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So God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because in it he had rested from all his works which God created and made.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this thing, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all beasts of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life;

And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat the fruits of it all the days of your life;

So Adam called his wifes name Eve because she was the mother of all living.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.

Then the LORD said, My spirit shall not dwell in man forever, because he is flesh; let his days be a hundred and twenty years.

And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

Therefore they called the name of it Babel; because it was there that the LORD confounded the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

Say, therefore, that you are my sister because I will be treated well for your sake; and my life shall be spared because of you.

And the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his household with great plagues because of Sarai, Abrams wife.

And again the angel of the LORD said to her, I will greatly multiply your descendants, that they can not be numbered because of their multitude.

And the angel of the LORD said to her, Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Ishmael; because the LORD has heard of your afflictions.

Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; because she was afraid. And he said, No; but you did laugh.

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has come before me and their sins are very grievous,

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of the oppressed has come before the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.

But Lot lingered; then the angels held his hand, the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because the LORD pitied him; and they took him out and set him outside the city.

Behold now, this town is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh, let me escape there, and behold, because it is a little one my life will be spared.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, perhaps there is no fear of God in this country; and they will slay me for my wifes sake.

And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother; behold, it is given for you, because you have been humbled in the eyes of my people, and because of the other things for which I have reproved you.