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. |
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. |
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!” |
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. |
33 | GEN 2:2 | He worked for six days from when he started until he finished it all, and then he stopped working. |
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. |
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, |
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. |
53 | GEN 2:22 | He made a woman out of the rib and he brought her to 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.’” |
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.” |
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. |
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. |
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?” |
96 | GEN 4:16 | And Cain left Yahweh and went away. He lived in another country called “Wandering,” which is east of Eden. |
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. |
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. |
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.” |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
193 | GEN 8:9 | He sent the dove out but it wandered around. There was still water everywhere. So it circled around and around and then came back to the boat, because there was nowhere for it to rest. Noah stretched out his hand and took the dove through the window and brought it back inside. |
196 | GEN 8:12 | He waited another seven days and then he sent the dove out once more. This time it didn't come back to him. |
197 | GEN 8:13 | After the boat landed five months passed. Then at the new moon the water was all gone. Noah was an old man, he was 601 years old now. He opened the roof of the boat and looked out over the land and saw that the ground was getting dry. |
204 | GEN 8:20 | Noah collected some stones and piled them up to make an altar so that he could sacrifice some animals for Yahweh. Then he took one each of the animals and birds that they could eat and burnt them whole, without cutting them, on the altar. He sacrificed them there and he praised Yahweh. |
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. |
224 | GEN 9:18 | The three sons of Noah who went into the boat and came out again were called Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. |
227 | GEN 9:21 | He made some wine from the grapes and he and his family drank it. One day Noah drank some of the wine he had made and became drunk. He took off his clothes and slept naked in his tent. |
228 | GEN 9:22 | Ham, the father of Canaan, came to his father and when he saw him naked he went out and told his two brothers. |
231 | GEN 9:25 | He cursed Ham and his descendants and said, “I am cursing Canaan! His brothers will rule over him. |
236 | GEN 10:1 | These are the names of Noah's descendants. His three sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth. They all had sons after the flood. |
241 | GEN 10:6 | These were the sons of Ham. He was Japheth's younger brother. Their names were Cush, Egypt, Libya and Canaan. |
242 | GEN 10:7 | These were the sons of the eldest, Cush. Their names were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. And Raamah's two sons were called Sheba and Dedan. |
243 | GEN 10:8 | Cush had another son called Nimrod. He was the first to rule over other people as well as his own family. |
248 | GEN 10:13 | Ham's son, Egypt, had seven sons. Their names were Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh, |
250 | GEN 10:15 | Ham's son, Canaan, had two sons called Sidon and Heth. Sidon was the firstborn, |
252 | GEN 10:17 | the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, |
253 | GEN 10:18 | the Arvadites, the Zemarites and the Hamathites. These people spread out, until they became separate tribes, one group in one place and another group in another place. |
255 | GEN 10:20 | All the tribes lived separately, one group in one place and another group in another place. And each tribe spoke its own language. They all lived separately but they had the same ancestor Ham. |
256 | GEN 10:21 | Shem, Noah's first son, was the first of the Hebrew people. |
258 | GEN 10:23 | And Aram's sons were called Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek. |
261 | GEN 10:26 | Joktan's sons were called Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, |
262 | GEN 10:27 | Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, |
264 | GEN 10:29 | Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. They were all Joktan's sons. |
293 | GEN 11:26 | After Terah was 70 years old, he had three sons called Abram, Nahor and Haran. |
294 | GEN 11:27 | These are the descendants of Terah. His three sons were Abram, Nahor and Haran. Haran had a son called Lot, |
295 | GEN 11:28 | and Haran died in Ur, the city where he was born. Ur was in the country of Babylonia. Haran died there while his father Terah was still alive. |
296 | GEN 11:29 | Abram had a wife, Sarai, who was his younger sister but she had a different mother. People used to marry their sisters like that in that country. Nahor's wife was Milcah, Haran's daughter. Haran had another son called Iscah. |
298 | GEN 11:31 | Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the one whose father Haran had died, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram's wife, and they left the city of Ur to go to the land of Canaan. Some time later they reached a city called Haran and they stayed there. |
303 | GEN 12:4 | Abram was an old man now, he was 75 years old. He left the city of Haran and went to a different country called Canaan, because Yahweh had told him to go there. And his nephew Lot went with him. Lot's father and Abram were brothers. |
304 | GEN 12:5 | Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all the men and women who lived with him and worked for him. They took all the things and all the money that they had got in Haran, and they set off. They went on and on until they arrived in the land of Canaan. |
307 | GEN 12:8 | From there Abram and all his people went south, and they made their camp in the hill country between a town called Bethel on the west and one called Ai on the east. And Abram did the same as before. He 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. |
315 | GEN 12:16 | and because she was beautiful the king was kind to Abram. He gave him servants and sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys and camels. |
321 | GEN 13:2 | Abram was a very rich man. He had many sheep, goats and cattle and lots of silver and gold. Lot was also a rich man. He too had many sheep, goats and cattle. And he took all of them and his family and his servants with him. So they went from place to place. They went towards Bethel until they reached a place between Bethel and Ai. They camped there, in the same place where they had camped a long time ago, and where Abram had made the altar. And then Abram worshipped Yahweh there. |
337 | GEN 13:18 | So Abram moved and went and made a new camp at Hebron. He stayed near the special trees belonging to a man called Mamre, and there Abram made an altar with stones to pray to Yahweh, and then he worshipped him. |
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. |
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. |
352 | GEN 14:15 | At Dan Abram spread out his soldiers and fought Chedorlaomer and the other kings and their men at night. Abram and his men killed many men belonging to Chedorlaomer and the other kings and they ran after the rest until they reached a place called Hobah, which is on the other side of Damascus. |
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. |
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.’ |
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.” |
381 | GEN 15:20 | some to the Hittite people, some to the Perizzite people and some to the Rephaim people. |
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. |
385 | GEN 16:3 | So Sarai gave Hagar to her husband to be his wife |
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.” |
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. |
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. |
397 | GEN 16:15 | Then Hagar went back to Sarai and gave birth to a baby boy for Abram, and Abram called him Ishmael. |
398 | GEN 16:16 | When the baby was born, Abram was 86 years old. He was a very old man. |