This post is being used to track the events mentioned in the Bible and will be updated in real-time as I read. The tracker’s purpose is to be a reference document that I can return to each time an event is mentioned. If, after the first appearance, an event is mentioned again, I will update this post with the new information.
I am reading the English Standard Version (ESV). Published by Crossway in Illinois, USA. This edition printed 2016.
Creation | Genesis 1:1 – 1:31
God creates everything in six days and rests on the seventh.
- Day & night
- Heaven
- Earth and Seas and plant life
- Stars, the Sun and Moon
- Sea creatures, winged birds (he tells them to be fruitful and multiply and fill up the seas and the earth).
- Livestock, creeping things and beasts.
On the sixth day God said ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’ [Genesis 1:26] – He gives them ‘dominion’ over fish, birds and livestock and creeping things.
God ‘blessed’ man [Genesis 1:28] and told them to be fruitful and multiply as he had with the birds and sea creatures.
God gives man every ‘plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit’ [Genesis 1:29].
God also gives ‘every green plant for food’ to the beasts, birds and creeping creatures – ‘everything that has the breath of life’ [Genesis 1:30].
God rests on the seventh day.
He blesses the seventh day and ‘made it holy’ [Genesis 2:3]
Creation of Man (Humanity) | Genesis 2:4 – 2:24
God ‘formed the man of dust from the ground’ [Genesis 2:7]. He ‘breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature’ [Genesis 2:7].
Creates woman from man by putting Adam into a deep sleep and then taking one of his ribs and forming woman from that.
The Fall | Genesis 3:1 – 3:24
The Fall is about the serpent tempting/deceiving Eve into picking and eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. She also gives a piece to Adam and he eats it too.
As a result of eating the fruit, God curses the serpent, Eve and Adam. A curse that also affects their offspring.
It means that Adam and Eve are no longer immortal beings and will die one day. This is the fall of humanity.
The Fall probably continues beyond up until the events of Noah (possibly further) as it affects all of humanity. However, just the specific points will be recorded.
Adam and Eve get banished from the garden of Eden at the end of the chapter.
Visually Interesting 