In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And God said, Let us make man in our image--after our likeness--and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yea, has God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind (in which is the seed of them) upon the earth. And it was so.

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

Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.

And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upo

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.

And LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make a help meet for him.

And God saw everything 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 thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And I will bless those who bless thee, and he who curses thee I will curse. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for food,

And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

And it came to pass after these things, that God proved Abraham, and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.

And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

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

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that LORD God made earth and heaven.

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

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

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

And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.

And 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 to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and h

And LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat,

After these things the word of LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield, thy exceedingly great reward.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.

And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all

And LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us--to know good and evil--and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever--

Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.

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

And he believed in LORD, and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and to him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

And they heard the voice of LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

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

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he was priest of God Most High.

And LORD God said to the serpent, Because thou have done this, cursed are thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly thou shall go, and dust thou shall eat all the days of thy life.

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And the two [heavenly] agents came to Sodom at evening, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. And he bowed himself with his face to the earth,

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing.

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

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

For God knows that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And as for you, ye meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

And LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept. And [God] took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in place of it.

And LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

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

And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kind. And it was so.

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

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoke

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

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

And out of the ground LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and whatever the man called every living creature, that was the name of it.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.

And 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 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 were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything

And LORD God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, 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 go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, also the stars.

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.

So he drove out the man. And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou love, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

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

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

And it came to pass, that, when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

If thou do well, shall thou not be accepted? And if thou do not well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire shall be for thee, and thou shall rule over it.

And LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth. And it was so.

And out of the ground LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, also the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.

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

And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.

And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

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

And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps upon the ground,

And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. And he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in to him into the ark.

And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Why did thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore behold thy wife. Take her, and go thy way.

And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

And LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-donkeys, and camels.

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou do.

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

She said moreover to him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.

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

Now therefore swear to me here by God that thou will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shall do to me, and to the land in which thou have

Also, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field.

And Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he begot Enosh, and begot sons and daughters.

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which comes to me. And if not, I will know.

And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou have done to me? Why did thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

And the gold of that land is good. There is bdellium and the onyx stone.

And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and also the women, and the people.

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

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

And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he begot Shelah, and begot sons and daughters.

And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

And he said to him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou have spoken.

And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for to thee I will give it.

And this is how thou shall make it: The length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

And he also went in to Rachel, and also he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

And Pharaoh gave men command concerning him. And they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

And Cain said to LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

The name of the first is Pishon. That is it which encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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

And the dove came in to him at evening. And, lo, in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

With whomever thou find thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brothers discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And the woman said to the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

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

And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he begot Peleg, and begot sons and daughters.

and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from where the Philistines went forth), and Caphtorim.

And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he begot Kenan, and begot sons and daughters.

And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.

And now cursed are thou from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

But I will establish my covenant with thee. And thou shall come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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 upon the earth.

And the name of the second river is Gihon. The same is it which encompasses the whole land of Cush.

Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brothers, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be he who curses thee, and blessed be he who blesses thee.

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begot Lot.

And the man bowed his head, and worshipped LORD.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel [Tigris]. That is it which goes in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.

And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he begot Eber, and begot sons and daughters.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.

And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech.

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech. For I have killed a man for wounding me, and a young man for bruising me.

And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Perhaps there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.

And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years after he begot Terah, and begot sons and daughters.

And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within 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 spread over.

These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, according to their nations.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth. So that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered.

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.

Thou shall make a light for the ark, and thou shall finish it to a cubit upward. And thou shall set the door of the ark in the side of it, with lower, second, and third stories thou shall make it.

And he stayed yet seven other days, and sent forth the dove. And she did not return again to him any more.

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he begot Reu, and begot sons and daughters.

And I, behold, I bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, 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

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

And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds and cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon th

And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

Hasten thee, escape there, for I cannot do anything till thou have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

And God spoke to Noah, saying,

and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they swore both of them.

And they said, We saw plainly that LORD was with thee. And we said, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and thee. And let us make a covenant with thee,

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shall not give me anything. If thou will do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.

And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as thou go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

And Jacob said, Swear to me first. And he swore to him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob.

When thou till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer thou shall be on the earth.

In the selfsame 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 into the ark,

And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he begot Serug, and begot sons and daughters.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

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

Behold, thou have driven me out this day from the face of the ground, and I shall be hid from thy face, and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. And it shall come to pass, that whoever finds me shall slay me.

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain.

And Lamech took to him two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

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

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land o

And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.

Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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

And to Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.

And it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

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

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And his brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.

And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber.

And to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were also born to him.

And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.

And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me, that he came to the man. And, behold, he was standing by the

From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.

male and female he created them, and blessed them, and called their name Man, in the day when they were created.

Of the birds according to their kind, and of the cattle according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two of every sort shall come to thee, to keep them alive.

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

And they went in to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

Perhaps there are fifty righteous men within the city. Will thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous men that are in it?

And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

And he said, These seven ewe lambs thou shall take from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.

And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had slime for mortar.

Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

And Abram and Nahor took wives to themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.

And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die, and what profit shall the birthright do to me?

And he said, Is not he rightly name 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 thou not reserved a blessing for me?

The sun was risen upon 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.

And Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he begot Mahalalel, and begot sons and daughters.

And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

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

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves upon the earth, according to their families, went forth out of the ark.

And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.

And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

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

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

they, and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.

LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, he will send his [heavenly] agent before thee, and

He was a mighty hunter before LORD. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before LORD.

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

And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob.

And Serug lived two hundred years after he begot Nahor, and begot sons and daughters.

And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

And Jared lived a hundred sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.

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

And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of such as dwell in tents and [have] cattle.

And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.

Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous men. Will thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty-five.

And Mahalalel Jared eight hundred and thirty years lived after he begot, and begot sons and daughters.

And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.

And take thou to thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee, and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

And Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arphaxad, and begot sons and daughters.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man.

So they made a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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

And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

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

And those that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him. And LORD shut him in.

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

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

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

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of LORD. Why do thou stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered,

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

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

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

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed.

And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And Isaac his father said to him, Who are thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau.

If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, truly Lamech seventy-seven fold.

and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Pharaoh took his signet ring from off his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

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

And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones, and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with h

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the men, and take the goods to thyself.

And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.

And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, thy brother Esau comforts himself concerning thee, to kill thee.

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

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.

And LORD went his way as soon as he had left off conversing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

fifteen cubits upward. The waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered.

And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which LORD has cursed.

And Esau said to his father, Have thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Whereas thou have felt around all my stuff, what have thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brothers and thy brothers, that they may judge between us two.

And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

And the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

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

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou see is mine. And what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their sons whom th

And by thy sword thou shall live, and thou shall serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shall break loose, that thou shall shake his yoke from off thy neck.

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

behold, I am standing by the fountain of water, and let it come to pass, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink,

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

And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had

And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bore Enoch. And [Cain] built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

These twenty years I have been with thee, thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and I have not eaten the rams of thy flocks.

And I bowed my head, and worshipped LORD, and blessed LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water which Abimelech's servants had taken away violently.

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

And Lamech lived a hundred eighty-two years, and begot a son.

And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. And there was not a man to till the ground,

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no sons. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

And he said to me, LORD, before whom I walk, will send his [heavenly] agent with thee, and prosper thy way. And thou shall take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house.

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

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begot Isaac.

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turns away,

And God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.

And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

And Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

And LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. The food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.

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

And Jared lived eight hundred years after he begot Enoch, and begot sons and daughters.

And LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red [pottage], for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom.

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

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

And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of LORD, the Everlasting God.

And LORD God called to the man, and said to him, Where are thou?

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be.

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

that thou will do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace. Thou are now the blessed of LORD.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Then LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from LORD out of heaven.

And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And, behold, the agents of God ascending and descending on it.

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

Make thee an ark of gopher wood. Thou shall make rooms in the ark, and shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

And LORD said to Noah, Come, thou and all thy house into the ark, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation.

And Methuselah lived seven hundred eighty-two years after he begot Lamech, and begot 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.

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

And Noah did according to all that LORD commanded him.

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And [Abram] gave him a tenth of all.

And LORD appeared to Abram, and said, I will give this land to thy seed. And there he built an altar to LORD, who appeared to him.

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

Also of the birds of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

And Lamech lived five hundred ninety-five years after he begot Noah, and begot sons and daughters.

And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.

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

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

And Abimelech said, I know not who has done this thing, neither did thou tell me, nor yet did I hear of it, but today.

And LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous men within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.

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

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

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

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

And LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man, to beast, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.

And Noah built an altar to LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

I will pass through all thy flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and [of such] shall be my hire.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.

And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field, but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.

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

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 himself to the earth,

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and ordered him, and said to him, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

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

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought an offering to LORD of the fruit of the ground.

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojourning, in the land of Canaan.

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou go to Zoar.

And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Here I am.

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 pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

And Jacob said, First sell me thy birthright.

And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,

And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said, Because LORD has looked upon my affliction, for now my husband will love me.

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies,

And Cush begot Nimrod. He began to be a mighty man on the earth.

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

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

that I will not take a thread nor a shoe latchet nor anything that is thine, lest thou should say, I have made Abram rich,

And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. And the two made a covenant.

And the boys grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

And LORD said to Cain, Why are thou angry? And why has thy countenance fallen?

And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

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

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And he said to him, I am LORD who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

And some man came who had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner. And these were allies with Abram.

And Jacob called to his sons, and said, gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days.

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. And I hid myself.

And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

And Abraham called the name of that place LORD-jireh. As it is said to this day, In the mount of LORD it shall be provided.

Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens, the male and his female. And of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female.

And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to thee when thou fled from the face of Esau thy brother.

And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had, and they cried before him, Bow the knee. And he set him over all the land of Egypt.

And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of LORD.

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

And the agent of LORD said to her, Behold, thou are with child, and shall bear a son, and thou shall call his name Ishmael, because LORD has heard thy affliction.

And Abraham was old, well stricken in age. And LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for I have made thee the father of a multitude of nations.

And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. And, behold, he stood by the river.

And God said, No, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

Say, I pray thee, thou are my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.

And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit in which is the seed of it, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good.

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 they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Hara

Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried out, Cause every man to go out from me. And no man stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

Judah, thy brothers shall praise thee. Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah says to thee, hearken to her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

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

And they said, Come, let us build a city for us, and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for us, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

but he did not have respect to Cain and to his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth in which there is life, for food--every green herb. And it was so.

And he said, Who told thee that thou was naked? Have thou eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee that thou should not eat?

And the man said, The woman whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

And Noah was five hundred years old. And Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they went both of them together.

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them.

And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah.

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

And Isaac entreated LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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

And he said, I will certainly return to thee when the season comes round, and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

And LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do,

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before LORD.

And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth. For, [she said], God has appointed for me another seed instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.

And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.

And she conceived again, and bore a son. And she said, This time I will praise LORD. Therefore she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.

And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.

And he also made savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat of it. And LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering,

And LORD said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger.