In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”

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

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so.

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

The Lord said to Abram:

Go out from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.

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

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”

God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children in anguish.
Your desire will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.

I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse those who treat you with contempt,
and all the peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.

God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you,

God called the expanse “sky.” Evening came and then morning: the second day.

When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he answered.

At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.

Adam was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.”

When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested from His work of creation.

Evening came and then morning: the third day.

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live in My presence and be blameless.

Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,

After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:

Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield;
your reward will be very great.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for festivals and for days and years.

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

Whoever sheds man’s blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.

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

Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.

The scepter will not depart from Judah
or the staff from between his feet
until He whose right it is comes
and the obedience of the peoples belongs to Him.

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

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

Then the Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting in the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.

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

Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine; he was a priest to God Most High.

Then the Lord God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting at Sodom’s gate. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground

I will make you into a great nation,
I will bless you,
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.

The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

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

“In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.

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

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.”

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.

And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”

These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;

Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfill to Abraham what He promised him.”

Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.

God called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” Evening came and then morning: the first day.

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River:

So the Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

Seth was 105 years old when he fathered Enosh.

And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called “woman,”
for she was taken from man.

Noah, however, found favor in the sight 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 sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

The Lord God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

and with every living creature that is with you—birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you—all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.

God made the two great lights—the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light to have dominion over the night—as well as the stars.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

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

Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.

Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.

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

If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is immense, and their sin is extremely serious.

They will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth.” And it was so.

The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Every living creature will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

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

So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable to You!”

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

Arpachshad lived 35 years and fathered Shelah.

When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals.

From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,

Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s household.

but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.

And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

And he and his servants deployed against them by night, attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

But water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land.

She also said to him, “We have plenty of straw and feed and a place to spend the night.”

Look, this town is close enough for me to run to. It is a small place. Please let me go there—it’s only a small place, isn’t it?—so that I can survive.”

So Seth’s life lasted 912 years; then he died.

Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a foreign resident.”

It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.

Seth lived 807 years after the birth of Enosh, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

I will go down to see if what they have done justifies the cry that has come up to Me. If not, I will find out.”

And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.

He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.

After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.

After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth.

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

Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg.

May God give to you—
from the dew of the sky
and from the richness of the land—
an abundance of grain and new wine.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.

And he said to him, “All right, I’ll grant your request about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”

This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Jacob slept with Rachel also, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

Then Pharaoh gave his men orders about him, and they sent him away with his wife and all he had.

Shelah lived 30 years and fathered Eber.

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

I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.

The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The men turned from there and went toward Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the Lord.

When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down.

If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.

Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

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

Mizraim fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Enosh lived 815 years after the birth of Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Enosh was 90 years old when he fathered Kenan.

So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.

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

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between Me and every creature on earth.”

The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.

May peoples serve you
and nations bow down to you.
Be master over your brothers;
may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Those who curse you will be cursed,
and those who bless you will be blessed.

These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

Then the man bowed down, worshiped the Lord,

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father 12 tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you.”

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

Seven days later the waters of the flood came on the earth.

Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah.

The bow will be in the clouds, and I will look at it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all the living creatures on earth.”

After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

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

Then he said, “Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak one more time. Suppose 10 are found there?”

He answered, “I will not destroy it on account of 10.”

Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,

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

Lamech said to his wives:

Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words.
For I killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.

Then he spoke to Him again, “Suppose 40 are found there?”

He answered, “I will not do it on account of 40.”

After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,

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

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

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim,

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

These three were Noah’s sons, and from them the whole earth was populated.

These are Shem’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two female slaves, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

Then he said, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose 20 are found there?”

He replied, “I will not destroy it on account of 20.”

You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within 18 inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.

Peleg lived 30 years and fathered Reu.

After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.

In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, those that crawl on the ground—and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Reu lived 32 years and fathered Serug.

Hurry up! Run there, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Shem’s sons were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Then God spoke to Noah,

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

They replied, “We have clearly seen how the Lord has been with you. We think there should be an oath between two parties—between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you:

Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.

Laban asked, “What should I give you?”

And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.

The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to Jacob and sold his birthright to him.

If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

On that same day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and his three sons’ wives entered the ark with him.

Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor.

After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.

So Enosh’s life lasted 905 years; then he died.

Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”

These are Ham’s sons, by their clans, according to their languages, in their own lands and their nations.

Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. Tubal-cain’s sister was Naamah.

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the spring.

Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah.

As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord—even though I am dust and ashes—

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

He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people he had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building.

Therefore its name is called Babylon, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.

Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

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

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh.

And Abraham said, “I swear it.”

His brother was named Jubal; he was the father of all who play the lyre and the flute.

Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

And Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber.

and said, “Praise the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah’s words—“The man said this to me!”—he went to the man. He was standing there by the camels at the spring.

The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.

He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them man.

Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.

Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah.

What if there are 50 righteous people in the city? Will You really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the 50 righteous people who are in it?

Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that this act will serve as my witness that I dug this well.”

They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.

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

Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.

Kenan was 70 years old when he fathered Mahalalel.

“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

So he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

The sun had risen over the land when Lot reached Zoar.

the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the Canaanite clans scattered.

Kenan lived 840 years after the birth of Mahalalel, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

The flood continued for 40 days on the earth; the waters increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

All wildlife, all livestock, every bird, and every creature that crawls on the earth came out of the ark by their groups.

She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “At last, my husband will become attached to me because I have borne three sons for him.” Therefore he was named Levi.

Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

When He finished talking with him, God withdrew from Abraham.

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan’s sons.

They entered it with all the wildlife according to their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, the creatures that crawl on the earth according to their kinds, all birds, every fowl, and everything with wings according to their kinds.

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

He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.”

So Kenan’s life lasted 910 years; then he died.

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

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

After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Jared was 162 years old when he fathered Enoch.

So Methuselah’s life lasted 969 years; then he died.

Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of the nomadic herdsmen.

When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates River became king in his place.

suppose the 50 righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?”

He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find 45 there.”

Mahalalel lived 830 years after the birth of Jared, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Mahalalel was 65 years old when he fathered Jared.

Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them.”

After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

Every creature perished—those that crawl on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife, and those that swarm on the earth, as well as all mankind.

After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Abraham was 99 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,

Aram’s sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

When Noah awoke from his drinking and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

So Mahalalel’s life lasted 895 years; then he died.

He blessed him and said:

Abram is blessed by God Most High,
Creator of heaven and earth,

So Enoch’s life lasted 365 years.

Laban said, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord. Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

Then the waters surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.

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

The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

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

God will extend Japheth;
he will dwell in the tents of Shem;
Canaan will be his slave.

Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils—everything on dry land died.

So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, came out.

Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!”

The waters surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?”

He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”

If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,
then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, clothed him with fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

But his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt.

Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.

Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.

He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the possessions for yourself.”

Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.

After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

Methuselah was 187 years old when he fathered Lamech.

When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.

And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.

But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”

When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

The mountains were covered as the waters surged above them more than 20 feet.

My master put me under this oath: ‘You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live

“Understand that I am confirming My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

And the second son he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

He also said:

Praise the Lord, the God of Shem;
Canaan will be his slave.

And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”

Esau said to his father, “Do you only have one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” And Esau wept loudly.

You’ve searched all my possessions! Have you found anything of yours? Put it here before my relatives and yours, and let them decide between the two of us.

Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.

The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.

So Lamech’s life lasted 777 years; then he died.

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

You will live by your sword,
and you will serve your brother.
But when you rebel,
you will break his yoke from your neck.

Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

I am standing here at a spring. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, and I say to her: Please let me drink a little water from your jug,

The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

And the waters surged on the earth 150 days.

Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.

Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.

During the seven years of abundance the land produced outstanding harvests.

I’ve been with you these 20 years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.

Then I bowed down, worshiped the Lord, and praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who guided me on the right way to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the water well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

Lamech was 182 years old when he fathered a son.

Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down,

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.

No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.

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

So Jared’s life lasted 962 years; then he died.

These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.

and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides—

So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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

Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.

The Lord came to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised.

Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it.

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

Jared lived 800 years after the birth of Enoch, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

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

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.

and his son Ishmael was 13 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.

Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us as is the custom of all the land.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

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

He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his 11 sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.

You will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have only done what was good to you, sending you away in peace. You are now blessed by the Lord.”

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand in an oath to Yahweh, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

Then out of the sky the Lord rained burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord.

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.

After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

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

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

Methuselah lived 782 years after the birth of Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, and day and night
will not cease.”

Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock.

And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.

You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

And all the men of his household—both slaves born in his house and those purchased with money from a foreigner—were circumcised with him.

and I give praise to God Most High
who has handed over your enemies to you.

And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

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

A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.

and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.

Lamech lived 595 years after Noah’s birth, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.

Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Abimelech replied, “I don’t know who did this thing. You didn’t report anything to me, so I hadn’t heard about it until today.”

The Lord said, “If I find 50 righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

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

On that same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

Adam was 130 years old when he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

So Noah’s life lasted 950 years; then he died.

Terah lived 205 years and died in Haran.

Then the Lord said, “I will wipe off from the face of the earth mankind, whom I created, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”

I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your future offspring throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.

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

Let me go through all your sheep today and remove every sheep that is speckled or spotted, every dark-colored sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the female goats. Such will be my wages.

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found as his complement.

Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life.

Adam named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

He looked up, and he saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed to the ground.

Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: “Don’t take a wife from the Canaanite women.

The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.

In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the Lord.

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from the hunt.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah and gave him a wife, Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.

And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed My command.”

Then Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev—he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him.

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be foreigners in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years.

Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered, “Here I am.”

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,

Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said, “The Lord has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken prisoner, he assembled his 318 trained men, born in his household, and they went in pursuit as far as Dan.

I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.

Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful man on earth.

They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.

Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.