1	GEN 1:1	In the very beginning, long, long ago, God made the earth below and the heavens above. At the time when God first started creating the world,
2	GEN 1:2	it was all watery. Water covered everything and that was all. There was no dry land yet, only water, and it was dark. It was dark just like a cave is dark inside at night. But the spirit of God was moving over the water.
22	GEN 1:22	Then God blessed the sea creatures and the birds. He said to the fish, “Increase and fill the sea,” and to the birds, “Increase!”
29	GEN 1:29	“I have made all kinds of food for you, seeds that the grasses provide and fruit that the trees provide, for you to eat.
30	GEN 1:30	And I have given plants to the animals and to the birds for their food.”
32	GEN 2:1	In that way God made the world and the sky and everything on the earth and in the sky and in the sea. And then he finished his work.
34	GEN 2:3	Then he said, “This seventh day I am resting. So this day is different. It will be separate from the other days, because I have rested from my work today. This is my holy day.”
40	GEN 2:9	It was a beautiful place because Yahweh God had planted all kinds of trees that were lovely to look at, and that provided good fruit. In the middle of all those fruit trees and other plants Yahweh God planted one tree that gives life and one tree that gives knowledge about what is good and what is bad.
41	GEN 2:10	A river flowed in Eden and watered the ground. It flowed on further and divided into four.
43	GEN 2:12	In that place there is beautiful gold under the ground and other precious stones and also sweet-smelling perfume.
48	GEN 2:17	except one. This tree gives knowledge about what is good and what is bad and you mustn't eat its fruit. If you do eat it you will die the same day.”
49	GEN 2:18	Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for this man to live alone. So I will make a helper to be with him.”
57	GEN 3:1	When Yahweh God made all the animals, there was one snake that was very good at tricking people. It was better than all the other animals. The snake went to the woman and spoke to her. “God said to you, ‘Don't eat the fruit of any of these trees.’ Did he really say that?”
59	GEN 3:3	but we can't eat the fruit from just one tree in the middle. God told us, ‘Don't eat the fruit of that tree and don't touch it.’ If we touch it we will die.”
62	GEN 3:6	Then the woman looked at the tree and saw that it was beautiful. She thought, “It would be good if I could eat this fruit. And it would be good to be wise.” And so she took some and ate it and gave some to her husband. Then he ate some too.
66	GEN 3:10	The man answered, “I heard your voice, and I was afraid and I hid because I was naked.”
67	GEN 3:11	God said to him, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat the fruit that I told you not to eat?”
68	GEN 3:12	The man said, “This woman you gave me, she gave me the fruit and I ate it.”
69	GEN 3:13	Then Yahweh God said to the woman, “Why did you do that?” She answered, “The snake tricked me and I ate it.”
70	GEN 3:14	Yahweh God said to the snake, “Because of what you have done today, you will have to suffer. I am not cursing the other animals, but I am cursing you today. So from now on you will crawl on your stomach and you will have to eat dust until you die.
71	GEN 3:15	“You and this woman will hate each other. I will put hatred between you. Her children and yours will always hate each other. Her children will crush your head and you will bite their heels.”
72	GEN 3:16	Then Yahweh God spoke some very strong words to the woman too. He said, “When you are pregnant, you will be in pain. I will make your suffering worse and you will be in pain when you give birth to a child. Even though you will suffer, you will still want your husband, but your husband will rule over you.”
73	GEN 3:17	Then Yahweh God said to the man, “You listened to your wife, and you ate the fruit that I told you not to eat. Because of that I am cursing the ground today. It will be spoilt. You will have to work hard all your life, so that your food will grow.
75	GEN 3:19	You will have to work hard until the sweat pours out of your body. You will work hard so that the earth will provide your food. You won't stop until you die and go back to the ground, and they bury you there. I made you out of the soil and you will become soil again.”
79	GEN 3:23	So Yahweh God sent the man and the woman out of Eden. He said to Adam, “I took some soil and I made you. So from today you will have to work in the soil.”
81	GEN 4:1	Adam and his wife Eve lived together. They slept together and after a while Eve knew that she was pregnant. Later she gave birth to a son and said, “Yahweh has helped me, and so now I have given birth to a son.” And she named him Cain, because Cain means “I have got.”
87	GEN 4:7	If you do the right thing, then you will be smiling. But if you don't do the right thing, it is as though an evil spirit is waiting for you and it is ready to tie you up. It wants to rule over you, but you must rule over it.”
89	GEN 4:9	Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is your brother?” He answered, “Don't ask me, I don't know. Why should I look after my brother?”
90	GEN 4:10	Then Yahweh said to him, “Why did you kill him? That was terrible. I know that you killed him because I can see his blood on the ground. Because you have killed him, it is as though he is calling out to me so that I can pay back and kill you in your turn.
91	GEN 4:11	So now I am cursing you. You can no longer grow food, because the earth has drunk that blood.
92	GEN 4:12	If you try to grow plants, they won't provide food, because the earth is spoilt. You will have to wander around without a homeland.”
93	GEN 4:13	Then Cain said, “That is terrible, driving me away from this place and from yourself. Because of your words I will have to suffer greatly. After today I will be wandering around homeless, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”
95	GEN 4:15	But Yahweh said, “No. If anyone kills you I will make sure that people pay back and kill seven others.” And Yahweh put a mark on Cain so that people wouldn't kill him. Then he warned the people about Cain.
98	GEN 4:18	Later Cain's son Enoch had a son and he called him Irad. And Irad's son was called Mehujael. Then Mehujael had a son and he was called Methushael. Then Methushael had a son and he was called Lamech.
103	GEN 4:23	Lamech said to his two wives, “Listen now, Adah and Zillah. I have killed a man because he hit me first.
104	GEN 4:24	If anyone had killed Cain, seven people would have died. But if anyone kills me, then seventy-seven people will die.”
141	GEN 6:3	Then there were very big, tall people living there. They were the children and the grandchildren of the sons of God and their wives. They were very strong, so everyone used to talk about them. And Yahweh said, “I don't want people to live forever. They should grow old and die, because they are only people. So from now on they will live for 120 years and that is all.”
144	GEN 6:6	Then he said, “I wish I hadn't made these people and put them in the world.
145	GEN 6:7	I will kill them. I made these people, but they will have to die, and also the animals and the birds. I wish I hadn't made them.”
151	GEN 6:13	God said to Noah, “I am going to kill all these people, because they have done so much evil.
152	GEN 6:14	So I want you to build yourself a boat. Make it from good cypress pine wood. And when you build it, make many rooms in it. Put sticky tar on the wood along the inside and along the outside, so that the water won't come into the boat.
155	GEN 6:17	“I am going to send a flood on the earth, so that every living thing here will drown. Everything else will die, but you will stay alive.
156	GEN 6:18	I will make a covenant with you. “So you must go into the boat with your wife and your sons and their wives.
161	GEN 7:1	Yahweh said to Noah, “Go into the boat now, you and your family. I know that you are the only person in all the world today who does what is right.
164	GEN 7:4	“In seven days I will send rain. The rain will keep on falling for forty days and forty nights. It will keep on and on. It will destroy everything I have made in the world, the birds, the animals and the people.”
177	GEN 7:17	The rain fell from above for forty days and nights. And the water bubbled up from under the ground. It covered the land and it rose up and up until the boat began to float.
180	GEN 7:20	It kept on rising and rising until it was seven metres above the tops of the mountains. And there the water stopped.
188	GEN 8:4	It was full moon again now. And the boat landed on a mountain called Ararat.
191	GEN 8:7	And he sent out a crow from the window. It flew away and kept on circling around and around. It didn't come back but it kept flying around until all the water was gone.
205	GEN 8:21	When Yahweh smelled them he was pleased. He said to himself, “That is the last time. I will never curse the earth again because people have done wrong. I know that even while people are young, they are still bad. Their thoughts are evil. But I will no longer destroy everything that lives in the world. I won't do it again.
209	GEN 9:3	You can eat them now. I gave you plants for food before, but now I am giving you these animals and birds and fish, so that you can eat meat as well as other food.
211	GEN 9:5	“If one of you kills another person, other people will punish you. And if a dangerous animal kills you, then I will pay it back and kill it.
212	GEN 9:6	I have made you all like myself, and so if you hit another person and he dies, then someone else will kill you.
215	GEN 9:9	“Today I am making my covenant with you and with your descendants.
216	GEN 9:10	It is for all of you and also for everything that lives and breathes here today, everything that you brought out of the boat with you.
217	GEN 9:11	I am telling you these very important words today. Listen! From now on I will never do again what I have done in this world. I will never again send a lot of rain and flood the whole earth and destroy all the people and birds and animals.
218	GEN 9:12	“Now I will show you that I will never change my covenant. It will last forever for you and for everything that breathes. I will put my rainbow in the clouds for you. When you see it you will think about my covenant, and later when your children and then their children see it, they will think about it too. That rainbow will be a sign.
220	GEN 9:14	When I cover the sky and put a rainbow in the clouds,
221	GEN 9:15	I too will think about my promise that I am telling you today. It is also for the animals and the birds that live in the world now. I am telling you today that they will not drown again.
222	GEN 9:16	“So when you see the rainbow and when I see it too, I will think about my covenant. The rainbow will be a sign that it won't change, it will always be there for you today and afterwards for all people and fish, animals and birds who live in this world.”
231	GEN 9:25	He cursed Ham and his descendants and said, “I am cursing Canaan! His brothers will rule over him.
232	GEN 9:26	I am praising Yahweh, the God of Shem. Shem will rule over Canaan.
246	GEN 10:11	Then he went from Babylonia to Assyria and there his workers built many houses. They went on and on building until there were four cities called Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah
271	GEN 11:4	Then they said, “Come on, let us make a lot of houses. And let us make one very tall one. It won't be like these others, it will be really tall. Let us make it so tall it will reach the sky. We want to show each other that we are strong, and also show our grandchildren that their grandfathers were good at work and very clever. Let us do this now so that we won't live all over the country, but all together in one place.”
296	GEN 11:29	Abram had a wife, Sarai, who was his younger sister but she had a different mother. People used to marry their sisters like that in that country. Nahor's wife was Milcah, Haran's daughter. Haran had another son called Iscah.
300	GEN 12:1	Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave this country belonging to you and your father and leave your people here, and go to a different country that I will show you.
301	GEN 12:2	‘I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you. I will make you very great, so that many people will know your name. Then you will bless others.
302	GEN 12:3	Some people will bless you, and so I will bless them. But if anyone curses you, I will curse them. I will bless all the nations just as I am blessing you today.’”
306	GEN 12:7	Yahweh came and appeared to Abram at the tree and said, “This is the country I will give to your descendants.” Then Abram took some big stones and stood them up and made an altar so that he could pray to Yahweh, and then he worshipped him there.
312	GEN 12:13	So tell them, ‘I am Abram's sister,’ and then they will let me live and they will be kind to me.”
318	GEN 12:19	Because you said, ‘This woman is my sister,’ I took her for my wife. That was very wrong to trick me. Now take your wife and go! Get right away from me!”
328	GEN 13:9	So let us go different ways. You say the place you want, so you can go there, and I will go to a different place so that we can live away from each other.”
334	GEN 13:15	because I will give this country to you and to your children. All this land that you can see will be yours forever.
335	GEN 13:16	And I will give you many descendants. They will be so many that no one will be able to count them. It would be just like trying to count all the bits of dirt in the ground!
336	GEN 13:17	Now, go and look over the whole land, because I will give it all to you,” Yahweh said to Abram.
359	GEN 14:22	Abram answered, “I will not keep anything of yours, not even a piece of string or a sandal strap. I say this to you and I use Yahweh's name. He is the one who made heaven and all the world. I am telling you this so that Yahweh, the greatest God, will hear and I won't change it. Then you can never say, ‘I have helped Abram to become rich.’
361	GEN 14:24	I will not take anything for myself. But my men have already eaten food, so that is ours, and no more. But let these men, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre take their share.”
362	GEN 15:1	After some time, while he was inside his tent, Abram had a vision of Yahweh and he heard him speaking to him. Yahweh said to him, “Don't be afraid. I will stand between you and trouble so that you will be safe, and I will give you good things.”
363	GEN 15:2	Abram answered, “Lord Yahweh, why will you give good things to me? I have no children. Only one man is like my son, my servant Eliezer of Damascus.
364	GEN 15:3	You haven't given me any children, so Eliezer will take my things when I die.”
368	GEN 15:7	Then Yahweh said to Abram, “I am Yahweh, the one who brought you out of Ur in Babylonia. I have brought you here to give you this land for yourself.”
369	GEN 15:8	But Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know this land belongs to me?”
374	GEN 15:13	Then Yahweh said to him, “You will live until you become an old man and you will just die without any trouble, and then they will bury you. When you die, your descendants will go to a different land and they will live there as strangers. Cruel people who belong to that country will take your descendants and make them work hard for them there. Your descendants will go on living in that place for 400 years, because I won't yet drive out the Amorite people belonging to this country. These Amorite people are wicked but they will become more wicked later and then I will punish them and drive them out. Then I will become angry with those cruel people in that different country, and your descendants will leave there and they will come back here. When they come out of that country they will bring many things, many animals and a lot of money with them. They will be very, very rich.”
379	GEN 15:18	Right at that time Yahweh made a covenant with Abram. Yahweh said to him, “These are my words and I won't change them. Truly I will give this whole land to your descendants. It goes from Egypt right over there to the big Euphrates River.
382	GEN 15:21	Some places belong to the Amorite people, some to the Canaanite people, some to the Girgashite people, and some to the Jebusite people. Truly I will give all these places of theirs to your descendants.”
386	GEN 16:4	and they knew each other. After a while Hagar knew that she was pregnant and she became proud towards Sarai. And she said to Sarai, “Now I am good because I am carrying Abram's child.”