2	GEN 1:2	When he began to create the earth, it was shapeless and completely desolate/chaotic. Darkness covered the deep water that surrounded the earth. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the water.
21	GEN 1:21	So God created huge sea creatures and every other kind of creature that moves in the water, and caused them to live in all the oceans. He also created many kinds of birds. God was pleased with all those creatures.
27	GEN 1:27	So God created human beings that were like him in many ways. He made them to be like himself. He created some to be male and some to be female.
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.”
52	GEN 2:21	So Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, Yahweh took out one of the man’s ribs. Then he immediately closed the opening in his body and healed it.
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.”
57	GEN 3:1	The snake was more cunning than all the other wild animals that Yahweh God had made. One day Satan gave to the snake the ability to talk to the woman. The snake said to her, “Did God really say to you, ‘Do not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the park/garden’?”
62	GEN 3:6	The woman saw that the fruit on that tree was good to eat, and it was very beautiful, and she desired it because she thought it would make her wise. So she picked some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he ate it.
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.
64	GEN 3:8	Late that afternoon, when a cool breeze was blowing, they heard the sound/footsteps of Yahweh as he was walking in the park/garden. So the man and his wife hid themselves among the bushes in the park/garden, so that Yahweh God would not see them.
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.”
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.
78	GEN 3:22	Then Yahweh said, “Look! Those two have become like us because they know what is good to do and what is evil to do. So now, it will not be good if they reach out and pick and eat some of the fruit from the tree which enables people who eat it to live forever!”
79	GEN 3:23	So Yahweh God expelled the man and his wife from the garden of Eden. Yahweh God had created Adam from the ground, but now he forced him to till that ground so that he could grow food to eat.
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.
85	GEN 4:5	but he was not pleased with Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his face looked dejected.
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.”
88	GEN 4:8	But one day, Cain said to his younger brother Abel, “Let’s go for a walk in the fields.” So they went together. And when they were in the countryside, suddenly Cain attacked Abel and killed him.
90	GEN 4:10	Yahweh said, “You have done a terrible thing [RHQ]! So now it is as though your younger brother’s voice is crying to me from the ground, demanding that his death must be avenged.
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.
96	GEN 4:16	So Cain left Yahweh and went to live in the land called Nod, which means ‘wandering’, which was east of Eden.
97	GEN 4:17	Some time later, Cain ◄had sex/slept► with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, whom she named Enoch. Then Cain started to build a city, and he named the city ‘Enoch’, the same name that his son had.
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.”
105	GEN 4:25	Adam continued to ◄have sex/sleep► with [EUP] his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to another son, whom she named Seth, which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘given’, because, she said, “God has given me another child to take the place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
106	GEN 4:26	When Seth grew up, he became the father of a son whom he named Enosh. About that time people began to worship Yahweh again.
109	GEN 5:3	When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who grew up to be just like him. That was the son he named Seth.
110	GEN 5:4	After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 more years, and during those years he became the father of other sons and daughters.
112	GEN 5:6	When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.
113	GEN 5:7	After Enosh was born, Seth lived 807 more years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
114	GEN 5:8	Seth lived 912 years altogether, and then he died.
138	GEN 5:32	When Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of a son whom he named Shem. Later he became the father of another son whom he named Ham, and later he became the father of another son whom he named Japheth.
140	GEN 6:2	some of the men who ◄belonged to/believed in► God saw that some of the women who did not ◄belong to/believe in► God were very beautiful. So they took whichever ones they chose to become their wives.
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.”
148	GEN 6:10	Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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.
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.
160	GEN 6:22	So Noah did everything that God told him to do.
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.
170	GEN 7:10	Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.
173	GEN 7:13	On the day that it started to rain, Noah went into the boat with his wife, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives.
185	GEN 8:1	But God ◄did not forget/thought► about Noah and all the wild animals and all the kinds of livestock that were with him in the boat. So one day God sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the wind caused the water to begin to recede.
193	GEN 8:9	But the dove did not find any place to perch, so it flew back to Noah in the boat, because there was still water all over the surface of the earth. So Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back inside the boat.
202	GEN 8:18	So Noah left the boat, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
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.
224	GEN 9:18	The sons of Noah who came out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
228	GEN 9:22	Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father lying naked in the tent. So he went outside and told his two older brothers what he had seen.
229	GEN 9:23	Then Shem and Japheth took a large cloth and placed it across their backs, and walked backwards into the tent. They covered their father’s naked body with the cloth. Their faces were turned away from their father, so they did not see him naked.
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].
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.
240	GEN 10:5	Those sons and their families who were descended from Javan lived on the islands and on the land close to the Mediterranean Sea. Their descendants became tribes, each with its own language and clans and territory.
242	GEN 10:7	The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
250	GEN 10:15	Ham’s youngest son, Canaan, became the father of Sidon, who was his eldest son, and Heth, his younger son.
252	GEN 10:17	Hiv, Ark, Sin,
254	GEN 10:19	Their land extended from Sidon city in the north as far south as Gaza town, and then to the east as far as Gerar town, and then farther east to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim towns, and even as far as Lasha town.
256	GEN 10:21	Shem, the older brother of Japheth, became the father of Eber, and the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.
257	GEN 10:22	The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
259	GEN 10:24	Arphaxad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
261	GEN 10:26	Joktan became the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
263	GEN 10:28	Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
265	GEN 10:30	The areas in which they lived extended from Mesha westward to Sephar, which is in the ◄hill country/area that has a lot of hills►.
266	GEN 10:31	They are descendants of Shem. They became groups that had their own clans, their own languages, and their own land.
270	GEN 11:3	Then they said to each other, “◄Hey/Come on►, let’s form bricks and bake them to make them hard, for building!” So they used bricks instead of stones, and used tar instead of ◄mortar/a mixture of cement, sand and lime► to hold them together.
272	GEN 11:5	So they began to build the city and the tower. Then Yahweh looked down and saw the city and the tower that those puny men were building.
274	GEN 11:7	So, okay/now, we will go down there and cause there to be many different languages, so that they will not be able to understand each other.”
275	GEN 11:8	So Yahweh did that. As a result, the people stopped building the city, and Yahweh caused them to disperse all over the earth.
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.
278	GEN 11:11	After Arpachshad was born, Shem lived 500 more years and had more sons and daughters.
279	GEN 11:12	When Arphachshad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
280	GEN 11:13	After Shelah was born, Arpachshad lived 403 more years and became the father of more sons and daughters.
281	GEN 11:14	When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
282	GEN 11:15	After Eber was born, Shelah lived 403 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.
287	GEN 11:20	When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
288	GEN 11:21	After Serug was born, Reu lived 207 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.
289	GEN 11:22	When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
290	GEN 11:23	After Nahor was born, Serug lived 200 more years and became the father of other sons and daughters.
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.
297	GEN 11:30	Sarai was unable to bear any children.
298	GEN 11:31	Terah decided to leave Ur and go to live in Canaan land. So he took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and Abram’s wife Sarai with him. But instead of going to Canaan, they stopped at Haran town and lived there.
303	GEN 12:4	So Abram left Haran town, as Yahweh told him to do. Abram was 75 years old when he left there along with his wife, Sarai, and his nephew, Lot.
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.
307	GEN 12:8	From Shechem, Abram and his family traveled to the hills that were east of Bethel town. Bethel town was to the west of where they set up their tent, and Ai town was further to the east. There he built another stone altar and offered a sacrifice and worshiped Yahweh there.
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►.”
315	GEN 12:16	The king treated Abram kindly because of Sarai, and he gave Abram many sheep and cattle and donkeys and male and female slaves and camels.
316	GEN 12:17	But because the king had taken Sarai, Abram’s wife, Yahweh caused the king and the others in his household to be inflicted with terrible diseases.
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!”
320	GEN 13:1	So Abram and Sarai left Egypt, and they took along all his possessions, and Lot went with them to the Negev Desert.
327	GEN 13:8	So Abram said to Lot, “Since we are close relatives, it is not good for us two to quarrel, or for the men who take care of your animals to quarrel with the men who take care of my animals.
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.]