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Then God said, "See, I have given you every plant that gives seeds that is on the earth, and every tree that has fruit that gives seeds. They will be food for you.

This is the story of the heavens and the earth when they were made, in the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

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

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were without clothes. So they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves clothing.

Then they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening. The man and his wife hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

So He drove the man out. And He placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden with a sword of fire that turned every way. They kept watch over the path to the tree of life.

Cain told this to his brother Abel. And when they were in the field, Cain stood up against his brother Abel and killed him.

He made them male and female, and brought good to them. And He gave them the name Man when they were made.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

You are to bring into the large boat two of every kind of living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They will be male and female.

went into the large boat with Noah. They went two by two, male and female, just as God had told Noah.

God destroyed every living thing upon the land, from man to animals, from things that moved upon the ground to birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the large boat.

Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and everything that moves on the earth. So they may give birth and become many upon the earth."

Every animal of the earth, every bird of the sky, everything that moves on the ground, and all the fish of the sea will be afraid of you. They are given into your hand.

But Shem and Japheth took a coat and laid it upon their shoulders and walked in with their backs toward their father and covered him. Their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father without clothes.

And as men traveled in the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and made their home there.

They said to one another, "Come, let us make blocks and burn them until they are hard." They used blocks for stone, and tar to hold them together.

And the Lord said, "See, they are one people, and they all have the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do. Now all they plan to do will be possible for them.

Come, let Us go down and mix up their language so they will not understand what each other says."

So the Lord sent them everywhere over the whole earth. And they stopped building the city.