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.
4	GEN 1:4	God looked and saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.
6	GEN 1:6	Then God spoke again. “Let the water separate, half above and half below.”
7	GEN 1:7	Then God separated the water below from the water above so that there was a wide space in the middle.
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.”
12	GEN 1:12	Then trees and other plants grew on the land. God looked and saw that the trees and plants were all good.
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.”
21	GEN 1:21	So God made creatures like big whales and dugongs and groper and other kinds of fish that filled the sea. And he made birds. Then God looked and saw that they were all good.
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.
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.”
27	GEN 1:27	So God created people, making them like himself. He created them male and female.
31	GEN 1:31	And God looked and saw that all the things he had made were good. Then night came. That was the sixth night. And then a new day dawned and it was morning.
32	GEN 2:1	In that way God made the world and the sky and everything on the earth and in the sky and in the sea. And then he finished his work.
35	GEN 2:4	That is how God made the world. At first when Yahweh God made the world,
38	GEN 2:7	Then Yahweh God took some soil and made a man from it. He blew his breath into the man's nose so that he could live. And the man came alive.
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.
44	GEN 2:13	Another river called Gihon flows through the land of Cush.
46	GEN 2:15	Yahweh God put the man there in Eden so that he could grow food and look after the place.
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.”
50	GEN 2:19	So Yahweh God took some soil and made animals and birds out of it. He brought the animals and birds to the man so that he could name them all.
52	GEN 2:21	Then Yahweh God made the man go to sleep. He went fast asleep and while he was sleeping Yahweh God took a rib from him and closed up his flesh.
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?”
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.”
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.”
64	GEN 3:8	When the sun was setting they heard Yahweh God coming and they hid from him among the trees.
65	GEN 3:9	But Yahweh God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
169	GEN 7:9	They went in as God had told Noah.
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.
185	GEN 8:1	God did not forget Noah and the animals and birds in the boat. He sent a wind to dry up the water and make it go down.
199	GEN 8:15	Then God said to Noah,
200	GEN 8:16	“Go out of the boat now. Go out with your wife and your sons and their wives.
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.
214	GEN 9:8	God also said to them,
232	GEN 9:26	I am praising Yahweh, the God of Shem. Shem will rule over Canaan.
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.”
237	GEN 10:2	These were Japheth's sons. Their names were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
238	GEN 10:3	And these were the sons of Gomer, the eldest son. Their names were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
251	GEN 10:16	but Canaan also had other sons, so he was the ancestor of very many people. They were the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
254	GEN 10:19	All their areas were called by the one name Canaan, so Canaan was a very big country. The different places in Canaan spread from Sidon down to Gerar in the south near Gaza. And they went right over to the east, as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which is near Lasha.
258	GEN 10:23	And Aram's sons were called Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.
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!”
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.
347	GEN 14:10	There were a lot of pits full of tar like very sticky mud in that flat place. Two of the kings, the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, tried to run away from the fighting, but they fell into the pits of tar and couldn't get out. But the other three kings ran away to the hills.
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.
353	GEN 14:16	Then they grabbed everything that Chedorlaomer and the others had taken from Sodom and Gomorrah. And Abram took his nephew Lot home with all his things. And he also brought back the women and other people Chedorlaomer and the others had taken from Sodom and Gomorrah.
355	GEN 14:18	A man called Melchizedek came to Abram too. He was the king of Salem and also a priest of God, the God who is greatest. He brought damper and wine 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.
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.’
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.”
371	GEN 15:10	Abram went and got them and brought them to God. Then he killed them, cut them down the middle, and put the pieces of meat down on the ground, some on one side, and some on the other side, facing each other in two rows. But he didn't cut up the birds.
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.”
391	GEN 16:9	“Go back to Sarai and work for her, because you belong to her,” Yahweh said to Hagar.
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.”
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.”
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.
401	GEN 17:3	Abram bowed down and put his face to the ground to worship God. And God said to him,
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.
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.
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.