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God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
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Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
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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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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.
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Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
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And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
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Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
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From Shem to Abram
This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
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So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
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Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
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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.”
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Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
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Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
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The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
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With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
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When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.
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Lot and His Daughters
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
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So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.
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So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.
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Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
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Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,
