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God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day, because on that day he rested from all the work he had done in creating the world.

there were still no plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the land. And there was no person to care for the ground,

And the man said, "Now, this is someone whose bones came from my bones, whose body came from my body. I will call her ‘woman,' because she was taken out of man."

The man answered, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust."

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Enoch walked with God; one day Enoch could not be found, because God took him.

The Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years."

So the Lord said, "I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry I have made them."

he said to Noah, "Because people have made the earth full of violence, I will destroy all of them from the earth.

The dove could not find a place to land because water still covered the earth, so it came back to the boat. Noah reached out his hand and took the bird and brought it back into the boat.

The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

But you must not eat meat that still has blood in it, because blood gives life.

"Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.

Noah was sleeping because of the wine. When he woke up and learned what his youngest son, Ham, had done to him,

Eber was the father of two sons—one named Peleg, because the earth was divided during his life, and the other was named Joktan.

At this time there was not much food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because there was so little food.

Tell them you are my sister so that things will go well with me and I may be allowed to live because of you."

the king was kind to Abram because he thought Abram was her brother. He gave Abram sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.