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

He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."

So the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

The Lord then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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

But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife Sarai.

because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, "Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called Zoar.)

But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman."