5	GEN 1:5	He called the light day time, and he called the dark night time. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 1.
8	GEN 1:8	And when God made it, he called it sky. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 2.
13	GEN 1:13	After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 3.
16	GEN 1:16	He made 2 big lights. He made one light brighter than the other light. That bright light shines in the day time. We call it the sun. The other light shines in the night time. We call it the moon. And God made the stars too.
19	GEN 1:19	After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 4.
23	GEN 1:23	After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 5.
31	GEN 1:31	God looked at everything he made, and he saw that all of it was very good. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 6.
33	GEN 2:2	After God finished all that, it was day number 7, and God rested on that day.
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.”
40	GEN 2:9	And God made some trees grow there in that garden. They were pretty, and they had fruit that was good to eat. And God put 2 special trees in the middle of the garden. If people eat the fruit of one of those trees, they will stay alive. And if they eat the fruit from the other tree, they will know if the things they do are good, or if they are bad.
41	GEN 2:10	A river started in Eden, and it watered the garden. Then that river flowed out and split up into 4 rivers.
42	GEN 2:11	The 1st river was called Pishon. It flowed around the land called Havilah. In that country there was lots of gold.
44	GEN 2:13	The 2nd river was called Gihon. It flowed all around the country called Cush.
45	GEN 2:14	The 3rd river was called Tigris. It flowed east of the country called Assyria. The 4th river was called Euphrates.
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.
99	GEN 4:19	Lamek grew up, and he married 2 women. One wife’s name was Adah, and the other wife’s name was Zillah.
103	GEN 4:23	One day, Lamek said to his 2 wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me properly. A young man hit me and hurt me, so I killed him dead.
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.”
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.
111	GEN 5:5	He died when he was 930 years old.
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.
114	GEN 5:8	He died when he was 912 years old.
115	GEN 5:9	Enosh lived a long time too. He was 90 years old when he had a son called Kenan.
116	GEN 5:10	Then Enosh lived for another 815 years, and he had more sons and daughters.
117	GEN 5:11	He died when he was 905 years old.
118	GEN 5:12	Kenan lived a long time too. He was 70 years old when he had a son called Mahalalel.
119	GEN 5:13	Then Kenan lived for another 840 years, and he had more sons and daughters.
120	GEN 5:14	He died when he was 910 years old.
121	GEN 5:15	Mahalalel lived a long time too. He was 65 years old when he had a son called Jared.
122	GEN 5:16	Then Mahalalel lived for another 830 years, and he had more sons and daughters.
123	GEN 5:17	He died when he was 895 years old.
124	GEN 5:18	Jared lived a long time too. He was 162 years old when he had a son called Enok.
125	GEN 5:19	Then Jared lived for another 800 years, and he had more sons and daughters.
126	GEN 5:20	He died when he was 962 years old.
127	GEN 5:21	Enok lived a long time too. He was 65 years old when he had a son called Methuselah.
128	GEN 5:22	Then Enok lived for another 300 years after Methuselah was born, and he had more sons and daughters. Enok was always God’s friend, and he spent a lot of time with God. One day, when he was 365 years old, he wasn’t here on the earth any more. Nobody could find him anywhere. You see, he didn’t die, but God took him straight up to heaven.
131	GEN 5:25	Methuselah lived a long time too. He was 187 years old when he had a son called Lamek.
132	GEN 5:26	Then Methuselah lived for another 782 years, and he had more sons and daughters.
133	GEN 5:27	He died when he was 969 years old.
134	GEN 5:28	Lamek lived a long time too. He was 182 years old when he had a son.
136	GEN 5:30	Then Lamek lived for another 595 years, and he had more sons and daughters.
137	GEN 5:31	He died when he was 777 years old.
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.
141	GEN 6:3	God looked at everything that was happening. He said, “I gave people their breath, but I will not let it stay in them for ever. They are just people. They will live for only 120 years.”
148	GEN 6:10	He had 3 sons. Their names were Shem, Ham, and Jafeth.
153	GEN 6:15	Listen, this is how big I want you to make the boat. It has to be 140 metres long, and 23 metres wide, and 13½ metres high.
154	GEN 6:16	I want you to make a roof for that boat, but leave ½ a metre between the top of the walls and the roof, all around the top of the boat. And put a door in the side of the boat. And make 3 floors in the boat, one floor on the bottom and the other 2 floors upstairs.
158	GEN 6:20	And you have to do the same thing for all those different sorts of birds. Get one male and one female of all of those birds. And you have to do the same thing for all those animals that crawl around on the ground. You have to get one male and one female of all those animals too. I will get 2 of every sort of animal to come to you, so you can keep them alive.
162	GEN 7:2	You have to take every sort of animal with you into that big boat. You know the sorts of animals that are right for you to give to me? Well, get 7 males and 7 females from each of those sorts of animals. And get all the other animals too, the animals that are not right to give to me. Get one male and one female from each of those sorts of animals. They all have to go on to the big boat.
163	GEN 7:3	And the birds too. They have to go on to the big boat. Get 7 males and 7 females from each sort of bird. That’s how you can keep those birds and animals alive, so that there will always be birds and animals on the earth.
164	GEN 7:4	You see, I’m going to send a big rain. That rain will come in 7 days time. Then it will keep on raining all the time for 40 days. The flood water will come up and wash away all the things that I have made.”
166	GEN 7:6	Noah was 600 years old at the time that he went into the big boat to be safe from the flood. Noah, and his wife, and his 3 sons, and their wives too, they all went into the big boat.
168	GEN 7:8	And a big mob of animals came to Noah, and he took them into the boat too, just like God told him to. There were all sorts of animals. There were animals that were the right sort to give to God, and animals that were not the right sort to give to God. And there were birds and even animals that crawl around on the ground. And there were males and females of each sort of animal, and they went in 2 at a time. They all came together on that big boat, just like God wanted them to.
170	GEN 7:10	Then, 7 days later, the flood water came, just like God said.
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.
177	GEN 7:17	The flood water kept on getting higher and higher for all those 40 days, and the big boat started to float on the water.
180	GEN 7:20	It covered the tops of those mountains with about 7 metres of water.
184	GEN 7:24	And that flood went on for a long time. The water covered the earth for 5 months.
187	GEN 8:3	The flood water went down slowly, and after 5 months it was a lot lower.
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.
189	GEN 8:5	The flood water kept going down for the next 2½ months, and then they saw the tops of the mountains, sticking up out of the water.
190	GEN 8:6	Then, 40 days later, Noah opened a window in the big boat. He wanted to find out if the water went down, and if a bird could find some dry ground.
194	GEN 8:10	Noah waited for 7 more days, and then he let the pigeon go out of the boat again.
196	GEN 8:12	Noah waited 7 more days, then he sent the pigeon out again. This time the pigeon didn’t come back to the big boat.
197	GEN 8:13	Noah was 601 years old at that time. The water was still going down, and on the 1st day of the new year, Noah took off some of the roof from the big boat and looked around. He could see that the ground was getting dry.
198	GEN 8:14	After another 2 months, the earth was dry.
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.
234	GEN 9:28	Noah lived for another 350 years after the flood.
235	GEN 9:29	He died when he was 950 years old.
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.
260	GEN 10:25	Eber had 2 sons. The 1st son was called Peleg, and his young brother was called Joktan. That name Peleg means split up. He got that name because all the people split up into different tribes after he was born.
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.
283	GEN 11:16	Eber was 34 years old when he had a son called Peleg.
284	GEN 11:17	Eber lived for 430 years after he had Peleg, and he had more sons and daughters.
285	GEN 11:18	Peleg was 30 years old when he had a son called Reyu.
286	GEN 11:19	Peleg lived for 209 years after he had Reyu, 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.
291	GEN 11:24	Nahor was 29 years old when he had a son called Terah.
292	GEN 11:25	Nahor lived for 119 years after he had Terah, and he had more sons and daughters.
293	GEN 11:26	Terah had 3 sons after he was 70 years old. Their names were Abram, Nahor and Haran.
294	GEN 11:27	This is the story about Terah’s family. Terah had 3 sons, called Abram, and Nahor, and Haran. Haran had a son called Lot.
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,
299	GEN 11:32	Terah lived until he was 205 years old. Then he died there in Haran.
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.
338	GEN 14:1	This story is about the people in the flat country, and it started before Lot went to live near the town called Sodom. There were 5 tribes in that flat country at that time, and each tribe had a leader. These were the 5 tribes and their leaders, – A tribe called Sodom, and their leader was called Bera. – A tribe called Gomorrah, and their leader was called Birsha. – A tribe called Admah, and their leader was Shinab. – A tribe called the Zebo mob, and their leader was Shemeber. – A tribe called Zoar. They are also called Bela. There were another 4 tribes in the country to the east. These were those 4 tribes and their leaders, – A tribe called Elam, and their leader was Kedorlayomer. – A tribe called Babylonia, and their leader was called Amrafel. – A tribe called Ellasar, and their leader was called Ariok. – A tribe called the Goy mob, and their leader was Tidal. And Kedorlayomer was the boss over those 4 tribes in the east. Those 4 tribes sent their soldiers to fight the other 5 tribes, and the 4 tribes from the east won. So Kedorlayomer became the boss over the other 5 tribes too. Those 5 tribes let him be their boss for 12 years. Then the next year, their leaders told Kedorlayomer that they didn’t want him to be their boss any more. Kedorlayomer got really angry, and the next year, he got soldiers from the 4 tribes in the east, and they went to fight those 5 tribes. On the way to that fight, Kedorlayomer’s soldiers had other fights with some other tribes, and they won all those fights. They beat the Refa tribe at a place called Ashteroth-Karnayim, and they beat the Zuz tribe at a place called Ham, and they beat the Em tribe at a place called Shaveh-Kiriathayim, and they beat the Hor tribe in the hill country called Edom. They chased the Hor soldiers all the way to a place called El-Paran, near the desert. Then Kedorlayomer and the soldiers from the east, they all went back to a place called En-Mishpat. Another name for that place is Kadesh. Then Kedorlayomer and his mob fought the Amalek tribe and beat them, and took control of their country. Then they fought the Amor tribe in Hazazon-Tamar country, and beat them too. While Kedorlayomer and his mob were fighting those other people, the 5 tribes that didn’t want Kedorlayomer to be their boss, they went to the valley called Sidim. (Today there is salt water in that valley, and we call it the Dead Sea.) The soldiers of those 5 tribes got ready there to fight against Kedorlayomer and his 4 tribes from the east. So when Kedorlayomer and his mob got to that Sidim valley there was a big fight.
347	GEN 14:10	Kedorlayomer and his mob won that fight. They beat those 5 tribes, and their soldiers all ran away. In that flat country there were lots of holes in the ground that were full of sticky black stuff, called tar. So when the soldiers from the 5 tribes ran away, some of them fell into those holes. But the rest of them ran up into the hills.
350	GEN 14:13	A man got away from Kedorlayomer and his mob, and he went and told Abram that they got Lot. At that time, Abram was living near the big trees that belonged to a man called Mamreh. Abram was a good friend of Mamreh, and also of Mamreh’s 2 brothers. Their names were Eskol and Aner. Mamreh and his brothers belonged to the Amor tribe, and Abram belonged to the Hebrew tribe, but they all looked after each other. Abram had 318 men that knew how to fight. They worked for Abram all their lives, and Abram really trusted them. So Abram got those men, and Mamreh, Eskol and Aner got their fighting men, and they all went to fight Kedorlayomer and his soldiers. They followed them, and they found them at a place to the north, called Dan.
357	GEN 14:20	I want everyone to say that you are great, and more powerful than any other god. You are the one that helped Abram fight with his enemies and win.” Then Abram got all the things he got after the fight, the things that used to belong to the Sodom and Gomorrah mob, and he split those things up into 10 groups. And he gave one of those groups of things to Melkizedek.
370	GEN 15:9	So God said to Abram, “Bring me a cow that hasn’t had a baby, and a female goat, and a male sheep. All those animals have to be 3 years old. And I want you to bring me 2 different sorts of pigeons too.”
371	GEN 15:10	Then Abram did what God told him. He killed those animals and birds, and he cut the animals in half. He put the halves of each animal on the ground in 2 lines facing each other. But he didn’t cut the birds in half.
374	GEN 15:13	God said to Abram, “I want you to know for sure what will happen after you get really old. You don’t have to worry about anything. You see, you will live to be a very old man, and then, when you are dying, you will feel good inside, and your family will bury you right here, in this country. But I have to tell you something. After you die, your family will leave this country and move to another country that belongs to other people. Your family will live in that country, and later on, the other people in that country will make your family like prisoners, and your family will have to work very hard for them. Those people will do really bad things to your family for 400 years. After that, I will save your family from that hard time, and I will punish those people for doing bad things to your family. Then your family will leave that country, and they will take a lot of animals and things with them. They will be really rich.
383	GEN 16:1	Abram and Sarai lived in that Canaan country, and after they were there for 10 years, they still had no kids. Sarai had a woman from Egypt working for her, called Hagar. She was Sarai’s slave. That means Sarai owned Hagar, and Hagar had to do everything that Sarai told her to do. Sarai was sad because she had no kids, but she got an idea about how to get a baby for herself. So she said to Abram, “God has stopped me from having my own kids. But listen. I want you to sleep with Hagar, like she is your wife. You see, she belongs to me, so if she has a baby, that baby will really belong to me.” So Abram did that, just like Sarai said.
398	GEN 16:16	Abram was 86 years old at the time when Ishmael was born.
399	GEN 17:1	Later on, when Abram was 99 years old, God showed himself to Abram and said, “I am God. I have power over everything. I want you to live my way and always do the right thing.
410	GEN 17:12	From now on, every baby boy in your camp has to have that young man operation 8 days after he is born. Every man in your family has to have that operation. And if you buy a man to work for you, he has to have that operation too. Every male person has to have that mark on his body. It will show that we made this agreement, you and me, and that this agreement will last for ever.
415	GEN 17:17	Abraham got down on his knees again and put his face near the ground, and he laughed. He thought, “I am nearly 100 years old, and Sarah is nearly 90. We can’t have a baby. We are too old.”
418	GEN 17:20	And you asked me to do good things for Ishmael. Well, I listened to you, and I will be good to him too. He will have a big family, and later on, 12 big bosses will be in his family. I will make his mob into a great nation.
421	GEN 17:23	Then, on that same day, Abraham did a young man operation on every man and every boy in his camp. All Abraham’s work-men had that operation. They were the work-men that Abraham bought, and the work-men that were born in his camp. And Abraham and his son Ishmael had that operation too. They all had that operation on the same day. Ishmael was 13 years old, and Abraham was 99 years old, when they had that young man operation.
427	GEN 18:2	and he looked up and saw 3 men standing nearby. He got up quickly, and he ran to meet them, and he got down on his knees and put his face near the ground to show them respect.
430	GEN 18:5	And I will get some food for you, so that you will be strong enough to keep walking to the place where you are going. I really want to do that for you.” The 3 men said, “All right. We’ll rest here while you do that.”
441	GEN 18:16	Then the 3 men got up to leave, and Abraham went with them for a little while to say goodbye. They went to a hill where they looked down at the town called Sodom.
445	GEN 18:20	So God said, “Abraham, I heard about all the really bad things that people do in those 2 towns down there, called Sodom and Gomorrah. A lot of people are telling me that those people are always doing bad things.
447	GEN 18:22	Then the other 2 men turned and walked towards Sodom. They left Abraham standing in front of God.
449	GEN 18:24	There might be 50 good people that live the right way down there in that town. Will you still finish up that town? Or will you save that town to save those 50 good people?
450	GEN 18:25	I don’t think you will kill 50 good people. I know that you are the judge of everybody in the world, and you always do what is right. I don’t think you will kill the good people with the bad people.”
451	GEN 18:26	God said, “If I find 50 good people in Sodom, I will not finish up that town. I will save that town so that I can save those 50 good people.”
453	GEN 18:28	What if you find only 45 good people in that town, will you still finish up that town?” God said, “If I find 45 good people there, I will not finish up that town.”
454	GEN 18:29	Then Abraham asked God again, he said, “What if you find only 40 good people there?” God said, “If I find 40 good people there, I will not finish up that town.”
455	GEN 18:30	Then Abraham said, “God, please don’t get angry with me, but I will say a little bit more. What if you find only 30 good people in that town?” God said, “If I find 30 good people there, I will not finish up that town.”
456	GEN 18:31	Then Abraham said, “I know that I am being brave to talk to God like this, but what if you find only 20 good people in that town?” God said, “If I find 20 good people there, I will not finish up that town.”
457	GEN 18:32	Then Abraham said, “God, please don’t get angry with me, but I will ask one more question. What if you find only 10 good people in that town?” God said, “If I find 10 good people there, I will not finish up that town.”
459	GEN 19:1	Later that day, while the sun was going down, those other 2 men walked into the town called Sodom. They were God’s 2 angel messengers. Abraham’s nephew, the man that was called Lot, he was sitting near the town gate, and he saw those men come into the town. So he got up to meet them, and he got down on his knees and put his face near the ground, to show them respect.
463	GEN 19:5	and they all yelled out to Lot. They said, “Where are the 2 men that came to your house today? Bring them out here so that we can sleep with them like a man sleeps with his wife.”
466	GEN 19:8	Look, I’ve got 2 daughters. They have never been married. They have never slept with any man. Let me bring them out here for you, and you can do whatever you want to do with them. But please don’t do anything bad to these men. They are staying in my house, so I have to keep them safe.”
468	GEN 19:10	But those 2 men were really God’s angel messengers, and they quickly opened the door and pulled Lot inside with them, then they quickly shut the door.
470	GEN 19:12	Then the 2 men said to Lot, “God heard about all the bad things that the people in this town do, so he sent us to finish it up. You and your family have to get out of this town real soon. Maybe you have sons, or more daughters, or sons-in-law, or other family here. You all have to leave this town before we finish it up.”
472	GEN 19:14	So Lot went and found the men that his 2 daughters were promised to. He said to them, “God is going to finish up this town, so we have to get out now. Come on, let’s go.” But those 2 men thought that Lot was joking, so they didn’t go with him.
473	GEN 19:15	Very early the next morning, the 2 angels tried to get Lot to leave Sodom quickly. They said, “Hurry up Lot. Get your wife, and your 2 daughters, and get out of this town. If you don’t get out quick, you will die, like everyone else.”
474	GEN 19:16	But Lot didn’t hurry, so the angels grabbed Lot’s hand, and his wife, and his 2 daughters, and they quickly pulled them out of the town. You see, God was good to Lot and wanted to save him and his family.
497	GEN 20:1	At one time, Abraham moved his camp south to the Negev desert, and he lived between the 2 towns called Kadesh and Shur. Then later, he moved his camp to a town called Gerar.
512	GEN 20:16	Then Abimelek said to Sarah, “I’m giving Abraham, your brother, a lot of money, to pay for the trouble I gave you. I’m giving him 1,000 pieces of silver money to show your mob, and everyone else, that you did nothing wrong.”
518	GEN 21:4	And when Isaac was 8 days old, Abraham did the young man operation on him, just like God told him to do, to show that Isaac belonged to God.
519	GEN 21:5	Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born.
522	GEN 21:8	When Isaac was about 3 years old, he stopped drinking Sarah’s milk, and Abraham gave him a big party.
541	GEN 21:27	At that time, Abraham gave Abimelek some of his sheep, and goats, and cows, and the 2 men made strong promises to each other.
542	GEN 21:28	Then Abraham also picked out 7 young female sheep from his animals, and he put them to one side.
543	GEN 21:29	Abimelek asked him, “Why did you put these 7 sheep to one side? What do you mean by that?”
551	GEN 22:3	Abraham listened to God, so the next morning, Abraham chopped up some wood for the fire and tied the wood on to his donkey. Then, he got Isaac and 2 of his work-men, and they all started to go to the place God told him about.
552	GEN 22:4	They walked for nearly 3 days, then Abraham looked up and saw the place God told him about. It was still a long way ahead of them.
7216	1SA 1:2	He had 2 wives called Hannah and Penninah. Penninah had some kids, but Hannah had none.
7217	1SA 1:3	Every year Elkanah used to go with his family from Ramah to Shiloh. They went to Shiloh to show respect to God, the boss of everything, and to burn meat for him. At that time, God’s ceremony house was in Shiloh. An old man was there called Eli. He was the leader of God’s ceremonies. His 2 sons, Hofni and Finiyas, also worked in God’s house. They looked after God’s ceremonies too.
7254	1SA 2:12	Eli’s 2 sons both looked after God’s ceremonies, but they were no good. They didn’t respect God.
7255	1SA 2:13	If somebody gave meat to God, those 2 used to take meat the wrong way from that person. You see, the Israel mob used to boil meat in a big cooking pot at God’s ceremony house. One of Eli’s sons used to tell a worker to get meat for him.
7256	1SA 2:14	The worker used to come with a big fork and stick it into the cooking pot to stab some meat. Some bits of meat got stuck on the fork, and that meat was like pay for that ceremony man. Maybe the worker got lots of meat on the fork, maybe a little bit. All the Israel mob used to go to Shiloh to give meat to God. Those 2 did the same to everybody whenever they came to Shiloh.
7257	1SA 2:15	But that was not the right way to do it. They should burn the fat in the fire first. But those 2 didn’t do that. The worker used to tell the owner of the meat, “Give me meat for the 2 men that look after God’s ceremonies, so they can cook it on the fire and eat it. They don’t like meat that’s boiled in water. Give them raw meat.”
7259	1SA 2:17	So Eli’s 2 sons kept on doing things the wrong way. They didn’t respect God or his word. God was angry with them.
7263	1SA 2:21	And God was really good to Hannah. After that, she had some other kids. She had 3 boys and 2 girls. All this time Samuel grew up in God’s house, still working for him.
7264	1SA 2:22	Eli became a really old man. He heard that his 2 sons did wrong things to the Israel people. He also heard that they slept with the women that worked in God’s house, like men sleep with their wives, but those men were not married to those women. Those women worked at the front door of the house.
7265	1SA 2:23	Eli said to his 2 sons, “Lots of people tell me that you do bad things. Why are you doing that?
7291	1SA 3:13	I told Eli, ‘I’m angry with you and your family, and I will finish you all. You knew that your 2 sons did wrong things, without any shame, and with no respect for my word. Everybody hates them now. But you didn’t stop them at all.
7301	1SA 4:2	The 2 armies met in the middle for a big fight. The Philistia mob killed dead lots of the Israel mob. 4,000 of them died.
7303	1SA 4:4	So they sent some men to Shiloh to get God’s special box. They thought, “That box will be with us, so God will help us.” Eli’s 2 sons, Hofni and Finiyas, they went along too, to watch over the special box. God is the boss of everything. He sits on that box between the 2 statues of angel messengers.
7309	1SA 4:10	And they really did get properly strong. They attacked the Israel mob again, and they killed dead lots of Israel’s soldiers. 30,000 of them died. Then the Philistia mob stole God’s special box. And they killed dead Eli’s 2 sons, Hofni and Finiyas. They died there too. The other Israel soldiers they just ran away. They ran straight back home.
7312	1SA 4:13	Eli was a really old man by this time. He was 98 years old, and he was blind. He sat in a chair beside the road. He worried about God’s special box. He was afraid something bad might happen to it. After the messenger arrived at that place, he went around and told the bad news, and lots of people started to cry. Eli heard it and called out to the man, “What’s happening? Why is everybody crying like that?”
7316	1SA 4:17	He answered, “We Israel mob ran away from the Philistia mob. They killed dead lots of our soldiers, and your 2 sons are dead too. And they even stole God’s special box from us.”
7317	1SA 4:18	Eli was still on his chair at the door. After he heard that the Philistia mob stole the special box, he fell over backwards, and he broke his neck and died. You see, he was an old man and very fat. He was boss of the Israel mob for 40 years.
7356	1SA 7:2	God’s special box stood there at that house for 20 years. All that time the Israel mob felt sad. They thought God left them, so they kept on asking him to help them.
7366	1SA 7:12	The Philistia mob ran away and went home. Then Samuel got a big stone, and stood it up half-way between 2 places, Mizpah and Shen, so that everybody will remember the things that happened. And he said, “God was helping us.” So he called the stone Ebenezer. That name means stone that belongs to the one that helps us. The Philistia mob sat quiet for a long time. They didn’t come back to the Israel mob’s country. So God saved them from the Philistia mob for a long time, until Samuel became an old man.
7372	1SA 8:1	Samuel had 2 sons. His older son was called Joel, his younger son was called Abijah. After Samuel became an old man, he picked them to be bosses for the Israel mob. They were court judges, working at the place called Beersheba.
7412	1SA 9:19	Samuel answered, “That’s me. I’m the man that sees dreams. You 2 go ahead up that hill, to that place. We burn meat there to give it to God. Today you will both eat with me, and tomorrow I will tell you whatever you want to know. Then you can go back home.
7413	1SA 9:20	Oh, and those donkeys that ran away 3 days ago, don’t worry about them. Other people already found them. But think about this story now. Lots of people are saying, ‘One of Kish’s mob should be the big boss for us, the Israel mob.’”
7419	1SA 9:26	Early the next morning Samuel called out, “Get up you 2. It’s time to go home now.” Saul got ready, then he and Samuel started to walk to the town gate.
7450	1SA 11:3	The elders from that place sent the messenger back. They told him to tell Nahash, “First let us wait for 7 days. We will send messengers to every place in Israel. Maybe somebody will come to help us, maybe not. If not, we will give ourselves to you. Then you can take out our eyes.”
7452	1SA 11:5	Saul was out in the garden. As he came back with 2 bulls, he heard them crying and asked, “What’s happening? Why is everybody crying?” They told him the story the messengers said.
7454	1SA 11:7	He killed his 2 bulls, and he cut them into bits. Then he gathered lots of messengers together, and he gave a bit of meat to each one. He sent them to every place in Israel to say, “Look at this bit of meat. Every man has to follow Saul and Samuel, to fight the Ammon mob. If any man stays behind, Saul will cut up his bulls into little bits, like this meat.” God made Saul so strong that he made everybody frightened. So all the men came together.
7455	1SA 11:8	Saul gathered them all together at a place called Bezek. 300,000 men came from the Israel mob and 30,000 came from the Judah mob.
7458	1SA 11:11	Before the sun came up Saul divided his fighting men into 3 groups. At day-light they ran into the Ammon mob’s camp and killed lots of them dead. They kept on killing them until the middle of the day. Only a few Ammon men were left, and they ran away in all directions.
7566	1SA 15:4	So Saul sent messengers to every place, to tell the soldiers to meet together at a place called Telayim. Lots of soldiers came together at that place. There were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 from Judah.
7607	1SA 16:10	Jesse sent all 7 of his sons one by one to stand in front of Samuel. But Samuel said to him, “God hasn’t picked any of these.
7624	1SA 17:4	One of the Philistia soldiers was a really big man called Goliath, and he was from a town called Gath. He was really tall, about 3 metres.
7625	1SA 17:5	In a fight he used to put on iron plates to cover his body. One covered his head, and 2 others covered his legs. Another covered his chest, and it was really heavy. It was about 60 kilograms. He carried 2 fighting spears, a short one and a long one. The short one was made of a brown metal called bronze. It was in a belt over his shoulder.
7627	1SA 17:7	The long spear had a sharp point made of iron. The point was really heavy too, about 7 kilograms. Another soldier used to walk in front of Goliath, to carry his shield for him.
7628	1SA 17:8	Every day, Goliath used to go out into the middle and call out to the Israel mob like this, “Hey Israel mob. What are you waiting for? You call yourselves soldiers? Look at me. I’m a real soldier, from Philistia. You mob are just Saul’s working men. Listen. You pick one man and send him to me, so the 2 of us can fight.
7630	1SA 17:10	Don’t be weak. Send one man to me so the 2 of us can fight.”
7635	1SA 17:15	That happened every day. Goliath used to go out and say that in the early morning and late afternoon. He did that for 40 days. At that time, David kept on going back from Saul’s place to his father’s place, to look after his father’s sheep.
7637	1SA 17:17	One day, his father said, “Get this bag of cooked seed, and get 10 loaves of bread. Take them to your big brothers.
7638	1SA 17:18	And take 10 big lumps of cheese too, and give them to the boss soldier. Go quickly. I’m worried about your big brothers. Bring back some news from them. Bring back something to show that they are still all right.
7660	1SA 17:40	He got his walking stick and his thing for throwing stones, called a sling, and he went down to the creek. He picked up 5 smooth stones, and he put them in his bag. Then he walked up towards that Philistia man.
7665	1SA 17:45	David answered, “You think you will kill me dead. You come to me with a long knife and 2 spears. But God sent me to fight you. He is the boss of everything, and he is with me now as I go to you, and I will kill you dead. God is the only powerful one, and he is the leader of the Israel soldiers. But you made fun of him.
7672	1SA 17:52	The Israel mob shouted out loud and chased them. They kept on chasing them along the Sharayim road as far as those 2 places called Gath and Ekron. Lots of Philistia people lay dead along that road.
7685	1SA 18:7	They sang like this as they went, “Saul killed dead a thousand enemy soldiers. David killed dead 10,000 of them.”
7689	1SA 18:11	and he thought, “I will spear David straight through and hang him on the wall.” So he threw it at him. But David quickly jumped out of the way, and the spear missed him. That happened 2 times, and he missed David each time.
7737	1SA 20:5	David said, “Tomorrow, people will come together for the new moon ceremony, as they always do. Lots of people will be at your father’s place to eat food together. He told me to come and eat with him there too. But for the first 2 nights I don’t want to be at the food table, but I will hide in the garden. Is that all right?
7773	1SA 20:41	David came out from behind a rock. He got down on his knees 3 times to show respect to Jonathan, his face near the ground. They kissed each other and cried for each other. But David cried more than Jonathan.
7778	1SA 21:4	Do you have any food? I need some. Maybe 5 loaves of bread? Or maybe some other kind of food?”
7808	1SA 22:18	So Saul said to Doeg, “All right. You kill those men yourself.” Doeg was from Edom, a different country. He didn’t care about those men, so he listened to Saul and did what he said. He got up straight away, and he killed dead 85 men that looked after God’s ceremonies, men that used to wear the special ceremony clothes.
7844	1SA 24:3	So Saul got 3,000 of his best soldiers together from every place in Israel. And they went off to look for David and his men in the hill country, near a place called the rocks of the wild goats.
7866	1SA 25:2	There was a man there called Nabal. He belonged to Caleb’s family. His farm was near the town called Carmel, in that Maon country. He had lots of money, 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. He was a hard man and a cheeky man. His wife was called Abigail. She was very beautiful and very clever. One day, Nabal started to cut wool from the sheep. They always used to have a party after they finished that job.
7869	1SA 25:5	So he told 10 young men, “Go to Carmel and see that man Nabal. Say to him, ‘Our boss David says to say hello to you.
7877	1SA 25:13	Then David said to his men, “Get your long knives, you mob. We will go and fight him.” They got their long knives and put them in their belts, and David got his long knife as well. He went off with 400 of his men. His 200 other men stayed behind to watch the camp.
7882	1SA 25:18	Abigail did not wait. She quickly gathered all kinds of things together. She got 200 loaves of bread, and 2 leather bags that were full of wine, and 5 cooked sheep, and 5 bags of cooked seeds, and lots of fruit like bush tomato, and lots of fruit like bush figs. And she put all this food on some donkeys.
7902	1SA 25:38	After 10 days, God hit him properly, and he died.
7906	1SA 25:42	She quickly got on a donkey and went off. 5 working women also went with her. They all went to David’s camp. And then David and Abigail got married.
7910	1SA 26:2	Saul quickly gathered together 3,000 of his best soldiers from Israel. They went off to look for David in the desert called Zif.
7914	1SA 26:6	There were 2 men with David. They were Ahimelek, the man who used to belong to the Heth mob, and Abishai, Zeruiah’s son. Zeruiah was David’s older sister. Her other son was Joab. David said to them, “I am going to go quietly into the middle of their camp, to where Saul is. Which of you 2 will do that with me?” Abishai said, “I’ll go with you.”
7924	1SA 26:16	You are a boss soldier for nothing. God should kill you, and your soldiers too. You mob don’t look after the big boss, the one God picked. Look there. Where’s the big boss’s spear? Where’s his billycan? I’ve got those 2 things here.”
7953	1SA 28:8	So Saul put on some working man’s clothes to make himself look different. Then, at night, he went with 2 of his men to look for that woman. He found her and said, “Will you talk to a dead man for me? I will call the dead man’s name, and you get him for me.”
7968	1SA 28:23	But he said, “No. I can’t eat.” Then his 2 men said the same thing, “Boss, you have to eat some food.” He listened to them and got up and sat on a chair.
7970	1SA 28:25	She gave food to Saul and the other 2 men. After they ate it, they went back to their camp, while it was still dark.
8020	1SA 31:8	The next day, the Philistia mob went back up the hill at Gilboa to get stuff from the dead bodies. They saw the dead bodies of Saul and his 3 sons there.