In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Then 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 livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"

And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so.

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

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

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 fill 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 on the earth."

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit 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 surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."

I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

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

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,

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

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

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

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

So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

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

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,

So 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 one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."

And 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,

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--"

"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

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

And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

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

And 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.

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

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

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely 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. (He was priest of God Most High.)

The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens."

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will 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 man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.

For God knows that when you eat of 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, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

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

And 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 while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."

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

And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds--livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.

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

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

For I have chosen him, 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 to Abraham what he has promised him."

Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.

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

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

Now out of the ground the LORD God had 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 its name.

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

When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh.

Then the man said, "This at last is 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 that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for 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--and the stars.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

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

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

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

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."

Then the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,

and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so.

And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was 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. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel 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 you!"

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

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

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

But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

(Bethuel fathered 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."

And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

But the LORDafflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.

and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground--

She added, "We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night."

Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there--is it not a little one?--and my life will be saved!"

Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.

Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."

thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know."

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

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

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

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

Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.

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).

two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.

And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.

When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

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

This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.

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

And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.

When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.

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

I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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

And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.

Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,

The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.

And 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 come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites."

God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!"

Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

The man bowed his head and worshiped the LORD

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.

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

And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.

When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year."

Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."

When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,

To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.

Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

Again he spoke to him and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it."

And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.

These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

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

He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."

Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.

And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,

In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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

Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.

Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

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

Then God said to Noah,

and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.

They said, "We see plainly that the LORD has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, 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 kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:

And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."

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

When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.

And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.

Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."

These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out toward the man, to the spring.

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

And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

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 when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

From there he moved to the hill country 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.

And Abraham said, "I will swear."

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

Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.

To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.

and said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORDhas led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen."

As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.

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

They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?

Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."

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

"Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

And Abram and Nahor took wives. 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 Iscah.

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

When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.

Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"

Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

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

the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.

Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at 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 families from the ark.

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

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

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

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

they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.

The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,'he will send his angel before you, and you shall 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."

Thus all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.

Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

When Jared had lived 162 years he fathered Enoch.

Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

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

Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.

Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."

Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he fathered Jared.

Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them."

And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.

So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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

The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

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

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

Thus all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.

And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;

Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.

He said, "Come in, O blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."

And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains 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 continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

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

And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

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

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

The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.

His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold."

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.

But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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

The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.

He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."

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

At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.

But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

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

And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it."

And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

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 dwell,

"Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,

The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For 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.

and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."

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

For 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.

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

and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,

Thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.

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

By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck."

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."

behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"

The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

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

During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly,

These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.

Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.

When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,

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

When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son

Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.

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.

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

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

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.

But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.

Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.

These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac,

and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away--

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

Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.

After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

The LORDvisited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.

and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it.

and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!" (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 earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

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

But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"

And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, 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."

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,

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

And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached 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, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."

Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned 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 your enemies into your hand!"And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.

and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Lamech lived after he fathered Noah 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."

But 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.

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

Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."

And the LORD said, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."

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

That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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

All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them."

And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

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

let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"

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

The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth

Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.

Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.

In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORDdestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.

Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright now."

And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORDhas looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me."

When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,

Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.

These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'

And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

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

When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

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

These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,

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. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.

Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.

And he said, "I heard the sound of you 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 kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

So Abraham called the name of that place, "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.

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

To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD.

It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction.

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham,for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,

God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake."

The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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

Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Make everyone go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

"Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.

and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered."

Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth."

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

but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."

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

After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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

Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.

And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"

And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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

The LORD said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.

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

As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"

The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

"Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

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

And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future 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 offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."

From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased bearing.

I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."

He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."

He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

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

and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,

And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."