In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Now the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”

And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.

Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild with the help of the Lord.”

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.

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

There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am God Almighty;
Walk before Me, and be blameless.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying,
“Do not fear, Abram,
I am a shield to you;
Your reward shall be very great.”

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.

and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes,
And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

They heard the sound 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.

By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Now the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.

By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

The serpent said to the woman, You surely will not die!

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.

The Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;

Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.

The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.”

Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

Seth lived one hundred and five years, and became the father of Enosh.

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.”

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”

Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

And the Lord said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.

Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!”

Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah;

It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces.

Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah; these eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go.”

He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

Now it came about at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do;

But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

Again she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in.”

now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be saved.”

So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

now therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.”

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;

Then Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”

Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot with his possessions, and also the women, and the people.

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

there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.

God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;

Now may God give you of the dew of heaven,
And of the fatness of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and new wine;

Now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.

So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.”

This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.

Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.

Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber;

Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear!

and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.

The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before the Lord.

The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.

The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmen point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

The woman said to the serpent, From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Mizraim became the father of Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim

Then Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.

Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.

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

But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.”

And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.

May peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you;
Be master of your brothers,
And may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be those who curse you,
And blessed be those who bless you.”

Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.

Then the man bowed low and worshiped the Lord.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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

The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah;

When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.

But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year.”

Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose ten are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.”

It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,

Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael became the father of Methushael, and Methushael became the father of Lamech.

Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah,
Listen to my voice,
You wives of Lamech,
Give heed to my speech,
For I have killed a man for wounding me;
And a boy for striking me;

He spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose forty are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it on account of the forty.”

and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.

Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth

Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.

He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim

the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite

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

These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations.

I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.

So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

And he said, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the twenty.”

You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again.

Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu;

and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and daughters.

Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.

It came about when he came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;

Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.

Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.

Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

Joktan became the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;

Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.

and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite

The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:

The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

And Jacob said, “First swear to me”; so he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”

On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor;

and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.

The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.

Lamech took to himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.

It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

Abraham said, “I swear it.”

His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the Lord has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”

When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created.

Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.

The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.

So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?

Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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

They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

“Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose and went on his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?”

Then he said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

Then Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.

She conceived again and bore a son and said, “Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore he was named Levi.

The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.

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

and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

So all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.

The sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.

So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

Then Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king in his place.

Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Then Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.

Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.

As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.”

and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.

All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;

So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

The sons of Aram were Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.

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

Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.

So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.

He blessed him and said,
“Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;

So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

And he said, “Come in, blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?”

The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

“May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”

Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.”

The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah

and Obal and Abimael and Sheba

Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put the gold necklace around his neck.

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

Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

Now their settlement extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.

Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give the people to me and take the goods for yourself.”

The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;

Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, “Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.

“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

As soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham the Lord departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live;

“Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

He named the second Ephraim, “For,” he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

He also said,
“Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.

Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.

Now Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.

So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

Then Laban replied to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

“By your sword you shall live,
And your brother you shall serve;
But it shall come about when you become restless,
That you will break his yoke from your neck.”

For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”

behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;

Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, as God had said to him.

Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.

During the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly.

These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.

And I bowed low and worshiped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had guided me in the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son.

Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land;

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

He said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house;

So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham became the father of Isaac;

Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury subsides,

God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

Then the girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised.

So he gathered all the food of these seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities; he placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.

and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth.

Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.

The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.’”

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the Lord God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven,

He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.

Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”

But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

All the men of his household, who were born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
He gave him a tenth of all.

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.”

So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place on their account.”

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep and every black one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die.”

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

Now Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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

When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth,

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.

So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground.

Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Then Pharaoh named Joseph Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”