3 | GEN 1:3 | God said, “Let there be light!” and there was light. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters to divide the waters.” |
9 | GEN 1:9 | God said, “Let the waters below the sky collect together in one place so that the land may appear.” And so it was. |
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. |
14 | GEN 1:14 | God said, “Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night, and to provide a way to mark seasons, days, and years. |
20 | GEN 1:20 | God said, “Let the waters be full of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the sky.” |
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. |
26 | GEN 1:26 | God said, “Let us make human beings in our image who are like us. They will have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over the whole of the earth and every creature that moves on it.” |
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. |
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. |
38 | GEN 2:7 | The Lord God shaped the man Adam from the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living being. |
39 | GEN 2:8 | The Lord planted a garden in Eden, in the east. There he put the man Adam he had created. |
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. |
46 | GEN 2:15 | The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and care for it. |
47 | GEN 2:16 | The Lord God ordered Adam, “You are free to eat fruit from every tree in the garden, |
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.” |
50 | GEN 2:19 | The Lord God used the ground to make all the wild animals, and all the birds. He took them all to Adam to see what he would call them, and Adam named every living creature. |
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. |
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?” |
64 | GEN 3:8 | Later they heard the Lord walking in the garden in the evening when the breeze was blowing. Adam and Eve went and hid out of sight of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. |
65 | GEN 3:9 | The Lord God called out to Adam, “Where are you?” |
67 | GEN 3:11 | “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?” |
69 | GEN 3:13 | The Lord God asked Eve, “Why have you done this?” “The serpent tricked me, and so I ate it,” she replied. |
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. |
77 | GEN 3:21 | The Lord God made Adam and Eve clothes from animal skins and dressed them. |
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. |
80 | GEN 3:24 | After he drove them out, the Lord God placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden angels and a sword that flashed in every direction. They were to prevent access to the tree of life. |
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.” |
82 | GEN 4:2 | Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd, while Cain was a crop farmer. |
83 | GEN 4:3 | Sometime later Cain brought some of the produce he'd grown as an offering to the Lord. |
84 | GEN 4:4 | Abel also brought an offering: the firstborn lambs of his flock, selecting the very best parts to offer. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering, |
86 | GEN 4:6 | The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you so angry? Why do you look so annoyed? |
88 | GEN 4:8 | Later, when Cain was talking with his brother Abel they went out into the fields where Cain attacked his brother and killed him. |
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. |
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!” |
95 | GEN 4:15 | But the Lord replied, “No, Cain. Anyone who kills you will be punished seven times over.” The Lord placed a mark on Cain so that no one who came across him would kill him. |
96 | GEN 4:16 | So Cain left the Lord's presence and went to live in a land called Nod, east of Eden. |
98 | GEN 4:18 | Enoch had a son named Irad. Irad was the father of Mehujael, Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech. |
99 | GEN 4:19 | Lamech married two women. The first was named Adah, and the second was named Zillah. |
103 | GEN 4:23 | At one time Lamech told his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me. You wives of Lamech, pay attention to what I have to say. I killed a man because he wounded me; I killed a young man because he injured me. |
104 | GEN 4:24 | If the sentence for killing Cain was to be punished seven times over, then if someone kills me, Lamech, the punishment should be seventy-seven times.” |
106 | GEN 4:26 | Later Seth had a son named Enosh, because at that time people began to worship the Lord by name. |
131 | GEN 5:25 | When Methuselah was 187, he had Lamech. |
132 | GEN 5:26 | After Lamech was born, Methuselah lived another 782 years and had other sons and daughters. |
134 | GEN 5:28 | When Lamech was 182, he had a son. |
135 | GEN 5:29 | He named him Noah, with the explanation, “He will provide relief for us from all the hard manual labor we need to do in cultivating the ground the Lord has cursed.” |
136 | GEN 5:30 | After Noah was born, Lamech lived another 595 years and had other sons and daughters. |
137 | GEN 5:31 | Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died. |
141 | GEN 6:3 | Then the Lord said, “My life-giving Spirit will not remain in these people forever, because they are only mortal. The time they have left will be 120 years.” |
143 | GEN 6:5 | The Lord saw how terribly evil people on earth had become—every single thought in their minds was evil all the time! |
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.” |
146 | GEN 6:8 | But the Lord was pleased with Noah. |
161 | GEN 7:1 | The Lord told Noah, “Go into the ark with all your family. I have seen how you are a man of integrity, living a moral life among the people of this generation. |
165 | GEN 7:5 | Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do. |
176 | GEN 7:16 | A male and a female of every creature entered, as God had told Noah. Then the Lord shut the door behind him. |
183 | GEN 7:23 | The Lord wiped out all life on earth—people, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds. All were killed. The only ones left were Noah and those with him on the ark. |
200 | GEN 8:16 | “Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons and their wives. |
201 | GEN 8:17 | Let all the animals go—the birds, the wild animals, the creatures that run along the ground—so that they can breed and increase their numbers on the earth.” |
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, |
232 | GEN 9:26 | Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan 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.” |
248 | GEN 10:13 | Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites, |
253 | GEN 10:18 | the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite tribes spread out |
254 | GEN 10:19 | and the territory of the Canaanites stretched from Sidon towards Gerar and all the way to Gaza, then towards Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, all the way to Lasha. |
257 | GEN 10:22 | The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. |
272 | GEN 11:5 | But the Lord came down to take a look at the city and the tower that the people were building. |
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! |
275 | GEN 11:8 | The Lord sent them away from there and scattered them all over the world, and they gave up building the city. |
276 | GEN 11:9 | That's why it was called Babel, because the Lord made the language of the world confused. |
294 | GEN 11:27 | The following is the genealogy of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot. |
298 | GEN 11:31 | Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, (who was the son of Haran), his daughter-in-law Sarai, (the wife of his son Abram), and left Ur of the Chaldeans to move to the land of Canaan. They got as far as Haran and settled there. |
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. |
304 | GEN 12:5 | With him went his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, together with all the possessions they had collected and the people that had joined them in Harran. They left for the land of Canaan. When they arrived there, |
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. |
307 | GEN 12:8 | Then he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and set up camp there. Bethel was to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar to the Lord there and worshiped him. |
310 | GEN 12:11 | As he approached Egypt and was about to cross the border, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are. |
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. |
320 | GEN 13:1 | So Abram left Egypt and went back into the Negev along with Sarai, Lot, and everyone with them, as well as all their possessions. |
323 | GEN 13:4 | This was where he'd first built an altar. He worshiped the Lord there as he had done previously. |
324 | GEN 13:5 | Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had many flocks, herds, and tents, |
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. |
329 | GEN 13:10 | Lot looked over the whole Jordan valley towards Zoar, and saw that it was well-watered, looking like the Garden of Eden, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) |
330 | GEN 13:11 | So Lot chose the whole Jordan valley and went east, and the two separated from each other. |