And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great whales and all manner of creatures that live and move, which the waters brought forth in their kinds, and all manner of feathered fowls in their kinds. And God saw that it was good:

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

The man named his wife Eve (life spring, life giver), because she was the mother of all the living.

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

AND Adam knew Life, his wife, and she will conceive and bear Cain, and said, I obtained a man of Jehovah.

And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and [those who have] livestock.

And Adam shall live thirty and one hundred years, and shall beget in his likeness, according to his image, and will call his name Seth.

So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died.

And Seth shall live five years and a hundred years, and he shall beget Enos.

And Seth shall live after his begetting Enos, seven years and eight hundred years: and he shall beget sons and daughters

So Seth’s life lasted 912 years; then he died.

And Enos shall live ninety years and shall beget Kainan.

And Enos shall live after his begetting Kainan, fifteen years and eight hundred years: and he shall beget sons and daughters.

So Enosh’s life lasted 905 years; then he died.

And Kainan shall live seventy years and shall beget MahalaleeL

And Kainan shall live after his begetting Mahalaleel, forty years and and eight hundred years: and shall beget sons and daughters.

So Kenan’s life lasted 910 years; then he died.

And Mahalaleel shall live five years and sixty years, and he shall beget Jared.

And Mahalaleel shall live after his begetting Jared, thirty years and eight hundred years; and he shall beget sons and daughters.

So Mahalalel’s life lasted 895 years; then he died.

And Jared shall live two and sixty years, and an hundred years, and he shall beget Enoch.

And Jared shall live after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and shall beget sons and daughters.

So Jared’s life lasted 962 years; then he died.

And Enoch shall live five and sixty years, and he shall beget Methuselah.

So Enoch’s life lasted 365 years.

and then Enoch lived a godly life, and was no more seen - for God took him away.

And Methuselah shall live seven and eighty years and a hundred years, and he shall beget Lamech.

And Methuselah shall live after his begetting Lamech, two and eighty years and seven hundred years, and he shall beget sons and daughters.

So Methuselah’s life lasted 969 years; then he died.

Ana Lamech shall live two and eighty years and a hundred years, and he shall beget a son.

And Lamech shall live after the begetting of Noah five and ninety years and five hundred years, and he shall beget sons and daughters.

So Lamech’s life lasted 777 years; then he died.

And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

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

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah’s life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.

And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself}, "{Never again will I curse} the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind [is] evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy} all life as I have done.

All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion.

As for every moving thing that hath life, yours, shall it be, for food, - Like the green herb, have I given you all things.

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

May God make room for Japheth; may God live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan serve him."

And Noah shall live after the flood three hundred years and fifty years.

So Noah’s life lasted 950 years; then he died.

And Shem shall live after his begetting Arphaeshad, five hundred years, and he shall beget sons and daughters.

And Arphaeshad will live five and thirty years, and will beget Shelah.

And Arphaeshad shall live after his begetting Shelah, three years and four hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.

And Shelah will live thirty years and will beget Eber.

And Shelah will live after his begetting Eber, three years and four hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.

And Eber will live four and thirty years and will beget Peleg.

And Eber will live after his begetting Peleg, thirty years and four hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.

And Peleg will live thirty years and will beget Reu.

And Peleg will live after his begetting Reu, nine years and two hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.

And Reu will live two and thirty years, and he will beget Serug.

And Reu shall live after his begetting Serug, seven years and two hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.

And Serug will live thirty years and will beget Nahor.

And Serug will live after his begetting Nahor, two hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.

And Nahor will live nine and twenty years, and will beget Terah.

And Nahor will live after his begetting Terah, nineteen years and a hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.

And Terah will live seventy years and will beget Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe.

so when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me [to acquire you], but they will let you live.

Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

Now the land was not able to support them [that is, sustain all their grazing and water needs] while they lived near one another, for their possessions were too great for them to stay together.

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

“He (Ishmael) will be a wild donkey of a man;
His hand will be against every man [continually fighting]
And every man’s hand against him;
And he will dwell in defiance of all his brothers.”

So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said,

“I am God Almighty;
Walk [habitually] before Me [with integrity, knowing that you are always in My presence], and be blameless and complete [in obedience to Me].

And Abraham will fall upon his face and laugh, and will say in his heart, Shall there be born to the son of a hundred years? and shall Sarah the daughter of ninety years, bring forth?

And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

And he said, I will certainly return unto 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.

And Sarah will laugh within her, saying, After it has not been to me till now, and my lord, being old.

And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

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

But they said, “Get out of the way!” And they said, “This man (Lot) came [as an outsider] to live here temporarily, and now he is acting like a judge. Now we will treat you worse than your visitors!” So they rushed forward and pressed violently against Lot and came close to breaking down the door [of his house].

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto 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 unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is aging, and there is not a man on earth [available] to be intimate with us in the customary way [so that we may have children].

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

Then Abimelech said, "Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please."

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

Therefore swear an oath here by God that you won't deal falsely with me, my sons, or my descendants. Just as I've dealt graciously with you, won't you do so with me and with the land in which you live as a foreigner?"

God said, “Take now your son, your only son [of promise], whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”