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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."

He said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."

The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;

Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.

By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

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

Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

"Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you."

But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

The angel of the LORD said to her further, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.

"Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?" And He said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."

for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married."

Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

For the LORD had closed fast all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

The matter distressed Abraham greatly because of his son.