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 said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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

Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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 gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

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 there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

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 there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

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 there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

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 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.

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

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 Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

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.

Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

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.

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 the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.

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

Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;

But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

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 his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music.

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh:

And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan:

And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:

And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared:

And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:

And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah:

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

And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:

And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son:

And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

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

And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

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

And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

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.

And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

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 in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

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

These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

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

And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.

He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

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

And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;

And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.

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.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:

And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:

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

And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:

And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

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.

So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

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 because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

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.

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.

And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.