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And he said, "I heard You in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

Then the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.

And He said to Adam, "Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it': The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life.

Adam named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.

And the Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years."

Then God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.

When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man's inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.

Please say you're my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account."

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.

Sarah denied it. "I did not laugh," she said, because she was afraid. But He replied, "No, you did laugh."

Look, I've got two daughters who haven't had sexual relations with a man. I'll bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want to them. However, don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the protection of my roof."

for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the Lord , that the Lord has sent us to destroy it."

But he hesitated. Because of the Lord 's compassion for him, the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters. Then they brought him out and left him outside the city.

Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, "You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman."