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The Beginning
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
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Adam and Eve
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
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A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
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The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
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The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
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I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
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Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
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In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim
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against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
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The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away.
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and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
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But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
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Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
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In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
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Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.
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God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
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But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
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The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time
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“Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”
