In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:

And Adam 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.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

And God spake unto Noah, saying,

And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:

And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.