id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7005 Torah - Wikipedia .html text/html 11042 1538 73 The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Torah.[15] It is divisible into two parts, the Primeval history (chapters 1–11) and the Ancestral history (chapters 12–50).[16] The primeval history sets out the author's (or authors') concepts of the nature of the deity and of humankind's relationship with its maker: God creates a world which is good and fit for mankind, but when man corrupts it with sin God decides to destroy his creation, saving only the righteous Noah to reestablish the relationship between man and God.[17] The Ancestral history (chapters 12–50) tells of the prehistory of Israel, God's chosen people.[18] At God's command Noah's descendant Abraham journeys from his home into the God-given land of Canaan, where he dwells as a sojourner, as does his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7005.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7005.txt