Memorizing the Contents of the Bible

For several years now I've thought of how useful it would be if I could basically memorize the content of every chapter in the Bible. There are 1189 chapters from start to finish, which, if you think of it seems like a reasonable task to accomplish.

So how does one do this? I've always been a music/poetry/creative writing type of person. So I've put together a little poem for Genesis that basically gives the main content of every chapter. I've found that it's been fairly easy to memorize. The poem assumes one is already fairly familiar with the content of the book. Here it is.

Genesis Poem

One - is creation
Two - Adam and Eve
Three - is the fall when Satan deceives

Four - Cain kills Able
Five - Generations die
Six - Noah builds an ark
Seven - flood waters rise high

Eight - Waters receded
Nine - Ham is accursed
Ten - Noah's descendants
Eleven - Babel: the nations disperse

Twelve - God calls Abram
Thirteen - Abram and Lot part ways
Fourteen - To Melchizedek, Abram ten percent pays

Fifteen - God with Abram his covenant makes
Sixteen - Sarai and Hagar - God's ways Abram forsakes

Seventeen - Circumcision
Eighteen - Isaac will be born
Nineteen - Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed in God's scorn

Twenty - Abram to Abimelech lies
Twenty-one - Isaac born: God's promise realized

Twenty-two - God, a substitute for Isaac provides
Twenty-three - Abraham morns as Sarah dies

Twenty-four - Isaac meets Rebekah
Twenty-five - Abraham sleeps
Twenty-six - God, to Isaac, his promises keep

Twenty-seven - Esau sells his birthright for soup
Twenty-eight - Jacob's dream
Twenty-nine - Laban throws Jacob for a loop

Thirty - Jacob prospers
Thirty-one - ...flees from Laban
Thirty-two - ...wrestles with God
Thirty-three - ...meets Esau again

Thirty-four - Dinah ravaged and Schechem is sacked
Thirty-five - Jacob renamed Israel
Thirty-six - Esau, descendants did not lack

Thirty-seven - Joseph dreams and is sold by his kin
Thirty-eight - Judah and Tamar
Thirty-nine - Joseph refuses to sin

Forty - Joseph interprets two prisoner's dreams
Forty-one - Interprets Pharoah's and gains his esteem

Forty-two - Joseph's brothers to Egypt go
Forty-three - ...go again
Forty-four - Joseph tests them - they don't know

Forty-five - Joseph reveals to them, he is their brother
Forty-six - They all move to Egypt with Jacob their father

Forty-seven - They settle in Goshen to live
Forty-eight - Blessings to Ephraim and Manasseh Joseph gives

Forty-nine - Joseph blesses the rest of his sons
Fifty - Jacob and Joseph die, but the story is not done!