3 | GEN 1:3 | God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light! |
5 | GEN 1:5 | God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day. |
6 | GEN 1:6 | God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water. |
8 | GEN 1:8 | God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day. |
9 | GEN 1:9 | God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so. |
10 | GEN 1:10 | God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good. |
11 | GEN 1:11 | God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” It was so. |
14 | GEN 1:14 | God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years, |
20 | GEN 1:20 | God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” |
22 | GEN 1:22 | God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” |
24 | GEN 1:24 | God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so. |
26 | GEN 1:26 | Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.” |
28 | GEN 1:28 | God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.” |
29 | GEN 1:29 | Then God said, “I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. |
47 | GEN 2:16 | Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, |
49 | GEN 2:18 | The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.” |
54 | GEN 2:23 | Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” |
57 | GEN 3:1 | Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?” |
58 | GEN 3:2 | The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard; |
60 | GEN 3:4 | The serpent said to the woman, “Surely you will not die, |
65 | GEN 3:9 | But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” |
66 | GEN 3:10 | The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” |
67 | GEN 3:11 | And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” |
68 | GEN 3:12 | The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.” |
69 | GEN 3:13 | So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” |
70 | GEN 3:14 | The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life. |
72 | GEN 3:16 | To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.” |
73 | GEN 3:17 | But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. |
78 | GEN 3:22 | And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” |
81 | GEN 4:1 | Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created a man just as the Lord did!” |
86 | GEN 4:6 | Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast? |
88 | GEN 4:8 | Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. |
89 | GEN 4:9 | Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?” |
90 | GEN 4:10 | But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! |
93 | GEN 4:13 | Then Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to endure! |
95 | GEN 4:15 | But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down. |
103 | GEN 4:23 | Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah! Listen to me! You wives of Lamech, hear my words! I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for hurting me. |
105 | GEN 4:25 | And Adam had marital relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, “God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.” |
108 | GEN 5:2 | He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.” |
135 | GEN 5:29 | He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.” |
141 | GEN 6:3 | So the Lord said, “My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.” |
145 | GEN 6:7 | So the Lord said, “I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth – everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.” |
151 | GEN 6:13 | So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth. |
161 | GEN 7:1 | The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation. |
200 | GEN 8:16 | “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. |
205 | GEN 8:21 | And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done. |
206 | GEN 8:22 | “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.” |
207 | GEN 9:1 | Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. |
212 | GEN 9:6 | “Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.” |
215 | GEN 9:9 | “Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you |
218 | GEN 9:12 | And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations: |
223 | GEN 9:17 | So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.” |
231 | GEN 9:25 | So he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.” |
232 | GEN 9:26 | He also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem! |
244 | GEN 10:9 | He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”) |
270 | GEN 11:3 | Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.) |
271 | GEN 11:4 | Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.” |
273 | GEN 11:6 | And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. |
300 | GEN 12:1 | Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you. |
306 | GEN 12:7 | The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him. |
310 | GEN 12:11 | As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman. |
317 | GEN 12:18 | So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? |
327 | GEN 13:8 | Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives. |
333 | GEN 13:14 | After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west. |
356 | GEN 14:19 | He blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth. |
358 | GEN 14:21 | Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself.” |
359 | GEN 14:22 | But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow |
362 | GEN 15:1 | After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.” |
363 | GEN 15:2 | But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?” |
364 | GEN 15:3 | Abram added, “Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!” |
365 | GEN 15:4 | But look, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.” |
366 | GEN 15:5 | The Lord took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.” |
368 | GEN 15:7 | The Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” |
369 | GEN 15:8 | But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, by what can I know that I am to possess it?” |
370 | GEN 15:9 | The Lord said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.” |
374 | GEN 15:13 | Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. |
379 | GEN 15:18 | That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River – |
384 | GEN 16:2 | So Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him. |
387 | GEN 16:5 | Then Sarai said to Abram, “You have brought this wrong on me! I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the Lord judge between you and me!” |
388 | GEN 16:6 | Abram said to Sarai, “Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai. |
390 | GEN 16:8 | He said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai.” |
391 | GEN 16:9 | Then the Lord’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority. |
392 | GEN 16:10 | I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the Lord’s angel added, “so that they will be too numerous to count.” |
393 | GEN 16:11 | Then the Lord’s angel said to her, “You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your painful groans. |
395 | GEN 16:13 | So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!” |
399 | GEN 17:1 | When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless. |
402 | GEN 17:4 | “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations. |
407 | GEN 17:9 | Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. |
413 | GEN 17:15 | Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name. |
415 | GEN 17:17 | Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” |
416 | GEN 17:18 | Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live before you!” |
417 | GEN 17:19 | God said, “No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him. |
428 | GEN 18:3 | He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant. |
430 | GEN 18:5 | And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.” “All right,” they replied, “you may do as you say.” |
431 | GEN 18:6 | So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.” |
434 | GEN 18:9 | Then they asked him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied, “There, in the tent.” |
435 | GEN 18:10 | One of them said, “I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him. |
437 | GEN 18:12 | So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?” |
438 | GEN 18:13 | The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child when I am old?’ |
440 | GEN 18:15 | Then Sarah lied, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the Lord said, “No! You did laugh.” |