Who was The Book of Genesis written to?
What a number of scholars have suggested, as Bible followers have always realized, is that Moses likely was the final editor or redactor of the Genesis material and in the case of the earliest records it is clear that there was an intention to preserve a record of the earliest events of earth history, which certainly explains the presence of the genealogical records as well as the record of the ‘table of nations’ and the Babel dispersion. There was also the intention to provide a record of the origin of the Hebrew nation which then gave them identity as they came out of Egypt. So Moses likely connected the events in terms of the nation in Egypt with the earlier records of the patriarchs. This was done in terms of chronology and so connected the nation of Israel about to leave Egypt with their patriarchal predecessors. In the setting suggested by what we know of Moses’ chronology, and that the book of Genesis was indeed addressed to the fledgling nation of Israel.
