Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.

The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.

Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

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.

When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

Abraham Pleads for Sodom

When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”