At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

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

And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow;

And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.

And Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.

And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;

But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.

Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;

And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.

And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.

And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,

And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,

And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;

And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.

And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

And the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is Zoar), went out, and put their forces in position in the valley of Siddim,

And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.

And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?

But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.