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Bereshit (parashah)
Bereshit, Bereishit, Bereshis, Bereishis, or B'reshith (—Hebrew language, Hebrew for "in beginning" or "In the beginning (phrase), in the beginning," the incipit, first word in the parashah) is the first weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Judaism, Jewish cycle of Torah reading. The parashah consists of Book of Genesis, Genesis 1:1–6:8. In the parashah, God in Judaism, God creates the heavens, the world, Adam and Eve, and Sabbath. A Serpents in the Bible#Eden, serpent convinces Eve, who then invites Adam, to eat the forbidden fruit, fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden to them. God curses the ground for their sake and expels them from the Garden of Eden. One of their sons, Cain and Abel, Cain, becomes the first murderer, killing his brother Abel out of jealousy. Adam and Eve have other children, whose descendants populate the Earth. Each generation becomes more and more degenerate until God decides to Genesis flood narra ...
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Genesis may refer to: Religion * Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of humankind * Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of Genesis, which describes the origin of the Earth * Genesis Rabbah, a midrash probably written between 300 and 500 CE with some later additions, comprising a collection of interpretations of the Book of Genesis * ''The Genesis According to Spiritism'', the last book of Allan Kardec's Pentateuch, that attempts to connect religion with science. Literature, art and comics * Genesis (DC Comics), a 1997 DC Comics crossover * Genesis (Lebrun), 1960 mural by Italian-American painter and sculptor Rico Lebrun * Genesis (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain * Genesis, a List of Preacher characters#Genesis, fictional character in the comic book series ''Preacher'' * ''Genesis'', a 1951 story by H. Beam Piper * ''Genesis: The Origins of M ...
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