Starts with the creation of the world and tells stories of the first people and big floods. It also talks about Abraham's family and their journeys.
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.