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

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

So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

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

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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 burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

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

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

And the land could not sustain them while dwelling together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying,
“Do not fear, Abram,
I am a shield to you;
Your reward shall be very great.”

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him.

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

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

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

And the Lord said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.

They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.

for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

for he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

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

For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’”

As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

For their property had become too great for them to live together, and the land where they sojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock.

He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” And she said, “Your seal and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”

Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming in all the land of Egypt;

Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and let them guard it.

Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

There also went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days mourning for his father.