The outline highlights the rhetorical patterns that occur within three episodes.

• Title Verse, 2.4b
• Episode One: “Eden” 2.5-25
  • Setting, 5-6
  • Narrative, 7-23
    • The man created, 7
    • The garden planted, 8-14
    • The man commanded, 15-17
    • The woman fashioned, 18-23
  • Epilogue, 24-25
• Episode Two: “Fall” 3.1-24
  • Setting, 1a
  • Narrative, 1b-21
    • Sin, 1b-8
    • Discipline, 9-21
  • Epilogue, 22-24

• Episode Three: “Cain” 4.1-16
  • Setting, 1-2
  • Narrative, 3-15
    • Sin, 3-8
    • Discipline, 9-15
  • Epilogue, 16
• Appendix: Genealogies, 4.17-26
  • Cainites, 17-24
  • Sethites, 25-26
• Colophon, 5.1a

See PDF for details of the three narrative sections and highlighted poetic sections.