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  The Call of Abram 1 The  Lord  had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “ I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. ” 4 So Abram went, as the  Lord  had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.  5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. 6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.  7 The  Lord  appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring  I will give this land.” So he built...

                                                                                       God’s Covenant With Noah 1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.  2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.  3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. 4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.  5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, t...

  Wickedness in the World 1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,  2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.  3 Then the  Lord  said, “My Spirit will not contend with  humans forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. 5 The  Lord  saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.  6 The  Lord  regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.  7 So the  Lord  said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have creat...

                                                                                       Adam and Eve 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the  Lord  God made the earth and the heavens. 5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth  and no plant had yet sprung up, for the  Lord  God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,  6 but streams  came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.  7 Then the  Lord  God formed a man  from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 8 Now the  Lord  God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the ...

The Beginning 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.  5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. 6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”  7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.  8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.  10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that...