The Primeval history is the Biblical narrative in the first eleven chapters of the first book, Genesis, covering from the beginning of history up to the birth of Abraham. This comprises the first two weekly Torah readings, Bereshit (parsha) and Noach (parsha). The principal themes of each of the chapters are:
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