And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

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 God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He had rested from all His work which God created to make.

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

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden. And from there it was divided and became four heads.

And Jehovah God made the rib (which He had taken from the man) into a woman. And He brought her to the man.

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

therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.

And Adam knew Eve his wife. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from Jehovah.

And He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground.

And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today, and I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.

And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah and lived in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.

And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air. For I repent that I have made them.

And behold! I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth in order to destroy all flesh (in which is the breath of life) from under the heavens. Everything which is in the earth shall die.

For in seven more days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And I will destroy from off the face of the earth every living thing that I have made.

And every living thing which was on the face of the earth was destroyed, from man to cattle, and to the creeping things, and the fowls of the heavens. And they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and rain from heaven was restrained.

And the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.

And he sent forth a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

He also sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had gone down from off the face of the earth.

And the dove came in to him in the evening. And, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the earth.

And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that 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 earth was dried!

And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.

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

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

And Noah awoke from his wine, and came to know what his younger son had done to him.

and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon (as you come to Gerar) to Gaza, as you go in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, even to Lasha.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go to Sephar, a mountain of the east.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

And it happened, as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar. And they lived there.

And Jehovah said, Behold! The people is one and they all have one language. And this they begin to do. And now nothing which they have imagined to do will be restrained from them.

So Jehovah scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of all the earth. And they quit building the city.

Therefore the name of it is called Babel; because Jehovah confused the language of all the earth there. And from there Jehovah scattered them abroad on the face of all the earth.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there.

And Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house into a land that I will show you.

And Abram departed, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Hai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.

And he went on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been from the beginning, between Bethel and Hai,

Is not the whole land before you? I pray you, separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.

And Lot chose all the circuit of Jordan for himself. And Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves from one another.

And after Lot was separated from him, Jehovah said to Abram, Lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you are northward and southward, and eastward and westward.

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

that I will take from all that is yours, not from a thread even to a shoestring, lest you say, I have made Abram rich.

In the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing. I pray you, go in to my slave woman. It may be that I may be built by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your slave woman is in your hand. Do to her as it pleases you. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

And He said, Hagar, Sarai's slave, where did you come from? and where will you go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.

And I will bless her, and give you a son also of her. Yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations, kings of people shall be from her.

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

And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed toward the ground.

And he said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, do not pass away, I pray, from Your servant.

And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham was going with them to bring them on the way.

And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do,

And the men turned their faces away from there, and went toward Sodom. But Abraham still stood before Jehovah.

Far be it from You to act in this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked. And far be it from You, that the righteous should be as the wicked. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Perhaps there will be five lacking from the fifty righteous. Will You destroy all the city for lack of five? And He said, If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.

Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from Jehovah out of the heavens.

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

And Abraham moved from there toward the south country, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the sincerity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.

And it happened when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is your kindness which you show to me, at every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

And she went and sat down across from him, a good way off, about a bowshot. For she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat across from him, and lifted up her voice, and cried.

And he said, For you shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here am I.

And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,

Hear us, my lord. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choice of our burying places. None of us shall withhold from you his burying-place from burying your dead.

And he spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, Only if you would hear me. I will give you silver for the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.

And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I necessarily bring your son again to the land from which you came?

Jehovah, the God of Heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: He shall send His Angel before you. And you shall take a wife to my son from there.

And if the woman will not be willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath of mine. Only do not bring my son there again.

And he said to me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his Angel with you, and prosper your way. And you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred, and from my father's house.

Then shall you be clear from my oath when you come to my kindred, and if they do not give you one, you shall be clear from my oath.

behold, I stand by the well of water. And it shall be when the virgin comes forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, please, a little water from your pitcher to drink,

And she hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give drink to your camels also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing has come forth from Jehovah. We cannot speak to you bad or good.

And Isaac came from the way of the well, The Well of the Living One, my Beholder. For he lived in the south country.

And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and she saw Isaac. And she dismounted from the camel.

But to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son while he still lived, eastward to the east country.

the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried there.

And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. And he died in the presence of all his brothers.

And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb, and two kinds of people shall be separated from your bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people, the older shall serve the younger.

And Jacob boiled soup. And Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

And the men of the place asked about 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 beautiful of form.

And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are mightier than we are.

And Isaac departed from there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

And he moved from there, and dug another well, and they did not strive for that. And he called the name of it Broad Places. And he said, For now Jehovah has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

And he went from there to Beer-sheba.

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phicol the commander of his army.

And Isaac said to them, Why do you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?

And they rose up early in the morning, and swore to one another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Go now to the flock, and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them delicious things for your father, such as he loves.

And she put the skins from the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.