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And God said, "Let there be lights in the vaulted dome of heaven to separate day from night, and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years,

And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die."

Then Yahweh God said, "it is not good that the man is alone. I will make for him a helper as his counterpart."

And the man gave names to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heaven and to all the wild animals. But for the man there was not found a helper as his counterpart.

And the man said, "She is now bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; she shall be called ‘Woman,' for she was taken from man."

For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods, knowing good and evil."

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and they made for themselves coverings.

And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them.

If you do well will I not accept you? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."

Then Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for injuring me.

Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for she said "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he began to call on the name of Yahweh.

And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more, for God took him.

Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

And Yahweh said, "I will destroy humankind whom I created from upon the face of the earth, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven, for I regret that I have made them."

And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.