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

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

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.

God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

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

On the sixth day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

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

but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

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

A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

He made the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground.

The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

Cain went out from the LORD's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

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

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

He went on his journeys from the Negev even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).

I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."

In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

And I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. And I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not go away from your servant.

The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

The LORD said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

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

Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.

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

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the Negev, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.

It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead."

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."

Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they do not give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'

behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink,"

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

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can't speak to you bad or good.

Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the Negev.

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

but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

The LORD said to her, Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.

Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."

Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

He went up from there to Beersheba.

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

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

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

Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."