So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so.

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

So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

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

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

He made the camels kneel beside a well of water outside the town at evening. This was the time when the women went out to draw water.

Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

while the man silently watched her to see whether or not the Lord had made his journey a success.

But he responded to them, “Do not delay me, since the Lord has made my journey a success. Send me away so that I may go to my master.”

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”

Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Open Spaces and said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.

Then she handed the delicious food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. Then he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat some of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”

Then Jacob made a vow: “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, if He provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,

When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.

Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.

I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to Me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’”

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

Jacob went on his way, and God’s angels met him.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you—and he has 400 men with him.”

But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.

So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession I met?”

“To find favor with you, my lord,” he answered.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age, and he made a robe of many colors for him.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he did successful,

The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him, and the Lord made everything that he did successful.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as intelligent and wise as you are.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”

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

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”

The men took this gift, double the amount of money, and Benjamin. They made their way down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

“Return quickly to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.

So Joseph made it a law, still in effect today in the land of Egypt, that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.

Yet his bow remained steady,
and his strong arms were made agile
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

my father made me take an oath, saying, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me there in the tomb that I made for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father. Then I will return.”

So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”