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Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth.
2 And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the
surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the
surface of the waters.
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was
light.
4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the
light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.
And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
6 Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of
the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
7 And God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were
below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse;
and it was so.
8 And God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and
there was morning, a second day.
9 Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be
gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and
it was so.
10 And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the
waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants
yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,
with seed in them, on the earth"; and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed
after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them,
after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the
heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to
give light on the earth"; and it was so.
16 And God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern
the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the
stars also.
17 And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give
light on the earth,
18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light
from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse
of the heavens."
21 And God created the great sea monsters, and every living
creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their
kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it
was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the
earth."
23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living
creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts
of the earth after their kind"; and it was so.
25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the
cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground
after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according
to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth."
27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He
created him; male and female He created them.
28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful
and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every
living thing that moves on the earth."
29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant
yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every
tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky
and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have
given every green plant for food"; and it was so.
31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very
good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all
their hosts.
2 And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had
done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He
had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in
it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were
created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
5 Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of
the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain
upon the earth; and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
6 But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole
surface of the ground.
7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living being.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and
there He placed the man whom He had formed.
9 And out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree
that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life
also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil.
10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from
there it divided and became four rivers.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole
land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 And the gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx
stone are there.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the
whole land of Cush.
14 And the name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of
Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of
Eden to cultivate it and keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any
tree of the garden you may eat freely;
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall
not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely
die."
18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be
alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the
field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to
see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living
creature, that was its name.
20 And the man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of
the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was
not found a helper suitable for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and
he slept; then He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
at that place.
22 And the LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had
taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
23 And the man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And
flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was
taken out of Man."
24 For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the
field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman,
"Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of
the garden'?"
2 And the woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the
trees of the garden we may eat;
3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the
garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it,
lest you die.'"
4 And the serpent said to the woman, "You surely shall not
die!
5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes
will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil."
6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it
was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to
make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also
to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that
they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made
themselves loin coverings.
8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him,
"Where are you?"
10 And he said, "I heard the sound of Thee in the garden,
and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."
11 And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you
eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
12 And the man said, "The woman whom Thou gavest to be with
me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate."
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you
have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived
me, and I ate."
14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have
done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than
every beast of the field; On your belly shall you go, And dust
shall you eat All the days of your life;
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between
your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you
shall bruise him on the heel."
16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain
in childbirth, In pain you shall bring forth children; Yet your
desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over
you."
17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the
voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I
commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the
ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it All the days
of your life.
18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you
shall eat the plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Till you return
to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return."
20 Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the
mother of all the living.
21 And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife,
and clothed them.
22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like
one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out
his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live
forever"--
23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden,
to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden
He stationed the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned
every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life.
4:1 Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she
conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have
gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD."
2 And again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a
keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an
offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground.
4 And Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his
flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel
and for his offering;
5 but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain
became very angry and his countenance fell.
6 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why
has your countenance fallen?
7 "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up?
And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its
desire is for you, but you must master it."
8 And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they
were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and
killed him.
9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your
brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my
brother's keeper?"
10 And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your
brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
11 "And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened
its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
12 "When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield
its strength to you; you shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the
earth."
13 And Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to
bear!
14 "Behold, Thou hast driven me this day from the face of
the ground; and from Thy face I shall be hidden, and I shall be a
vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will come about that
whoever finds me will kill me."
15 So the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain,
vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD
appointed a sign for Cain, lest anyone finding him should slay
him.
16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and settled
in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
17 And Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and
gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of
the city Enoch, after the name of his son.
18 Now to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad became the father of
Mehujael; and Mehujael became the father of Methushael; and
Methushael became the father of Lamech.
19 And Lamech took to himself two wives: the name of the one was
Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
20 And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who
dwell in tents and have livestock.
21 And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all
those who play the lyre and pipe.
22 As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger
of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of
Tubal-cain was Naamah.
23 And Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Listen to
my voice, You wives of Lamech, Give heed to my speech, For I have
killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me;
24 If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech
seventy-sevenfold."
25 And Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth
to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, "God has
appointed me another offspring in place of Abel; for Cain killed
him."
26 And to Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his
name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day
when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
2 He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named
them Man in the day when they were created.
3 When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the
father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and
named him Seth.
4 Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were
eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.
5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years, and he died.
6 And Seth lived one hundred and five years, and became the
father of Enosh.
7 Then Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he became
the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.
8 So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and
he died.
9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
10 Then Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he
became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.
11 So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and
he died.
12 And Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of
Mahalalel.
13 Then Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he became
the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.
14 So all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and
he died.
15 And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of
Jared.
16 Then Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he
became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.
17 So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and
ninety-five years, and he died.
18 And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became
the father of Enoch.
19 Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he became the
father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.
20 So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two
years, and he died.
21 And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of
Methuselah.
22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became
the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.
23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five
years.
24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
25 And Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and
became the father of Lamech.
26 Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after
he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and
daughters.
27 So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine
years, and he died.
28 And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became
the father of a son.
29 Now he called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall give
us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from
the ground which the LORD has cursed."
30 Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he
became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.
31 So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven
years, and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the
father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face
of the land, and daughters were born to them,
2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were
beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they
chose.
3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man
forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be
one hundred and twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also
afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men,
and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who
were of old, men of renown.
5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the
earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and
He was grieved in His heart.
7 And the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have
created from the face of the land, from man to animals to
creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I
have made them."
8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a
righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and
Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth
was filled with violence.
12 And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for
all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
13 Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come
before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them;
and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.
14 "Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make
the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.
15 "And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark
three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height
thirty cubits.
16 "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a
cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of
it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
17 "And behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water
upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of
life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall
perish.
18 "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall
enter the ark-- you and your sons and your wife, and your sons'
wives with you.
19 "And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring
two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they
shall be male and female.
20 "Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after
their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind,
two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive.
21 "And as for you, take for yourself some of all food which
is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food
for you and for them."
22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so
he did.
7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and
all your household; for you alone I have seen to be righteous
before Me in this time.
2 "You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens,
a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two,
a male and his female;
3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to
keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4 "For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth
forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of
the land every living thing that I have made."
5 And Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came
upon the earth.
7 Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with
him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.
8 Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and
everything that creeps on the ground,
9 there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as
God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came about after the seven days, that the water of the
flood came upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the
fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the
sky were opened.
12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty
nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the
sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons
with them, entered the ark,
14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after
their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth
after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of
birds.
15 So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in
which was the breath of life.
16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered
as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him.
17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days; and the
water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the
earth.
18 And the water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth;
and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19 And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that
all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.
20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains
were covered.
21 And all flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and
cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the
earth, and all mankind;
22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the
breath of the spirit of life, died.
23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face
of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds
of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only
Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
24 And the water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty
days.
8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts
and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused
a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.
2 Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky
were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;
3 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end
of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the
tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the
mountains became visible.
6 Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
the window of the ark which he had made;
7 and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the
water was dried up from the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was
abated from the face of the land;
9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot,
so she returned to him into the ark; for the water was on the
surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her,
and brought her into the ark to himself.
10 So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the
dove from the ark.
11 And the dove came to him toward evening; and behold, in her
beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water
was abated from the earth.
12 Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove;
but she did not return to him again.
13 Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the
first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up
from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and
looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the
month, the earth was dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and
your sons' wives with you.
17 "Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that
is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth,
and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons'
wives with him.
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything
that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean
animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the
altar.
21 And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to
Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of
man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I
will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold
and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not
cease."
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