January 1: Genesis 1:1 – 3:24

The Six Days of Creation – Genesis 1

• Day One: God creates light (day) and darkness (night).
• Day Two: God creates the firmament (heavens or sky, the area that holds both the celestial lights and the birds) and waters (oceans).
• Day Three: God creates land, plants, and trees.
• Day Four: God creates the greater light (sun), the lesser light (moon), and the stars.
• Day Five: God creates birds and sea creatures.
• Day Six: God creates animals and man.

God Rests and Sanctifies the Seventh Day (Sabbath) – Genesis 2

Life in the Garden

• God forms Adam from the dust of the ground and breathes into his nostrils the breath of life.
• The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are in the garden.
• God places Adam in the garden and tells him that he may eat of every tree in the garden but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• Adam names all the birds and animals, but none are a "helper comparable to him."
• God causes Adam to sleep, then takes Adam's rib and made woman (Eve).
• Adam and Eve are naked but not ashamed.

The Temptation and Fall of Man – Genesis 3

• The serpent (Satan) appears to Eve and tempts her to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, telling her she will not die (as God said) if she did. Eve eats of the tree and also gives its fruit to Adam. Adam and Eve realize they are naked and cover themselves with fig leaves.
• When the presence of the Lord walks through the garden in the cool of the day, Adam and Eve hide themselves. When God questions them, they admit that they have eaten of the tree.
• God curses the serpent, and then makes tunics of skin for Adam and Eve (the first animal sacrifice is necessary due to their disobedience).
• God drives Adam and Eve from the garden so they cannot eat of the tree of life, and places a cherubim with a flaming sword to guard it.