And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.

And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

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 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 no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. And there was not a man to till the ground,

but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

And LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was divided, and became four heads.

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

And the gold of that land is good. There is bdellium and the onyx stone.

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field, but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of LORD.

there went in two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.

So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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

And he moved from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to LORD, and called upon the name of LORD.

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. And Abram called on the name of LORD there.

And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land.

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.

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.

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,

Now the valley of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there. And those who remained fled to the mountain.

And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

And the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham yet stood before LORD.

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?

Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous men. Will thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty-five.

And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Perhaps there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

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.

Hasten thee, escape there, for I cannot do anything till thou have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they swore both of them.

And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of LORD, the Everlasting God.

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

And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou will, I pray thee, hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.

And Abraham said to him, Beware thou that thou not bring my son there again.

And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shall be clear from this my oath. Only thou shall not bring my son there again.

and said, Whose daughter are thou? Tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?

And there was set before him food to eat. But he said, I will not eat until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on.

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.

the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.

And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was playing with Rebekah his wife.

And Isaac departed there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

And he moved from there, and dug another well, and they did not strive for that. And he called the name of it Rehoboth. And he said, For now LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

And he went up from there to Beersheba.

And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of LORD, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

And they said, We saw plainly that LORD was with thee. And we said, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and thee. And let us make a covenant with thee,

Go now to the flock, and fetch me two good kids of the goats from there. And I will make them savory food for thy father, such as he loves.

until thy brother's anger turns away from thee, and he forgets that which thou have done to him. Then I will send, and fetch thee from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?

Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from there of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take for him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him an order, saying, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,

And he touched upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

And he looked, and, behold, a well in the field. And, lo, three flocks of sheep were laying there by it, for they watered the flocks out of that well. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great.

And all the flocks were gathered there. And they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.

I will pass through all thy flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and [of such] shall be my hire.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones, and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap.

And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother:

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Why is it that thou ask for my name? And he blessed him there.

And he erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to thee when thou fled from the face of Esau thy brother.

And let us arise, and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.

And he built there an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because God was revealed to him there, when he fled from the face of his brother.

And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

and they took him, and cast him into the pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen, and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. And he took her, and went in to her.

Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute, who was at Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There has been no prostitute here.

And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her, and also the men of the place said, There has been no prostitute here.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.

And it came to pass, about this time, that he went into the house to do his work, and there was none of the men of the house there inside.

And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound. And he was there in the prison.

And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. And whatever they did there, he was the doer of it.

And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no man who can interpret it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, I pray you.

And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed grass.

And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men of it. And Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no man who could interpret them to

And there was a young man with us there, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him. And he interpreted to us our dreams. He interpreted to each man according to his dream.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no man who can interpret it. And I have heard say of thee, that when thou hear a dream thou can interpret it.

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed and well-favored, and they fed in the reed grass.

and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no man who could declare it to me.

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,