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God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
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Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
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The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
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And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
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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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The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
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Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
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So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
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Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
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All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
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From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
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While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
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The Call of Abram
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
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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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Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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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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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.
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But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
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And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
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Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
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Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
