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

And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.

and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.

And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man.

And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.

In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.

And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded him, so did he.

And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him.

there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

And they that came, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.

And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.

And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Sarai was barren: she had no child.

And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.

And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, towards the south.

And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai;

to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents.

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.

And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. And he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol, and the brother of Aner. And these were Abram's allies.

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he had returned from smiting Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, into the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's valley.

And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces.

And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife.

And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money every male among the people of Abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

And he took thick and sweet milk, and the calf that he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood before them under the tree, and they ate.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and advanced in age: it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

And Jehovah went away when he had ended speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law.

And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.

And Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;

But Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, wilt thou also kill a righteous nation?

For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.

And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of.

And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there, and piled the wood; and he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the money that he had named in the ears of the sons of Heth four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant.

And Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.

And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh,

And it came to pass before he had ended speaking, that behold, Rebecca came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother; and she had her pitcher upon her shoulder.

And the maiden was very fair in countenance; a virgin, and no man had known her. And she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

And when she had given him enough to drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have drunk enough.

And the man was astonished at her, remaining silent, to know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or not.

And it came to pass when the camels had drunk enough, that the man took a gold ring, of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands, ten shekels weight of gold,

And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the well.

And Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master after she had grown old; and unto him has he given all that he has.

And Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi; for he was dwelling in the south country.

And Isaac had gone out to meditate in the fields toward the beginning of evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, camels were coming.

And she had said to the servant, Who is the man that is walking in the fields to meet us? And the servant said, That is my master! Then she took the veil, and covered herself.

And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.

And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

And to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and, while he yet lived, sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward to the east country.

the field that Abraham had purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

And Jacob had cooked a dish; and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which had been in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

And it came to pass when he had been there some time, that Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked out of the window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was dallying with Rebecca his wife.

And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great number of servants; and the Philistines envied him.

And all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them and filled them with earth.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and that the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

But the shepherds of Gerar strove with Isaac's shepherds, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they had quarrelled with him.