BACK To see the original authors of the text of Genesis is inspirational. To realise that this important text has been written first hand by the people who were actually there and who witnessed the changing of events is remarkable. Doubts about the authenticity of the text are dispersed and replaced by the excitement of realising that these were real events recorded by actual witnesses... As you read, imagine there are no chapters or verses present, and this way you will see that each reads as an individual book, much as it was, in fact, originally written.
Who put the Old Testament (Covenant) into chapters? The Hebrew Old Testament was divided into verses by a Jewish rabbi by the name of Nathan in A.D. 1448. Robert Estienne, who was also known as Stephanus, was the first to divide the New Testament into standard numbered verses, in 1555. Stephanus essentially used Nathan's verse divisions for the Old Testament. Since that time, beginning with the Geneva Bible, the chapter and verse divisions employed by Stephanus have been accepted into nearly all the Bible versions.
Click on each book, to see the part of Genesis each Patriach wrote!