Nighttime landscape with a starry sky, mountains, and a body of water. Overlaid text says 'THE PEOPLE OF God' with 'THE PEOPLE OF' in a yellow rectangle and 'God' in large white letters.

“The second part of Genesis orients Israel to her own national roots (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) and to her relationship with other nations such as the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Ishmaelites, and the Edomites. Throughout all these accounts we are brought to marvel at the goodness of God in working his redemptive purposes into our space-and-time history, to bring to pass his unstoppable goal of restoring the world to the way it was supposed to be.”

ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible