And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

The LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden in order to have him work it and guard it.

The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"

"I'll place hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. He'll strike you on the head, and you'll strike him on the heel."

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

If thou doest well, will not thy countenance look up with confidence? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

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

And Adah will bear Jabal; he was the father of him remaining in the tent, and riches.

And his brother's name was Jubal; of him came all that exercise themselves on the harp and on the organs.

Later on, after Adam had sexual relations with his wife, she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, because "God granted me another offspring to replace Abel, since Cain murdered him."

And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.

This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.

After Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son just like him, that is, according to his own likeness, and named him Seth.

When Enosh was ninety years old, he became the father of Kenan.

And [in reverent fear and obedience] Enoch walked with God; and he was not [found among men], because God took him [away to be home with Him].

When Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old, he became the father of Lamech.

He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."

And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

And Noah did all that God commanded him -- he did indeed.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived.

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

On that same day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and his three sons’ wives entered the ark with him.

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.

But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.

And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

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.

When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.

And he saith: 'Blessed of Jehovah my God is Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.

May God make space for Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave for him."

And to Shem to him also were sons born; he is the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

So Abram left there, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot accompanied him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh.

Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and then sent him and his wife and all that [was] with him away.

Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that [was] with him. And Lot [went] with him to the Negev.

And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he had returned from smiting Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, into the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's valley.

Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he being the priest of the most highest God, blessed him, saying,

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heavens and earth.

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your control." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

But look, the word of the Lord came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir."

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

The Lord said to him, "I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

The Lord said to him, "Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."

So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar.

So Sarai said to Abram, "Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her." Abram did what Sarai told him.

So Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years.

Then the Lord's angel said to her, "You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your painful groans.

He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers."

Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are God Who Sees”; for she said, “Have I not even here [in the wilderness] remained alive after seeing Him [who sees me with understanding and compassion]?”

For this, the well was called, The well of him seeing me; behold, between Kadesh and between Bered.

And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael.

Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

So Abraham responded to God, "If only Ishmael would live in constant awareness that you're always with him!"

God said, "No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

Now as to Isaac, I'll confirm my covenant with him, to whom Sarah will give birth as your son at this time next year."

When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Then they asked him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" He replied, "There, in the tent."

One of them said, "I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

Now Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him. Abraham and Sarah were old really old and Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing.

since Abraham is destined to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him?

I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him."

Abraham spoke to him again, "What if forty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it for the sake of the forty."

Then Abraham said [to Him], “Oh, may the Lord not be angry, and I will speak; suppose thirty [righteous people] are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.

Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.