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 there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

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 said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

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.

In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

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.

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

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

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 he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

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.

And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.

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;

If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put to death.

Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

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

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters:

The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

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.

For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over 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 when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.

Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

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 I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:

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

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:

And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:

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, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

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 when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

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

And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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

Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all he had.

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.

Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

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

For twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they put off his control.

And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.

Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.

And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.

And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

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 said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

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.

And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.