The Beginning

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

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.

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.

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.

They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.

Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.

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.”

and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.

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,

Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.

Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, “What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”

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.

But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.

The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time

I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

“The Lord, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.

His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”

you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”