8 of the Most Distinguished Persons in the Book of Genesis

Though there are many persons mentioned in the Book of Genesis these eight persons seems to stand out in the crowd.  Among them is God, for He is number one. Then we have Adam, Satan, Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, and Joseph.

1. God

There is nothing document in the Bible that tells us when God came to existence. Evidently, he existed before the beginning of the time. In Genesis, the book is the beginning of creation of the heaven and earth, not God. It is the beginning of everything except God.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ~ Genesis 1:1

2. Adam 

After God created the heavens and the earth, he created all things in between. Then he created the first man in his image that he called Adam. 

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. ~ Genesis 2:7

3. Satan

Now came the most deceiving person known to all the generation; Guess who? Satan.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,  but God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die."

 
You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  

Genesis 3:1-5
 
4. Noah

Adam and Eve bare two sons, Cain and Abel. Later they had another son whose they named Seth. The genealogy of Adam:

Seth became the father of Enos.
Enos became the father of Cainan.
Cainan became father of Mahaleel.
Mahaleel became father of Jared.
Jared became the father of Enoch
Enoch became the father of Methuselah.
Methuselah became the father of Lamech.
Lamech became the father of Noah. 

 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.   

Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.   

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Genesis 7:1-5

5. Abram

The generation of Noah begin with his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born unto Noah's sons. For now we are take note of  Shem's children which were Arphaxad, Asshur, Elam, Lud, and Aram. We may recall the son of Arphaxad to be Salah. And Eber the son of  Salah bear Peleg. 

Peleg*Reu*Serag*Nabor*Terah*Abram

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 
 
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 

Genesis 17:1-5

6. Issac

The story of Abraham and Sarah and their son Issac is one of the greatest story ever told. God's promise to Abraham was fulfilled at ripe age of one hundred years old when Issac was born. Surely he was proud and truly blessed to father a son at such an old age. Not long after Issac was born, God tested Abraham faith when he told him to sacrifice Issac. And Abraham willingly took his son to the mountain top to prepare the wood to carry out the will of God. But when God saw that Abraham was man of great faith an angel appeared saying:    

By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
 
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Genesis 22:16-18

 

At the age of forty when Issac took Rebecca to be his wife, she too was unable to conceive. But God bless them and she became pregnant with twins, Esau being the first born and after him came his brother Jacob.

When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.  

 

The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.  

 

After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob.

 

Genesis 25:24-26

 

7. Jacob

 

In modern times, Jacob might have been called real lover, for he fathered 12 sons by 4 different women. Jacob and his first wife Leah had 4 sons, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. After seven years he took Rachel to be his wife and when she saw that she was not bearing  Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister Leah. Jacob slept with Rachel’s maid Bilhah, and she became pregnant and bore him 2 sons, Dan and Naphtali.

 

 So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her.

 And she became pregnant and bore him a son.  

Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son. ” Because of this she named him Dan.


 Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

 Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.

Genesis 30:3-7

 

When Leah saw that she could no longer bear children, she too gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob to bear children. Zilpah conceived and to Jacob she gave 2 sons, Gad and Asher. But again Leah conceived And bore Jacob 2 more more sons Issachar and Zeblun. And she later gave birth to a daughter named Dinah.

 

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
 
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.

<sup>Genesis 30:22-26

Jacob favorited Joseph over his other sons, which made jealousy with the other sons.  Rachel bare another son making him number twelve, that she name Ben-oni, but Jacob called him Benjamin.

8. Joseph

His brothers hated him and even they conspired to kill him, but his older brother, Reuben thought that it would be better to cast in the pit of wilderness.  Joseph, the dreamer was removed from the pit by merchants and sold for twenty pieces of silver while he was brought into Egypt.</sup> 
 
Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
 
And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Genesis 39:1-3