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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.

"I heard Your voice in the garden," he replied, "and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."

So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will 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 from which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground-because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."

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

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

Then God said to Noah, "The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because water still covered the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

And two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

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

The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.

Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it."

But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD's compassion for them.

One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman."

Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

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