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And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
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So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
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God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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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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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.
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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 let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
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God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
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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 saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
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To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
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Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
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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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and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
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On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
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The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
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Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
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When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
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Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
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All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea Valley).
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Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim
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Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.
