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Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.

For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

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

Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them "man."

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and afterward as well, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed-man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah remained, and those with him in the ark.

Bring out all the living creatures that are with you-birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground-so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it."

The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

"Come," they said, "let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth."

And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.