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

Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

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

And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

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

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

And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

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

And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.

And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:

There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.

And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.

And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.

These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.

And the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is Zoar), went out, and put their forces in position in the valley of Siddim,

Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.

And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.

And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?

And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.

If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.

And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.

Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.

Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.

And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:

And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.