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. |
41 | GEN 2:10 | A river flowed in Eden and watered the ground. It flowed on further and divided into four. |
45 | GEN 2:14 | Another river called Tigris flows to the east through the land of Assyria and further on. And another river is called Euphrates. They are the four rivers. |
46 | GEN 2:15 | Yahweh God put the man there in Eden so that he could grow food and look after the place. |
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.” |
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.” |
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.” |
96 | GEN 4:16 | And Cain left Yahweh and went away. He lived in another country called “Wandering,” which is east of Eden. |
97 | GEN 4:17 | Cain and his wife had a little boy called Enoch. Then Cain built many houses to make a city and he called it after his son. |
98 | GEN 4:18 | Later Cain's son Enoch had a son and he called him Irad. And Irad's son was called Mehujael. Then Mehujael had a son and he was called Methushael. Then Methushael had a son and he was called Lamech. |
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.” |
106 | GEN 4:26 | When Seth grew up he had a son and he called him Enosh. At that time people began worshipping Yahweh. |
112 | GEN 5:6 | When Seth was 105 years old he had a son called Enosh. |
115 | GEN 5:9 | When Enosh was 90 years old he had a son called Kenan. |
124 | GEN 5:18 | When Jared was 162 years old he had a son called Enoch. |
127 | GEN 5:21 | When Enoch was 65 years old he had a son called Methuselah. |
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. |
131 | GEN 5:25 | When Enoch's son Methuselah was 187 years old he had a son called Lamech. |
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. |
182 | GEN 7:22 | Everything that lived on the earth, everything that breathed died. |
239 | GEN 10:4 | And these were the sons of his younger brother, Javan. Their names were Elishah, Spain, Cyprus and Rhodes. |
240 | GEN 10:5 | Later on the descendants of Elishah and his brothers spread along the coast and on the islands. So they became separate tribes, one group in one place and another group in another place. Each tribe spoke its own language. They all lived separately but they had the same ancestor Japheth. |
241 | GEN 10:6 | These were the sons of Ham. He was Japheth's younger brother. Their names were Cush, Egypt, Libya and Canaan. |
245 | GEN 10:10 | First Nimrod ruled over three cities, Babylon, Erech and Accad. They were all in Babylonia. |
248 | GEN 10:13 | Ham's son, Egypt, had seven sons. Their names were Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh, |
249 | GEN 10:14 | Pathrus, Casluh and Caphtor. Caphtor, Egypt's youngest son, was the ancestor of the Philistine people. The descendants of Egypt were named after Lydia and his brothers. |
257 | GEN 10:22 | These were Shem's sons. Their names were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram. |
259 | GEN 10:24 | Arpachshad's son was called Shelah, and Shelah's son was called Eber. |
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. |
281 | GEN 11:14 | When Shelah was 30 years old, he had a son called Eber. |
283 | GEN 11:16 | When Eber was 34 years old, he had a son called Peleg. |
309 | GEN 12:10 | But there was very little food in Canaan. There was so little food that Abram and his family left Canaan and went down to Egypt to live there for a while. |
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. |
313 | GEN 12:14 | When they left Canaan and went into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai really was beautiful. |
314 | GEN 12:15 | There was a king in Egypt who ruled over the whole country, and some of his servants told him about Abram's beautiful wife. They took Sarai to him, |
320 | GEN 13:1 | Abram and his family went back from Egypt north to Canaan. Abram took his wife and family, his servants and everything they owned. Lot went with them too. |
329 | GEN 13:10 | So Lot looked round and saw a big river valley called the Jordan, and it was very good land. The river went all the way to a place called Zoar. There was plenty of water and trees and other plants, just like the place that Yahweh made called Eden, and also like the land of Egypt. Lot wanted the land with the big Jordan valley for himself, so he went off to the east and the two men separated. Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, but Lot made his camp near the city of Sodom. The people of Sodom were wicked. They didn't obey Yahweh; they were always doing evil things. But Lot and his family stayed there, before Yahweh destroyed the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. |
338 | GEN 14:1 | There was a man called Chedorlaomer who was a powerful king in his own city called Elam. He became ruler over five other kings, Bera, Birsha, Shinah, Shemeber and the king of the city called Bela. That city had two names, Bela and Zoar. Bera was the king of Sodom, Birsha was the king of Gomorrah, Shinah was the king of Admah and Shemeber was the king of Zeboiim. Chedorlaomer had been ruler over the other five kings for a long time. He had ruled over them and all their people for twelve years. The next year the five kings decided that they wouldn't obey him any longer. The next year Chedorlaomer took his soldiers to a place called Ashteroth Karnaim, and three other kings took their soldiers there to help him. Their names were Amraphel, Arioch and Tidal. Amraphel was the king of Babylonia, Arioch was the king of Ellasar and Tidal was the king of Goiim. Those four kings had a lot of soldiers and they helped each other. They fought against the people called Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim. Then they went to Ham and fought against the people called Zuzim. Then they went to a flat place called Kiriathaim and fought against the people called Emim. They killed many of the Rephaim and the Zuzim and the Emim. From there they went to the hill country of Edom and fought against the Horite people. They killed many of the people and ran after some of them, driving them away until they reached Elparan on the edge of the desert. From there they turned around and came back to a place called Kadesh. At that time it was called Enmishpat, but today it is called Kadesh. They kept on fighting people and they took all the country that belonged to the Amalekites. Then they fought the Amorite people who lived in Hazazon Tamar and they killed many of them. Then the five kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Bela got their soldiers together in a flat place called Siddim to fight the four kings of Elam, Goiim, Babylonia and Ellasar. At that time there was no sea there, but today there is a sea there called the Dead Sea. |
348 | GEN 14:11 | Then the four kings of Elam, Goiim, Babylonia and Ellasar went to Sodom and Gomorrah with their men and took all the people and the food and everything else from both those places. Lot, Abram's nephew, was living in Sodom and so they took him too with all his things. Then they went away. |
350 | GEN 14:13 | One man escaped from Chedorlaomer and the other kings, and he went to Abram, the Hebrew, because Abram was Lot's uncle. Abram was living near the special trees that belonged to Mamre, the Amorite. Mamre and his two brothers, Eshcol and Aner, were Abram's friends. So the man who had escaped found Abram and told him that his nephew Lot had been taken away. |
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.” |
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.” |
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. |
383 | GEN 16:1 | Abram stayed there in Canaan. He lived there for ten years, but his wife Sarai still didn't have any children. Before that Sarai had taken a girl from Egypt called Hagar. Her husband had bought her from her family so that she could work for Sarai as a servant. |
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.” |
523 | GEN 21:9 | One day Sarah's son Isaac was playing with Ishmael. Ishmael's mother was Hagar, the Egyptian woman who worked for Sarah. While they were playing together Sarah saw Ishmael teasing Isaac. |
535 | GEN 21:21 | After some time his mother found an Egyptian girl to be his wife, and he married her. |
580 | GEN 23:8 | He said, “That is good, that I can bury my wife here. So ask Ephron, Zohar's son, for me. |
582 | GEN 23:10 | Ephron himself was sitting there with the Hittite people. He said, “Listen to me. I will give that whole field of mine to you, and also the cave. I will give it to you today, in front of my people, so that you can put your wife in it.” And all the people there heard him. |
585 | GEN 23:13 | Then he spoke to Ephron, so that everyone could hear him. He said, “Wait a moment, and listen. I will buy your whole field. Take the money today and I will put my wife there.” |
586 | GEN 23:14 | Ephron answered, |
588 | GEN 23:16 | Abraham agreed and counted the money that Ephron had said, in front of everyone. Then he put down 400 coins. He made the money exactly right so that it would be the full amount. |
589 | GEN 23:17 | So Abraham bought that land at Machpelah from Ephron. It is near Mamre's place. He bought the land with the grass and all the trees and also the cave. |
663 | GEN 25:4 | Keturah's son Midian had five sons. They were called Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah. Keturah was the ancestor of all those people. |
668 | GEN 25:9 | His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave called Machpelah that was near Mamre's place. First of all the cave had belonged to Ephron, the one whose father was Zohar the Hittite. |
671 | GEN 25:12 | Ishmael was Abraham's first son. His mother was Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant. |
677 | GEN 25:18 | Ishmael's descendants lived in the land between Havilah and Shur. That was their country, and when people went from Egypt over to Assyria they went through there. Ishmael's family lived away from Isaac's family and from Abraham's other descendants. |
684 | GEN 25:25 | The first one was reddish and his skin was hairy, so he was named Esau, because Esau means “hairy.” |
686 | GEN 25:27 | The two boys grew up. Esau was good at hunting and he loved being out in the bush. But Jacob was a quiet man who liked to stay at home. |
687 | GEN 25:28 | Isaac loved Esau more, because he liked eating the animals he killed, but Rebecca loved Jacob. |
688 | GEN 25:29 | One day Jacob was cooking some bean soup and Esau came back from hunting. He was hungry |
689 | GEN 25:30 | and he said to his younger brother Jacob, “I am very hungry. Give me some of that red soup.” That is why Esau had two names. One was Esau and the other was Edom, because Edom means “red.” |
691 | GEN 25:32 | Esau said, “All right! I am dying of hunger, so what good is it to me if I am the firstborn?” |
692 | GEN 25:33 | Jacob said, “I want you to make a promise and not change it. You must promise me that I will be the firstborn and the leader now.” So Esau agreed and made the promise. |
693 | GEN 25:34 | Then Jacob gave him some damper and some of the soup he had cooked. Esau ate the damper and drank the soup and he got up and left, saying, “What does it matter? Let him be the firstborn!” |
694 | GEN 26:1 | Long ago while Abraham was in Canaan there was very little food there and Abraham went to Egypt. Now while his son Isaac was also in Canaan there was very little food as before, and Isaac went west to Gerar. Gerar belonged to the Philistine people and their king was Abimelech. So Isaac went to him. |
695 | GEN 26:2 | Yahweh came and appeared to Isaac and said to him, “Don't go to Egypt. Obey me and stay here. |
714 | GEN 26:21 | Then Isaac's servants dug another well. But the men of Gerar and Isaac's men argued about that one too, and Isaac named the well “They Hated Each Other.” |
727 | GEN 26:34 | When Isaac's son Esau was forty years old, he took two girls to be his wives. They were both Hittites. One of them, the daughter of Beeri, was called Judith and the other, the daughter of Elon, was called Basemath. |
729 | GEN 27:1 | Isaac was now an old man and he was blind. He called for his older son Esau and said to him, “Son!” “What is it?” he answered. |
733 | GEN 27:5 | Rebecca heard what Isaac said to Esau. So when Esau went out to hunt, |
734 | GEN 27:6 | she said to Jacob, “I heard your father talking to Esau. |
740 | GEN 27:12 | Maybe if my father touches me he will find out it is me. Then he will know that I am not Esau but I am tricking him. So I won't get a special blessing, I will be cursed.” |
743 | GEN 27:15 | She went and got some good clothes of Esau's and gave them to Jacob and he put them on. |
747 | GEN 27:19 | Jacob said, “I am your firstborn son Esau. I have done what you told me. Please sit up and eat this meat. I have brought it so that you can give me your special blessing.” |
749 | GEN 27:21 | Isaac said, “Come closer and let me touch you. Are you really Esau?” |
750 | GEN 27:22 | Jacob came close to his father and Isaac touched him. Then he said, “When you speak your voice is like Jacob's, but your hands are like Esau's.” |
751 | GEN 27:23 | Isaac didn't recognize Jacob because his hands were all covered in goat skin. They were like Esau's. He was ready to give his special blessing to Jacob |
752 | GEN 27:24 | but again he asked him, “Are you really Esau?” “Yes,” said Jacob. |
755 | GEN 27:27 | Jacob moved closer to kiss him and his father smelled Esau's clothes that Jacob was wearing. And so he gave him his special blessing. He said, “My son, you smell very good, just as the earth that God made smells good. |
758 | GEN 27:30 | Isaac finished his special blessing and Jacob left him. At the same time Jacob's older brother Esau came back bringing an animal that he had killed. |