and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth in which there is life, for food--every green herb. And it was so.

And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

And out of the ground LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, also the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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.

And LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us--to know good and evil--and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever--

So he drove out the man. And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life.

And I, behold, I bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

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 they went in to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

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.

But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.

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.

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 Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

And LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I who am old certainly bear a child?

Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. And he said, No, but thou did laugh.

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, do not look behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain. Escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Behold now, thy servant has found favor in thy sight, and thou have magnified thy loving kindness, which thou have shown to me in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.

Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shall live. And if thou do not restore her, know thou that thou shall surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou love, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred seventy-five years.

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years. And he gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it be so, why do I live? And she went to inquire of LORD.

And make savory food for me, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die.

And by thy sword thou shall live, and thou shall serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shall break loose, that thou shall shake his yoke from off thy neck.

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said, Because LORD has looked upon my affliction, for now my husband will love me.

And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.

With whomever thou find thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brothers discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smit

The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Get you down there, and buy for us from there, that we may live, and not die.

By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here.

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother. And ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:

And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph, does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence.

And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land not be desolate.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty-seven years.

And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their swords.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

And LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt, for all the men are dead who sought thy life.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty-seven years.

And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty-three years.

And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through, whether it be beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mount.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons, I will not go out free,

But if any harm follows, then thou shall give life for life,

If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.

And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it, and the dead they shall also divide.

Thou shall not allow a sorceress to live.

and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before LORD,

then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is on LORD's side, [come] to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

And he said, Thou cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.

And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins. And he shall put them upon the head of the goat, a

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

For as to the life of all flesh, the blood of it is with the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh is the blood of it. Whoever eats it shall be c

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am LORD.

And thou shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

Thou shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of thy people, but thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. I am LORD.

The stranger that sojourns with you shall be to you as the home-born among you, and thou shall love him as thyself, for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. I am LORD your God.

And he who smites a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.

And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee [as] a stranger and a sojourner.

Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

And as for those who are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as a man flees from the sword, and they shall fall w

Only the tribe of Levi thou shall not number, neither shall thou take the sum of them among the sons of Israel,

Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families. Thou shall number them, every male from a month old and upward.

And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses,

but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint for them each one to his service and to his burden,

Command the sons of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every man who has an issue, and whoever is unclean about life.

but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of LORD,

Say to them, As I live, says LORD, surely as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took,

and put fire in them, and put incense upon them before LORD tomorrow. And it shall be that the man whom LORD chooses, he [is] holy. Ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

And Moses said to Korah, Hear now, ye sons of Levi.

and that he has brought thee near, and all thy brothers the sons of Levi with thee? And ye seek the priesthood also?

And thou shall write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

And thy brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined to thee, and minister to thee, but thou and thy sons with thee shall be before the tent of the testimony.