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And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
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and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
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God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
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God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
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Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
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Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
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The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
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The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
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Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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From Adam to Noah
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
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He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
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Wickedness in the World
When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
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the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
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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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You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
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They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
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Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
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God’s Covenant With Noah
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
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“Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
