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So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which 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 thee 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 cattle, and above all wild animals; upon 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 toil 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 odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Therefore its name was called Ba'bel, 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, 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 Sar'ai, Abram's wife.

And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ish'mael; because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.

Then the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomor'rah 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 Abim'elech 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 Abim'elech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the lad and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your descendants 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 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,