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but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.'"

for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."

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 the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them.

Then the Lord God said, "See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"—

therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

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."

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.

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

the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.

These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth.

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.

Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.