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Genesis 1
Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.
And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.
To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.
And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.
And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.
And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.
And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;
And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
Genesis 3
So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.
For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.
And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?
And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.
And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.
And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.
And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.
And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?
Genesis 2
And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.
And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.
And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.
And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.
And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.
And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.
And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.
And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.
But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Genesis 4
And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.
You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.
And Enoch had a son Irad: and Irad became the father of Mehujael: and Mehujael became the father of Methushael: and Methushael became the father of Lamech.
Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.
And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.
And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.
And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.
And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;
And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music.
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.
And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.
But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.
And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?
And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength.
If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.
And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.
And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;
And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow;
If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.
And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put to death.
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.
Genesis 5
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:
Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.
And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end.
And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan:
And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.
And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh:
And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared:
And all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and he came to his end.
And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters:
And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:
And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah:
And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:
And Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end.
And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.
And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:
And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.
And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters:
And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:
And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:
And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.
And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.
And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:
And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.
And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end.
And after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters:
And when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son:
Genesis 8
And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.
And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.
And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.
And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.
Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.
Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,
And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;
And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;
And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;
And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.
And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.
And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.
And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.
Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.
While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
And God said to Noah,
Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.
Genesis 6
And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.
And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.
And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.
And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.
But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.
There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
Genesis 7
And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.
And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.
And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,
And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.
And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.
Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;
And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.
Genesis 9
And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:
And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.
And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.
And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,
These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.
And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.
And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.
And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.
Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.
Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.
And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
And God said to Noah and to his sons,
And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,
And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;
And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.
Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
Genesis 11
And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.
And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
Genesis 13
Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.
Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.
Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.
For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:
Genesis 12
Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?
And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.
And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.
And he went on, journeying still to the South.
Genesis 10
And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,
And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.
And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.
And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.
And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines.
And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;
And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;
And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.
He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.
And Obal and Abimael and Sheba
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
Genesis 14
They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).
And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.
And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.
And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.
Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and wine,
That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:
For twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they put off his control.
And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus.
Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.
Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.
Genesis 16
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.
And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?
And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.
So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.
And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.
And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.
And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.
And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.
And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.
And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.
Genesis 15
And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?
And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.
All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.
Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.
The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Genesis 17
I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.
As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.
No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.
In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.
And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.
But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.
Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.
As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.
Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.
And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.
And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.
And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.
And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.
And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!
He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.
Genesis 18
Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;
Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.
Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:
And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.
And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:
And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;
If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.
If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?
Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.
And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.
And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.
And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?
And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.
And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.
And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,
And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food.
And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.
And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?
And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.
And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.
Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.
Genesis 19
And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.
For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.
And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.
But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.
But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.
See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.
But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;
And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.
And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;
See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;
Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.
So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.
And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,
And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.
And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.
And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.
Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.
Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:
And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.
But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.
And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:
Genesis 20
But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.
And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.
And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.
Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?
And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.
And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.
Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.
And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.
And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.
And he said to Sarah, See, I have given to your brother a thousand bits of silver so that your wrong may be put right; now your honour is clear in the eyes of all.
Genesis 21
And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.
And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.
And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.
So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.
And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.
And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.
Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.
And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.
Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.
Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.
And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.
But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.
So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.
And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
Genesis 22
And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.
But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.
Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?
And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.
And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,
Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
Genesis 23
Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.
My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there.
I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.
And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest there.
And Abraham went down on his face before the people of the land.
My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.
That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.
No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead.
And he said to them, If you will let me put my dead to rest here, make a request for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar,
And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that land.
And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,
And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,
Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,
And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.
So Ephron said to Abraham,
And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.
Genesis 24
And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.
See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:
And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.
And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.
And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;
And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.
And meat was put before him, but he said, I will not take food till I have made my business clear to you. And they said, Do so.
And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,
Genesis 25
Genesis 26
Genesis 27
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