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Then God said, "Here! Throughout the whole earth I am giving you as food every seed-bearing plant and every tree with seed-bearing fruit.

And to every wild animal, bird in the air and creature crawling on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I am giving as food every kind of green plant." And that is how it was.

Adonai said to Kayin, "Where is Hevel your brother?" And he replied, "I don't know; am I my brother's guardian?"

"As for me — I am herewith establishing my covenant with you, with your descendants after you,

God added, "Here is the sign of the covenant I am making between myself and you and every living creature with you, for all generations to come:

I am putting my rainbow in the cloud — it will be there as a sign of the covenant between myself and the earth.

Some time later the word of Adonai came to Avram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your protector; your reward will be very great."

(vi) Then he said to him, "I am Adonai , who brought you out from Ur-Kasdim to give you this land as your possession."

He replied, " Adonai , God, how am I to know that I will possess it?"

When Avram was 99 years old Adonai appeared to Avram and said to him, "I am El Shaddai [God Almighty]. Walk in my presence and be pure-hearted.

(vii) "I am establishing my covenant between me and you, along with your descendants after you, generation after generation, as an everlasting covenant, to be God for you and for your descendants after you.

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "I am old, and so is my lord; am I to have pleasure again?"

Adonai said to Avraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and ask, ‘Am I really going to bear a child when I am so old?'

Adonai said, "Should I hide from Avraham what I am about to do,

Avraham answered, "Here now, I, who am but dust and ashes, have taken it upon myself to speak to A donai.

Get up, lift the boy up, and hold him tightly in your hand, because I am going to make him a great nation."

(vii) After these things, God tested Avraham. He said to him, "Avraham!" and he answered, "Here I am."

Yitz'chak spoke to Avraham his father: "My father?" He answered, "Here I am, my son." He said, "I see the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

But the angel of Adonai called to him out of heaven: "Avraham? Avraham!" He answered, "Here I am."

"I am a foreigner living as an alien with you; let me have a burial site with you, so that I can bury my dead wife."