1	GEN 1:1	At the first, long ago God made the sky and the ground.
2	GEN 1:2	That ground was just staying purposeless. Water was obscuring everything, water was covering everything. In every direction it was dark. His spirit was going above the water.
3	GEN 1:3	God said, “Become light!” After that it became light at his word.
4	GEN 1:4	When he saw it he said, “Good”. He separated the light and the darkness.
5	GEN 1:5	He named the darkness, 'night-that', the light he named, 'day-that'. After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared/arrived.
6	GEN 1:6	Then he said, “Sky become, in order to separate the water and the clouds!”
7	GEN 1:7	That happened. The clouds went upwards, they left the water underneath.
8	GEN 1:8	That sky he named, 'sky-that'. After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared.
9	GEN 1:9	Then he said, “Water go down, become in one place, dry ground appear, become visible!” That happened. The water went down, it left the ground visible.
10	GEN 1:10	That dry ground he named, 'country-that'. That big water he named, 'sea-that'. When he saw it he said “Good”.
11	GEN 1:11	After that he said, “Different kinds of trees appear and different kinds of green plants, with separate foods!” That happened.
12	GEN 1:12	From the ground different kinds of trees appeared, some with foods, some without, and different kinds of green plants appeared also, some with foods, some without. When he saw it he said “Good.”
13	GEN 1:13	After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared.
14	GEN 1:14	Then he said, “Lights become above in the sky, in order to light the countryside. They should give light in the night and in the day. They should keep winter and summer straight.” That happened.
16	GEN 1:16	He made two big ones, the sun and the moon. The big one should make it light truly from dawn right up to evening. The small one should make it light truly in the night. He made the stars also.
19	GEN 1:19	After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared.
20	GEN 1:20	Then he said, “Many different kinds of water dwellers become in the water-holes and in the sea. Birds become to go above. [Birds: lit. 'winged things' — includes insects]
22	GEN 1:22	He spoke well to them. He spoke to them all, “I will take care of you. You will truly become many, and many children you will have/care for truly.”
23	GEN 1:23	After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared.
24	GEN 1:24	Then he said, “Different kinds of animals become on the ground, to live in the countryside, to go about on the ground, plains-dwelling animals and hills-dwellers, big ones and small ones!” That happened.
26	GEN 1:26	After that he said, “We will make people like us. They will be boss for all the animals, and for all the fish and for all the winged creatures and for the ones that go on the ground.”
28	GEN 1:28	He spoke well to these two, “You will control/have/take care of many children truly. Truly people will be everywhere, you (pl.) will be boss for all the animals. You will be boss for the fish and winged creatures and all animals and for all those that go on the ground.
31	GEN 1:31	Truly he made the whole lot. When he had finished making them God looked at them all. He said, “Very good.” Like that God made everything. He made everything in six days. After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared.
32	GEN 2:1	This next day he did not make another thing. He said about that day, “Already I have finished making everything. I was working, now I have left off working. This day truly I did not make another thing. Because of that this day is different, without work. I have left off work for today.” [Avoiding word for 'rest', which also means 'sleep'.]
38	GEN 2:7	Like this God made a/the person. He got dust from the ground. He made a man from that dust. Then he breathed in the nose of the man, then wind/breath from God entered the man. For that reason the man became alive. The name of that man was Adam.
39	GEN 2:8	After that in the country, in Eden, there God put a big water-hole/permanent camp, a truly good one. He put the man he had made at that water-hole.
40	GEN 2:9	At that water-hole he put different kinds of good trees. There were different kinds having very good food there. In the middle of the trees God put one tree. He named that tree, 'One That Keeps People Alive'. After a person eats from that tree he will live for ever, he will stay without death. He put another tree in the middle of the others, that was a thing associated with making knowledgeable. He named that tree, 'One That Teaches People About Good And Bad'.
47	GEN 2:16	He said to him, “You can eat food from all the trees at the water-hole.
48	GEN 2:17	(Fruit) from one tree leave, do not eat it, from the tree which makes knowledgeable. I named it, 'One That Teaches People About Good And Bad'. From that tree don't eat. If you eat from that tree truly you will die.”
49	GEN 2:18	Then he said, “The man should not be alone. I will make a companion for him, he will be one with a companion.”
50	GEN 2:19	Already God had made all the animals and winged creatures from the ground. He brought them to the man to give them names. That man gave names to the animals and winged creatures and other creatures. They kept the names in accord with the man's word. Among them all there was not one like the man, a companion for him.
52	GEN 2:21	Then God put the man to sleep, he got a bone from the man's side, then he covered the hole with flesh.
53	GEN 2:22	From the bone he made a woman, he took her to the man.
54	GEN 2:23	Then the man said, “At last! This one is like me! He made her from my body. Her name is 'Woman'.”
55	GEN 2:24	Because of that God left us this track/pattern of behaviour. A/the man will leave mother and father and they will become one, he and his own wife. Truly those two will be one.
56	GEN 2:25	At the water-hole Eden that couple, Adam and his wife, were staying naked, they stayed well, naked, those two, without shame.
57	GEN 3:1	Among the other animals the snake was really clever. The snake asked the woman, “What did God say to you? 'You should not eat food from all the trees at the water-hole'? Like that did God say to you?”
58	GEN 3:2	The woman said to him, “We (two) can eat from some/the rest of the trees from the water-hole/camp.
59	GEN 3:3	God said to us, 'From one tree only, in the middle of the camp in the thick trees, from that do not eat food, and do not touch that tree for fear of dying'.”
60	GEN 3:4	The snake said to her, he lied, “You will not die.
61	GEN 3:5	If you eat (after eating) from that tree, you will become like God, knowing about good and about bad. God doesn't like that. To avoid that he said to you, 'Don't eat from that tree'.” With deceit the snake said to her, “Don't listen to God.”
62	GEN 3:6	The woman was looking at the food, looking with interest, it was good. She was thinking, “That food will make me knowledgeable.” The woman wanted to become knowledgeable, like God. Then she went to that tree, broke off food, ate it. She gave some to her husband. He also ate it.
63	GEN 3:7	They understood, they saw themselves that they were naked. Then they became ashamed. Because of that they made for themselves pubic covers from big leaves.
65	GEN 3:9	God called to the man, “Where are you(sg)?”
66	GEN 3:10	He replied, “Yes, I heard you walking at the water-hole. I was naked. Because of that I was afraid, I hid from you.
67	GEN 3:11	God asked him, “How did you learn you were naked? From that tree, the One that Teaches People About Good and Bad, did you eat food from that?”
68	GEN 3:12	The man said to him, “You gave me this woman. She [emphasised] gave me (food) from that tree. I ate the food.”
69	GEN 3:13	God asked the woman, “What did you do?” She said to him, “The snake deceived me. I ate because of his word.”
70	GEN 3:14	God said to the snake, “You did very badly. In response I will truly do evil to you, not to the rest of the animals, only to you. On your stomach [emphasised] you will go. You will eat dust always. I will make you dislike the woman. I will make the woman dislike you. Your children and those of the woman will look at each other in anger. The/A child of the woman will truly bruise your head. You truly will bruise his heel.”
72	GEN 3:16	To the woman he said, “I will give you a lot of pain when you have a child. Knowing about pain when you have a child, continually you will long for a/the man. He will be a boss for you truly.”
73	GEN 3:17	Then God said to the man, “I told you not to eat that food. You didn't listen to me. Because of your wife's word you ate food from that tree. In response I will make the country bad. Spinifex and prickles and those sorts of things will appear. You will search for food always. You will dig hard for food, Every day you will be exhausted, you will sweat hard getting food to eat. (Lit., “Every day you will break, truly sweat will eat you.”) After dying you will become dust. I made you from the ground. From the dust I made you. After dying you will become dust again.
77	GEN 3:21	Then God made clothes from animal skins for them, for Adam and his wife, God put them on them.
78	GEN 3:22	Then he said, “The man didn't listen to me, he already ate from the tree that makes knowledgeable. He is now like us, he knows/understands about good and bad. He might eat from that other tree, from the one that keeps alive. After that he will live always, he will stay without death. I will prevent him lest he eat.”
79	GEN 3:23	God sent those two from that water-hole in Eden. He sent them away to dig the ground, to put foods in the ground, to cause their foods to come up.
80	GEN 3:24	After that God put an angel [English word phonemicised] east of that water-hole, and a big cutting thing, like a big knife. The point of that big cutting thing was going in every direction, and it was flashing. God told that angel, “You are to stop the man/people from entering close to that tree, to that tree that keeps alive.”
81	GEN 4:1	Adam and Eve went from that place Eden. After that Eve had a son. She said, “God has given me a son.” His name was Cain.
82	GEN 4:2	After that she had another son. His name was Abel. The two became big. They became men. Abel used to care for sheep. Cain used to dig the ground. He used to put foods in the ground, they used to come up, he used to gather them.
83	GEN 4:3	Once Cain took food, he gave it to God.
84	GEN 4:4	His younger brother took a sheep, he killed it, he gave good parts to God. Abel pleased God.
86	GEN 4:6	God said to him, “Why are you angry with me? Why did your face change towards me? You should not be sullen.
88	GEN 4:8	Cain didn't listen to God. He kept on being sullen. Because of that he said to his younger brother, “Let's go somewhere a long way off.” They went off. Then Cain killed his younger brother.
89	GEN 4:9	Because of that God asked him, “Where is your younger brother?” The eldest one lied, “I don't know. I don't take care of him.”
90	GEN 4:10	God said to him, “You lied. You killed him. His blood is on the ground. You truly did badly.
93	GEN 4:13	Cain said to him, “You have made it extremely hard for me.
95	GEN 4:15	God said to him, “Whoever hits/kills you I will hit/kill him truly because of you.”
96	GEN 4:16	Because of that Cain went far off. He stayed eastwards a long way from Eden. They call that far country, 'He just keeps wandering around'.
97	GEN 4:17	His wife had a child named Enoch. Cain built a town. He named that town for his child, he named that town Enoch also. [4:18-24 omitted.]
105	GEN 4:25	After Abel died Eve had another child. She said, “Cain killed Abel. God in response has given me another child.” She named him Seth.
139	GEN 6:1	After a long time there were many people. They scattered, they were everywhere. They all became really bad. They didn't listen to God. They kept on ignoring him. They kept talking to each other about how to do evil. Because of that God said, “The people are all doing bad things. They are always thinking about how to do evil. When I made them they were good, now they have become very bad. Because of that I am broken-hearted (lit: 'my stomach is broken'). I will kill the evil doers, and the animals and birds also.”
146	GEN 6:8	Just one man pleased God. His name was Noah, he used to listen to God. He used to do good. He didn't do evil. He had three children, three males, their names were Shem, Ham, Japheth.
149	GEN 6:11	God said to Noah, “All the other people are living really badly. They ignore me, they don't listen to me. They are talking to each other all the time to do evil and they are hitting/killing each other. Because of that reason I will kill them all.
156	GEN 6:18	You will enter it with your wife and your children and their wives. Gather animals and birds, cause them to enter the big boat. Collect them, animals, married-pair by married-pair, you will get different kinds pair by pair to make them enter the big boat. You will keep them alive from the flood.
160	GEN 6:22	Noah believed God. He made a very big boat, with wood he made it, long and wide. And he collected a large amount of different foods and put them in (the boat). Truly Noah did all in accordance with God's word.
161	GEN 7:1	After that God said to him, “Soon that big rain will fall. Hurry, get in the boat, you and yours. You (sg) alone are characterised by goodness, you alone have been listening to me. For that reason I will keep you and yours alive.
162	GEN 7:2	Take inside those (previously referred to) animals and birds. Put them in accordance with my word. Take birds, 7 pairs of one kind, 7 pairs of another kind, different kinds. And take tame animals the same way, 7 pairs. And of the remaining animals take pair by pair, different kinds.
164	GEN 7:4	I will send rain. It will really pour down, day after day. For 40 days truly. The big flood will kill those outside the boat.”
172	GEN 7:12	Rain fell for 40 days. It was falling hard, it really poured, it kept on falling.
179	GEN 7:19	There was a really big flood. The water lifted the boat like flotsam, it stayed on top of the water. The flood completely covered the hills and trees.
181	GEN 7:21	The father and sons and their wives and the animals stayed alive in the boat. The flood killed the remaining animals and all the people, everything outside. 7:24—8:3 God was caring for those who were in the boat. He sent a wind. After that the flood abated. It was going down slowly for 4 months. They were staying in the boat a long time, they were waiting for the flood to go down.
189	GEN 8:5	The flood was continuing to go down. After that, after 3 months, the heads of the hills appeared after being hidden by the water. The water kept going down.
190	GEN 8:6	After that, after one month, Noah sent out a crow. The crow was searching for dry ground and trees. He went away for good, he didn't return.
192	GEN 8:8	After that, after 7 days, Noah sent another creature, a dove. It was searching in vain for dry ground. Soon it returned to the boat. Noah stretched out his arm, the dove landed on his arm, Noah put him inside the boat.
195	GEN 8:11	In the late afternoon it returned to the boat, it carried a leaf in its mouth. Noah said, “The water is really going down.”
196	GEN 8:12	After that, in seven days, Noah again tried out the dove. It went away for good, it did not return. It saw ground.
198	GEN 8:14	Truly the ground was getting dry, the ground was hard.
199	GEN 8:15	Then God said to Noah, “You (pl) get down and make the animals and birds get down. They've got to scatter. They have to become many everywhere.”
202	GEN 8:18	Then they got down from the boat, Noah and his wife and children and daughters-in-law and the different kinds of animals and birds.
204	GEN 8:20	Noah heaped up stones. He got a few tame animals and tame birds to give to God. He killed them, on top of the stones he burned/cooked them, bones and all, completely dry, to ashes. They used to do that in the beginning, in order to please God.
205	GEN 8:21	In return God said to Noah, “Previously I made it bad for the whole earth because of the evil that people did. I won't do like that again. I know about people. From childhood they are thinking only about how to do really bad (things). I will not again kill people and all creatures truly because of the evil that people have done. I did it once. I won't do it again.
209	GEN 9:3	Now I am giving them all to you to eat, the fish and animals and birds. Previously you only used to eat vegetable food. Now you can also eat meat.
210	GEN 9:4	You must not eat blood. When you eat meat, leave the blood without eating it.
214	GEN 9:8	God spoke another word to Noah and his children, “I am giving you (pl) this word, for you and yours, and for all the animals and for everything on the ground.
220	GEN 9:14	Whenever I send you clouds that have rain, I will put my rainbow in the clouds. Truly I will see that. When I see it, truly I will remember this word I am putting down for you today. That rainbow is a reminder for this word. This firm word of mine is for you (pl) and the animals, for everything on the ground. I will not kill everything with a flood. It will stay (the same) from now on.”
224	GEN 9:18	Those children of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth had children. From them all of us came. [NOTE: Chapter 10 has been omitted at this stage, because it would merely confuse and distract struggling readers.]
234	GEN 9:28	After the big flood Noah lived a long time, 350 years.
270	GEN 11:3	They ignored God's word. They said to one another, “Let's not spread out/scatter in all directions. Let's stay united. Let's stay right here, without roaming. Let's make a big camp, let's make a big hill-like (thing) also, extremely big upwards, right up to the sky. Everyone else will talk about us. They will say, 'Those people in Shinar are clever, they are truly smart'.” They got mud, they made bricks, they baked them in the fire to make them hard, they made very many. Joining them they glued them with bitumen. They built, they built. (i.e., they kept building for a long time.)
272	GEN 11:5	God knew about them. He said, “I told them to spread out. They did not listen to me. They stayed united to do evil. They are staying in one group, they talk one language. They will do more and more evil.
275	GEN 11:8	God did that. He confused their talk. He made them spread out in every direction. They did not again make their big camp, and the really big hill-like (thing). They left it still unfinished. They left it forever.
276	GEN 11:9	The name of that camp was Babel. That word Babel says, 'They were forgetting the same language for each other.' They were puzzling about each other's talk. [11:10-26 omitted. 11:27-32 are in next file (tho' title of that indicates only “12-24”).]
294	GEN 11:27	A long time after that big flood a man appeared, his name was Abram. He was an inhabitant of that country Chaldea. He lived in the town named Ur. His father's name was Terah, his younger brothers were Nahor and Haran. (That Haran had children, a son named Lot, and two daughters named Milcah and Iscah.) While Terah was still alive Haran died in his country, in that town Ur.