This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

World’s creation in the garden

On the day the Lord God made earth and sky—

The name of the first river is the Pishon. It flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

That land’s gold is pure, and the land also has sweet-smelling resins and gemstones.

The name of the second river is the Gihon. It flows around the entire land of Cush.

The name of the third river is the Tigris, flowing east of Assyria; and the name of the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Then the Lord God said, “It’s not good that the human is alone. I will make him a helper that is perfect for him.”

The human said, “This one finally is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. She will be called a woman because from a man she was taken.”

This is the reason that a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife, and they become one flesh.

To the man he said, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and you ate from the tree that I commanded, ‘Don’t eat from it,’ cursed is the fertile land because of you; in pain you will eat from it every day of your life.

by the sweat of your face you will eat bread— until you return to the fertile land, since from it you were taken; you are soil, to the soil you will return.”

The man named his wife Eve because she is the mother of everyone who lives.

If you do the right thing, won’t you be accepted? But if you don’t do the right thing, sin will be waiting at the door ready to strike! It will entice you, but you must rule over it.”

The Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” Cain said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s guardian?”

The Lord said, “What did you do? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.

Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear.

Adam’s descendants

This is the record of Adam’s descendants. On the day God created humanity, he made them to resemble God

God said to Noah, “The end has come for all creatures, since they have filled the earth with violence. I am now about to destroy them along with the earth,

This is how you should make it: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

“I am now bringing the floodwaters over the earth to destroy everything under the sky that breathes. Everything on earth is about to take its last breath.

but the dove found no place to set its foot. It returned to him in the ark since waters still covered the entire earth. Noah stretched out his hand, took it, and brought it back into the ark.

The Lord smelled the pleasing scent, and the Lord thought to himself, I will not curse the fertile land anymore because of human beings since the ideas of the human mind are evil from their youth. I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done.

God said, “This is the symbol of the covenant that I am drawing up between me and you and every living thing with you, on behalf of every future generation.

God said to Noah, “This is the symbol of the covenant that I have set up between me and all creatures on earth.”

From these the island-nations were divided into their own countries, each according to their languages and their clans within their nations.

The Lord saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, “Like Nimrod, whom the Lord saw as a great hunter.”