And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so.

And God said, Let us make man in our image--after our likeness--and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that LORD God made earth and heaven.

The name of the first is Pishon. That is it which encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

For God knows that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

And LORD God called to the man, and said to him, Where are thou?

And LORD God said to the serpent, Because thou have done this, cursed are thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly thou shall go, and dust thou shall eat all the days of thy life.

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

therefore LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from where he was taken.

And LORD said to Cain, Why are thou angry? And why has thy countenance fallen?

And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.

And LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?

And now cursed are thou from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

male and female he created them, and blessed them, and called their name Man, in the day when they were created.

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

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.

And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, and he died.

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which LORD has cursed.

And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, and he died.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and they bore sons to them, the same were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens, the male and his female. And of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps upon the ground,

And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered,

fifteen cubits upward. The waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered.

And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with h

And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

And he sent forth a raven. And it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. And he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in to him into the ark.

And the dove came in to him at evening. And, lo, in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. And, behold, the face of the

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, with all with which the ground teems, and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

And the sons of Noah, who went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread over.

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.

From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.

He went forth out of that land into Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from where the Philistines went forth), and Caphtorim.

and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

And to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were also born to him.

And to Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, according to their nations.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.

And LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begot Lot.

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. And they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Hara

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon.

Say, I pray thee, thou are my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.

And he went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brothers.

Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against LORD.

And LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou are, northward and southward and eastward and westward.

And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to LORD.

that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).

They served Chedorlaomer twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar), and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim,

And some man came who had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner. And these were allies with Abram.

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (the same is the King's Valley).

And he said to him, I am LORD who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, from where have thou come? And where are thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

And the agent of LORD said to her, Behold, thou are with child, and shall bear a son, and thou shall call his name Ishmael, because LORD has heard thy affliction.

And she called the name of LORD who spoke to her, Thou are a God who sees, for she said, Have I even here looked behind him who sees me?

And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of a covenant between me and you.

And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations: he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed.

He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised. And my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year.

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 men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had

And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart. After that ye shall pass on, inasmuch as ye came to your servant. And they said, Do so as thou have said.

And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, [and] well stricken in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Perhaps there are fifty righteous men within the city. Will thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous men that are in it?