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

And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. And I hid myself.

And LORD God said to the serpent, Because thou have done this, cursed are thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly thou shall go, and dust thou shall eat all the days of thy life.

And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all

And the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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

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.

Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Say, I pray thee, thou are my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.

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

And the agent of LORD said to her, Behold, thou are with child, and shall bear a son, and thou shall call his name Ishmael, because LORD has heard thy affliction.

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

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them has been great before LORD. And LORD has sent us to destroy it.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou are but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou have taken, for she is a man's wife.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah says to thee, hearken to her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And also I will make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is thy seed.

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

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they swore both of them.

and said, By myself I have sworn, says LORD, because thou have done this thing, and have not withheld thy son, thine only son,

and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.

And Isaac entreated LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my order, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife, Lest, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was fair to look upon.

And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is certainly thy wife, and how did thou say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her.

And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

And Isaac said to his son, How is it that thou have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because LORD thy God sent me good speed.

And he did not discern him, because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

And he touched upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou are my brother, should thou therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?

And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said, Because LORD has looked upon my affliction, for now my husband will love me.

And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Because LORD has heard that I am regarded inferior, he has therefore given me this [son] also. And she called his name Simeon.

And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.

And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar.

And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.

And now, [though] thou have certainly gone, because thou have been very desirous for thy father's house, [yet] why have thou stolen my gods?

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou should take thy daughters from me by force.

Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in laying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honored above all the house of his father.

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because God was revealed to him there, when he fled from the face of his brother.

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their sojourning could not bear them because of their cattle.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made for him a coat of many colors.

He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

The keeper of the prison did not look to anything that was under his hand, because LORD was with him, and that which he did, LORD made it prosper.

And the plenty shall not be known in the land because of that famine which follows, for it shall be very grievous.

And because the dream was doubled to Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe on all the earth.

And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, a

And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, who ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians, every man, sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's.

Boiling over as water, thou shall not have the pre-eminence, because thou went up to thy father's bed, then thou defiled it; he went up to my couch.

So shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brothers, and their sin, because they did to thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Jo