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God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, 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 toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."

Yahweh said, "My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

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

Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."

Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'