In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

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

Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

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

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

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

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

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

It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."

It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

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

This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.

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

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

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

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

Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

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

To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

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

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

He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

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

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

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

The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,

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

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

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

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

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

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

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

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

God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

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

God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

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

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

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

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

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

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

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

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

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

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

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

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

that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

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

He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."

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

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

It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

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

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

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

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

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

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

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

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

See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.

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

Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

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

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

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

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

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

and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.

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

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

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

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

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

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

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

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

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

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

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

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

Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.

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

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

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

The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

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

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

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

Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

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

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

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

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

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

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

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

The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

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

Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.

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

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

The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

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

The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

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

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

He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

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

Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

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

Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,

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

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

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

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

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

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

I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

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

Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

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

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

Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

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

God spoke to Noah, saying,

the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

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

They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

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

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

The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

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

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

The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.

Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.

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

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

It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

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

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

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

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

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

Abraham said, "I will swear."

His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.

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

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

He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."

It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name "Adam," in the day when they were created.

Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

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

They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

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

They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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

Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

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

Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"

He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

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

the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

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

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

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

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

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

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

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

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

they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

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

Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.

What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

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

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

Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

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

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

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

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

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

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

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.

He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

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

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

The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

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

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

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

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

Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

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

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

Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

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

If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

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

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

Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

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

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

It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

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

The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

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

Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

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

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

"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."

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

Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

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

The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

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

By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,"

The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

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

Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

"These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.

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

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

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

He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

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

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

He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.

All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.

This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;

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

The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.

Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.

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

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

He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

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

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

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

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

The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

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

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

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

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

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

Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

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

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

Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.

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

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

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

He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

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

He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

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

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

In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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

All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

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

Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

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

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

I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

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

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

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

Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

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

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

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

He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

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

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."

God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

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

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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

This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'

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

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

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

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

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, "On Yahweh's mountain, it will be provided."

You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

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

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

Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.

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

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

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

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

Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

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

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph 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.

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

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

Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

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

but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

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

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

Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.

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

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

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

I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

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

He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

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

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

Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

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

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

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

Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."

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

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

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

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger."