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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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So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
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This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
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Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
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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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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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The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
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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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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
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“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
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Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
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Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
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So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.
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A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
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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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And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
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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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The Lord’s Covenant With Abram
After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
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Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
