And God created man after his likeness, after the likeness of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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

And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper to bear him company."

And Adam gave names unto all manner cattle, and unto the fowls of the air, and unto all manner beasts of the field. But there was no help found unto Adam to bear him company.

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

and the LORD God cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother. And as soon as they were in the fields, Cain fell upon Abel his brother and slew him.

And the LORD said unto him, "Not so, but whosoever slayeth Cain shall be punished sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark upon Cain that no man that found him should kill him.

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

And his brother's name was Jubal; of him came all that exercise themselves on the harp and on the organs.

This is the book of the generation of man, in the day when God created man and made him after the similitude of God.

and then Enoch lived a godly life, and was no more seen - for God took him away.

and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed."

And Noah did according to all that God commanded him.

And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him:

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

And they that came, came male and female of every flesh according as God commanded him: and the LORD shut the door upon him.

Thus was destroyed all that was upon the earth; both man, beasts, worms and fowls of the air, so that they were destroyed from the earth: save Noah was reserved only and they that were with him in the ark.

And God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to blow upon the earth, and the waters ceased;

Then sent he forth a dove from him, to wete whether the waters were fallen from off the earth.

And when the dove could find no resting place for her foot, she returned to him again unto the ark, for the waters were upon the face of all the earth. And he put out his hand and took her and pulled her to him into the ark.

and the dove came to him again about eventide, and behold: there was in her mouth a leaf of an olive tree which she had plucked, whereby Noah perceived that the waters were abated upon the earth.

And he tarried yet seven other days, and sent forth the dove, which from thenceforth came no more again to him.

And Noah came out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.

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

As soon as Noah was awaked from his wine and wist what his youngest son had done unto him,

Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there.

And Abram went as the LORD bade him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy five years old, when he went out of Haran.

Then the LORD appeared unto Abram and said, "Unto thy seed will I give this land." And he built an altar there unto the LORD which appeared to him.

Pharaoh also gave a charge unto his men over Abram, to lead him out, with his wife and all that he had.

Then Abram departed out of Egypt; both he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him unto the south.

Lot also, which went with him, had sheep, cattle and tents:

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

Therefore in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Giants in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

And as he returned again from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him, then came the king of Sodom to meet him, unto the vale of Shaveh which now is called King's Dale.

Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he being the priest of the most highest God, blessed him, saying,

And blessed be God the most highest, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hands." And Abram gave him tithes of all.

And he brought him out at the doors and said, "Look up unto heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them." And said unto him, "Even so shall thy seed be."

And Abram believed the LORD, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

And he said unto him, "I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur in Chaldea to give thee this land to possess it."

And he said unto him, "Take a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a three year old ram, a turtle dove and a young pigeon."

And when the sun was down, there fell a slumber upon Abram. And lo, fear and great darkness came upon him.

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

He will be a wild man, and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And yet shall he dwell fast by all his brethren."

And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, "Thou art the God that lookest on me," for she said, "I have of a surety seen here the back parts of him that seeth me."

And Abram was eighty six years old, when Hagar bare him Ishmael.

When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to him saying, "I am the almighty God: walk before me and be uncorrupt.

And Abram fell on his face. And God talked moreover with him, saying,

And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sara, that is ninety years old, bear?"

Then said God, "Nay. Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my covenant with him, that it shall be an everlasting covenant unto his seed after him.

And as concerning Ishmael also, I have heard thy request: lo, I will bless him and increase him, and multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.

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

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

And all the men in his house, whether they were born in his house or bought with money, though they were strangers, were circumcised with him.

And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.

And he lift up his eyes and looked: and lo, three men stood not far from him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and fell to the ground

And they said unto him, "Where is Sara, thy wife?" And he said, "In the tent."

seeing that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."

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

And he compelled them exceedingly. And they turned in unto him and entered into his house, and he made them a feast and did bake sweet cakes, and they ate.

And they called unto Lot and said unto him, "Where are the men which came into thy house tonight? Bring them out unto us that we may do our lust with them."

And Lot went out at doors unto them and shut the door after him,

And as the morning arose, the angels caused Lot to speed him, saying, "Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city."

And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him, his wife and his two daughters by the hands; because the LORD was merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and set him without the city.

And he said to him, "See, I have received thy request as concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken.

Abraham rose up early and got him to the place where he stood before the LORD,

And Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in the mountains and his two daughters with him for he feared to tarry in Zoar: he dwelt therefore in a cave, both he and his two daughters also.

Come therefore, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed of our father."

And on the morrow the elder said unto the younger, "Behold, yesternight lay I with my father. Let us give him wine to drink this night also, and go thou and lie with him, and let us save seed of our father."

And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived it not; neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.

And the elder bare a son and called him Moab, which is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

And the younger bare a son and called him Benammi, which is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

And God came to Abimelech by night in a dream and said to him, "See, thou art but a dead man for the woman's sake which thou hast taken away, for she is a man's wife."

And God said unto him in a dream, "I know it well that thou didst it in the pureness of thy heart: And therefore I kept thee that thou shouldest not sin against me, neither suffered I thee to come nigh her.

Now, therefore, deliver the man his wife again, for he is a prophet. And let him pray for thee that thou mayest live. But and if thou deliver her not again, be sure that thou shalt die the death, with all that thou hast."

And Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him, "What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou shouldest bring on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done."

Then took Abimelech sheep and oxen, menservants and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and delivered him Sara his wife again.

And Abraham called his son's name that was born unto him, which Sara bare him, Isaac:

and Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God commanded him.

And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

She said also, "Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sara should have given children suck, or that I should have borne him a son in his old age?"

Arise and lift up the lad, and take him in thy hand, for I will make of him a great people."

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother got him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

After these deeds, God did prove Abraham and said unto him, "Abraham." And he answered, "Here am I."

And he said, "Take thy only son Isaac whom thou lovest, and get thee unto the land of Moria, and sacrifice him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will show thee."

Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his men with him, and Isaac his son: and clove wood for the sacrifice, and rose up and got him to the place which God had appointed him.

And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide him a sheep for sacrifice." So went they both together.

And when they came unto the place which God showed him, Abraham made an altar there and dressed the wood, and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, above upon the wood.

Then the angel of the LORD called unto him from heaven saying, "Abraham, Abraham?" And he answered, "Here am I."

And he said, "Lay not thy hands upon the child, neither do anything at all unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, in that thou hast not kept thine only son from me."

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked about: and behold, there was a ram caught by the horns in a thicket. And he went and took the ram and offered him up for a sacrifice in the stead of his son.

And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

and let him give me the double cave which he hath in the end of his field, for as much money as it is worth; let him give it me in the presence of you, for a possession to bury in."

Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.

Abraham was old and stricken in days, and the LORD had blessed him in all things.

Then said the servant unto him, "What and if the woman will not agree to come with me unto this land, shall I bring thy son again unto the land which thou camest out of?"

And Abraham said unto him, "Beware of that, that thou bring not my son thither.