God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

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.

The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

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.

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

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.”

And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

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.

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.”

Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

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.

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.

Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.

Abram in Egypt

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”