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They will be in the sky to give light to the earth." And it happened.

God said, "Look, I have given you all the plants that have grain for seeds and all the trees whose fruits have seeds in them. They will be food for you.

The man and his wife were naked, but they were not ashamed.

Then, it was as if their eyes were opened. They realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made something to cover themselves.

Then they heard the Lord God walking in the garden during the cool part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.

Then the Lord God said, "Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever."

Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out into the field." While they were out in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .

The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.

came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

They had every kind of wild and tame animal, every kind of animal that crawls on the earth, and every kind of bird.

Bring every animal out of the boat with you—the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. Let them have many young ones so that they might grow in number."

The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

Then Shem and Japheth got a coat and, carrying it on both their shoulders, they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father. They turned their faces away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

They lived in the area between Mesha and Sephar in the hill country in the East.

As people moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.

They said to each other, "Let's make bricks and bake them to make them hard." So they used bricks instead of stones, and tar instead of mortar.

Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other."

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.