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He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

there were no plants on the earth and no seeds had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and there was no one to cultivate the land;

Then the man said, "At last, here is one of my own kind— Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. ‘Woman' is her name because she was taken out of man."

God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God and know what is good and what is bad."

He answered, "I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked."

And he said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you.

Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all human beings.

If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling; but because you have done evil, sin is crouching at your door. It wants to rule you, but you must overcome it."

Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to me: I have killed a young man because he struck me.

He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.

that he said, "I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them."

God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all people. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds.

The odor of the sacrifice pleased the Lord , and he said to himself, "Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.

The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.

Eber had two sons: one was named Peleg, because during his time the people of the world were divided; and the other was named Joktan.

The city was called Babylon, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.

Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."

Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.

But because the king had taken Sarai, the Lord sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.

And so there was not enough pasture land for the two of them to stay together, because they had too many animals.