3 | GEN 1:3 | God said, “I want light to shine!” And light shone. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | Then God said, “I command that there be an empty space like a huge dome to separate the water that is above it from the water on the earth that is below it!” |
9 | GEN 1:9 | Then God said, “I want the water that is below the sky to come together, and dry ground to appear and rise above the water.” And that is what happened. |
11 | GEN 1:11 | Then God said, “I want the earth to produce plants, including plants that will produce seeds and trees that will produce fruit. Each kind of tree will bear its own kind of fruit.” |
14 | GEN 1:14 | Then God said, “I want a sun, a moon, and many stars to shine in the sky. The sun will shine in the daytime and the moon and stars will shine during the nighttime. By the changes in their appearance they will indicate the various seasons (OR, the times for special celebrations), and will enable people to know when days and years begin. |
15 | GEN 1:15 | I want them also to be like lights in the sky that will shine on the earth.” And that is what happened. |
20 | GEN 1:20 | Then God said, “I want many creatures to live in all the oceans, and I also want birds to fly in the sky above the earth.” |
22 | GEN 1:22 | God blessed them. He said, “Produce offspring and become very numerous. I want the creatures in the water to live in all the oceans, and birds also to become very numerous.” And that is what happened. |
24 | GEN 1:24 | Then God said, “I want various kinds of creatures to appear on the earth. There will be many kinds of ◄livestock/domestic animals►, creatures that scurry across the ground, and large wild animals.” And that is what happened. |
26 | GEN 1:26 | Then God said, “Now we will make human beings that will be like us in many ways. I want them to rule over the fish in the sea, over the birds, over all the ◄livestock/domestic animals►, and over all the other creatures that scurry across the ground.” |
28 | GEN 1:28 | God blessed them, saying, “Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground.” |
29 | GEN 1:29 | God said to the humans, “Listen! I have given you all the plants that produce seeds, all over the earth, and all the trees that have seeds in their fruit. All these things are for you to eat. |
30 | GEN 1:30 | I have given all the green plants to all the wild animals and to the birds and to all the creatures that scurry across the ground, to everything that breathes, for them to eat.” And that is what happened. |
37 | GEN 2:6 | Instead, mist rose up from the ground, so that it watered the surface of the ground. |
45 | GEN 2:14 | The name of the third river is Tigris. It flows east of the city of Asshur. The name of the fourth river is Euphrates. |
47 | GEN 2:16 | But Yahweh said to him, “You must not eat the fruit of the tree that will enable you to know what actions are good to do and what actions are evil to do. If you eat any fruit from that tree, on that day your relationship with me will end. But I will permit you to eat the fruit of any of the other trees in the park/garden.” |
49 | GEN 2:18 | Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him.” |
54 | GEN 2:23 | The man exclaimed, “Wow! This is truly ◄someone like me/what I was looking for!► She is truly from my bones and from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man.” |
58 | GEN 3:2 | The woman replied, “What God said was, ‘Do not eat the fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the park/garden or touch it. If you do that, you will die. But you can eat fruit from any of the other trees.’” |
61 | GEN 3:5 | only because he knows that when you eat fruit from that tree, you will understand new things. It will be as though your eyes are opened [MET], and you will know what is good to do and what is evil to do, just as God does.” |
63 | GEN 3:7 | Immediately it was as though their eyes were opened, and they realized that they were naked, so they were ashamed. So they picked some fig leaves and fastened them together to make clothes for themselves. |
66 | GEN 3:10 | The man replied, “I heard the sound of your footsteps/walking in the garden, and I was naked, so I was afraid and I hid myself.” |
67 | GEN 3:11 | God said, “How did you find out you were naked [RHQ]? It must be because you ate some of the fruit from the tree that I told you, ‘Do not eat its fruit.’” [RHQ] |
68 | GEN 3:12 | The man said, “You gave me this woman to be with me. She is the one who gave me some of the fruit from that tree, and so I ate it.” |
69 | GEN 3:13 | Then Yahweh God said to the woman, “Why did you do such a thing?” The woman replied, “I ate some of the fruit because the snake deceived me.” |
70 | GEN 3:14 | Then Yahweh God said to the snake, “Because you did this, of all the livestock and the wild animals, I will curse/punish you alone. As a result, you and all other snakes will scurry across the ground on your bellies, and so what you eat will have dirt on it as long as you live. |
71 | GEN 3:15 | And I will cause you and the woman to act in a hostile way toward each other, and I will cause your brood and her descendants to act hostilely toward each other. You will strike at the heel of one descendant of hers, but he will strike your head.” |
73 | GEN 3:17 | Then Yahweh said to the man, “You heeded what your wife said, and you ate some of the fruit of the tree concerning which I commanded you saying, ‘Do not eat it.’ So I will make it difficult to grow things in the ground because of what you did. You will have to work hard as long as you live to produce things from the ground to eat. |
75 | GEN 3:19 | All your life you will sweat as you work hard to produce food to eat. Then you will die [EUP], and your body will be buried in the ground. I made you from soil, so when you die and are buried your body will decay and become soil again.” |
81 | GEN 4:1 | Adam ◄had sex/slept► with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son whom she named Cain, which sounds like the word that means ‘produce’, because, she said, “By Yahweh’s help I have produced a son.” Some time later she gave birth to another son, and she named him Abel. |
87 | GEN 4:7 | If you had done what was right (OR, if you do what is right) [RHQ], I would accept your offering. But if you do not do what is right, your desire to sin is ready to attack you like a wild animal that [PRS] crouches outside the doorway, ready to spring on its victim [MET]. Your desire to sin wants to control you, but you must ◄control/not obey► it.” |
89 | GEN 4:9 | Later, even though Yahweh knew what Cain had done, he said to Cain, “Do you know where Abel, your younger brother, is?” Cain replied, “No, I do not know. ◄My job is not to guard my younger brother!/Am I supposed to take care of my younger brother?►” [RHQ] |
91 | GEN 4:11 | You have killed your younger brother, and the ground has soaked up his blood. So now I will expel you from this land and curse your efforts to produce crops. |
93 | GEN 4:13 | Cain replied, “You are punishing me more then I can endure. |
94 | GEN 4:14 | You are about to expel me from the ground that I have been cultivating, and I will no longer be able to come ◄into your presence/and talk with you►. Furthermore, I will be continually wandering around the earth with no place to live permanently, and anyone who sees me will kill me.” |
95 | GEN 4:15 | But Yahweh said to him, “No, that will not happen. I will put a mark on you to warn anyone who sees you that I will punish him severely if he kills you. I will punish that person seven times as severely as I am punishing you.” Then Yahweh put a mark on Cain’s forehead. |
98 | GEN 4:18 | Enoch grew up and married and became the father of a son whom he named Irad. When Irad grew up he became the father of a son whom he named Mehujael. Mehujael grew up and became the father of a son whom he named Methuselah. Methuselah grew up and became the father of Lamech. |
103 | GEN 4:23 | One day Lamech said to his two wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen carefully to what I am saying. A young man struck me and wounded me, so I killed him. |
104 | GEN 4:24 | Yahweh said long ago that he would avenge and punish anyone who killed Cain seven times as much as he punished Cain for killing his younger brother. So if anyone tries to kill me, I will punish him 77 times as much as Yahweh punished Cain.” |
141 | GEN 6:3 | Then Yahweh said, “I will not allow my Spirit to keep people alive forever (OR, the breath of life will not remain in people forever). They will die eventually. They will live not more than 120 years before they die (OR, there will be only 120 more years before they die).” |
145 | GEN 6:7 | So he said, “I will completely destroy the people I made. I will also destroy all the animals and the creatures that scurry across the ground and the birds. None of them will remain on the earth, because I regret that I made them.” |
151 | GEN 6:13 | So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy everyone, because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as everything else on the earth. |
152 | GEN 6:14 | I want you to make for yourself a large boat from cypress wood. Make rooms inside it. Cover the outside and the inside with tar to make it ◄waterproof/so that water cannot get in and sink the boat►. |
153 | GEN 6:15 | This is the size you must make it: It shall be ◄150 yards/135 meters► long, ◄25 yards/22.5 meters► wide, and ◄15 yards/13.5 meters► high. |
155 | GEN 6:17 | Listen carefully! I am about to cause a flood to occur that will destroy every creature that lives beneath the sky. Everything on the earth will die. |
156 | GEN 6:18 | But I will make an agreement with you(sg): You and your wife, your sons and their wives will enter the boat. |
157 | GEN 6:19 | And I want to save some of all kinds of creatures. So you must also bring two of all living creatures, a male and a female, into the boat with you, so that their species also may remain alive. |
161 | GEN 7:1 | Then Yahweh said to Noah, “I have seen that out of everyone who is now living, you alone always act righteously. So you and all your family go into the boat. |
162 | GEN 7:2 | Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal that I have said I will accept for sacrifices. Take seven males and seven females. Also take a male and a female from every kind of animal that I have said that I will not accept for sacrifices. |
164 | GEN 7:4 | Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for 40 days and nights. By doing that, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on the earth.” |
177 | GEN 7:17 | It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground. |
205 | GEN 8:21 | When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, “I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though everything that people think is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living creatures again, as I did this time. |
207 | GEN 9:1 | Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth. |
208 | GEN 9:2 | All the wild animals on the earth and all the birds, all the creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the fish, will be very afraid [DOU] of you. I have put them under your control. |
209 | GEN 9:3 | Just as I previously said you could eat green plants for food, now I am saying you can eat everything that lives and moves. |
210 | GEN 9:4 | It is blood that causes creatures to be alive, therefore you must not eat meat that still has blood in it after the animal is killed. After you have drained the blood out, you may cook it and eat it. |
211 | GEN 9:5 | I insist that murderers must be executed. Animals that kill people must also be executed. The reason that everyone who murders someone else must be executed is that |
212 | GEN 9:6 | I made people to be like myself in many ways. So someone who murders another human being must be executed by others, because he killed someone who is like me. |
213 | GEN 9:7 | As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth.” |
215 | GEN 9:9 | “Listen carefully. I am now making a solemn promise to you and with your descendants, |
217 | GEN 9:11 | This is the promise that I am making to you: I will never again destroy all living creatures by a flood, or destroy everything else on the earth by a flood.” |
218 | GEN 9:12 | Then God said to him, “This is the sign to guarantee that I will keep the promise that I am making to you and to all living creatures, a promise that I will keep forever: |
219 | GEN 9:13 | From time to time I will put a rainbow in the sky. It will remind me of my promise that I have made to you and everything on the earth. |
220 | GEN 9:14 | When I cause rain to fall from the clouds, and a rainbow appears in the sky, |
221 | GEN 9:15 | it will remind me about the promise that I have made to you and all living creatures, my promise that there will never again be a flood that will destroy all living creatures. |
222 | GEN 9:16 | Whenever there is a rainbow in the sky, I will see it, and I will think about the promise that I have made to every living creature that is upon the earth, a promise that I will keep forever.” |
223 | GEN 9:17 | Then God said to Noah, “The rainbow will be the sign of the promise that I have made to all the creatures that live on the earth.” |
231 | GEN 9:25 | He said, “I am cursing Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, and his descendants. They will be like slaves to their uncles. |
232 | GEN 9:26 | I will ask God to enlarge the territory that belongs to Japheth, and allow his descendants to live peacefully among the descendants of Shem [MTY]. |
233 | GEN 9:27 | And I desire that Canaan’s descendants will be like slaves of Japheth’s descendants.” |
236 | GEN 10:1 | ◄This is/I will now give► a list of the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They had many children after the flood. |
246 | GEN 10:11 | From there he went with others to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, |
271 | GEN 11:4 | They said, “Hey, let’s build a city for ourselves! We also ought to build a very high tower that reaches up to the sky! In that way we will become famous! If we do not do this, we will be scattered all over the earth!” |
273 | GEN 11:6 | Yahweh said, “These people are one group that all speak the same language. If they have begun to do this now, then ◄there is nothing that they will decide to do that will be impossible for them/they will be able to do whatever they decide to do► [LIT]! |
277 | GEN 11:10 | ◄This is a bigger list/I will now tell you more► of the descendants of Shem: Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpachshad. |
294 | GEN 11:27 | ◄This is/I will now give► a list of the descendants of Terah: Terah’s sons were Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran’s son was named Lot. |
296 | GEN 11:29 | Abram and Nahor both married. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah. Milcah and her younger sister Iscah were the daughters of Haran. |
300 | GEN 12:1 | Then Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave this country where you are now living. Leave your father’s clan and his family. Go to a land that I will show you. |
301 | GEN 12:2 | I will cause your descendants to become a large nation. I will bless you and cause you to become ◄famous/highly esteemed►. What I do for you will be a blessing to others. |
302 | GEN 12:3 | I will bless those who ◄bless/ask God to do good things for► you, and I will ◄curse/ask God to punish► those who do evil things to you. And because of what you do, groups of people all over the earth will receive blessings (OR, people will wish that God will bless others as much as he has blessed you).” |
305 | GEN 12:6 | In Canaan they traveled as far as Shechem town and camped by a huge tree called the tree of Moreh. The Canaan people-group were still living in that land. |
306 | GEN 12:7 | Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I will give this land to your descendants.” Then Abram built a stone altar to offer a sacrifice to Yahweh because Yahweh had appeared to him. |
310 | GEN 12:11 | Just as they were about to enter Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “Listen, I know that you are a very beautiful woman. |
312 | GEN 12:13 | So I ask you to tell them that you are my sister, so that because of you telling them that, they will ◄spare my life/not kill me►.” |
318 | GEN 12:19 | Why did you lie, saying she is your sister, with the result that I took her to be my wife? You should not have done that! So now take your wife, leave here and go!” |
328 | GEN 13:9 | There is plenty of land for both of us. So we should separate. You can choose whatever part you want [RHQ]. If you want the area over there, I will stay here. If you want the area here, I will go over there.” |
329 | GEN 13:10 | Lot looked around toward Zoar town, and saw that there was plenty of water all over the plain near the Jordan River. It was like the park/garden in Eden, and like the land in Egypt. [That was before Yahweh destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah which were on that plain.] |
334 | GEN 13:15 | I will give to you and your descendants all the land that you see; I will give it to you forever. |
335 | GEN 13:16 | I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as particles of dust! It will be easier to count the particles of dust than it will be to count your descendants [HYP]. |
336 | GEN 13:17 | Walk through the land in every direction, because I am going to give it all to you.” |