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And God blessed the seventh day, and he sanctified it, because on it he rested from all his work of creating that there was to do.

before any plant of the field was on earth, and before any plant of the field had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground,

And he replied, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, so I hid myself."

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.

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 the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.

Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for she said "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth was filled with violence because of them. Now, look, I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

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

And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said to himself, "Never again will I curse the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. Nor will I ever again destroy all life as I have done.

And the land could not support them so as to live together, because their possessions were so many that they were not able to live together.

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

Then Yahweh said, "Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very serious,

For we are about to destroy this place, because their cry has become great before Yahweh. Yahweh sent us to destroy it."

Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were taking his daughters and said, "Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh is going to destroy the city!" But it seemed like a joke in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

And Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; they will kill me on account of the matter of my wife.

For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.

And he said, "I swear by myself, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child,

All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, because you have listened to my voice."