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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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.” |
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. |
51 | GEN 2:20 | So the man named the animals and the birds, but none of them was a good helper for him. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
74 | GEN 3:18 | The earth will give weeds and thorns. So you will have to go looking for bush foods. |
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. |
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. |
91 | GEN 4:11 | So now I am cursing you. You can no longer grow food, because the earth has drunk that blood. |
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. |
109 | GEN 5:3 | When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like himself and he called him Seth. |
112 | GEN 5:6 | When Seth was 105 years old he had a son called Enosh. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
195 | GEN 8:11 | And then late in the afternoon it came back to him, bringing a green leaf to the boat. So Noah knew that there was no more water now. |
202 | GEN 8:18 | So Noah and his family went out of the boat. |
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.” |
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. |
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.” |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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, |
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. |
256 | GEN 10:21 | Shem, Noah's first son, was the first of the Hebrew people. |
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. |
261 | GEN 10:26 | Joktan's sons were called Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, |
263 | GEN 10:28 | Obal, Abimael, Sheba, |
265 | GEN 10:30 | The land belonging to those people went from Mesha over to Sephar in the eastern hill country. |
266 | GEN 10:31 | They became separate tribes, 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 Shem. |
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. |
275 | GEN 11:8 | And Yahweh went down and mixed up their language and sent them all over the world. So the people stopped building the city. |
277 | GEN 11:10 | This is about Shem's descendants. After the flood two years went by and then Shem was 100 years old and he had a son called Arpachshad. |
279 | GEN 11:12 | When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he had a son called Shelah. |
281 | GEN 11:14 | When Shelah was 30 years old, he had a son called Eber. |
287 | GEN 11:20 | When Reu was 32 years old, he had a son called Serug. |
289 | GEN 11:22 | When Serug was 30 years old, he had a son called Nahor. |
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. |
297 | GEN 11:30 | Sarai was not able to have children. |
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. |
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.’” |
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. |
305 | GEN 12:6 | At that time people called Canaanites were still living in the land. They had special trees in different places in the country and the people spoke to them. Abram and all his people stayed in Canaan and went from place to place until they reached the hill country. There was a special tree there in a place called Moreh near the town of Shechem. |
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. |
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.” |
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, |
316 | GEN 12:17 | But Yahweh didn't want Sarai to stay with the king in his palace, and he sent very bad sicknesses to him and to the people who lived with him and they became very sick. |
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? |
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. |
325 | GEN 13:6 | Other people who owned that country were still living there. They were the Canaanite people and the Perizzite people. Abram and his family stayed there. But after a while there was not enough grass and land for both Abram and Lot, because there were so many sheep and cattle and other animals. So Abram's men who looked after the sheep and cattle and Lot's men argued over water and grass for the animals. |
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.” |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
354 | GEN 14:17 | When Abram came back after fighting Chedorlaomer and the other kings, the king of Sodom went to meet him. They met in a flat place called Shaveh, which is also called the King's Valley. |
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. |
358 | GEN 14:21 | The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Keep all these things for yourself, but give me back all my people.” |
367 | GEN 15:6 | Abram trusted in Yahweh. So because of that Yahweh was pleased with Abram. |
372 | GEN 15:11 | Some big birds like whistling kites came down to the meat, but Abram drove them away. |
378 | GEN 15:17 | Then the sun set and it became dark. Suddenly coals and ashes appeared in a clay pot, with smoke rising from it. And fire appeared burning brightly like a torch of burning cypress pine. The two fires went between the pieces of meat that Abram had put on the ground. |
380 | GEN 15:19 | These are the people who own these areas today. Some places belong to the Kenite people, some to the Kenizzite people, some to the Kadmonite people, |