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And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.

And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband.

And he said to him, I heard thy voice as thou walkedst in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.

And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat�of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labours, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she was the mother of all living.

And Lamech said to his wives, Ada and Sella, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, consider my words, because I have slain a man to my sorrow and a youth to my grief.

Because vengeance has been exacted seven times on Cain�s behalf, on Lamech�s it shall be seventy times seven.

And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

And the Lord God said to Noe, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.

And then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons� wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.

And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more smite all living flesh as I have done.

And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one, Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother Jektan.

On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of thee, and my soul shall live because of thee.

And God afflicted Pharao with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sara, Abram�s wife.