And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.

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;

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:

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

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

And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

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

And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

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 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:

To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

And he went on, journeying still to the South.

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

Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

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

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 Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.

And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.

And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.

And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.

And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.

That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.

Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,

Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.

So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

So Isaac went on living in Gerar;

And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.

And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck:

And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field.

And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

Then Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of the children of the East.

And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

And on the third day Laban had news of Jacob's flight.

And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.

And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.

So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.

So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.

And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.

So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.

And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.

And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes.

So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come back quickly with my father.

And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them.

And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.

A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.

Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;

So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you.

And Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the Lord which he had sent him to say, and of all the signs which he had given him orders to do.

And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

And on the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses in the land of Egypt,

The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.

And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the fields.

And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt.

And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.

For if you do not let my people go, see, I will send clouds of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into their houses; and the houses of the Egyptians and the land where they are will be full of flies.

And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.