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And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called a woman, because she was taken out of a man.

And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

And Yahweh God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life:

And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

and he named him Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, [which comes] because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed.

And Yahweh said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh: and his days shall be 120 years.

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

And Yahweh smelled the sweet savor; and Yahweh said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite anymore everything living, as I have done.

Therefore the name of it was called Babel; because there Yahweh confounded the language of all the earth: and from there Yahweh scattered them abroad on the face of all the earth.

Say, I pray you, you are my sister; that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.

And Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And the angel of Yahweh said to her, Look, you are pregnant, and shall give birth to a son; and you shall name him Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

And Yahweh said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Yahweh: and Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Look, you are but a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place. And they will slay me for my wife's sake.

For Yahweh had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And God said to Abraham, Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the lad, and because of your slave. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac shall your seed be called.