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God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

The man replied, "I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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

And Adam had marital relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, "God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him."

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."

So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

That is why its name was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

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

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."

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

But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

Then Sarah lied, saying, "I did not laugh," because she was afraid. But the Lord said, "No! You did laugh."