The book "Oranges are not the Only Fruit" written by Jeanette Winterson is organized into 9 chapters: first of all there is the introductory paragraph, and then there are eight parts, each one has the name of a book from the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges and Ruth.

Genesis is the first paragraph, and in the religious concept Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. The theme of Genesis is the creation of the world in which God put men to govern the World, but man proves disobedient and God destroys his world through the Flood. This narrative is punctuated by a series of covenants with God, successively narrowing in scope from all mankind to a special relationship with one people alone, Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob.
In the paragraph of Winterson's book, the relation with the Bible it corresponds with Jeanette's beginning, so the description of Jeanette, her family and her life. Through the description of the protagonist' s family, at the beginning the author underlines the parallelism between the mother of Jeanette and Mary, the mother of Christ, to show a sense of purity, in order to represent Jeanette as Christ.
Another relevant point of the chapter is the narration of a story of a Princess. The princess is so sensitive that no one can do something to help her, until she goes in the forest and arrives to the hut of an old hunchback who knows the secret of magic, in fact the hunchback gives the princess something to occupy her hours and finally the princess forgets her pain. In this way Jeanette Winterson relates this story to hers, and so how her mother's religion save her from distress when she was born. So this chapter demonstrates Jeanette's admiration and love for her mother, like the princess admires the hunchback.

The second paragraph is called Exodus, and its religious aim is to tell how the children of Israel leave slavery in Egypt through the strength of Yahweh, the god who has chosen Israel as his people. Led by their great prophet Moses they journey through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh promises them the land of Canaan, the "Promised Land", in return for their faithfulness. Israel enters into a covenant with Yahweh who gives them their laws and instructions for the Tabernacle, the means by which he will dwell with them and lead them to the land.
The chapter in Winterson's book deals with similar themes of flight, in order to explain the process of change of the protagonist, and so the ideological confines of her small house, where Jeanette is now exposed to ideas that are not those of her mother's.
In this part there's also a change in the physical aspect of the protagonist, she becomes deaf. In this way, the writer underlines the mother's hypocrisy, because when her daughter is sick, the mother is indifferent, while she is more interested in appearing very Christian by helping the church, so this underlines Jeanette's future rejection.
In other words, the emotion that Jeanette felt in the first chapter, safety and sanctity in her home and beliefs, is beginning to change as new emotions become unveiled.