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Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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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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So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
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When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
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Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
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To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
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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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To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
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Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
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Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
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If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
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When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.
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After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
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When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.
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He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”
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After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
