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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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but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
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Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.
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Noah and the Flood
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
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God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
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I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.
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(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
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As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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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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I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through 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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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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Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
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He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
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Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
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I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
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What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?
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The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
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what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
