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“In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
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So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
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The Flood
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,
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The water continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
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After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,
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Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were Joktan’s sons.
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And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”
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So he brought all these to him, cut them in half, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds in half.
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Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.
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Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.
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When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.
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So they said, “Let’s call the girl and ask her opinion.”
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And they settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt as you go toward Asshur. He stayed near all his relatives.
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And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.
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Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it
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He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.
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The shepherds would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep when all the flocks were gathered there. Then they would return the stone to its place over the well’s opening.
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But they replied, “We can’t until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well’s opening. Then we will water the sheep.”
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As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep, he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.
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Jacob’s Sons
When the Lord saw that Leah was neglected, he opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.
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Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.
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In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
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Now the famine had spread across the whole region, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
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The Brothers Return Home
At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver there at the top of his bag.
