1 | GEN 1:1 | In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
2 | GEN 1:2 | The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters. |
3 | GEN 1:3 | God said, “Let there be light!” and there was light. |
4 | GEN 1:4 | God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. |
5 | GEN 1:5 | God called the light “day,” and he called the darkness “night.” So there was evening, and then the morning, making day one. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters to divide the waters.” |
7 | GEN 1:7 | So God made an expanse to divide the waters that were above from the waters that were below. And that's what happened. |
8 | GEN 1:8 | God called the expanse, “sky.” So there was evening, and then the morning, making day two. |
9 | GEN 1:9 | God said, “Let the waters below the sky collect together in one place so that the land may appear.” And so it was. |
10 | GEN 1:10 | God called the land “earth” and the waters “seas.” God saw that it was good. |
11 | GEN 1:11 | God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation—plants that produce seeds and trees that produce seeded fruit—each one according to its own kind.” And that's what happened. |
12 | GEN 1:12 | The earth produced vegetation—plants that produce seeds and trees that produce seeded fruit—each one according to its own kind. God saw that it was good. |
14 | GEN 1:14 | God said, “Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night, and to provide a way to mark seasons, days, and years. |
16 | GEN 1:16 | God created two great lights: the larger one in charge of the day, and the smaller one in charge of the night. He created the stars too. |
17 | GEN 1:17 | God placed these lights in the sky to shine upon the earth, |
18 | GEN 1:18 | to be in charge of the day and in charge of the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good. |
20 | GEN 1:20 | God said, “Let the waters be full of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the sky.” |
21 | GEN 1:21 | So God created huge sea creatures and all the living things that swim and fill the waters, each one according to its own kind; and every bird that flies, each one according to its own kind. God saw that it was good. |
22 | GEN 1:22 | God blessed them and said, “Reproduce and increase, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” |
24 | GEN 1:24 | God said, “Let the land produce living creatures, each one according to its own kind—the livestock, the creatures that run along the ground, and the wild animals, each one according to its own kind.” And that's what happened. |
25 | GEN 1:25 | God made the wild animals, the livestock, and the creatures that run along the ground, all according to their own kind. God saw that it was good. |
26 | GEN 1:26 | God said, “Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it.” |
27 | GEN 1:27 | So God created human beings in his own image. He created them in the image of God. He created them male and female. |
28 | GEN 1:28 | God blessed them and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth.” |
29 | GEN 1:29 | God said, “Look, I'm giving you as your food every seed-bearing plant anywhere on earth, and every tree that produces fruit with seeds. |
31 | GEN 1:31 | God saw everything that he had created, and yes, it was very good. So there was evening, and then the morning, making day six. |
33 | GEN 2:2 | By the time the seventh day came, God had finished the work he'd done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work he'd been doing. |
34 | GEN 2:3 | God blessed the seventh day, and set it apart as holy, because he rested from all the work he'd done in creation. |
35 | GEN 2:4 | This is the account of the Lord God's creation when he made the heavens and the earth. |
36 | GEN 2:5 | Up to this point there were no wild plants or crops growing on the earth, because the Lord God hadn't sent rain, and there was no one to cultivate the ground. |
38 | GEN 2:7 | The Lord God shaped the man Adam from the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living being. |
40 | GEN 2:9 | The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow in the garden, beautiful trees and trees producing fruit that's good to eat. The tree of life was in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. |
44 | GEN 2:13 | The second branch was called the Gihon and it flowed through the whole land of Cush. |
46 | GEN 2:15 | The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and care for it. |
47 | GEN 2:16 | The Lord God ordered Adam, “You are free to eat fruit from every tree in the garden, |
49 | GEN 2:18 | Then the Lord God said, “It's not good for Adam to be alone. I will make someone to help him, someone that's like him.” |
50 | GEN 2:19 | The Lord God used the ground to make all the wild animals, and all the birds. He took them all to Adam to see what he would call them, and Adam named every living creature. |
52 | GEN 2:21 | So the Lord God put Adam into a deep sleep and as he slept the Lord God removed one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place where he took it with body tissue. |
53 | GEN 2:22 | The Lord God made a woman, using the rib he'd taken from Adam, and presented her to Adam. |
57 | GEN 3:1 | The serpent was more cunning than any of the other wild animals that the Lord God had made. He asked Eve, “Did God really say that you can't eat fruit from every tree in the garden?” |
59 | GEN 3:3 | God told us, ‘You mustn't eat from that tree, or even touch it, otherwise you'll die.’” |
61 | GEN 3:5 | “It's because God knows that as soon as you eat it, you'll see things differently, and you'll be like God, knowing both what is good and what is evil.” |
64 | GEN 3:8 | Later they heard the Lord walking in the garden in the evening when the breeze was blowing. Adam and Eve went and hid out of sight of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. |
65 | GEN 3:9 | The Lord God called out to Adam, “Where are you?” |
67 | GEN 3:11 | “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?” |
69 | GEN 3:13 | The Lord God asked Eve, “Why have you done this?” “The serpent tricked me, and so I ate it,” she replied. |
70 | GEN 3:14 | Then the Lord God told the serpent, “Because of what you've done, you are cursed more than any of the other animals. You will slide along on your belly and eat dust as long as you live. |
77 | GEN 3:21 | The Lord God made Adam and Eve clothes from animal skins and dressed them. |
78 | GEN 3:22 | Then the Lord God observed, “Look, the human beings have become like one of us, knowing both what is good and what is evil. Now if they take the fruit from the tree of life and eat it, then they'll live forever!” |
79 | GEN 3:23 | So the Lord God expelled them from the Garden of Eden. He sent Adam to cultivate the ground from which he'd been made. |
80 | GEN 3:24 | After he drove them out, the Lord God placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden angels and a sword that flashed in every direction. They were to prevent access to the tree of life. |
105 | GEN 4:25 | Adam slept with his wife again, and she had a son and named him Seth, explaining that, “God has given me another child to replace Abel, the one Cain killed.” |
107 | GEN 5:1 | This is the record of Adam's descendants. When God created human beings, he made them to be like him. |
128 | GEN 5:22 | He had a close relationship with God. After Methuselah was born, Enoch lived another 300 years and had other sons and daughters. |
130 | GEN 5:24 | Enoch had such a close relationship with God that he didn't die, he just wasn't there anymore, because God took him. |
140 | GEN 6:2 | and the sons of God saw that these women were beautiful, and they took whichever ones they wanted. |
142 | GEN 6:4 | There were giants on earth in those days, and also later on. They were born after the sons of God slept with the daughters of these people. Their sons became the great warriors and famous men of ancient times. |
147 | GEN 6:9 | This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was a man of integrity, living a moral life among the people of his time. He had a close relationship with God. |
149 | GEN 6:11 | God saw how corrupt the whole world had become, full of violent and lawless people. |
150 | GEN 6:12 | God recognized that the corruption in the world was due to everyone on earth living corrupt lives. |
151 | GEN 6:13 | So God told Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all people on earth because they are all violent and lawless. I myself am going to destroy all of them, along with the earth. |
160 | GEN 6:22 | Noah did exactly what God ordered him to do. |
161 | GEN 7:1 | The Lord told Noah, “Go into the ark with all your family. I have seen how you are a man of integrity, living a moral life among the people of this generation. |
169 | GEN 7:9 | went into the ark with Noah. They came in pairs, male and female, just as God had told Noah. |
176 | GEN 7:16 | A male and a female of every creature entered, as God had told Noah. Then the Lord shut the door behind him. |
185 | GEN 8:1 | But God hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the ark. God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the floodwaters started to drop. |
199 | GEN 8:15 | Then God told Noah, |
207 | GEN 9:1 | God blessed Noah and his sons, and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth! |
212 | GEN 9:6 | Whoever sheds the blood of a human being will have their blood shed by human beings. For God made human beings in his image. |
214 | GEN 9:8 | Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him, |
218 | GEN 9:12 | Then God said, “I'm going to give you a sign to confirm the agreement I'm making between me and you and all living creatures, an agreement that will last for all generations. |
222 | GEN 9:16 | I will see the rainbow in the clouds and it will remind me of the eternal agreement between God and every kind of living creature that lives on the earth.” |
223 | GEN 9:17 | Then God told Noah, “This is the sign of the agreement I'm making between me and every creature on earth.” |
232 | GEN 9:26 | Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave. |
233 | GEN 9:27 | May God give Japtheth plenty of space to accommodate his many descendants, and may they live at peace among Shem's people, and may Canaan also be his slave.” |
237 | GEN 10:2 | The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. |
238 | GEN 10:3 | The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. |
251 | GEN 10:16 | the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, |
254 | GEN 10:19 | and the territory of the Canaanites stretched from Sidon towards Gerar and all the way to Gaza, then towards Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, all the way to Lasha. |
258 | GEN 10:23 | The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. |
329 | GEN 13:10 | Lot looked over the whole Jordan valley towards Zoar, and saw that it was well-watered, looking like the Garden of Eden, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) |
336 | GEN 13:17 | Go and walk through the whole land in all directions because I'm giving it to you.” |
338 | GEN 14:1 | At that time Amraphel was king of Shinar, and he allied himself with Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim. |
339 | GEN 14:2 | They attacked Bera, king of Sodom, Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (otherwise known as Zoar). |
345 | GEN 14:8 | Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (otherwise known as Zoar) marched out and prepared for battle in the Valley of Siddim. |
346 | GEN 14:9 | They fought Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, Tidal, king of Goiim, Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar—four kings on one side against five on the other. |
347 | GEN 14:10 | There were many tar pits in the Valley of Siddim, and as the defeated kings of Sodom and Gomorrah ran away, some of their men fell into them while the rest ran to the hills. |
348 | GEN 14:11 | The invaders took from Sodom and Gomorrah all their possessions and food and left. |
355 | GEN 14:18 | Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of the Most High God. |
356 | GEN 14:19 | He blessed Abram, telling him, “May Abram be blessed by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth. |
357 | GEN 14:20 | May the Most High God be praised, who handed your enemies over to you.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek one tenth of everything. |
359 | GEN 14:22 | But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand, making a solemn promise to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, |
362 | GEN 15:1 | After all this had happened, God spoke to Abram in a vision, telling him, “Don't be afraid, Abram! I am your protector, and your truly great reward!” |
363 | GEN 15:2 | But Abram replied, “Lord God, what good is whatever you give me? I don't have any children, and the heir to all that I have is Eliezer of Damascus.” |