Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

The Fall of Mankind

Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’”

The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die!

And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; With hard labor you shall eat from it All the days of your life.

If you do well, will your face not be cheerful? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.”

You shall take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female;

Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that crawls on the ground,

Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out the dove; but it did not return to him again.

While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”

The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you.

But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be impossible for them.

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.

Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?