I will be posting outlines of the books of the Bible as I complete them. My outlines are interspersed with some very cursory notes. I am using the Jewish Study Bible for my text as I make my way through the Hebrew Bible.

Genesis Outline

1-2 Creation
    — Human creation is 1:27-28 and 2:4-2:24
3 Expulsion from Eden
4 Cain and Abel
5 Adam’s Line to Noah
6-9 Noah and the Flood
    — 9:20-27 the origin of Canaan (Ham is the father of Canaan)
10-11:25 Noah’s Sons and the creation of the nations of the world to Abram’s father Terah
    — 10:8-12 Nimrod is "the first man of might"
    — 11:1-9 Tower of Babel
11:25-11:31 Terah’s line (includes Abram and Lot)
12-25:11 Story of Abram/Abraham
    — 12:1-3 God calls Abram forth
    — 12:10-20 Abram and Sarai in Egypt
    — 13:1-4 Abram travels to Bethel
    — 13:5-13 Lot and Abram separate, Lot settles near Sodom
    — 13:14-18 God promises Abram the land of Canaan (not named)
    — 14:1-12 War in Sodom, Lot is captured
    — 14:13-16 Abram rescues Lot
    — 14:17-24 Tribute is paid to Abram, he is blessed by the kings of Sodom and Salem
    — 15 God renews his promise to Abram, Abram makes sacrifices to him
    — 16 Sarai gives Hagar to Abram
        — 16:1-6 Hagar conceives and lowers Sarai in her esteem, she is treated poorly and then runs away
        — 16:7-14 Hagar at the well, she names God "Have I not gone on seeing after he saw me," and God makes a promise to Hagar that she will have many offspring in very similar language to the promise that he made Abram
        — 16:15-16 Hagar returns to Abram
        — Note: 16:9 is the first? time when someone talk to an angel in the Bible
    — 17 God renews the covenant with Abram and changes his name to Abraham, the sign of the covenant becomes circumcision and God changes Sarai’s name to Sarah, God blesses Ishmael and promises that twelve nations will come from him and predicts the birth of Isaac (contrast with the promise in 15)
    — 18:1-15 Abraham and Sarah encounter three strangers, they offer them hospitality and the strangers predict Isaac’s birth after Sarah laughs that their prediction that she will have a son. Additionally, the strangers turnout to be/include? God.
    — 18:16-33 The strangers leave with the mission to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham asks God to spare the cities. God agrees to provided that in each city God can find ten good people.
    — 19 Sodom and Gomorrah
        — 19:1-11 the visit of God’s "men"
        — 19:12-29 destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (includes Lot’s wife turned to salt)
        — 19:30-38 Lot’s daughters conceive children with him
    — 20 Abraham and Sarah journey to Negeb (parallel to 12:10-20)
    — 21:1-8 Birth of Isaac
    — 21:8-21 Hagar and Ishmael are cast out by Abraham at Sarah’s command (and with God’s blessing and promise of protection)
    — 21:21-34 Abraham and Abimelech (king of Negeb) make a pact
    — 22:1-19 The Binding of Isaac (the Akedah)
    — 22:20-24 Nabor(Abraham’s brother)’s children
    — 23:1-20 Sarah dies and Abraham acquires a burial place
    — 24 The marriage of Isaac and Rebekah
        — 24:1-9 Abraham commands his servant to go to find Isaac a wife from the land of his origin
        — 24:10-61 The servant travels, finds Rebekah by the well and negotiates with Laban for her hand
        — 24:62-67 Rebekah and Isaac meet and marry
    — 25:1-6 Abraham takes a second wife and has more sons (the midrash is that the second wife is Hagar by another name)
    — 25:7-11 Abraham dies, Isaac and Ishmael bury him
— 25:12-18 The story of Ishmael and his descendants (he has twelve sons, interestingly the Jewish Study Bible does not describe a midrash about Ishmael’s sons)
— 25:19-34 The birth and childhood of Jacob and Esau (25:29-34 Esau sells Jacob his birthright)
— 26:1-33 Isaac’s story (there is a famine in the land, he considers going to Egypt but is told not to by God, therefore he goes to the land of Philistines and has a similar episode in Gerar as his father had in Egypt (passing his wife as his sister) in 26:6-11, he prospers)
— 26:34-35 Esau intermarries
— Jacob 27:1-
    — 27:1-45 Jacob secures Isaac’s blessing for Esau
    — 27:45-28:9 Jacob leaves to find a wife from among Laban’s daughters (note that both Isaac and Jacob get wives from Laban)
        — 28:8-28:9 Esau takes another wife, a daughter of Ishmael
    — 28:10-22 Jacob dreams at Bethel (the ladder or stairway)
    — 29:1-14 Jacob meets Rachel
    — 29:15-20 Jacob bargains with Laban for Rachel
    — 29:21-30 Jacob is tricked into marrying Leah, then he marries Rachel, he gets Bilhad and Zilpah as maids for his wives
    — 29:31-30:24 the birth of Jacob’s children
        — 29:31-35 Leah bears four sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi an Judah
        — 30:1-8 Rachel gives Jacob Bilah to bear sons for her (Dan and Naphtali)
        — 30:9-13 Leah gives Zilpah to Jacob to bear sons for her (Gad and Asher)
        — 30:14-21 Leah bares Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah
        — 30:22-24 Rachel finally has Joseph
    — 30:24-43 Jacob grows wealthy
    — 31:1-32:3 Jacob and his family leave Laban (they make a pact, great stuff about Rachel stealing Laban’s household idols)
    — 32:4-22 Jacob prepares to meet Esau
    — 32:23-33 Jacob wrestles with the divine being and receives a blessing
    — 33:1-20 The reconciliation of Jacob and Esau
    — 33:1-20 Jacob arrives at Hamor (note that in 33:20 El, the supreme Canaanite deity, is identified as a the God of Israel)
    — 34:1-31 The story of Dinah
    — 35:1-26 Jacob goes to Bethel
        — 35:9-15 Jacob is blessed by God and renamed Israel
        — 35:16-21 Rachel dies giving birth to Ben-oni (Benjamin)
— 35:27-29 Death and burial of Isaac   
— 36:1-43 The line of Esau (contains several variations and includes the rulers of Edom)
— 37:1-50:26 — the stories of Joseph and his brothers
    — 37:1-36 Joseph is sold into slavery (note: Joseph does not have a direct relationship with God, also note his first set of dreams)
    — 38:1-30 Judah and Tamar (has important references to sexual norms in the Bible)
    — 39:1-23 Joseph in Potiphar’s house (note: there’s a second instance with a garment getting Joseph in trouble here)
    — 40:1-23 Joseph is placed in prison and interprets dreams (second set of dreams)
    — 41:1-57 Joseph is released from prison, interprets Pharaoh’s dreams, prepares for the coming famine and oversees the distribution of food rations during the famine
    — 42:1-26 The brothers first trip to Egypt (during the famine)
    — 42:27-43:14 The brothers return to their father
    — 43:14-50:26 The second trip to Egypt
        — 43:15-25 The brothers offer gifts to Joseph
        — 43:26-34 The banquet
        — 44:1-17 Joseph tricks his brothers into taking the silver goblet
        — 44:18-45:14 Joseph reveals himself to his brothers
        — 45:15-46:7 Jacob and the brothers move to Egypt
            — 46:4 God promises to bring Jacob’s descendants back from Egypt
        — 46:8-26 a list of Jacob’s descendants who live in Egypt (note that they total seventy like the seventy nations)
        — 46:27-28 Joseph is reunited with his father
        — 46:29-47:12 Jacob’s sons have an audience with Pharaoh
        — 47:13-47:26 Joseph makes all of Egypt slave to Pharaoh
        — 47:27-48:22 At Jacob’s death bed he blesses Joseph and his two sons
        — 49:1-28 Jacob blesses the tribes of Israel
        — 49:29-50:14 Jacob dies and is buried with Abraham and Isaac and his mothers
        — 50:15-50:21 Joseph pledges continued protection of his brothers
        — 50:22-50:26 Joseph dies and is buried in Egypt