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And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
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God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
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And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
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God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
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Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
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A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
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The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
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But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
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When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
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I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
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He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
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The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
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Abram in Egypt
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
