3	GEN 1:3	Then God spoke. “Let there be light,” he said. And then the light came out.
5	GEN 1:5	He called the light “Day” and the darkness “Night.” Then night came. That was the first night. Then a new day dawned and it was morning.
6	GEN 1:6	Then God spoke again. “Let the water separate, half above and half below.”
8	GEN 1:8	God called the wide space “Sky.” Then night came. That was the second night. Then a new day dawned and it was morning.
9	GEN 1:9	And God spoke again. “Let the water come together in one place,” he said, “so that the earth can appear.” Then the water came together in one place and the earth appeared.
10	GEN 1:10	God called the earth “Dry land.” And the water that came together he called “Sea.” And God looked and saw that the dry land and the sea were both good.
11	GEN 1:11	Then God spoke again. “Let different kinds of trees and other plants grow on the land. The plants will give seeds and the different kinds of trees will give fruit.”
14	GEN 1:14	Then God spoke again. “Let lights come out in the sky. Let them light up the world, so that the day is separate from the night, and so that all the days are separate. Day and night will follow one after the other. And let them light up the world, so that the dry season will be separate from the wet season. The dry season and the wet season will also follow one after the other.”
20	GEN 1:20	Then God spoke again. “Let many different kinds of fish fill the sea, and let birds fly in the sky.”
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!”
24	GEN 1:24	Then God spoke again. “Let there be different kinds of animals and snakes, big ones and little ones, on the earth.”
26	GEN 1:26	Then God spoke again. “Now we will make people and they will be like us. And they will rule over the fish and the birds and the animals and the snakes.”
28	GEN 1:28	And then he blessed them and said to them, “Have children, and let them have children too, so that they can live in the world and rule over it. You will rule over the fish and the birds and the animals.
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.”
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.”
47	GEN 2:16	He said to him, “You can eat the fruit from any of the trees,
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.”
54	GEN 2:23	The man said, “Ah! Here is someone like me! My bone is in her, and also my flesh. Yahweh God has made this person from a man today, so her name is ‘Woman.’”
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?”
58	GEN 3:2	“No,” said the woman. “We can eat fruit from these trees,
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.”
60	GEN 3:4	The snake said, “No. That is not true. You won't die.
61	GEN 3:5	God said that to you because he knows that if you eat that fruit you will be like God, and you will know what is good and what is bad.”
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.
65	GEN 3:9	But Yahweh God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
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.”
76	GEN 3:20	And the man was called Adam and he named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all people. The name Eve means “living.”
78	GEN 3:22	Then Yahweh God thought, “Now this man is like us. He knows what is good and what is bad, so he must not eat the fruit from the tree of life and live forever.”
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.”
86	GEN 4:6	Yahweh said to him, “Why are you angry? And why has your face changed?
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.”
88	GEN 4:8	Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let's go out into the bush.” And they went into the bush together, and Cain killed his brother there. He hit him and he died.
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.
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.
96	GEN 4:16	And Cain left Yahweh and went away. He lived in another country called “Wandering,” which is east of Eden.
100	GEN 4:20	Adah gave birth to a baby boy and she called him Jabal because Jabal means “to lead.” Then when Jabal grew up he was the ancestor of people who look after sheep and cattle. And he and his family were the first to live in tents.
101	GEN 4:21	His younger brother was called Jubal because Jubal means “musical instrument.” He was the ancestor of people who play musical instruments.
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.”
105	GEN 4:25	Adam and his wife Eve had another son. After he was born, Eve said, “God has given me another baby boy. My first son died, because Cain killed him. But this one will take his place.” So she named him Seth because Seth means “he has given.”
107	GEN 5:1	When God created people, he made them like himself. He created them male and female. Then he blessed them and said, “You will be called ‘people’.” These are the names of Adam's descendants.
135	GEN 5:29	He said, “Yahweh cursed the ground and it was spoilt. But when this child grows up he will comfort us and make our hard work easier.” So he named him Noah because Noah means “he will comfort.”
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.
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.
159	GEN 6:21	You must take food, all different kinds of food for yourselves and for the animals and birds.”
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.”
200	GEN 8:16	“Go out of the boat now. Go out with your wife and your sons and their wives.
201	GEN 8:17	Let out all the birds and animals. Take them with you, so that they can increase and live all over the earth.”
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.
206	GEN 8:22	“This is the way it will be. People will grow food again in this world and gather it. The hot season and the cold season will follow one another until the world is finished. And night and day will always follow each other too.”
207	GEN 9:1	God blessed Noah and his sons and he said to them, “You will have many children, so that your descendants can live all over the world.
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.
213	GEN 9:7	“You must have many children so that your descendants will live all over the world.”
215	GEN 9:9	“Today I am making my covenant with you and with your descendants.
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.
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.
233	GEN 9:27	God will give Japheth many children and they will increase. And his descendants will live with Shem's people. Japheth will also rule over Canaan.” The name Japheth means “they will become many.”
244	GEN 10:9	Yahweh helped him and so he was a very good hunter. That is why people say to each other today, “May Yahweh help you too, so that you can be a good hunter like Nimrod was long ago.”
260	GEN 10:25	Eber had two sons. One of them was called Peleg, and while he was alive all the people spread out and separated. So they called him Peleg, because Peleg means “they were separated.” And his brother was Joktan.
270	GEN 11:3	Then those people talked about building houses. They said, “Let us make some houses out of mud.” So they wet some mud with water and made bricks and put them in the hot sun until they became hard. And they got some sticky tar. They put the bricks down one by one, and put some tar in between them so that the houses would be strong. And so they made their mud houses.
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.”
273	GEN 11:6	“They are all one people,” he said, “and they speak one language. First they have made this tower, and soon they will be doing other things. They will go on doing more and more things, whatever they want to do.
274	GEN 11:7	“Let us go down and mix up their language so that they won't understand each other.”
276	GEN 11:9	They called the city Babylon because Yahweh mixed up their language there and Babylon means “he mixed up the language.” And so Yahweh sent the people all over the world and they didn't know each other any more.
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.
310	GEN 12:11	When they reached Egypt, before they went into the country, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “You are a beautiful woman.
311	GEN 12:12	When the Egyptians see you they will think, ‘That is Abram's wife.’ Maybe they will kill me and let you live.
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.”
317	GEN 12:18	Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, “What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that Sarai was your wife?
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!”
327	GEN 13:8	Then Abram said to Lot, “We come from one family. Your men and my men shouldn't be arguing, they shouldn't hate each other.
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.”
333	GEN 13:14	After Lot had gone, Yahweh said to Abram, “From where you are standing, look around you,
336	GEN 13:17	Now, go and look over the whole land, because I will give it all to you,” Yahweh said to Abram.
356	GEN 14:19	Then Melchizedek prayed to God and said, “You are the greatest God, the one who made heaven and all the world. Bless Abram.
357	GEN 14:20	You have looked after him and helped him today and so he has chased all those soldiers away. And now we praise you!” Then Abram gave Melchizedek one tenth of all the good things he had taken from Chedorlaomer and the other kings, and brought back with him.
358	GEN 14:21	The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Keep all these things for yourself, but give me back all my people.”
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.”
365	GEN 15:4	Then Abram heard Yahweh speaking to him again. He said, “Look! Eliezer won't take your things when you die. Truly you will have a son, and he will be the one who will have your things.”
366	GEN 15:5	Then Yahweh took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up to the sky and try and count the stars. Your descendants will increase until they are as many as those stars.”
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?”
370	GEN 15:9	Yahweh said to him, “Bring me a bullock, a goat and a male sheep, a ram. Get ones that are three years old. And also bring a dove and a pigeon.”
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.”
384	GEN 16:2	So Sarai said to her husband, “Yahweh hasn't given me any children yet. So take this girl and sleep with her. Then if she has any children they will be mine.” Abram agreed.
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.”
387	GEN 16:5	Sarai said to her husband, “Because she is carrying your child, she has become proud. I myself told you to take her. She has become proud because she is carrying a child. She keeps on speaking unkindly to me. She has been doing it all the time,” Sarai said. “Which one of us is right, you or me? Let Yahweh decide!”
388	GEN 16:6	Abram said, “She is yours, and she is working for you. You are the one who controls her, so you may do anything you want with her.” Then Sarai was cruel to Hagar and kept on teasing her. She beat her with a stick, because of the way she had been speaking to her. And so Hagar ran away.
390	GEN 16:8	He said to Hagar, “You are the girl who has been working for Sarai, aren't you? What are you doing here? Where have you come from and where are you going?” Hagar answered, “I am running away from Sarai.”
391	GEN 16:9	“Go back to Sarai and work for her, because you belong to her,” Yahweh said to Hagar.
392	GEN 16:10	“I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them.
393	GEN 16:11	You will have a baby boy and you will call him Ishmael, because I have heard you crying.” The name Ishmael means “God hears.”
394	GEN 16:12	The angel also said to her, “Your son will be like a man from the bush. He will cause trouble for everyone and everyone will cause trouble for him. He will live by himself, away from all his family.”
395	GEN 16:13	“Oh!” thought Hagar. “That wasn't an angel. I have seen Yahweh himself. I have seen him with my own eyes and I am still alive!” So she called Yahweh “The God Who Sees Me.”
396	GEN 16:14	Because she said that, today people call that waterhole, “The Owner of the Waterhole Is Alive and He Sees Me.” The waterhole is between Kadesh and Bered.
399	GEN 17:1	When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh came and appeared to him and said, “I am the most powerful God, and you must always obey me. You must always do what is right.
400	GEN 17:2	Let us make a covenant together. I am making this covenant with you so that it will last forever. I will give you many descendants.”
402	GEN 17:4	“I am making this covenant with you and I will not change it. I am telling you that you will be the ancestor of many different people.
403	GEN 17:5	From today your name will not be Abram but now you will be called Abraham. I am giving you this new name because you will be the ancestor of many nations.” God said that because Abram means “great father,” but Abraham means “father of many people.”
404	GEN 17:6	And God said, “I will give you many descendants. Some of them will be kings in their countries. Your descendants will become so many that they will become nations.
405	GEN 17:7	“I won't change my covenant that I have made. It will last forever, for you and also for your descendants. I will be your God today and always and I will be the God of your descendants.
406	GEN 17:8	You are living as a stranger here today. But I will give this land to you and your descendants. Even though it belongs to other people today, it will be yours later. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever. And I will be their God forever.”
407	GEN 17:9	Then God said to Abraham, “You must keep my covenant that I have made with you and agree to it. You must not change it and your descendants must not change it.
411	GEN 17:13	“Don't circumcise just some of your men but circumcise them all. Then if you do that, it will be a sign that the covenant you and I have made together won't change but it will be forever.
412	GEN 17:14	Then the men who haven't been circumcised won't be my people, because they haven't kept my covenant that I have made.”
413	GEN 17:15	Then God said to Abraham, “You must no longer call your wife Sarai, but from today you must call her Sarah.
414	GEN 17:16	I will bless her. And I will give you a son, and this son of yours will be Sarah's son. I will bless Sarah and she will be the mother of nations. Some of her descendants will become kings and rule in their countries.”
415	GEN 17:17	Then Abraham bowed down and put his face to the ground to praise God. But he laughed because he thought, “How can I have children when I am already 100 years old? And how can Sarah have a child when she is 90 years old? She is a very old woman already!”
416	GEN 17:18	He asked God, “Why can't Ishmael have my things when I die?”
417	GEN 17:19	But God said, “No! Your wife Sarah will give birth to a baby boy for you and you will call him Isaac.” God said that because Isaac means “he laughs.” Then he said, “The covenant that I have made with you will be for him too, and it will never change. It will last forever, for him and for his descendants forever.
419	GEN 17:21	“As for Isaac, Sarah will give birth to him next year. Then I will keep my covenant, the one that you and I have made, with Isaac in his turn.”
428	GEN 18:3	Abraham said to them, “Don't go. Stay here for a while and I will look after you.
430	GEN 18:5	I will bring some food for you to eat to make you strong when you go on your way. I am very pleased that you have come to my place, so let me look after you.” They answered, “Yes, what you are doing for us is good.”
431	GEN 18:6	Abraham hurried off and ran inside to Sarah and said, “Quickly, take the best flour and make dampers.”
434	GEN 18:9	Then they asked Abraham, “Where is your wife Sarah?” He answered, “She is there inside.”
435	GEN 18:10	One of the men was Yahweh and he said to Abraham, “In nine months I will come back here, and your wife will have a son.” Sarah was behind him. She was inside the tent, behind the door, listening to the men talking with Abraham.
437	GEN 18:12	So Sarah laughed to herself and thought, “How can I have a child? Now that I am an old woman, I am weak. How can I do that? My husband is already an old man. How can we have a child?”
438	GEN 18:13	Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did your wife laugh? Why did she say, ‘Am I really going to have a child, when I am an old woman?’
439	GEN 18:14	I am Yahweh and I can do anything. I have already said, ‘In nine months I will come back and Sarah will have a son.’”
440	GEN 18:15	Sarah heard what Yahweh said from inside the tent. She was afraid, and she said, “I didn't laugh.” “Yes, you did,” Yahweh answered. “You laughed.”
442	GEN 18:17	And Yahweh said to himself, “I will tell this man what I am going to do. I won't hide it from Abraham, I will speak about it now.
444	GEN 18:19	I have chosen Abraham so that he can tell his sons to obey me. Then they in their turn will tell their sons to obey me and do what is right. If they obey me I will bless them as I have promised Abraham.”
445	GEN 18:20	Then Yahweh spoke to Abraham and said, “I have been told that those people of Sodom and Gomorrah are very wicked. They are doing bad things all the time.
446	GEN 18:21	I must go down and see if the things I have heard are true.”
448	GEN 18:23	Abraham asked Yahweh, “Are you really going to destroy the wicked people and the good people too?
450	GEN 18:25	You won't kill them all, the good and the bad. Surely not! You can't do that! You can't punish good people. You are the one who must judge everyone, and so you must do what is right.”
451	GEN 18:26	Yahweh answered, “If I find fifty good people in Sodom today, I will leave their city alone for their sake.”
452	GEN 18:27	Then Abraham spoke again. He said, “I am bold speaking to you, Lord, but please let me say a few more words. I am only an ordinary man. I am not good enough to speak to you.
453	GEN 18:28	But maybe there will only be forty-five good people. If there aren't five more, will you destroy the whole city?” Yahweh answered, “No. I will not destroy the city today.”
454	GEN 18:29	Then Abraham spoke again. He said, “Maybe there will only be forty good people. Then what will you do?” Yahweh answered, “Then I will not destroy the city today.”
455	GEN 18:30	Abraham said, “Please don't be angry, Lord, but let me speak again. Maybe there will only be thirty good people. Then what will you do?” Yahweh answered, “Then I will not destroy the city today.”
456	GEN 18:31	Abraham said, “I am bold still speaking to you, Lord, but please let me say more. Maybe there will only be twenty good people. Then what will you do?” Yahweh answered, “Then I will not destroy the city today.”
457	GEN 18:32	Abraham said, “Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak just once more. Maybe there will only be ten good people. Then what will you do?” Yahweh answered, “If there are ten good people I will not destroy the city.”
460	GEN 19:2	He said to them, “I am here to look after you. Come to my house. You can wash your feet and stay for the night with me. In the morning you can get up and go on your way.” But they said, “No, we will stay here on the road.”
463	GEN 19:5	They called out to Lot and asked, “Where are the men who came to stay with you? Bring them out here to us. We want to sleep with them!” But the men of Sodom wanted to do wrong with them.
465	GEN 19:7	He said to them, “Friends, you must not do such a wicked thing!
466	GEN 19:8	Look, I have two daughters. They have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you. You can do whatever you want with them, but you can't have these two men. They are in my house and I am looking after them.”
467	GEN 19:9	But the men said to him, “Get out of our way! You are a stranger, you can't tell us what to do! Get out of our way, or we will do worse to you!” Then they grabbed Lot and pushed him towards the house. They moved near to break the door.
470	GEN 19:12	Then the two men said to Lot, “Yahweh has heard that these people are very bad, and he has sent us here to destroy this city. So if you have any of your family here, get them and take them out of the city, because we really are going to destroy it.”
472	GEN 19:14	Then Lot went to the two men who were going to marry his daughters, and said, “Hurry up and get out of here, because Yahweh is going to destroy this place.” But they thought Lot was joking and they didn't take any notice.
473	GEN 19:15	At dawn the angels told Lot to hurry. “Quick,” they said, “take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you won't die when we destroy the city.”
475	GEN 19:17	Then one of the angels said, “You must be quick! Run and don't look back. Don't stop in the valley. Keep on running to the hills over there so that you don't die.”
476	GEN 19:18	But Lot said, “No! The hills are too far away. We will never reach them. You have had pity on me, you have been kind to me and saved me. But I can't go all the way to those hills, they are too far away and I will die on the way.
478	GEN 19:20	Look! See that little town over there. It is not so far. Let me go there. You can see it is just a little place. If I go there I will be safe.”
479	GEN 19:21	He answered, “All right, I won't destroy that town, so you can go there.
480	GEN 19:22	Run quickly. I won't destroy the city until you get there.” Then people called the town Zoar, because the name Zoar means “little” and Lot said, “It is a little place.”
489	GEN 19:31	The older daughter said to her sister, “Our father is getting old. And there are no men here for us to marry so that we can have children.
490	GEN 19:32	Come on, let's make our father drink wine until he is drunk, and sleep with him, so that he can make us pregnant.”
492	GEN 19:34	The next day the older daughter said to her sister, “I slept with him last night, so now let's make him drunk again tonight and you can sleep with him this time. Then our father will make both of us pregnant.”
495	GEN 19:37	Later on the older daughter had a son and she called him Moab, because Moab means “from my father.” The younger one also had a son and she called him Benammi, because Benammi means “son of my people.” When they grew up Moab became the ancestor of the Moabite people and Benammi became the ancestor of the Ammonite people.
498	GEN 20:2	While Abraham was in Gerar he said to the people there, “Sarah is my sister.” Sarah was his sister first, but then she became his wife. People used to do that long ago in that country. The king of Gerar was called Abimelech. He sent some of his people to Sarah to bring her to him to be his wife.
499	GEN 20:3	Then one night Abimelech had a dream. God came and appeared to him and said, “You are going to die because you have taken this woman. She is already married.”
500	GEN 20:4	At that time Sarah was in Abimelech's house, but he had not yet married her and he said to God, “I have done nothing wrong. So why will you kill me and my family?
501	GEN 20:5	Abraham himself said, ‘This woman is my sister.’ And she said, ‘He is my brother.’ So what I did was all right. I did nothing wrong.”
502	GEN 20:6	In the dream God said to him, “Yes, I know. It is not your fault. That is why I stopped you, and you didn't sin against me or against her, and you didn't touch her.
503	GEN 20:7	Give this woman back to her husband now. He is a prophet, and he will pray for you so that you will not die. But I am warning you, if you don't send this woman back to him you will die, you and all your people.”
505	GEN 20:9	Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? What wrong have I done to you to make you send this trouble on me and my people? That was very bad. No one should ever do that kind of thing to me.
506	GEN 20:10	Why did you do it?”
507	GEN 20:11	Abraham answered, “I thought, ‘None of these people obey God. They will kill me to get my wife.’
509	GEN 20:13	So when God sent me from my father's country to other countries, this is what I told her. ‘Say to people, This is my brother. Then I will know that you really love me.’”
511	GEN 20:15	He said to Abraham, “Here is my whole land, and you can live anywhere you like.”
512	GEN 20:16	And he said to Sarah, “Today I am giving your brother 1,000 silver coins. Now your people will know that you have done nothing wrong.”
520	GEN 21:6	The baby's mother said, “I feel wonderful, because God has blessed me and made me laugh. So when people hear that I have a baby boy, they will laugh with me.
521	GEN 21:7	No one ever said to my husband, ‘Your wife will nurse her own baby,’ but now I have given birth to a baby boy for an old man.”
522	GEN 21:8	The child grew and he learnt to eat food. Then Abraham said, “Now my son can eat food, so I will ask many people to eat here with me.” So Abraham and his people met together for a feast.
524	GEN 21:10	She said to her husband, “Send this servant girl away with her son, make them both go away from here. This woman's son mustn't take even one of your things when you die. My son must get all your things.”
526	GEN 21:12	But God said to him, “Don't be upset about the boy and your servant Hagar. Isaac will be the ancestor of those people I told you about. So you can do what Sarah told you and send Hagar and Ishmael away.
527	GEN 21:13	But I will also give many children to Hagar's son, so that his children will become many and they also will become a nation. He too is your son.”
530	GEN 21:16	and went and sat down a short distance away and cried and cried. She said, “I don't want to see my son die.” The boy also began to cry.
531	GEN 21:17	God heard him crying, and God's angel spoke from heaven to his mother. He said, “Why are you upset? Don't be afraid. God has heard your son crying.
532	GEN 21:18	Get up, go and take him by the hand and pick him up. Comfort him and stop him crying. Later when he grows up I will give him many children and many descendants and they will become a great nation.”