Beginning of the Rising Action (Genesis 2:4)

Genesis 2:4 begins the first of the ten “accounts” that make up the book of Genesis. That means that Genesis 1:1—2:3 was only an introduction to the main body of Moses’s work. Now we are getting into the rising action.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” BWV 78 (Leipzig, 1724).