Bible Book OrderIsaiah 1 Genesis
The following is a map between Isaiah chapter 1 and Genesis chapters 1-4.
The opening verse of Isaiah sets the general context for the book of Isaiah and the Bible.
13 Isaiah 1:1
1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Skies & Land
13 Isaiah 1:2
2Hear, skies, and give ear, land; for Yahvah has spoken, I have reared and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
1 Genesis 1:1
1In a beginning God created the skies and the land.
Forbidden Fruit
13 Isaiah 1:3
3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its lord's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.
1 Genesis 3:6
6So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and that the tree was delightful to look at, she took some of the fruit, and ate, and she also gave to her husband with her; and he ate.
Hiding
13 Isaiah 1:4
4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, an offspring of evildoers, children that are corrupt; you have forsaken Yahvah, you have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, you have gone away backward.
1 Genesis 3:8
8And they heard the voice of Yahvah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahvah God among the trees of the garden.
Garments of Skin
13 Isaiah 1:5-6
5Why should you be struck any longer, and be chastised? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds and bruises, and swelling sores; they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor softened with oil.
1 Genesis 3:21
21And Yahvah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skin, and clothed them.
Leaving Eden
13 Isaiah 1:7-9
7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9Except Yahvah of hosts had left to us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and we should have been like Gomorrah.
1 Genesis 3:24
24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the path to the tree of life.
Cain's Offering
13 Isaiah 1:10-14
10Hear the word of Yahvah, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
11Yahvah said, Of what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13Do not bring vain offerings to me any longer; their savor is an abomination to me; in the new months and sabbaths, you call an assembly; I do not eat what is obtained wrongfully, and taken by force.
14Your new months and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a burden to me; I am weary to bear them.
1 Genesis 4:3-5
3And in the course of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Yahvah.
4And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and some of the fatlings. And Yahvah was pleased with Abel and with his offering;
5but with Cain and with his offering he was not pleased. So Cain was exceedingly displeased, and his countenance was sad.
Abel's Murder
13 Isaiah 1:15-17
15And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
16Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your actions from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
17learn to do good; seek justice, do good to the oppressed, plead for the fatherless, plead for the widows.
1 Genesis 4:8-10
8And Cain said to his brother Abel, Let us go to the plain; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.
9And Yahvah said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?
10And Yahvah said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
Wandering
13 Isaiah 1:18-20
18Now come and let us reason together says Yahvah: though your sins be as scarlet they will be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson they will be like wool.
19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
20but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahvah has spoken it.
1 Genesis 4:11-14
11And from now on, you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;
12when you till the ground, it will not yield its strength to you any longer; a fugitive and a wanderer you will be on the land.
13And Cain said to Yahvah, My transgression is too great to be forgiven.
14Look, you have driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from your face I will be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the land; and it will come to pass, that whoever finds me will slay me.
Cain's City
13 Isaiah 1:21-31
21How is the faithful city become a prostitute. For once it was full of justice; and righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.
22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
23Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; each of them loves a bribe and runs after rewards; they do not plead the cause of the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
24Therefore Yahvah, the Sovereign of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel says: Ah, I will avenge myself of my adversaries, I will take vengeance on my enemies;
25and I will turn my hand against you, and purge away your rebellious men, and remove all your iniquities;
26and I will restore your judges as at first, and your counsellors as at the beginning; afterward you will be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27Zion will be redeemed with justice, and her captivity with righteousness.
28And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners will be together, and those who have forsaken Yahvah will perish.
29For they will be ashamed of the idols which they have desired, and they will be confounded by the witchcraft which they have chosen.
30For they will be like an oak whose leaves have fallen, and like a garden that has no water.
31And their strength will be like cotton, and their works like a spark, and they will both burn together, and there will not be anyone to quench them.
1 Genesis 4:16-17
16And Cain went out from the presence of Yahvah, and lived in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he started to build a village, and named the village after the name of his son, Enoch.
Total matches with Genesis are 9.