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Then God said, "Let the earth produce plants—some to make grain for seeds and others to make fruits with seeds in them. Every seed will produce more of its own kind of plant." And it happened.

The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew its own kind of plant. God saw that all this was good.

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.

God said, "Look, I have given you all the plants that have grain for seeds and all the trees whose fruits have seeds in them. They will be food for you.

I have given all the green plants as food for every wild animal, every bird of the air, and every small crawling animal." And it happened.

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,

The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

The Lord God put the man in the garden of Eden to care for it and work it.

Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."

The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky, and to all the wild animals. But Adam did not find a helper that was right for him.

Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

The ground will produce thorns and weeds for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

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 Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.

You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice! You wives of Lamech, listen to what I say. I killed a man for wounding me, a young man for hitting me.

Build a boat of cypress wood for yourself. Make rooms in it and cover it inside and outside with tar.

Also gather some of every kind of food and store it on the boat as food for you and the animals."

The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Water flooded the earth for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the boat off the ground.