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and they shall be as lights in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth." And it was so.

And God said, "Look—I am giving to you every plant that bears seed which is on the face of the whole earth, and every kind of tree that bears fruit. They shall be yours as food."

but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die."

And the man said, "She is now bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; she shall be called ‘Woman,' for she was taken from man."

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

but from the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die'."

But the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not surely die.

For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods, knowing good and evil."

Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you will be cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband shall be your desire. And he shall rule over you."

And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat, the ground shall be cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat from it all the days of your life.

And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

When you till the ground it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall relieve us from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.

And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

And I, behold, I am about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.

And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

From the birds according to their kind, and from the animals according to their kind, from every creeping thing on the ground according to its kind—two from every kind shall come to you to keep them alive.