Study Desk

In the beginning God made from nothing the heavens and the earth.

Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place. Let the dry land be seen." And it was so.

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the open space of the heavens to divide day from night. Let them tell the days and years and times of the year.

Let them be lights in the open space of the heavens to give light on the earth." And it was so.

God put them in the open space of the heavens to give light on the earth,

Then God said, "Let the waters be full of living things. Let birds fly above the earth in the open space of the heavens."

So the heavens and the earth were completed, and all that is in them.

This is the story of the heavens and the earth when they were made, in the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

In the year 600 of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the wells of water under the earth broke open. The windows of the heavens were opened.

Also the wells of water under the earth and the windows of the heavens were shut. And it stopped raining.

Then they said, "Come, let us build a city for ourselves, with a tower that touches the heavens. Let us make a name for ourselves, or else we may be sent everywhere over the whole earth."

He took him outside and said, "Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them." Then He said to him, "Your children and your children's children will be as many as the stars."

Then the Lord poured fire from the heavens upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

I will bring good to you. I will add many to the number of your children and all who come after them, like the stars of the heavens and the sand beside the sea. They will take over the cities of those who hate them.

For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea and all that is in them. And He rested on the seventh day. So the Lord gave honor to the Day of Rest and made it holy.

Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, who were your servants. You promised them by Yourself, saying, ‘I will make your children become as many as the stars of the heavens. And I will give all this land I have spoken about to your children. It will be theirs forever.'"

Where would we be going? Our brothers have made our hearts weak with fear, saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we. The cities are large, with walls as high as the heavens. And we have even seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"

This day I will begin to put much fear of you upon the nations everywhere under the heavens. When they hear about you, they will shake with fear and be filled with trouble because of you.'

You came near and stood at the bottom of the mountain. And the mountain burned with fire into the heavens, which were covered with darkness and black clouds.

Be careful not to lift up your eyes toward heaven and see the sun and moon and stars, all the things of heaven, and be pulled away and worship them and serve them. The Lord your God has given these things to all the nations under the whole heavens.