In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."

Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"

God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so.

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

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

God said, "Let there be light." And there was light!

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."

God saw all that he had made -- and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."

I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name."

Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

God called the expanse "sky." There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" Abraham replied.

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, "I have created a man just as the Lord did!"

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created -- when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

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

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, "You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance."

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

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

"Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God's image God has made humankind."

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

Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die,

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

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)

The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

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

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city's gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.

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

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."

As for you, you meant to harm me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh.

So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind." It was so.

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

God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.

I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him."

Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.

That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River --

The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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

When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh.

Then the man said, "This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."

But Noah 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 fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

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

and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you -- every living creature of the earth.

God made two great lights -- the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

God said, "Take your son -- your only son, whom you love, Isaac -- and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you."

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

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

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

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it."

So the Lord said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." It was so.

The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

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

Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live before you!"

God said to Noah and his sons,

When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

When Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram's wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham's brother Nahor.

Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!"

Then, during the night, Abram divided his forces against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, 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.

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

We have plenty of straw and feed," she added, "and room for you to spend the night."

Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it's just a little one. Let me go there. It's just a little place, isn't it? Then I'll survive."

The entire lifetime of Seth was 912 years, and then he died.

Now swear to me right here in God's name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you."

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

Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know."

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

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

(The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).

He retrieved all the stolen property. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of the people.

After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King's Valley).

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

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

When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

"Very well," he replied, "I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you."

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

Jacob had marital relations with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban for seven more years.

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

Then Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is too great to endure!

then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.

The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the Lord.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it." (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)

And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorites.

Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,

Enosh lived 815 years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.

When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.

So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark -- you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

So God said to Noah, "This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth."

The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed."

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord,

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you."

The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth."

And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

Finally Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah! Listen to me! You wives of Lamech, hear my words! I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for hurting me.

Abraham spoke to him again, "What if forty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it for the sake of the forty."

And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

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

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

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

So Laban entered Jacob's tent, and Leah's tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.

Abraham said, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty."

Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

In Noah's six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!"

Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,

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

Then God spoke to Noah and said,

the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

They replied, "We could plainly see that the Lord is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us -- between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

So Laban asked, "What should I give you?" "You don't need to give me a thing," Jacob replied, "but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:

and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

But Jacob said, "Swear an oath to me now." So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."

On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.

When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

The entire lifetime of Enosh was 905 years, and then he died.

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me."

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

Now Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who heated metal and shaped all kinds of tools made of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Then Abraham asked, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

That is why its name was called Babel -- because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

And Noah did all that God commanded him -- he did indeed.

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

When the Egyptians see you they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.

Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.

Abraham said, "I swear to do this."

The name of his brother was Jubal; he was the first of all who play the harp and the flute.

Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

And sons were also born to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), the father of all the sons of Eber.

saying "Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master! The Lord has led me to the house of my master's relatives!"

When he saw the bracelets on his sister's wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say, "This is what the man said to me," he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.

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

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them "humankind."

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

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

Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

He replied, "You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well."

Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

"Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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

Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. So Esau despised his birthright.

When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

"Look," said Esau, "I'm about to die! What use is the birthright to me?"

Esau exclaimed, "'Jacob' is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!" Then he asked, "Have you not kept back a blessing for me?"

The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.

Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. Eventually the families of the Canaanites were scattered

Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, "Now this time my husband will show me affection, because I have given birth to three sons for him." That is why he was named Levi.

The sons of Gomer were Askenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

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

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

They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.

"The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, 'To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.")

The entire lifetime of Kenan was 910 years, and then he died.

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.

The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?" He replied, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."

Mahalalel lived 830 years after he became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.

When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.

So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised;

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

When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

The entire lifetime of Mahalalel was 895 years, and then he died.

He blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.

The entire lifetime of Enoch was 365 years.

Laban said to him, "Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?"

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.

The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

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

May God enlarge Japheth's territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!"

Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

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

Isaac began to shake violently and asked, "Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!"

The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

His father Isaac asked, "Who are you?" "I am your firstborn son," he replied, "Esau!"

If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!"

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph's. He clothed him with fine linen clothes and put a gold chain around his neck.

But Lot's wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Then he said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones.

Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself."

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

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

When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.

When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, "Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it."

The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.

The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

My master made me swear an oath. He said, 'You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

"Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you

He named the second child Ephraim, saying, "Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."

He also said, "Worthy of praise is the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem!

He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."

Esau said to his father, "Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!" Then Esau wept loudly.

When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us!

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

The entire lifetime of Lamech was 777 years, and then he died.

Laban replied to Jacob, "These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?

You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck."

For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made."

Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I'll say, "Give me a little water to drink from your jug."

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Cain had marital relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.

"I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech's servants had seized.

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.

When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

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

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

He answered, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father's family.

The entire lifetime of Jared was 962 years, and then he died.

This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Live with him for a little while until your brother's rage subsides.

God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

The young woman ran and told her mother's household all about these things.

After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

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

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Jared lived 800 years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.

The Lord regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.

So Esau said to Jacob, "Feed me some of the red stuff -- yes, this red stuff -- because I'm starving!" (That is why he was also called Edom.)

his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

Later the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

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

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord."

But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, "I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, "Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

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

The Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Far be it from you to do such a thing -- to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?"

Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father's nakedness.

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

Worthy of praise is the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

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

Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.

Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.

"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

"I do not know who has done this thing," Abimelech replied. "Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today."

So the Lord replied, "If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake."

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

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

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

There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

The entire lifetime of Noah was 950 years, and then he died.

The lifetime of Terah was 205 years, and he died in Haran.

So the Lord said, "I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth -- everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them."

I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

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

Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

Sarah lived 127 years.

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman!

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" And he replied, "I don't know! Am I my brother's guardian?"

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.'"

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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

Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son!" "Here I am!" Esau replied.

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

But Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright."

God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,

So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, "The Lord has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. Surely my husband will love me now."

When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he mobilized his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders as far as Dan.

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, 'It is I who made Abram rich.'

For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.

Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

At that time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

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

A fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty with Abram.)

Jacob called for his sons and said, "Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.

The man replied, "I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

And Abraham called the name of that place "The Lord provides." It is said to this day, "In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made."

You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

Then God said to Jacob, "Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, "Kneel down!" So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

But the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!

And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord.

At that time Judah left his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

Then the Lord's angel said to her, "You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your painful groans.

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.

So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men -- both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom -- surrounded the house.

No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,

God said, "No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."

The land produced vegetation -- plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants, so he cried out, "Make everyone go out from my presence!" No one remained with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

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

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, "Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived."

Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah.

So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground -- everything that has the breath of life in it -- I give every green plant for food." It was so.

And the Lord God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

The man said, "The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it."

"See here," Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt."

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

"God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son," Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel's saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

I will give the whole land of Canaan -- the land where you are now residing -- to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."

In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

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

One of them said, "I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.

When Esau heard his father's words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, "Bless me too, my father!"

Then the Lord said, "Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

"As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

And God said, "This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:

And Adam had marital relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, "God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him."

Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,

She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, "This time I will praise the Lord." That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth."

He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him, "My father, get up and eat some of your son's wild game. Then you can bless me."

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock -- even the fattest of them. And the Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,

and the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."