1	GEN 1:1	In the very beginning, long, long ago, God made the earth below and the heavens above. At the time when God first started creating the world,
2	GEN 1:2	it was all watery. Water covered everything and that was all. There was no dry land yet, only water, and it was dark. It was dark just like a cave is dark inside at night. But the spirit of God was moving over the water.
3	GEN 1:3	Then God spoke. “Let there be light,” he said. And then the light came out.
6	GEN 1:6	Then God spoke again. “Let the water separate, half above and half below.”
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.
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.”
16	GEN 1:16	Then God made two big lights. He made the sun and put it in the sky, so that it would light up the world and rule over the day. Then he made the moon and put it in the sky to rule over the night. And then he made all the stars. He made the two big lights so that the light and the darkness would be separate. Then God looked and saw that the sun and the moon and the stars were all good.
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.”
25	GEN 1:25	So he made the different animals and snakes, big ones and little ones. Then God looked and saw that they were all good.
27	GEN 1:27	So God created people, making them like himself. He created them male and female.
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.
33	GEN 2:2	He worked for six days from when he started until he finished it all, and then he stopped working.
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.”
35	GEN 2:4	That is how God made the world. At first when Yahweh God made the world,
39	GEN 2:8	Then Yahweh God planted trees and other plants in a place called Eden, in the east. And there he put the man he had made.
40	GEN 2:9	It was a beautiful place because Yahweh God had planted all kinds of trees that were lovely to look at, and that provided good fruit. In the middle of all those fruit trees and other plants Yahweh God planted one tree that gives life and one tree that gives knowledge about what is good and what is bad.
42	GEN 2:11	One of the rivers is called Pishon, the one that flows through the land called Havilah.
47	GEN 2:16	He said to him, “You can eat the fruit from any of the trees,
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.”
51	GEN 2:20	So the man named the animals and the birds, but none of them was a good helper for 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.’”
55	GEN 2:24	So because of that a man will leave his father and his mother to live with his wife, and then they will become one.
56	GEN 2:25	The man and the woman were both naked, but they weren't ashamed.
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.
63	GEN 3:7	After they had eaten it, suddenly their minds were opened and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed some fig leaves together and put them on.
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.
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.”
77	GEN 3:21	And Yahweh God made clothes from animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he gave them the clothes to wear.
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.”
80	GEN 3:24	Then after he had sent them out, Yahweh God put some angels called cherubim in Eden in the east, and also a flaming sword that turned this way and that. He put it there so that no one could go where the tree of life was standing. So he made that place out of bounds.
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.”
82	GEN 4:2	Later she gave birth to another son and named him Abel. So now there were two boys. When Abel grew up he looked after sheep, but Cain grew trees and plants for food.
84	GEN 4:4	His younger brother Abel killed the first lamb of one of his sheep, and he gave the best fat as an offering to Yahweh. Yahweh was pleased with Abel and the fat.
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.
91	GEN 4:11	So now I am cursing you. You can no longer grow food, because the earth has drunk that blood.
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.
99	GEN 4:19	Lamech had two wives, Adah and Zillah.
102	GEN 4:22	Then Lamech's second wife, Zillah, gave birth to a baby boy called Tubal Cain. When he grew up Tubal Cain made many tools like tomahawks and other things for cutting, digging and hammering. He made them all from iron. His younger sister was called Naamah.
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.
109	GEN 5:3	When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like himself and he called him Seth.
128	GEN 5:22	Enoch had fellowship with God. And he had other children, and when he was 365 years old Enoch disappeared, because God took him away.
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.”
136	GEN 5:30	After that, Lamech lived another 595 years and he had other children.
138	GEN 5:32	When Noah was 500 years old he had his family. His first son was Shem, the next was Japheth and the youngest was Ham.
139	GEN 6:1	There were now many people and they were spread out in different places. Then the sons of God came to where they were living. When they saw the people they could see that the girls were very beautiful, so they took them to be their wives.
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.”
143	GEN 6:5	When Yahweh looked at the people, he saw that they were all very wicked. They kept on thinking about evil all the time.
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.”
147	GEN 6:9	This is the story of Noah. He had three sons called Shem, Ham and Japheth. He was a good man and he did nothing wrong. He was the only good person and he had fellowship with God.
149	GEN 6:11	All the other people were wicked. They were always fighting each other. God looked down and saw all those people, and they were very, very bad.
151	GEN 6:13	God said to Noah, “I am going to kill all these people, because they have done so much evil.
152	GEN 6:14	So I want you to build yourself a boat. Make it from good cypress pine wood. And when you build it, make many rooms in it. Put sticky tar on the wood along the inside and along the outside, so that the water won't come into the boat.
153	GEN 6:15	You must make it very long, 133 metres from the front to the back. And you must make it very big, 22 metres from the left side to the right. From the ground to the top it must be 13 metres.
154	GEN 6:16	Make a roof for it, and all around the roof underneath leave a small space of 44 centimetres. You must make three layers, one on top of the other, and you must put a door in it too.
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.
157	GEN 6:19	You must take into the boat every kind of animal and every kind of bird. You must take one male and one female of each kind, so that they will stay alive.
159	GEN 6:21	You must take food, all different kinds of food for yourselves and for the animals and birds.”
160	GEN 6:22	And Noah did everything that God told him, everything that he wanted.
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.
162	GEN 7:2	Take some animals on to the boat. Take some of the ones that you can eat, seven males and seven females of each kind. And take some of the tabooed ones that you must not eat, one male and one female of each kind.
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.”
166	GEN 7:6	At the time when the first rain fell, Noah was 600 years old.
168	GEN 7:8	And all the male and female animals and all the male and female birds went inside the boat, the ones that they could eat and the tabooed ones they couldn't eat.
171	GEN 7:11	Noah was 600 years old. One month had already passed and now it was full moon, and a great amount of water burst out of the springs under the ground. And the heavens opened and the rain poured down from above.
172	GEN 7:12	The rain kept on and on falling, it didn't stop for forty days and nights.
173	GEN 7:13	But on the day when the first rain fell, Noah and his wife and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives went into the boat that they had made.
174	GEN 7:14	All the many animals and birds, those that lived in the bush and those that people looked after, they all went into the boat, big ones and little ones.
175	GEN 7:15	Male and female, every kind that breathed, Noah took them all into the boat.
176	GEN 7:16	Noah did everything God had told him to do. Then Yahweh shut the door of the boat, but Noah and the others were already inside.
179	GEN 7:19	Then the water still kept rising until it covered the high rocks and the big hills, and even the mountains.
182	GEN 7:22	Everything that lived on the earth, everything that breathed died.
183	GEN 7:23	Yahweh destroyed everything. Only Noah and his family, his wife and his sons and their wives, and the animals that went into the boat, they alone stayed alive.