womb (ch. 10–21)

PART Ο: The generation of the twelve tribes of Israel (22:20–ch. 36)

PART Ω: Joseph and the famine — and a typological return to paradise (ch. 37–50)



Ksiastically Contemplated

PART Α: Creation of the world and a fallen human race (ch. 1–9)

PART Β: Abraham called out of a degenerate people; Isaac brought forth from a barren womb (ch. 10–21)

PART Ξ: Abraham, his son Isaac, and a sacrifice (22:1-19)

PART Ο: The creation of the twelve tribes of Israel (22:20–ch. 36)

PART Ω: Joseph and his brothers called out of famine and typologically into paradise (ch. 37–50)



Long-Range Palistrophic


Α.Α. Creation, which God blesses (ch. 1–2)

          Α.Β. Adam’s indulgence: fall and expulsion from paradise (ch. 3)

                    Α.Χ. The history of birth and murder (ch. 4)

                              Α.Ο. Adam’s line through Seth according to God’s image (ch. 5)

                                        Α.Ω. Noah and the global flood — and an eternal covenant (ch. 6–9)


                                                            Β.Α. Noah’s degenerating seed through Abram’s life before kids 
(ch. 10–14)

                                                                      Β.Β. Ishmael born, but Isaac promised; circumcision covenant 
(ch. 15–17)

                                                                                Β.Χ. Hospitality of Abraham; Sarah laughs; the bargain for Sodom (ch. 18)

                                                                                          Β.Ο. Hospitality of Lot; his rescue; destruction of Sodom (ch. 19)

                                                                                                    Β.Ω. The miraculous birth of Isaac; Abraham and Abimelech 
(ch. 20–21)


                                                                                                                        Χ. Abraham, his son Isaac, and a sacrifice (22:1-19)


                                                                                                    Ο.Α. Abraham and Sarah die; Isaac marries Rebekah; Jacob and Esau born (22:20–ch. 25)

                                                                                          Ο.Β. Isaac after the image of Abraham; his life under Abimelech (26:1‑33)

                                                                                Ο.Χ. Jacob steals Isaac’s blessing from Esau (26:34–28:9)

                                                                      Ο.Ο. Jacob’s sojourn with Laban, marrying Leah and Rachel and fathering twelve (28:10–ch. 31)

                                                            Ο.Ω. Jacob’s return: reconciliation with Esau; Dinah raped by Shechem; birth of Benjamin (ch. 32–36)


                                        Ω.Α. Joseph betrayed by his brothers (ch. 37)

                              Ω.Β. The contrast of unjust Judah and chaste Joseph (ch. 38–41)

                    Ω.Χ. The first trip to Egypt and conflict of brothers (ch. 42)

          Ω.Ο. Judah’s self-sacrifice, Joseph’s revelation, and Israel’s salvation in Egypt (ch. 43–46:7)

Ω.Ω. Prosperity in Egypt, blessings of the tribes, and reconciliation of brothers (46:8–ch. 50)


DETAILED OUTLINES

Fivefold Fractal

PART Α: Creation of the world and a fallen human race (ch. 1–9)

Α. Creation, which God blesses (ch. 1–2)

α. Days one through three (1:1-13)

Day one: heaven and earth; light and darkness, night and day (1:1-5)

Day two: the firmament called heaven divides the waters from the waters (1:6-8)

Day three: earth and seas; vegetation and trees to be fruitful and multiply (1:9-13)


β. Days four through six (1:14-31)

Day four: lights in the firmament of heaven to enlighten the earth, to rule over night and day (1:14-19)

Day five: creeping things in the waters and fowl above earth in the firmament of heaven to be fruitful and multiply (1:20-23)

Day six: animals; man after God’s image to have dominion, to be fruitful and multiply; vegetation given as food to both (1:24-31)


ξ. Seventh day: God rests and sanctifies (2:1-3)

α. Heaven and earth are completed (2:1)

β. God completed His works on the sixth day (2:2a)

χ. God rests from His works on the seventh day (2:2b)

o. God blesses, sanctifies the seventh day (2:3a)

ω. In that on the seventh day He rested from the works He began to make (2:3b)


o. The garden of Eden; water and vegetation (2:4-17)

α. The generations of the heavens and of the earth, before plants: no rain or man to till (2:4-5)

β. Mist from the earth waters the ground (2:6)

χ. Man made from dust and breath; Eden planted and man placed there; God makes trees, including those of life and knowledge (2:7-9)

o. River of Eden parts into four to water the garden (2:10-14)

ω. Man placed in Eden to be the gardener; commandment not to eat of the tree of knowledge, lest death (2:15-17)


ω. In search of a helpmeet: naming the animals and creation of Woman (2:18-25)

α. It is not good for Man to be alone (2:18)

β. God creates the animals and brings them to Adam to be named (2:19-20)

χ. God makes Adam to sleep and takes a rib, replacing the flesh (2:21)

o. God creates Woman and brings her to Adam, who names her (2:22-24)

ω. They were naked the both of them, and not ashamed (2:25)

Β. Adam’s indulgence: fall and expulsion from paradise (ch. 3)

α. Serpent asks the woman about the tree of knowledge commandment (3:1‑3)


β. The serpent denies that they will die and promises knowledge of good and evil; they bite (3:4‑6)


χ. The fallout (3:7-21)

α. Eyes opened to their nakedness; they make aprons of fig leaves (3:7)

β. God searches them out; Adam blames the woman (3:8-12)

χ. Woman blames the serpent, who is cursed; enmity set between their seed; woman cursed to childbirth and desire (3:13-16)

o. Adam cursed to agriculture and death (3:17-19)

ω. Adam names Eve since mother of all living; God gives coats of skins (3:20-21)


o. God beholds their knowledge of good and evil and expels them from Eden (3:22‑23)


ω. Cherubim with flaming sword to keep the tree of life (3:24)

Χ. The history of birth and murder (ch. 4)

α. Adam and Eve bear Cain and Abel (4:1-2)


β. Cain kills Abel and is cursed (4:3-15)

α. Cain and Abel make sacrifice; God respects Abel’s and not Cain’s (4:3-5a)

β. Cain upset; God gives him a lesson (4:5b-7)

χ. Cain kills Abel, is confronted by God; “my brother’s keeper?”; Abel’s blood cries from the ground (4:8-10)

o. God curses Cain from the earth; Cain upset with his punishment (4:11-14)

ω. The mark of Cain (4:15)


χ. The line of Cain unto Lamech and his children, the seventh generation (4:16-22)


o. Lamech perpetuates murder — and is repentant? (4:23-24)


ω. Birth of Seth to replace Abel; his son Enos calls upon the Lord (4:25‑26)

Ο. Adam’s line through Seth according to God’s image (ch. 5)

α. God creates Adam after His likeness, who begets Seth after his likeness (5:1‑5)


β. Adam’s seed unto the sixth generation (5:6‑20)


χ. The seventh generation: Enoch who was not, for God took him (5:21‑24)


o. Methuselah, the eighth generation (5:25‑27)


ω. Lamech begets Noah, to be a comfort in toiling due to the cursed ground; Noah’s sons (5:28‑32)

Ω. Noah and the global flood — and an eternal covenant (ch. 6–9)

intro: Sons of God and daughters of men populate earth with giants (6:1-4)


α. Before the Flood (6:5–7:5)


β. Rising waters (7:6-16)      See CLOSE-UP


χ. Consummation (7:17–8:5)


o. Falling waters (8:6-14)


ω. After the Flood (8:15–9:17)


extro: The Ham debacle and the cursing of Canaan to servitude (9:18-29)


PART Β: Abraham called out of a degenerate people; Isaac brought forth from a barren womb (ch. 10–21)

Α. Noah’s degenerating seed through Abram’s life before kids 
(ch. 10–14)

α. Generations of the sons of Noah (ch. 10)


β. Tower of Babel, people scattered (11:1-9)


χ. Dwindling line of Shem unto Sarai’s barren womb (11:10-32)


o. Abram called to Promised Land through Egypt (ch. 12–13:13)

α. The call of Abram (12:1-6)

β. Land promised; Abram builds altars there while passing through (12:7-8)

χ. Abram and Sarai get rich in Egypt during famine (12:9-20)

o. Abram returns to the Bethel altar (13:1-4)

ω. Abram and Lot separate (13:5-13)


ω. War and the rescue of Lot (13:14–ch. 14)

α. Lord promises land, seed as dust (13:14-18)

β. Rebellion of five kings against four; Chedorlaomer smites (14:1-9)

χ. Abram smites Chedorlaomer and rescues Lot (14:10-17)

o. Melchizedek blesses; Abram gives tithes of all (14:18-20)

ω. King of Sodom offers goods that Abram refuses but for his confederates (14:21-24)

Β. Ishmael born, but Isaac promised; circumcision covenant 
(ch. 15–17)

α. Question about a son: one promised, seed as stars (15:1-6)


β. Question about this land promise: prophecy of Exodus (15:7-21)


χ. Sarai and Hagar: Hagar conceives by Abram, hates Sarai, and is expelled (16:1-6)


o. Hagar told to return by angel at the well; Ishmael prophesied (16:7-14)


ω. Circumcision covenant; birth of Ishmael; prophecy of Isaac (16:15–ch. 17)

α. Birth of Ishmael (16:15-16)

β. Content of covenant given to prostrate Abraham; name change (17:1-8)

χ. Token of the covenant: circumcision (17:9-14)

o. Prophecy of Isaac over Ishmael given to prostrate Abraham; Sarah’s name change (17:15-22)

ω. Abraham and Ishmael and all the house circumcised (17:23-27)

Χ. Hospitality of Abraham; Sarah laughs; the bargain for Sodom (ch. 18)

α. Abraham receives three guests (love of strangers/God) (18:1-5)


          β. Abraham prepares a meal under a tree (18:6-8)


                    χ. Sarah laughs at the promise of childbearing, denies it out of fear (18:9‑15)


          o. Looking towards Sodom, God considers Abraham’s virtuous future (18:16-21)


ω. Abraham bargains for Sodom in order to save Lot (love of brother/man) (18:22-33)

Ο. Hospitality of Lot; his rescue; destruction of Sodom (ch. 19)

α. Lot receives two guests (19:1-3)


          β. The rescue of Lot and his house from Sodomite attackers (19:4-11)


                    χ. The guests warn of destruction; betrothed sons-in-law do not believe, ending Lot’s seed (19:12-14)


          o. The rescue of lingering Lot and his family from Sodom (19:15-16)


ω. Destruction of Sodom; God remembers Abraham, saves Lot (19:17-38)

α. Lot begs for his life, to go to Zoar instead of the mountain (19:17-23)

β. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; Lot’s wife perishes (19:24-26)

χ. Abraham views the destruction from bargaining spot (19:27-28)

o. God remembered Abraham in saving Lot and destroying Sodom (19:29)

ω. From Zoar to mountain: daughters of Lot preserve his seed: Moab and Ammon (19:30-38)

Ω. The miraculous birth of Isaac; Abraham and Abimelech 
(ch. 20–21)

α. Abimelech pleads ignorance to taking Abraham’s wife; God agrees, but threatens (20:1-7)


          β. Abimelech confronts Abraham — who shares a father with Sarah — and gives him wealth; wombs opened (20:8-18)


                    χ. Isaac conceived, born, named, circumcised, and weaned (21:1-8)


          o. Hagar and Ishmael disinherited and cast out; angel rescues him; Ishmael to be a nation (21:9-21)


ω. Abimelech pleads ignorance to stealing Abraham’s well; they covenant (21:22-34)


PART Χ: Abraham, his son Isaac, and a sacrifice (22:1-19)

Χ. Abraham, his son Isaac, and a sacrifice (22:1-19)

α. God tempts Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac (22:1-2)

β. Abraham prepares Isaac for sacrifice (22:3-9)

χ. The angel stays Abraham’s hand (22:10-12)

o. A ram is provided and offered instead (22:13-14)

ω. The angel returns to bless Abraham and his seed (22:15-19)


PART Ο: The generation of the twelve tribes of Israel (22:20–ch. 36)

Α. Abraham and Sarah die; Isaac marries Rebekah; Jacob and Esau born (22:20–ch. 25)

α. Abraham told of the progeny of his brother Nahor, grandfather to Rebekah (22:20-24)


β. Sarah dies; Abraham buys burial place (ch. 23)


χ. Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah (ch. 24)

α. Abraham sends servant to find a wife for Isaac (24:1-9)

β. Servant finds Rebekah at the well (24:10-33)

χ. Servant recounts the narrative (24:34-48)

o. Marriage arranged (24:49-60)

ω. They meet and marry; Isaac comforted after his mother’s death (24:61-67)


o. Abraham is fruitful and multiplies, dies, and is buried; son Isaac heir to blessing (25:1‑18)

α. Abraham takes a wife, Keturah, and sires another line (25:1-4)

β. Isaac made sole heir and the concubines’ children are sent east (25:5-6)

χ. Death and burial of Abraham (25:7-10)

o. God blesses Isaac (25:11)

ω. Generations of Ishmael; his death (25:12-18)


ω. Birth of Esau and Jacob; fainting Esau sells birthright to Jacob for pottage (25:19-34)

α. Isaac prays for barren wife Rebekah (25:19-21a)

β. Twins conceived, prophesied to be at odds (25:21b-24)

χ. Birth and naming of Esau and Jacob (25:25-26)

o. Their differences; Edom begs Jacob for food (25:27-30)

ω. Jacob buys Esau’s birthright for pottage (25:31-34)

Β. Isaac after the image of Abraham; his life under Abimelech (26:1‑33)

α. Covenant renewed with Isaac; Isaac in Gerar with Abimelech (26:1-11)


β. Isaac becomes rich off the land to the Philistines’ envy (26:12-14)


χ. Exiled by Abimelech, Isaac digs again Abraham’s wells (26:15-18)


o. Isaac digs new wells, has disputes with Philistines (26:19-22)


ω. Beersheba: God blesses Isaac, who makes covenant with Abimelech (26:23-33)

Χ. Jacob steals Isaac’s blessing from Esau (26:34–28:9)

α. Esau marries Hittites; Isaac sends him to get meat for his blessing (26:34–27:5)


β. Rebekah instructs Jacob how to deceive Isaac and steal the blessing (27:6-17)


χ. The exchange of blessings: Jacob foils Esau, who vows revenge (27:18-41)


o. Rebekah warns Jacob to flee to Laban (27:42-45)


ω. Jacob is sent for a wife, his blessing confirmed; Esau marries an Ishmaelite (27:46–28:9)

Ο. Jacob’s sojourn with Laban, marrying Leah and Rachel and fathering twelve (28:10–ch. 31)

α. Jacob’s Ladder, stone pillar; he meets with Laban and marries Leah and Rachel (28:10–29:30)

α. Jacob’s Ladder; God renews covenant; Jacob sets stone pillar, calls Luz Bethel (28:10-19)

β. Jacob makes a vow for the sake of provisions on his journey (28:20-22)

χ. Jacob rolls away stone from well for Rachel and Laban’s sheep (29:1-10)

o. Jacob meets Rachel, is brought to stay with Laban (29:11-14)

ω. Jacob marries Laban’s daughters Leah and Rachel (29:15-30)


β. Jacob fathers twelve (29:31–30:24)

α. Leah is fertile, but Rachel is barren (29:31)

β. Leah’s sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah (29:32-35)

χ. Rachel envious of Leah; “give me children lest I die”; Bilhah’s sons (30:1-8)

o. Zilpah’s sons; hiring Jacob with mandrakes, Leah bears more (30:9-21)

ω. God remembers Rachel: Joseph, and prophecy of another (30:22-24)


χ. By strange livestock breeding, Jacob negotiates a prosperous departure from Laban (30:25–31:2)


o. Jacob recounts to his wives his divine vision of breeding livestock (31:3‑13)


ω. Escape from Laban; covenant and boundary set at Gilead with stone pillar (31:14-55)

α. Jacob flees with all that he has; Rachel steals images; Laban pursues (31:14-23)

β. Laban questions Jacob, tells about God’s warning (31:24-29)

χ. Laban looks for his images, which Rachel hides (31:30-35)

o. Jacob explains to Laban why God warned him (31:36-42)

ω. Laban and Jacob make covenant; Jacob erects stone pillar and heap (31:43-55)

Ω. Jacob’s return: reconciliation with Esau; Dinah raped by Shechem; birth of Benjamin (ch. 32–36)

α. The reconciliation of Jacob and Esau (ch. 32–33:17)

α. Jacob met by angels of God; Jacob announces his arrival to Esau; they are to meet (32:1-6)

β. Jacob divides himself, prays for deliverance from Esau (32:7-12)

χ. Jacob sets apart gifts and sends them to Esau (32:13-21)

o. Jacob wrestles with angel, is named Israel (32:22-32)

ω. Jacob and Esau meet, embrace; Jacob gives presents to Esau; they agree to part (33:1-17)


β. Shechem and Dinah: circumcision alienates Israel in the land of Canaan (33:18–35:8)

α. Jacob settles outside Shalem, buys land, and builds an altar, Elelohe-Israel (33:18-20)

β. Dinah raped, courted by Shechem; Hamor proposes alliance (34:1-12)

χ. The circumcision of Shalem with the pretense of alliance (34:13-24)

o. Simeon and Levi kill Hamor and Shechem and retrieve Dinah; Shalem spoiled (34:25-29)

ω. Jacob forced to emigrate, led by God to Bethel, builds altar; his sons, indignant at their sister being treated as a harlot, are made to put away their gods (34:30–35:7)

extro: Deborah Rebekah’s nurse dies (35:8)


χ. God changes Jacob to Israel at Bethel (35:9-15)

ς. God changes Jacob’s name to Israel (35:9-10)

ζ. God: be fruitful and multiply, land promised (35:11-12)

η. Jacob sets pillar, offers drink and oil, names Bethel (35:13-15)


o. Tower of Gader; the twelve tribes of Israel completed; Rachel dies in childbirth (35:21, 16‑20, 22‑26)

α. Tower of Gader (Eder; ‘of the flock’) (35:21 LXX)

β. Midwife promises Rachel successful delivery amidst hard labor (35:16-17)

χ. Jacob changes Benoni’s name to Benjamin; Rachel dies in childbirth and Jacob sets pillar on her grave (35:18-20)

o. Reuben lies with Bilhah (35:22a)

ω. The twelve sons of Jacob, listed by mother (35:22b-26)


ω. The death of Isaac, the parting of Jacob and Esau, and the generations of Esau (35:27–ch. 36)

α. Isaac dies at Hebron, Mamre with Jacob present; Esau and Jacob bury him (35:27-29)

β. The three wives and five sons of Esau (36:1-5)

χ. Esau parts with Jacob and leaves Canaan for Seir (Edom) (36:6-8)

o. The generations of Esau: 5 sons, 1o grandsons, of whom 14 dukes (36:9-19)

   The sons and dukes of Seir the Horite (36:20-30)

ω.  The kings of Edom (36:31-39)

        Eleven other dukes of Esau (36:40-43)


PART Ω: Joseph and the famine — and a typological return to paradise (ch. 37–50)

Α. Joseph betrayed by his brothers (ch. 37)

intro: Jacob in Canaan; Joseph and an evil report (37:1-2)


α. Joseph favored by Jacob, given a coat, shares offensive dreams (37:3-11)


β. Joseph searches for his brothers, gets lost, but is saved by someone (37:12-17)


χ. The brothers conspire to cast Joseph into a pit (37:18-24)


o. At Judah’s suggestion, Joseph sold into slavery in Egypt (37:25-28)


ω. Brothers dip Joseph’s coat in blood to deceive Jacob (37:29-35)


extro: Joseph sold to Potiphar in Egypt (37:36)

Β. The contrast of unjust Judah and chaste Joseph (ch. 38–41)

α. Judah’s offspring and Tamar (ch. 38)

α. Judah’s three sons by a Canaanite woman (38:1-5)

β. Tamar’s misfortune with Judah’s sons Er and Onan; Judah withholds Shelah (38:6-11)

χ. Tamar plays the harlot with Judah and conceives; 
Judah loses his signet, bracelets, and staff (38:12-23)

o. Tamar reveals her revenge (38:24-26)

ω. The birth of Pharez and Zarah, Judah’s sons by Tamar (38:27-30)


β. Joseph flees the temptation of Potiphar’s wife, lands in prison (ch. 39)

α. Joseph, prospering, made overseer of Potiphar’s house (39:1-6)

β. Joseph shuns the tempting of the one thing Potiphar has withheld from him (39:7-10)

χ. Joseph flees temptation, leaving behind his garment (39:11-12)

o. Potiphar’s wife frames Joseph (39:13-19)

ω. Potiphar throws Joseph in prison, where, prospering, he is made overseer (39:20-23)


χ. The dreams of the butler and the baker (ch. 40)

α. Butler and baker imprisoned, dream dreams for Joseph to interpret (40:1-8)

β. The butler’s dream: pressing grapes in Pharaoh’s cup; he shall be restored (40:9-13)

χ. Joseph asks the butler to mention his case to Pharaoh, that he may be freed (40:14-15)

o. The baker’s dream: birds eating bread from baskets; he shall be hung on a tree (40:16-19)

ω. Butler and baker meet their fates, but the butler forgets Joseph (40:20-23)


o. Joseph recalled from prison to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams (41:1-24)

α. Pharaoh’s dreams (41:1-7)

β. No one can interpret them (41:8)

χ. Chief butler remembers Joseph (41:9-13)

o. Joseph recalled to interpret the dreams (41:14-16)

ω. Joseph told the dreams (41:17-24)


ω. Joseph predicts feast and famine and is set as ruler over Egypt; his offspring (41:25-57)

α. Joseph interprets seven years of feast and seven years of famine (41:25-32)

β. Joseph’s plan to store food during years of feast (41:33-36)

χ. Pharaoh sets Joseph as ruler over Egypt, gives him a wife; 
Joseph gains a ring, linen vestures, and a gold necklace (41:37-46a)

o. Joseph enacts the plan (41:46b-49)

ω. Seven years of feast: births of Manasseh and Ephraim; seven years of famine wax sore (41:50-57)

Χ. The first trip to Egypt and conflict of brothers (ch. 42)

α. Jacob sends his sons to Egypt for food, keeping back Benjamin (42:1-4)


β. Joseph in disguise requires they fetch Benjamin (42:5-20)


χ. The brother’s guilt and Joseph’s anguish; Simeon bound and the others sent away (42:21-25)


o. The sons report back to Jacob on the governor’s requirement (42:26-35)


ω. Reuben offers his two sons as a pledge, but Jacob refuses to send Benjamin (42:36-38)

Ο. Judah’s self-sacrifice, Joseph’s revelation, and Israel’s salvation in Egypt (ch. 43–46:7)

α. Jacob sends them down again, Judah pledging responsibility for Benjamin (43:1‑14)


β. Joseph treats them to dinner at noon, weeps secretly for Benjamin, and traps him (43:15–44:17)

α. Joseph prepares to dine with them at noon; brothers try to return the money; Simeon is restored (43:15-25)

β. The brothers meet Joseph and make obeisance (43:26-28)

χ. Joseph greets Benjamin and removes himself to weep (43:29-31)

o. A great feast with the brothers as honored guests (43:32-34)

ω. Joseph traps Benjamin with his silver cup; brothers accused of stealing it even though they tried to return the money (44:1-17)


χ. Judah pleads their case, offers himself in exchange for Benjamin (44:18‑34)


o. Joseph reveals his identity and God’s provision for their salvation (45:1‑15)

α. Joseph’s weeping heard in Egypt; he reveals himself; they are speechless (45:1-3)

β. He warns of five more years of famine (45:4-6)

χ. He explains God’s providence, excusing them by implication (45:7-8)

o. He instructs them to get their father and weather the famine in Goshen (45:9-13)

ω. He weeps on Benjamin’s, their necks; then they talk to him (45:14-15)


ω. Pharaoh calls Jacob into Egypt; Joseph sends the brothers to get him; God promises a return (45:16–46:7)

α. Pharaoh tells Joseph to have his family come to Egypt (45:16-20)

β. Joseph sends them with provisions, changes of raiment (45:21-24)

χ. The brothers return and get Jacob, telling him about Joseph (45:25-28)

o. At Beersheba God promises Jacob a great nation and return from Egypt (46:1-4)

ω. Everyone arrives in Egypt (46:5-7)

Ω. Prosperity in Egypt, blessings of the tribes, and reconciliation of brothers (46:8–ch. 50)

α. Prosperous placement in Egypt (46:8–47:12)

α. The seventy original Israelites in Egypt (46:8-27)

β. Joseph and Jacob reunite (46:28-30)

χ. Joseph arranges with Pharaoh placement for Israel in Goshen (46:31–47:6)

o. Jacob meets, blesses Pharaoh (47:7-10)

ω. Joseph places his family in the best land, nourishing them with bread (47:11-12)


β. Joseph possesses all lands and cattle for Pharaoh (47:13-26)


χ. The adoption and blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh (47:27–ch. 48)

intro: Dying Jacob makes Joseph swear to bury him with his fathers (47:27-31)

α. Joseph takes Manasseh and Ephraim to Jacob’s deathbed (48:1-2)

β. Jacob recounts God’s blessing at Luz (48:3-4)

χ. Jacob adopts Ephraim and Manasseh (48:5-6)

o. Jacob recounts death and burial of Rachel (48:7)

ω. Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh (48:8-20)

extro: Jacob prophesies Joseph’s return to the fatherland, has given him double portion (48:21-22)


o. Jacob blesses the twelve tribes (49:1-28)

intro: Jacob gathers his sons to tell them what shall befall them in the last days (49:1-2)

α. Reuben the firstborn, unstable as water, defiling his father’s bed (49:3-4)

β. Simeon and Levi: cursed is their anger; they will be divided and scattered (49:5-7)

χ. Judah, a lion’s whelp, from whom a scepter shall not depart, to whom shall be the expectation of the nations (49:8-12)

o. Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali (49:13-21)

ω. Joseph, blessed from heaven and of earth, and Benjamin, a ravenous wolf (49:22-27)

extro: These were the sons and their blessings (49:28)


ω. Death and burial of Jacob; Joseph forgives his brothers and dies (49:29–ch. 50)

α. Jacob commands to be buried in Machpelah and dies (49:29-33)

β. Embalming, mourning, and Pharaoh’s permission to travel (50:1-6)

χ. The trip to Canaan and burial of Jacob (50:7-14)

o. Joseph forgives his brothers: what ye thought for evil, God meant for good (50:15-21)

ω. Joseph prophesies exodus and dies, is embalmed and placed in a coffin (50:22-26)


CLOSE-UPS

The Flood

From PART Α.

Ω. Noah and the global flood — and an eternal covenant (ch. 6–9)

intro: Sons of God and daughters of men populate earth with giants (6:1-4)

α. Before the Flood (6:5–7:5)

β. Rising waters (7:6-16)

χ. Consummation (7:17–8:5)

o. Falling waters (8:6-14)

ω. After the Flood (8:15–9:17)

extro: The Ham debacle and the cursing of Canaan to servitude (9:18-29)


In CLOSE-UP:


α. Before the Flood (6:5–7:5)

God displeased with all but Noah, will destroy (6:5-12)

α. The wickedness of man grieves God (6:5-6)

β. God decides to destroy man and animals (6:7)

χ. Noah finds grace before God (6:8)

o. The generations of righteous Noah (6:9-10)

ω. The earth too displeases (6:11-12)

God reveals the plan to Noah (6:13-17)

α. God reveals to Noah his decision to destroy (6:13)

β. Instructions for the ark — materials (6:14)

χ. Instructions for the ark — dimensions (6:15)

o. Instructions for the ark — features (6:16)

ω. Revelation of the flood as means of destruction (6:17)

Promise of a covenant of salvation, and invitation into the ark (6:18–7:5)

α. Covenant promised to Noah and his family (6:18)

β. Provision for the life of animals, sexual reproduction and food (6:19-21)

χ. Righteous Noah invited into the ark (6:22–7:1)

o. Clean animals provided in sevens; seven days left (7:2-4)

ω. Noah did all that the Lord commanded him (7:5)


β. Rising waters (7:6-16)

Boarding the ark as the rains begin (7:6-16)

α. Boarding the ark at age 600 (7:6-9)

β. Seven days and flood waters begin (7:10)

χ. In the six hundredth year (7:11)

o. Forty days and nights it rains (7:12)

ω. They board and the Lord shuts them in (40 days pass) (7:13-16)


χ. Consummation (7:17–8:5)

The flood covers the earth; God remembers Noah (7:17–8:5)

α. The waters reach the ark, carrying it away and covering the mountains (7:17-20)

β. The flood destroys all flesh, all that moves and breathes (7:21-22)

χ. God remembers Noah (7:23­–8:1a)

o. God makes a wind to pass over the earth, and the flood subsides (8:1b-3)

ω. The ark rests and the waters withdraw from the mountains (8:4-5)


o. Falling waters (8:6-14)

Opening a window and finding dry ground (8:6-14)

α. Noah opens a window (after 40 days) (8:6)

β. The raven and the dove — not yet (8:7-9a)

χ. Noah reaches out and brings dove inside ark (8:9b)

o. The dove sent twice, confirming the end (8:10-12)

ω. Covering removed at age 601; the return to dry ground (8:13-14)


ω. After the Flood (8:15–9:17)

Disembarking and sacrifice (8:15-22)

α. Order to go forth from the ark; the animals to replenish the earth (8:15-17)

β. Noah and the animals return to the earth (8:18-19)

χ. Noah builds altar and sacrifices clean animals (8:20)

o. God smells and promises never to do it again (8:21)

ω. The earth too redeemed; agriculture to continue (8:22)

God places new conditions on life (9:1-7)

α. Be fruitful and multiply (9:1)

β. Life of all animals in your hands (9:2)

χ. A new commandment: eat meat not blood, cf. 2:16-17 (9:3-4)

o. God will require your life at the hands of all beasts and men (9:5-6)

ω. Be fruitful and multiply (9:7)

Terms of the covenant (9:8-17)

α. God establishes covenant with Noah, his sons, their seed, all creatures (9:8-10)

β. Covenant promise never to destroy all again (9:11)

χ. Token of the covenant: the colorful parabola in the heavens (9:12-14)

o. God to remember His covenant, never to destroy all again (9:15-16)

ω. Token of the covenant established (9:17)

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So, with the intro and extro, you could also have,

α. Sons of God and daughters of men populate earth with giants (6:1-4)

β. Before the Flood (×3) (6:5–7:5)

x. Rising waters; consummation; falling waters (×3) (7:6–8:14)

o. After the Flood (×3) (8:15–9:17)

ω. The Ham debacle and the cursing of Canaan to servitude (9:18-29)

But content-wise the previous arrangement much better fits the typical fivefold pattern.


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