Study Desk

Then he gave the living creatures his blessing—he told the ocean creatures to live everywhere in the ocean and the birds to live everywhere on earth.

God gave them his blessing and said: Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control. Rule over the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on the earth.

The Seventh Day By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested.

God blessed the seventh day and made it special because on that day he rested from his work.

That's why a man will leave his own father and mother. He marries a woman, and the two of them become like one person.

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

The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live.

Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.

One day, Cain gave part of his harvest to the Lord ,

and Abel also gave an offering to the Lord . He killed the first-born lamb from one of his sheep and gave the Lord the best parts of it. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,

but not with Cain and his offering. This made Cain so angry that he could not hide his feelings.

Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go for a walk." And when they were out in a field, Cain killed him.

Then the Lord said: Why have you done this terrible thing? You killed your own brother, and his blood flowed onto the ground. Now his blood is calling out for me to punish you.

And so, I'll put you under a curse. Because you killed Abel and made his blood run out on the ground, you will never be able to farm the land again.

Later, Cain and his wife had a son named Enoch. At the time Cain was building a town, and so he named it Enoch after his son.

One day, Lamech said to his two wives, "A young man wounded me, and I killed him.

Adam and his wife had another son. They named him Seth, because they said, "God has given us a son to take the place of Abel, who was killed by his brother Cain."

God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:

Noah was six hundred years old when he went into the boat to escape the flood, and he did everything the Lord had told him to do. His wife, his sons, and his daughters-in-law all went inside with him.

On that day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.