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And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.

"At last!" the man exclaimed. "This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,' because she was taken from ‘man.'"

He replied, "I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked."

Then the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.

And to the man he said, "Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.

Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.

walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.

But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.

And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.

That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.

So please tell them you are my sister. Then they will spare my life and treat me well because of their interest in you."

Then Pharaoh gave Abram many gifts because of her—sheep, goats, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

But the Lord sent terrible plagues upon Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And Abram believed the Lord , and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.

So the Lord told Abraham, "I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant.

Afterward Lot left Zoar because he was afraid of the people there, and he went to live in a cave in the mountains with his two daughters.

For the Lord had caused all the women to be infertile because of what happened with Abraham's wife, Sarah.

This upset Abraham very much because Ishmael was his son.

But I will also make a nation of the descendants of Hagar's son because he is your son, too."

Then he named the place Beersheba (which means "well of the oath"), because that was where they had sworn the oath.