2 | GEN 1:2 | The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters. |
12 | GEN 1:12 | The earth produced vegetation—plants that produce seeds and trees that produce seeded fruit—each one according to its own kind. God saw that it was good. |
15 | GEN 1:15 | They shall be lights in the sky to shine on the earth.” 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.” |
32 | GEN 2:1 | The creation of the heavens, the earth, and everything in them was complete. |
35 | GEN 2:4 | This is the account of the Lord God's creation when he made the heavens and the earth. |
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. |
42 | GEN 2:11 | The first branch was called the Pishon and it flowed through the whole land of Havilah, where gold is found. |
43 | GEN 2:12 | (The gold from that land is pure. Bdellium and onyx stone are also found there.) |
44 | GEN 2:13 | The second branch was called the Gihon and it flowed through the whole land of Cush. |
45 | GEN 2:14 | The third branch was called the Tigris and it flowed east of the city of Asshur. The fourth branch was called the Euphrates. |
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. |
53 | GEN 2:22 | The Lord God made a woman, using the rib he'd taken from Adam, and presented her to Adam. |
55 | GEN 2:24 | This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being. |
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?” |
65 | GEN 3:9 | The Lord God called out to Adam, “Where are you?” |
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!” |
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. |
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? |
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. |
99 | GEN 4:19 | Lamech married two women. The first was named Adah, and the second was named Zillah. |
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. |
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.” |
142 | GEN 6:4 | There were giants on earth in those days, and also later on. They were born after the sons of God slept with the daughters of these people. Their sons became the great warriors and famous men of ancient times. |
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. |
147 | GEN 6:9 | This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was a man of integrity, living a moral life among the people of his time. He had a close relationship with God. |
153 | GEN 6:15 | This is how to build it: the ark is to measure 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. |
157 | GEN 6:19 | Take a pair, male and female, of every kind of animal into the ark and make sure you keep them alive. |
158 | GEN 6:20 | The same applies to every kind of bird, livestock, and the creatures that run along the ground—a pair of every kind will come to you so they can be kept alive. |
159 | GEN 6:21 | Take all kinds of food with you too. Store it so you and the animals will have enough to eat.” |
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. |
162 | GEN 7:2 | Take with you seven pairs, male and female, of every kind of clean animal, and one pair, male and female, of every kind of unclean animal. |
169 | GEN 7:9 | went into the ark with Noah. They came in pairs, male and female, just as God had told Noah. |
173 | GEN 7:13 | That was the actual day when Noah, his wife, and their sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth together with their three wives went into the ark. |
174 | GEN 7:14 | They had with them every kind of wild animals, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds—everything with wings. |
175 | GEN 7:15 | They all came into the ark with Noah in pairs—every living thing that breathes. |
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. |
177 | GEN 7:17 | The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth. |
178 | GEN 7:18 | The floodwaters surged and grew deeper and deeper over the earth, but the ark floated along on the surface. |
180 | GEN 7:20 | The water rose so much that it was higher than the mountains by fifteen cubits. |
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. |
184 | GEN 7:24 | The earth remained flooded for 150 days. |
186 | GEN 8:2 | The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped. |
187 | GEN 8:3 | The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after the flood began |
188 | GEN 8:4 | the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. |
189 | GEN 8:5 | The waters continued to drop so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of mountains could be seen. |
192 | GEN 8:8 | Then he sent a dove out to see if the waters had gone down enough to expose dry ground. |
199 | GEN 8:15 | Then God told Noah, |
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. |
214 | GEN 9:8 | Then God told Noah and his sons who were there with him, |
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. |
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.” |
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. |
232 | GEN 9:26 | Then Noah continued, “May the Lord be blessed, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave. |
236 | GEN 10:1 | The following are the genealogies of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They had sons born to them after the flood. |
237 | GEN 10:2 | The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. |
238 | GEN 10:3 | The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. |
239 | GEN 10:4 | The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. |
240 | GEN 10:5 | The descendants of these ancestors spread throughout the coastal areas, each group having their own language, with their families developing into different nations. |
241 | GEN 10:6 | The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. |
242 | GEN 10:7 | The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. |
255 | GEN 10:20 | These were the sons of Ham according to their tribes, languages, lands, and nation. |
257 | GEN 10:22 | The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. |
258 | GEN 10:23 | The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. |
264 | GEN 10:29 | Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were all sons of Joktan. |
265 | GEN 10:30 | They lived in the land lying between Mesha to Sephar, in the hill country to the east. |
266 | GEN 10:31 | These were the sons of Shem, according to their tribes, languages, lands, and nations. |
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! |
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. |
277 | GEN 11:10 | The following is the genealogy of Shem. When Shem was 100, he had Arphaxad. This was two years after the flood. |