And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree in the garden,

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.

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.

And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?

And He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground.

And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today, and I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have killed a man because of my wound, and a young man because of my hurt.

And Adam knew his wife again. And she bore a son, and called his name Seth. For she said, God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain killed him.

And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

But I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

Behold! I, even I, establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

And I will establish My covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature with you, for everlasting generations:

I set my rainbow in the cloud. And it shall be a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.

And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

And the rainbow shall be in the cloud. And I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And God said to Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

And it will be when the Egyptians see you, they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save you alive.

I pray you, say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me for your sake. And my soul shall live because of you.

And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife?

Why did you say, She is my sister? And so I was about to take her to me as wife. Now therefore behold your wife. Take her and go.

And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are men, brothers.

Is not the whole land before you? I pray you, separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the people and take the goods for yourself.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth,

Nothing for me, only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

And Abram said, Lord God, what will You give me, since I am going childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

And Abram said, Behold, You have given no seed to me. And behold, one born in my house is my heir.

And He said to him, Take Me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing. I pray you, go in to my slave woman. It may be that I may be built by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon you. I have given my slave woman into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and you.

And He said, Hagar, Sarai's slave, where did you come from? and where will you go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

And she called the name of Jehovah who had spoken to her, You are a God of vision! For she said, Even here have I looked after Him that sees me?

Therefore the well was called The Well of the Living One Seeing Me. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect.

And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

As for Me, behold! My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

And God said to Abraham, And you shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you in their generations.

This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you. Every male child among you shall be circumcised.

And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you.

He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with your silver, must be circumcised. And My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.

And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed. And you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

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

And he said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, do not pass away, I pray, from Your servant.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

For I know him, that he will command his sons and his house after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do justice and judgment, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken of him.

I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come to Me. And if not, I will know.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes.

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

and said, Behold now, my lords, please turn into your servant's house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way. And they said, No, but we will stay in the street.

And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men which came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man. I pray you, let me bring them out to you, and you do to them as you see fit. But do nothing to these men, for this is why they came under the shadow of my roof.

please now, Your servant has found grace in Your sight, and You have magnified Your mercy, which You have shown to me in saving my life. And I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take 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.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve seed of our father.

And it happened on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also, and you go in and lie down with him so that we may preserve seed of our father.

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

Did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the sincerity of my heart and innocency of my hands I have done this.

And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the sincerity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? In what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake.

And yet truly she is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.

And it happened when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is your kindness which you show to me, at every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you. Live where it pleases you.

And Sarah said, God has made me laugh, so that all who hear will laugh with me.

And she said to Abraham, Cast out this slave woman and her son. For the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac.

And she went and sat down across from him, a good way off, about a bowshot. For she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat across from him, and lifted up her voice, and cried.

Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. Do to me according to the kindness that I have sworn to you, and to the land in which you have lived.

And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing, neither did you tell me, neither have I even heard of it, except today.

And he said, For you shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold me.

And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father. And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they both went together.

And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.

And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

I am a stranger and a visitor with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Hear us, my lord. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choice of our burying places. None of us shall withhold from you his burying-place from burying your dead.

And he spoke with them, saying, If it is your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and ask for me of Ephron the son of Zohar,

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is in the end of his field. For as much silver as it is worth he shall give it to me for a possession of a burying-place among you.

No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and the cave that is in it I give to you. In the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.

And he spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, Only if you would hear me. I will give you silver for the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.

My lord, listen to me. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and you? And bury your dead.

And Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, I pray you, put your hand under my thigh.

And I will make you swear by Jehovah, the God of Heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

But you shall go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife to my son Isaac.

And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I necessarily bring your son again to the land from which you came?

And Abraham said to him, Take care that you do not bring my son there again.

Jehovah, the God of Heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: He shall send His Angel before you. And you shall take a wife to my son from there.

And if the woman will not be willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath of mine. Only do not bring my son there again.

And he said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, I pray You, send me good speed this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

And let it be that the young woman to whom I shall say, Let down your pitcher, please, so that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give your camels drink also. Let her be the one that You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by it I shall know that You have shown kindness to my master.

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Please let me drink a little water of your pitcher.