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God creates the universe
Adam and Eve eat forbidden fruit
Cain murders Abel
God sends a flood to destroy the world - 4,000-3,500? (Disastrous floods in Mesopotamia)
The Tower of Babel is built
Abraham and Sarah migrate to Canaan - 1,800-1,700? (Reign of Hammurabi in Bablyon)
Ishmael is born to Abraham and Hagar
God makes a covenant with Abraham
God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah
Isaac is born to Abraham and Sarah
Abraham sends Hagar and Ishmael away
God tests Abraham
Abraham buys the Makhpelah Cave
Abraham seeks a wife for Isaac
Esau sells his birthright to Jacob
Jacob tricks Isaac
Laban swindles Jacob
Jacob fights the angel and is renamed Israel
Joseph is sold into slavery - 1,400-1,300? (Reign of Akhenaton in Egypt)
Joseph resists temptation
Joseph becomes Pharaoh's Viceroy
Joseph's brothers come to Egypt
The Egyptians enslave the Israelites - 1,300-1,200? (Reign of Ramses II in Egypt)
Pharaoh's daughter adopts Moses
Moses slays an Egyptian
Moses sees God in the Burning Bush
Moses confronts Pharaoh
God afflicts the Egyptians with Ten Plagues
The Israelites escape
Moses splits the Red Sea
God sends manna
God speaks to the Jews at Mt Sinai
The Israelites build a golden calf
Moses brings down the Ten Commandments
The Israelites build the ark and the tabernacle
Moses sends men to explore Canaan
God decrees 40 years of wandering
Korach leads a rebellion
Moses is punished
Moses dies
The Israelites conquer Canaan - 1,300-1,100