Study Desk

The Third Day God said, "I command the water under the sky to come together in one place, so there will be dry ground." And that's what happened.

So God made the giant sea monsters and all the living creatures that swim in the ocean. He also made every kind of bird. God looked at what he had done, and it was good.

So God created humans to be like himself; he made men and women.

So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.

The Seventh Day By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested.

So the Lord took some soil and made animals and birds. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give each of them. Then the man named the tame animals and the birds and the wild animals. That's how they got their names. None of these was the right kind of partner for the man.

So the Lord God made him fall into a deep sleep, and he took out one of the man's ribs. Then after closing the man's side,

and the man exclaimed, "Here is someone like me! She is part of my body, my own flesh and bones. She came from me, a man. So I will name her Woman!"

The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too.

So the Lord God said to the snake: "Because of what you have done, you will be the only animal to suffer this curse— For as long as you live, you will crawl on your stomach and eat dirt.

The Lord said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.

So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made.

but not with Cain and his offering. This made Cain so angry that he could not hide his feelings.

And so, I'll put you under a curse. Because you killed Abel and made his blood run out on the ground, you will never be able to farm the land again.

"No!" the Lord answered. "Anyone who kills you will be punished seven times worse than I am punishing you." So the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn everyone not to kill him.

Later, Cain and his wife had a son named Enoch. At the time Cain was building a town, and so he named it Enoch after his son.

More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.

So he told Noah: Cruelty and violence have spread everywhere. Now I'm going to destroy the whole earth and all its people.

Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird with you. Do this so there will always be animals and birds on the earth.

Finally, the mighty flood was so deep that even the highest mountain peaks were almost twenty-five feet below the surface of the water.