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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
13 | GEN 1:13 | Then night came. That was the third night. Then a new day dawned and it was morning. |
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. |
19 | GEN 1:19 | Then night came. That was the fourth night. And then a new day dawned and it was morning. |
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!” |
23 | GEN 1:23 | Then night came. That was the fifth night. And then a new day dawned and it was morning. |
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.” |
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. |
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, |
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. |
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. |
48 | GEN 2:17 | except one. This tree gives knowledge about what is good and what is bad and you mustn't eat its fruit. If you do eat it you will die the same 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.” |
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.’” |
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?” |
60 | GEN 3:4 | The snake said, “No. That is not true. You won't die. |
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. |
66 | GEN 3:10 | The man answered, “I heard your voice, and I was afraid and I hid because I was naked.” |
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.” |
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. |
74 | GEN 3:18 | The earth will give weeds and thorns. So you will have to go looking for bush foods. |
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.” |
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.” |
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.” |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
100 | GEN 4:20 | Adah gave birth to a baby boy and she called him Jabal because Jabal means “to lead.” Then when Jabal grew up he was the ancestor of people who look after sheep and cattle. And he and his family were the first to live in tents. |
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. |
111 | GEN 5:5 | Then when he was 930 years old he died. |
114 | GEN 5:8 | Then when he was 912 years old he died. |
117 | GEN 5:11 | Then when he was 905 years old he died. |
120 | GEN 5:14 | Then when he was 910 years old he died. |
123 | GEN 5:17 | Then when he was 895 years old he died. |
126 | GEN 5:20 | Then when he was 962 years old he died. |
133 | GEN 5:27 | Then when he was 969 years old he died. |
137 | GEN 5:31 | Then when he was 777 years old he died. |
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. |
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. |
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.” |
167 | GEN 7:7 | Noah went inside the boat with his wife and his sons and their wives. They went in to keep alive. |
169 | GEN 7:9 | They went in as God had told Noah. |
170 | GEN 7:10 | Then they waited and waited for seven days. And then the first rain fell on the ground. |
172 | GEN 7:12 | The rain kept on and on falling, it didn't stop for forty days and nights. |
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. |
177 | GEN 7:17 | The rain fell from above for forty days and nights. And the water bubbled up from under the ground. It covered the land and it rose up and up until the boat began to float. |
178 | GEN 7:18 | The water kept on rising and getting deeper and deeper until the boat was moving freely as the water carried it here and there. |
179 | GEN 7:19 | Then the water still kept rising until it covered the high rocks and the big hills, and even the mountains. |
186 | GEN 8:2 | The water bubbling up from the ground was stopped and the sky was closed and no more rain fell. |
187 | GEN 8:3 | Then the water went down and down and kept on going down until the five months had passed. |
189 | GEN 8:5 | And the water kept on going down and down. Then two more months passed and it was new moon now. Then the mountain tops appeared from the water that had covered them. |