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God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
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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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But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
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but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
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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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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
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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.
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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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From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
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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.
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and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
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That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
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No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
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Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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Abraham Pleads for Sodom
When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.
