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

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 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 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 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 on the seventh day God finished 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 in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

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

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

And the rib, which LORD God had taken from the man, he made a woman, and brought her to the man.

And they heard the voice of LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

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

And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from LORD.

And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

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

Behold, thou have driven me out this day from the face of the ground, and I shall be hid from thy face, and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. And it shall come to pass, that whoever finds me shall slay me.

And Cain went out from the presence of LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

And LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man, to beast, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them.

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.

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man.

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

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

And the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

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.

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

Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything

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

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.

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

And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as thou go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

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.

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 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

Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.

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 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,

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.

So Lot chose for himself all the Plain of the Jordan. And Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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 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).

In that day LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, LORD has restrained me from bearing. Go in, I pray thee, to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain sons by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

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 uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

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

And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

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

And LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do,

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

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, encompassed the house around, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

Then LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from LORD out of heaven.

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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

And God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou have done this. And I also withheld thee from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow thee to touch her.

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is thy kindness which thou shall show to me. At every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

And he said, These seven ewe lambs thou shall take from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.

And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,

Hear us, my lord. Thou are a prince of God among us. Bury thy dead in our choice sepulchers. None of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou may bury thy dead.

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 the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I bring thy son again to the land from where thou came?

LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, he will send his [heavenly] agent before thee, and

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 the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.

Then thou shall be clear from my oath, when thou come to my kindred. And if they do not give her to thee, thou shall be clear from my oath.

behold, I am standing by the fountain of water, and let it come to pass, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink,

And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from LORD; we cannot speak to thee bad or good.

And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi, for he dwelt in the land of the South.

And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel.

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

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

And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur which is before Egypt, as thou go toward Assyria. He abode opposite all his brothers.

And LORD said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger.

And Jacob boiled pottage. And Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us, for thou are much mightier than we.

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.

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

And Isaac said to them, Why have ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

And they rose up promptly in the morning, and swore one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

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.

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above.

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.

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?