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

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 among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

And to the man he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him."

Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him.

And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

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

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

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, "You are about to die because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a married woman."

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 fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you.

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

Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there both of them swore an oath.

and said, "By myself I have sworn, says the Lord : Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,