3	GEN 1:3	God said, “I want light.” Straight away, light was shining everywhere.
4	GEN 1:4	God looked at it, and he saw that it was good. So God split up the light and the dark.
7	GEN 1:7	So God made the sky to split the water in half. God left some of the water up high, and he left some of it on the ground, and he put the sky in the middle.
12	GEN 1:12	So all sorts of plants grew on the land, plants with seeds, and trees with fruit that have seeds inside. God looked at all those plants, and he saw that everything was good.
15	GEN 1:15	I will put these lights in the sky to shine on the earth.” So God did that.
21	GEN 1:21	So God made all the different sorts of things that live and move in the sea. He made the great big sea animals and a lot of other things that live in the sea. And God made all the different sorts of birds too. God looked at all those things, and he saw that everything was good.
27	GEN 1:27	So God made people to be like himself. He made them man and woman.
34	GEN 2:3	So God made day number 7 a good and special day. He said, “I’ve finished making everything now, and I’m resting on day number 7. So day number 7 is a special day.”
36	GEN 2:5	At first, God didn’t send any rain on the earth, and there were no people to make the ground right for the plants. So nothing was growing on the earth at that time.
38	GEN 2:7	God took some dirt, and he made a man out of it. Then God breathed into the man’s nose, and God’s breath gave him life. So that man became a living person.
51	GEN 2:20	So the man gave each animal a name. He named all the wild animals, and all the animals that are not wild, and all the birds. That man’s own name was Adam. (That name means man.) There were lots of animals and birds, but none of them were the right sort of mate that was good for Adam.
52	GEN 2:21	So God made the man go to sleep. It was a really strong deep sleep. And while he was asleep, God took out one of his rib bones. Then God closed up the place where that rib was.
62	GEN 3:6	The woman looked at that tree. It was pretty, and the fruit on that tree looked really good to eat, and she reckoned that if she eats some of that fruit, she will think properly. So the woman got some of that fruit, and she ate it, and she gave some of it to her husband, and he ate that fruit too.
63	GEN 3:7	Straight away, the man and the woman knew more things. They knew that they were naked, and they felt shame. They wanted to make clothes to cover up their naked bodies, so they picked some big leaves from a tree and sewed the leaves together to make some clothes.
64	GEN 3:8	Later on, in the cool part of the day, the man and the woman heard God walking in the garden. So they got behind some trees in the garden to hide from God.
66	GEN 3:10	The man said, “I heard you walking in the garden and I was frightened, because I’m naked. So I hid from you.”
70	GEN 3:14	Then God said, “Snake, you did the wrong thing, so I will curse you. I will not curse the other animals, but I will curse all you snakes. From now on, you are going to crawl around on your bellies. You will always be down on the ground in the dirt.
71	GEN 3:15	The woman’s kids will hate you, and so will all their kids, and all the people that will be born later on. People will always be your enemies. And Snake, your kids will hate the woman’s kids, and so will all the snake mob that will be born later on. You snake mob will always be the people’s enemies. They will hit your heads, and you will bite their feet.”
73	GEN 3:17	Then God said to the man, “I told you not to eat any fruit from one of the trees in the middle of the garden, but you listened to your wife, and you ate that fruit. So I will curse the ground and make it bad for you. It will never be easy for you to get your food from the plants in the ground any more. The ground will have lots of rubbish plants and prickles in it.
76	GEN 3:20	Adam’s wife was the first woman, and all the people in the world came from her. So Adam gave her the name Eve. That name means somebody that gives life.
79	GEN 3:23	So God hunted them out of the garden. To get food, they had to dig the ground and grow plants. You know, God made that man out of the ground, and after they left the garden, that man had to dig that same ground.
81	GEN 4:1	Adam and Eve slept together, like a man does with his wife, and then Eve had a baby boy. Eve said, “God has helped me make another human.” So she gave him the name Cain. That name means make.
88	GEN 4:8	After that, Cain went to his brother, Abel, and said, “Let’s go for a walk.” So Cain and Abel went out bush together. While they were there, Cain hit his brother, and killed him dead.
91	GEN 4:11	So now I’m going to curse you. You killed your brother, and his blood is on the ground. So I will make the ground bad for you.
95	GEN 4:15	God said, “I will not let that happen. I’ll tell everybody that if they kill you, then I will punish them 7 times more than I punished you.” So God put a mark on Cain’s head, so that everybody will know that they can’t kill him.
104	GEN 4:24	God said that if anyone killed Cain, he will punish that person 7 times more than he punished Cain. I reckon I’m more important than Cain. So if somebody kills me for killing that young man, I reckon God will punish that person 77 times more than he punished Cain.”
105	GEN 4:25	Adam and Eve slept together again, like a man does with his wife, and they had another son, and they gave him the name Seth. That name means gave. Eve said, “God gave me another son to take the place of Abel, our son that Cain killed.”
106	GEN 4:26	Seth grew up, and he had a son too, and he gave him the name Enosh. At that time people started to call God by his special name Yahweh when they showed respect to him.
109	GEN 5:3	Adam lived a long time. He was 130 years old when he had his son called Seth. He was a human being, just like Adam, his father.
110	GEN 5:4	After Seth was born, Adam lived for another 800 years, and he had more sons and daughters.
112	GEN 5:6	Seth lived a long time too. He was 105 years old when he had a son called Enosh.
113	GEN 5:7	Then Seth lived for another 807 years, and he had more sons and daughters.
138	GEN 5:32	Noah lived a long time too. After he was 500 years old, he had 3 sons. They were called Shem, and Ham, and Jafeth.
140	GEN 6:2	There were some men that everyone called the Sons of God. They looked at the pretty young women, then they picked out the women they wanted, and they married them.
142	GEN 6:4	Those men that were called the Sons of God, they slept with the pretty women, like men usually sleep with their wives, and then those women had kids called Nefalim. Those Nefalim kids grew up to be big, strong fighting men. They were the great fighters in the stories from a long time ago.
144	GEN 6:6	So God was feeling sad. He really felt no good inside. He thought to himself, “I should not have made all these people.”
148	GEN 6:10	He had 3 sons. Their names were Shem, Ham, and Jafeth.
151	GEN 6:13	So God said to Noah, “Look, everyone is doing bad things and hurting each other. I’m going to kill everyone, and I will finish up everything on the earth.”
165	GEN 7:5	So Noah did everything just the way God told him to.
171	GEN 7:11	Noah was 600 years old at the time that the flood water came. It came on the 17th day of the 2nd month of that year. Noah, and his wife, and his sons, and their wives too, they all went into the big boat. The names of Noah’s sons were Shem, and Ham, and Jafeth, and they each had a wife. They all went into the boat with all the animals. There were wild animals, and animals that are not wild, and animals that crawl around on the ground. And all the birds were there too. There were males and females of every bird and animal on that big boat. All of the different sorts of animals went into that big boat with Noah. They went in 2 at a time, just like God told Noah. And after the last animal went into the boat with Noah and his family, God shut the door. Then, on that same day, the rain came out of the sky. It rained really hard all the time. It was like God opened up a big window in the sky, and rain poured down. And water came up from springs, and from everywhere under the ground too. It kept on raining all the time for 40 days.
188	GEN 8:4	So 5 months after the start of the flood, the big boat got stuck in the mountains called the Ararat mountains.
191	GEN 8:7	So he let a crow go out of the window. The crow didn’t come back to the big boat. It just kept on flying around until the flood waters dried up.
192	GEN 8:8	So Noah let a pigeon go out of the window. But the flood water still covered the ground, and the pigeon couldn’t find a place to stop and rest, so it went back to the big boat. Noah held out his hand for the bird, and he helped it back into the boat.
202	GEN 8:18	So Noah, and his wife, and his sons, and their wives, they all came out of the big boat. And all the animals and all the birds came out of the big boat too. They came out in groups. Each sort of animal was in its family group.
210	GEN 9:4	But I’m telling you this about blood. Blood is important. It keeps a body alive. So don’t eat any blood. You have to drain the blood out of the animal before you eat it. Don’t eat any meat that still has the blood in it.
212	GEN 9:6	You see, I made people to be like myself, so they are important. So if somebody kills another person dead, you have to kill that murderer dead.
220	GEN 9:14	Sometimes I will send rain clouds into the sky, and there will be a rainbow in the clouds too.
224	GEN 9:18	Noah had 3 sons. Their names were Shem, and Ham, and Jafeth. They were on the boat with Noah, and after they got off the boat, they had their own sons and daughters. One of Ham’s sons was called Canaan, and there were lots of other sons and daughters too. And later, all those kids had more kids, and it kept going like that. All the people in the world are from Noah’s family.
226	GEN 9:20	Soon after Noah came out of the big boat, he started growing a garden. He planted some grape vines, and they grew some grapes. Then he made some wine from those grapes.
229	GEN 9:23	Shem and Jafeth got a coat. They held it over their shoulders and walked backwards into the tent. They put the coat on their father to cover his naked body. They didn’t turn around and look at their naked father.
232	GEN 9:26	God is good. I’m going to ask God to look after Shem, but Canaan will work hard for him with no pay.
233	GEN 9:27	I’m going to ask God to give Jafeth a big country. Jafeth and Shem will share that country, and Canaan will work hard for them with no pay.”
236	GEN 10:1	This is the story about Noah’s sons and their families. His sons were Shem, and Ham, and Jafeth, and after that big flood, they had kids too.
242	GEN 10:7	The tribes that were from Ham’s son Cush and his family were the Seba mob, and the Havilah mob, and the Sabtah mob, and the Ramah mob, and the Sabteca mob. And the tribes that were from Ramah and his family were the Sheba mob, and the Dedan mob.
250	GEN 10:15	Ham’s youngest son was called Canaan. Canaan had 2 sons. His 1st son was called Sidon, and his other son was called Heth.
252	GEN 10:17	and the Hiv mob, and the Arek mob, and the Sin mob,
253	GEN 10:18	and the Arvad mob, and the Zemar mob, and the Hamath mob. All those tribes were from Canaan, and they went as far north as the town called Sidon, and as far south as the town called Gaza, and as far east as the towns called Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboyim, near Lasha.
256	GEN 10:21	Shem was Jafeth’s older brother. The Eber mob are from Shem’s family.
257	GEN 10:22	Shem’s sons were Elam, and Asshur, and Arfaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
258	GEN 10:23	The tribes that were from Shem’s son Aram and his family were the Uz mob, and the Hul mob, and the Gether mob, and the Mash mob.
259	GEN 10:24	Shem’s son Arfaxad had a son called Shelah, and he had a son called Eber.
261	GEN 10:26	The tribes that were from Eber’s son Joktan’s family were the Almodad mob, and the Shelef mob, and the Hazarmaveth mob, and the Jerah mob,
263	GEN 10:28	and the Obal mob, and the Abimayel mob, and the Sheba mob,
265	GEN 10:30	All of those people were born into Joktan’s family. Their country was in the mountains in the east, the country you see if you go from Mesha all the way to Sefar.
266	GEN 10:31	They were all the tribes and nations that were from Shem’s family. Each tribe had their own country, and their own language.
270	GEN 11:3	Then they said to each other, “Look, we can make bricks here. So come on, let’s do that. We will bake them properly so that they are good strong bricks, and we will use them to build a city here. So come on, let’s build a big tall building in that city. It will be so tall that it will go right up into the sky.” You see, they had bricks and tar instead of stones and cement. And they said, “If we do that, everyone will think we are smart. Then we will not go and live all over the earth, but we will stay together right here.”
272	GEN 11:5	So the people started to build a city and a really tall building, and God came down to look at those things.
275	GEN 11:8	So God made all the people talk in different languages. None of them could understand anything the other people were saying. So they stopped building their big city.
277	GEN 11:10	This is the story about Shem’s family. Shem was 100 years old when he had a son called Arfaxad. That was 2 years after the big flood.
278	GEN 11:11	Shem lived for 500 years after he had Arfaxad, and he had more sons and daughters.
279	GEN 11:12	Arfaxad was 35 years old when he had a son called Shelah.
280	GEN 11:13	Arfaxad lived for 403 years after he had Shelah, and he had more sons and daughters.
281	GEN 11:14	Shelah was 30 years old when he had a son called Eber.
282	GEN 11:15	Shelah lived for 403 years after he had Eber, and he had more sons and daughters.
287	GEN 11:20	Reyu was 32 years old when he had a son called Serug.
288	GEN 11:21	Reyu lived for 207 years after he had Serug, and he had more sons and daughters.
289	GEN 11:22	Serug was 30 years old when he had a son called Nahor.
290	GEN 11:23	Serug lived for 200 years after he had Nahor, and he had more sons and daughters.
295	GEN 11:28	And he also had 2 daughters called Milcah and Iscah. After that, Haran died, while his father, Terah, was still alive. He died in Ur, in Chaldia country, the place where he was born. Nahor, Haran’s brother, married Milcah. And Abram married a woman called Sarai,
297	GEN 11:30	but Abram and Sarai didn’t have any kids. Sarai just couldn’t have a baby.
298	GEN 11:31	Then Terah went away from Ur, in Chaldia country, and he took some of his family with him. They were his son Abram, and Abram’s wife Sarai, and his grand-son Lot. They all left Ur, and they started to go to the country called Canaan. But they stopped half-way, at a place called Haran, and they stayed there.
303	GEN 12:4	Abram was 75 years old when he left the town called Haran and went to the country called Canaan. That was the country that God told him to go to. He took his wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot with him. He also took all the things and all the workers that they got in Haran, and they all went to the new country called Canaan.
305	GEN 12:6	Abram and everyone with him walked through that new country, and they went to a town called Shekem, and they camped there, near a big tree at a place called Moreh. The people that lived in that country were called the Canaan mob, and they didn’t know God.
306	GEN 12:7	God showed himself to Abram there, and he said to him, “I will give this country to your son, and to all the people that will be born into his family later on.” So Abram piled up stones to make a table with a flat top. It was a special place for him to burn an animal to show right respect to God.
307	GEN 12:8	Later on, Abram and his mob left Shekem, and they went south to the hill country that was on the east side of a town called Bethel, and they camped between Bethel and another town called Ayi. Bethel was to the west of his camp and Ayi was to the east. Then Abram piled up stones there to make another special table, and he burned animals on it to show respect to God. He prayed to God, and he called God by his special name Yahweh.
310	GEN 12:11	Just before they got to Egypt, Abram said to his wife, Sarai, “You are a really beautiful woman.
312	GEN 12:13	So listen. You have to tell everyone that you are my sister. Then they will be good to me, and they will not kill me.”
313	GEN 12:14	And that’s what happened. They got to Egypt, and the people there looked at Sarai, and they saw that she was really beautiful.
314	GEN 12:15	Some of them worked for the big boss of Egypt, and they told him, “Sarai is really beautiful.” So that big boss took her to live in his house.
315	GEN 12:16	That boss was very good to Abram, because he thought that Abram was Sarai’s brother. He gave Abram sheep, and goats, and cows, and bulls, and donkeys, and camels, as well as men and women that had to work for Abram.
316	GEN 12:17	God was not happy, because Sarai was living with the big boss of Egypt, so God made him really sick, and God made everyone that lived in his house really sick too.
317	GEN 12:18	Then that big boss found out that Sarai was already Abram’s wife, and he got really wild. He sent somebody to get Abram, and he said to Abram, “You did a really bad thing to me. You tricked me. You didn’t tell me that Sarai is your wife. You said, ‘She is my sister,’ and you let me marry her. Now, here is your wife. Take her back, and then get out of my country.”