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And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.

And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.

And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?