Book of Genesis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Books of the Torah Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy The Book of Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, "birth", "origin") or Bereshith (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, "in the beginning"[1] ) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, and the first of five books of the Jewish Torah or Pentateuch. The..