Snapshot of the Torah

Genesis – Creation

  • Genesis 1 – Creation
    • 1:28 – Dominion/Cultural Mandate
  • Genesis 3 – Fall
    • 3:15 – Inception of the Covenant of Grace
  • Genesis 6-9 – Flood
  • Genesis 10-11 – Nations/Tower of Babel
  • Genesis 12-50 – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph
    • 15:6 – Abraham believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Exodus – Redemption/Deliverance

  • Exodus 3-4 – Moses Called
    • 3:13-15 – I AM WHO I AM
  • Exodus 7-11 – Ten Plagues
  • Exodus 14 – Red Sea
  • Exodus 19-40 – Sinai
    • 19-24 – Marriage Ceremony (Israel wed to God)
    • 20:1-17 – Ten Commandments (Marriage means new rules)
    • 25-31 – House (God gives instructions for Tabernacle)
  • Exodus 32 – Idolatry – Golden Calf
    • 32-34 – Marriage Ceremony #2 (Covenant renewal after idolatry)
    • 35-40 – Build House (Israel builds the Tabernacle)

Leviticus – Holiness

  • Leviticus 1-10 – Sacrifices
  • Leviticus 11-18 – Purity Regulations
    • 17:11 – “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.”
  • Leviticus 19-27 – Holiness Laws
    • 19:2 – “Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.”

Numbers – Unfaithful Israel

  • Numbers 1-10 – Promise Land/Preparations
  • Numbers 11-25 – Promise Land/Rebel – Thus, Wander in Wilderness
    • 11 – Israel wants to eat meat – given meat and judgment
    • 13 – Twelve spies scout out the land but ten spies provide evil report
    • 21 – Rebellion – judgment by fiery serpents/deliverance by bronze snake lifted up
  • Numbers 26-36 – Second Generation: Promise Land/Preparations

Deuteronomy – Covenant Renewal/Second Law

  • Deuteronomy 1-30 – Moses Speaks to Second Generation
    • 4:2 – “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.”
    • 5 – Ten Commandments reviewed
    • 6:4-9 – The Shema: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord…”
    • 29:29 – “The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
  • Deuteronomy 31-34 – Epilogue
    • 32 – Song of Moses
    • 34 – Death of Moses