And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

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 the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

And God called the dry land Earth, and the collection of waters he called Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and the creeping animal, and the beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every animal that creepeth upon the earth, in which is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.

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

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden: and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowls of the air, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise; she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden: and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eat?

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou shalt return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return.

And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

And to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

And Lamech took to him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

And Zillah, she also bore Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

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

And Enoch walked with God, and he was not: for God took him.

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted above the earth.

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

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping animals, and the fowl of heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

And the dove came in to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth was 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 hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham was the father of Canaan.

These three were the sons of Noah: and from them was the whole earth overspread.

And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent.

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, to Gaza; as thou goest to Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even to Lashah.

And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest to Sephar, a mount of the east.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

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

And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed from Haran.

And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

And it came to pass, that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

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

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest to Zoar.

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

And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain.

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them to Dan.

And Melchisedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And it came to pass, that when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

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

And Sarai said to Abram, my wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

Wherefore the well was called Beer-la-hai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

And Abram was eighty six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

And Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

In the same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Let a little water, I pray you, be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

And he said, I will certainly return to thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot do any thing till thou hast come thither: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, to all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him.

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the day that Isaac was weaned.

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And it came to pass after these things, that it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children to thy brother Nahor;

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bore also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.