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And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
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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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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.
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And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
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And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”
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God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
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And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
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Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
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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.
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The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
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The Fall
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
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Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
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So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
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And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
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So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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Then God said to Noah,
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Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
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And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
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So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
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He also said, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
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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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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.”
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The Covenant of Circumcision
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.