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So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself."

The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall 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, ‘You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

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

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake."

But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And the angel of the Lord said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has listened to your affliction.

Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,

For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord , and the Lord has sent us to destroy it."

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by 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, "I did it because I thought, ‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'

For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."

Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.

and said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord , because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,