7 | GEN 1:7 | So God made an expanse to divide the waters that were above from the waters that were below. And that's what happened. |
11 | GEN 1:11 | God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation—plants that produce seeds and trees that produce seeded fruit—each one according to its own kind.” And that's what happened. |
15 | GEN 1:15 | They shall be lights in the sky to shine on the earth.” And that's what happened. |
24 | GEN 1:24 | God said, “Let the land produce living creatures, each one according to its own kind—the livestock, the creatures that run along the ground, and the wild animals, each one according to its own kind.” And that's what happened. |
29 | GEN 1:29 | God said, “Look, I'm giving you as your food every seed-bearing plant anywhere on earth, and every tree that produces fruit with seeds. |
30 | GEN 1:30 | I'm giving all the green plants to all the land animals, to the birds, and to every creature that moves on the earth—to every living thing.” And that's what happened. |
33 | GEN 2:2 | By the time the seventh day came, God had finished the work he'd done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work he'd been doing. |
34 | GEN 2:3 | God blessed the seventh day, and set it apart as holy, because he rested from all the work he'd done in creation. |
35 | GEN 2:4 | This is the account of the Lord God's creation when he made the heavens and the earth. |
36 | GEN 2:5 | Up to this point there were no wild plants or crops growing on the earth, because the Lord God hadn't sent rain, and there was no one to cultivate the ground. |
40 | GEN 2:9 | The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow in the garden, beautiful trees and trees producing fruit that's good to eat. The tree of life was in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. |
49 | GEN 2:18 | Then the Lord God said, “It's not good for Adam to be alone. I will make someone to help him, someone that's like him.” |
51 | GEN 2:20 | Adam gave names to all the livestock, all the birds, and all the wild animals. But Adam didn't find anyone like him who could help him. |
52 | GEN 2:21 | So the Lord God put Adam into a deep sleep and as he slept the Lord God removed one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place where he took it with body tissue. |
53 | GEN 2:22 | The Lord God made a woman, using the rib he'd taken from Adam, and presented her to Adam. |
56 | GEN 2:25 | Adam and his wife Eve were both naked, but they weren't embarrassed about it. |
57 | GEN 3:1 | The serpent was more cunning than any of the other wild animals that the Lord God had made. He asked Eve, “Did God really say that you can't eat fruit from every tree in the garden?” |
59 | GEN 3:3 | God told us, ‘You mustn't eat from that tree, or even touch it, otherwise you'll die.’” |
60 | GEN 3:4 | “You certainly won't die,” the serpent told Eve. |
61 | GEN 3:5 | “It's because God knows that as soon as you eat it, you'll see things differently, and you'll be like God, knowing both what is good and what is evil.” |
70 | GEN 3:14 | Then the Lord God told the serpent, “Because of what you've done, you are cursed more than any of the other animals. You will slide along on your belly and eat dust as long as you live. |
73 | GEN 3:17 | He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life. |
78 | GEN 3:22 | Then the Lord God observed, “Look, the human beings have become like one of us, knowing both what is good and what is evil. Now if they take the fruit from the tree of life and eat it, then they'll live forever!” |
79 | GEN 3:23 | So the Lord God expelled them from the Garden of Eden. He sent Adam to cultivate the ground from which he'd been made. |
81 | GEN 4:1 | Adam slept with his wife Eve and she became pregnant. She gave birth to Cain, and said, “With the Lord's help I have made a man.” |
83 | GEN 4:3 | Sometime later Cain brought some of the produce he'd grown as an offering to the Lord. |
85 | GEN 4:5 | but he wasn't pleased with Cain and his offering, which made Cain very angry and he frowned in annoyance. |
87 | GEN 4:7 | If you were doing what's right, then you'd be looking happy. But if you don't do what's right, then sin will be like animal crouching outside your home, ready to pounce on you. It wants to have you, but you must be the one in control.” |
89 | GEN 4:9 | “Where is your brother Abel?” the Lord asked Cain. “How should I know?” he replied. “Am I supposed to be my brother's care-giver?” |
90 | GEN 4:10 | “What have you done?” the Lord asked. “Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. |
91 | GEN 4:11 | Consequently you are more cursed than the ground because you soaked it with your brother's blood. |
92 | GEN 4:12 | When you cultivate the ground, it won't produce crops for you. You'll be always on the run, wandering all over the earth.” |
94 | GEN 4:14 | “Look! You're driving me away right now—cursing the ground and banishing me from your presence. I'm going to have to hide and always be on the run, left to wander all over the earth. Anyone who finds me is going to kill me!” |
96 | GEN 4:16 | So Cain left the Lord's presence and went to live in a land called Nod, east of Eden. |
102 | GEN 4:22 | Zillah also had a son. He was named Tubal-cain and he was a blacksmith, making different kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-cain's sister was named Naamah. |
107 | GEN 5:1 | This is the record of Adam's descendants. When God created human beings, he made them to be like him. |
130 | GEN 5:24 | Enoch had such a close relationship with God that he didn't die, he just wasn't there anymore, because God took him. |
144 | GEN 6:6 | The Lord was sorry he'd made human beings to live on the earth; it made him very sad to think about it. |
145 | GEN 6:7 | So the Lord said, “I'm going to wipe out these people I created from the earth, and not only them but also the animals, the creatures that run along the ground, and the birds, because I'm sorry I made them.” |
164 | GEN 7:4 | In seven days I'm going to make it rain for forty days and nights. I'm going to wipe out from the surface of the earth all the living creatures I made.” |
185 | GEN 8:1 | But God hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the ark. God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the floodwaters started to drop. |
190 | GEN 8:6 | Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark, |
193 | GEN 8:9 | But the dove couldn't find anywhere to land. So it came back to Noah in the ark because water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out his hand, picked up the dove, and took it back into the ark with him. |
196 | GEN 8:12 | Again he waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time it didn't return to him. |
197 | GEN 8:13 | By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone. Noah pulled back the ark's covering and saw that the ground was drying out. |
205 | GEN 8:21 | The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done. |
215 | GEN 9:9 | “Listen, I'm making my agreement with you and your descendants, |
217 | GEN 9:11 | In my agreement I'm promising you that I won't ever again destroy all life by means of a flood—there won't be a destructive flood like this again.” |
218 | GEN 9:12 | Then God said, “I'm going to give you a sign to confirm the agreement I'm making between me and you and all living creatures, an agreement that will last for all generations. |
219 | GEN 9:13 | I've placed my rainbow in the clouds, and this will be the sign of my agreement with you and with all life on earth. |
221 | GEN 9:15 | it will remind me of my agreement between me and you and every kind of living creature that floodwaters won't ever again destroy all life. |
223 | GEN 9:17 | Then God told Noah, “This is the sign of the agreement I'm making between me and every creature on earth.” |
224 | GEN 9:18 | Noah's sons who left the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of the Canaanites.) |
227 | GEN 9:21 | He drank some of the wine he'd produced, got drunk, and fell asleep in his tent, naked. |
228 | GEN 9:22 | Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's private parts and went and told his two brothers who were outside. |
229 | GEN 9:23 | Shem and Japheth picked up a cloak and, holding it over their shoulders, walked in backwards and covered up their father's privates. They made sure to look the other way so they wouldn't see their father's privates. |
233 | GEN 9:27 | May God give Japtheth plenty of space to accommodate his many descendants, and may they live at peace among Shem's people, and may Canaan also be his slave.” |
244 | GEN 10:9 | He was a powerful fighter who defied the Lord; which is why there's the expression, “Like Nimrod, a powerful fighter who defied the Lord.” |
267 | GEN 10:32 | These were all the tribes descended from Noah's sons, according to their genealogies and national groups. From these ancestors the different nations of the earth spread around the world after the flood. |
270 | GEN 11:3 | They said to one another, “Come on, let's make some bricks and bake them with fire.” (They used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of cement). |
271 | GEN 11:4 | Then they said, “Now let's build a city for ourselves with a tower whose top reaches the heavens. That way we'll gain a great reputation and we won't end up being scattered all over the world.” |
273 | GEN 11:6 | The Lord said, “Look! These people are united and they all speak one language. If this is what they can do now when they're just getting started, nothing will be impossible for them when they all put their minds to it! |
274 | GEN 11:7 | We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won't be able to understand what they're saying to one other.” |
276 | GEN 11:9 | That's why it was called Babel, because the Lord made the language of the world confused. |
296 | GEN 11:29 | Abram and Nahor both got married. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah. (She was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah). |
297 | GEN 11:30 | Sarai wasn't able to become pregnant and so had no children. |
300 | GEN 12:1 | The Lord told Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, your family home, and travel to the country I'm going to show you. |
303 | GEN 12:4 | So Abram left following the Lord's instructions, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 when he left Haran. |
306 | GEN 12:7 | The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I'm going to give this land to your descendants.” So Abram built an altar to the Lord there because that was where the Lord appeared to him. |
311 | GEN 12:12 | When the Egyptians see you, they'll say, ‘She's his wife,’ and they'll kill me but not you! |
312 | GEN 12:13 | Tell them you're my sister so I'll be treated well because of you, and my life will be spared for your sake.” |
314 | GEN 12:15 | Pharaoh's officials also noticed and spoke positively about her to Pharaoh. So Sarai was taken to his palace to become one of his wives. |
316 | GEN 12:17 | But the Lord caused Pharaoh and the people in his palace to suffer from terrible diseases because of Sarai, Abram's wife. |
317 | GEN 12:18 | So Pharaoh ordered Abram brought to him and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? |
318 | GEN 12:19 | Why did you say, ‘She's my sister,’ and let me take her to become one of my wives? So here's your wife! Take her and leave!” |
322 | GEN 13:3 | He left the Negev and traveled in stages to Bethel, back to the place where he'd camped before, between Bethel and Ai. |
323 | GEN 13:4 | This was where he'd first built an altar. He worshiped the Lord there as he had done previously. |
325 | GEN 13:6 | so much so that the available land couldn't support both of them—they had so much livestock they couldn't stay together anymore. |
326 | GEN 13:7 | Abram's and Lot's herdsmen were arguing, and in addition the Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. |
327 | GEN 13:8 | So Abram said to Lot, “Please don't let's have arguments between us, or between our herdsmen, because we're family. |
328 | GEN 13:9 | You see all this land that's available right in front of you? We have to split up. If you choose to go to the left, I'll go to the right. If you choose to go to the right, I'll go to the left.” |
333 | GEN 13:14 | After separating from Lot, the Lord told Abram, “Look around you from where you're standing, to the north, south, east, and west. |
334 | GEN 13:15 | I'm giving all this land you see to you and your descendants forever. |
335 | GEN 13:16 | You will have so many descendants that they'll be like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count dust then they could count the number of your descendants! |
336 | GEN 13:17 | Go and walk through the whole land in all directions because I'm giving it to you.” |
349 | GEN 14:12 | They also captured Lot, Abram's nephew, and his possessions, because he was living in Sodom. |
350 | GEN 14:13 | But one of those captured escaped and went and told Abram the Hebrew what had happened. Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, whose brothers were Eshcol and Aner. All of them were Abram's allies. |
361 | GEN 14:24 | I won't take anything except what my men have eaten, and the share for those who accompanied me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them have their share.” |
362 | GEN 15:1 | After all this had happened, God spoke to Abram in a vision, telling him, “Don't be afraid, Abram! I am your protector, and your truly great reward!” |
363 | GEN 15:2 | But Abram replied, “Lord God, what good is whatever you give me? I don't have any children, and the heir to all that I have is Eliezer of Damascus.” |
364 | GEN 15:3 | Abram went on to complain, “Look! You haven't given me any children, so a servant from my household has to be my heir!” |
365 | GEN 15:4 | But then the Lord told him, “This man won't be your heir. Your heir will be your very own son.” |
366 | GEN 15:5 | The Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up at the sky. See if you can count the stars! That's how many descendants you will have!” |
371 | GEN 15:10 | So Abram took and killed the three animals. Then he cut them in half, and placed each half opposite the other. However, he didn't cut the birds in half. |
379 | GEN 15:18 | This is how the Lord made an agreement with Abram that day and promised him, “I'm giving this land to your descendants. It extends from the Wadi of Egypt to the great Euphrates River, |
383 | GEN 16:1 | Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't been able to have any children for him. However, she owned a female Egyptian slave named Hagar, |
384 | GEN 16:2 | so Sarai said to Abram, “Please listen to me. The Lord hasn't let me have any children. So please go and sleep with my slave. Maybe I can have a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai had suggested. |
385 | GEN 16:3 | So Sarai, Abram's wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband as his wife. Abram had been living in the land of Canaan for ten years when this happened. |
387 | GEN 16:5 | Then Sarai complained to Abram, “What I'm suffering is all your doing! I gave you my servant to sleep with, and now that she knows she's pregnant, she treats me with contempt. May the Lord decide who's at fault—you or me!” |
388 | GEN 16:6 | “Listen, she's your slave!” Abram replied. “You can do whatever you want to her.” Sarai treated Hagar so badly that she ran away. |