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 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 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 man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

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 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, 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.

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 now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

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 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.

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 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.

But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.

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 Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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.

And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.

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.

And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

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

In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

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;

On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

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.

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.

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

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.

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 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 God said to Noah,

And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;

And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.

And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

And God said to Noah and to his sons,

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 the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.

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;

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

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 Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

And Sarai had no child.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

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.

Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

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.

After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

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 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.

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.

No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

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 said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:

Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.

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 he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

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.

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.

And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

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;

This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.

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 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.

Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?

So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.

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.

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.

Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

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.

Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day.

Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

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.

Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.

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,

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.

Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.

And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:

Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.