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blessed them, and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.

The Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He answered, "I don't know. Am I supposed to take care of my brother?"

that he said, "I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them."

I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,

Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

"I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants,

As a sign of this everlasting covenant which I am making with you and with all living beings,

I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world.

That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings."

The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.

The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.

I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!

Now, go and look over the whole land, because I am going to give it all to you."

that I will not keep anything of yours, not even a thread or a sandal strap. Then you can never say, ‘I am the one who made Abram rich.'

Then the Lord said to him, "I am the Lord , who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own."

and said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress."

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right.

Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, because I am making you the ancestor of many nations.

he said, "Sirs, please do not pass by my home without stopping; I am here to serve you.