Study Desk

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.

Then God put winged creatures at the entrance to the garden and a flaming, flashing sword to guard the way to the life-giving tree.

Adam and his wife had another son. They named him Seth, because they said, "God has given us a son to take the place of Abel, who was killed by his brother Cain."

God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:

and during the next three hundred years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God,

and God took him away at the age of three hundred sixty-five.

and this is the story about him. Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God.

God knew that everyone was terribly cruel and violent.

He obeyed God and took a male and a female of each kind of animal and bird into the boat with him.

just as God had told him to do. And when they were all in the boat, God closed the door.

God did not forget about Noah and the animals with him in the boat. So God made a wind blow, and the water started going down.

God stopped up the places where the water had been gushing out from under the earth. He also closed up the sky, and the rain stopped.

God said to Noah,

The smell of the burning offering pleased God, and he said: Never again will I punish the earth for the sinful things its people do. All of them have evil thoughts from the time they are young, but I will never destroy everything that breathes, as I did this time.

God said to Noah and his sons: I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth.

Again, God said to Noah and his sons:

I ask the Lord my God to bless Shem and make Canaan his slave.

King Melchizedek of Salem was a priest of God Most High. He brought out some bread and wine

and said to Abram: "I bless you in the name of God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.

All praise belongs to God Most High for helping you defeat your enemies." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.