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So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
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And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
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That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
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Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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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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Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
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Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
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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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The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
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and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
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When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
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From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
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You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
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Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
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And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”
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Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree.
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He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
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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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But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
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When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
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He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh.
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The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
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If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
