And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Then the Lord God said, “See, the humans have become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now they might reach out their hands and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever”—

He drove out the humans, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.

For my part, I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

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

For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.

Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you and that my life may be spared on your account.”

When they had brought them outside, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.”

your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life, but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die.

Look, that city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”

Sarah’s Death and Burial

Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years; this was the length of Sarah’s life.

The Death of Abraham

This is the length of Abraham’s life, one hundred seventy-five years.

(This is the length of the life of Ishmael, one hundred thirty-seven years; he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people.)

and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.”

But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”

Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,