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So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
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God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
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God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
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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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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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Adam and Eve
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
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The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
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The Fall
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
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Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
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The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
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Cain and Abel
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
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Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
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From Adam to Noah
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
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The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
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So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
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Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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“Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
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that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’
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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
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No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.
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After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.
