-
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
-
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
-
And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
-
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
-
Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
-
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.”
-
Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
-
Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
-
And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
-
male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
-
The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
-
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
-
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
-
“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
-
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
-
The Tower of Babel
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
-
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
-
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
-
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
-
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.”
-
So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
-
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
-
In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
-
And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
-
I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.