. . "The Book of Genesis (from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek \u03B3\u03AD\u03BD\u03B5\u03C3\u03B9\u03C2, meaning \"origin\"; Hebrew: \u05D1\u05B0\u05BC\u05E8\u05B5\u05D0\u05E9\u05B4\u05C1\u05D9\u05EA\u200E, B\u0259r\u0113\u0161\u012B\u1E6F, \"In [the] beginning\") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament.The basic narrative expresses the central theme: God creates the world (along with creating the first man and woman) and appoints man as his regent, but man proves disobedient and God destroys his world through the Flood."@en .