Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

God called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” Evening came and then morning: the first day.

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.”

Then God made the firmament, and parted the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters that were above the firmament: And it was so.

God called the expanse “sky.” Evening came and then morning: the second day.

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so.

Evening came and then morning: the third day.

And God saith, 'Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.

Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”

Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.

then the Lord God formed [that is, created the body of] man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].

Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, "You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'

Then Yahweh God said, "[it is] not good [that] the man is alone. I will make for him a helper {as his counterpart}."

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Then 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.”

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Then said the serpent unto the woman, "Tush, ye shall not die:

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food and that it [was] a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make [one] wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave [it] also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Then the eyes of the two of them were opened [that is, their awareness increased], and they knew that they were naked; and they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden {at the windy time of day}. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Then he asked, "Who told you that you [were] naked? Have you eaten from {the tree from which I forbade you to eat}?"

Then the man replied, “The woman You gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you [will be] cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,

Then said Yahweh God - Lo! man, hath become like one of us, in respect of knowing good and evil, - Now, therefore, lest he thrust forth his hand, and take even of the tree of life, and eat, and live to times age-abiding, -

Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, "I have created a man just as the Lord did!"

{Then she bore} his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent?

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, ["Let us go out into the field."] And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Then Yahweh said to Cain, "Where [is] Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

Then He said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground!

Now you're more cursed than the ground, which has opened to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Then Yahweh said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold." Then Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.

Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.

Then Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain who forged all [kinds of] tools of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain [was] Naamah.

Then Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for injuring me.

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech [will be avenged] seventy and seven [times].

Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for [she said] "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Then Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Then Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Then Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Then Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.

communing with God and then he was there no longer, because God had taken him.

Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they [were] beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive and remain with man forever, because he is indeed flesh [sinful, corrupt—given over to sensual appetites]; nevertheless his days shall yet be a hundred and twenty years.”

Then Yahweh saw that great, was the wickedness of man in the earth, and that, every purpose of the devices of his heart, was only wicked all the day;

Then the LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and he was deeply grieved about that.

Then the Lord said, “I will wipe off from the face of the earth mankind, whom I created, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”

Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark [with] rooms, then you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside.

Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before me in this generation.

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

Then the waters surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.

The mountains were covered as the waters surged above them more than 20 feet.

Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days.

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

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the water level had fallen below the surface of the land.

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

Then stayed he yet seven days more, - and, again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.

In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

Then God spoke to Noah,

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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

Then I will remember my covenant that [is] between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again {cause the destruction} of all flesh.

When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put [it] on [their] shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces [were turned] backward, so that they did not see the nakedness of their father.