GENESIS
Chapter 1
The Creation
1 aIn the beginning
bGod
ccreated the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was
1aformless and void, and
bdarkness was over the
2surface of the deep, and
cthe Spirit of God
dwas
3moving over the
2surface of the waters.
3 Then
aGod said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was
agood; and God
bseparated the light from the darkness.
5
aGod called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And
bthere was evening and there was morning, one day.
6 Then God said, “Let there be
1an
aexpanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
7 God made the
1expanse, and separated
athe waters which were below the
1expanse from the waters
bwhich were above the
1expanse; and it was so.
8 God called the
1expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9 Then God said, “
aLet the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let
bthe dry land appear”; and it was so.
10 God called the dry land earth, and the
agathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth sprout
1avegetation,
2plants yielding seed,
and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after
3their kind
4with seed in them”; and it was so.
12 The earth brought forth
1vegetation,
2plants yielding seed after
3their kind, and trees bearing fruit
4with seed in them, after
3their kind; and God saw that it was good.
13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 Then God said, “Let there be
1alights in the
2bexpanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for
csigns and for
dseasons and for days and years;
15 and let them be for
1lights in the
2expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
16 God made the two
1great lights, the
agreater
2light
3to govern the day, and the lesser
2light
3to govern the night;
He made bthe stars also.
17
aGod placed them in the
1expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
18 and
1to
agovern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 Then God said, “Let the waters
1teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth
2in the open
3expanse of the heavens.”
21 God created
athe great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 aThen God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after
1their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after
1their kind”; and it was so.
25 God made the
abeasts of the earth after
1their kind, and the cattle after
1their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let
aUs make
bman in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them
crule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the
1sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 God created man
ain His own image, in the image of God He created him;
bmale and female He created them.
28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “
aBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the
1sky and over every living thing that
2moves on the earth.”
29 Then God said, “Behold,
aI have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the
1surface of all the earth, and every tree
2which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
30 and
ato every beast of the earth and to every bird of the
1sky and to every thing that
2moves on the earth
3which has life,
I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very
agood. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Chapter 2
The Creation of Man and Woman
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all
atheir hosts.
2 By
athe seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and
bHe rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created
1and made.
4 1aThis is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in
bthe day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.
5
aNow no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted,
bfor the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to
1cultivate the ground.
6 But a
1mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole
2surface of the ground.
7 Then the Lord God formed man of
adust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
bman became a living
1being.
8 The Lord God planted a
agarden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow
aevery tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food;
bthe tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 Now a
ariver
1flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four
2rivers.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it
1flows around the whole land of
aHavilah, where there is gold.
12 The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it
1flows around the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is
1aTigris; it
2flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the
3bEuphrates.
15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.
16 The Lord God
acommanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not
1eat, for in the day that you eat from it
ayou will surely die.”
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone;
aI will make him a helper
1suitable for him.”
19
aOut of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the
1sky, and
bbrought
them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the
1sky, and to every beast of the field, but for
2Adam there was not found
aa helper
3suitable for him.
21 So the Lord God caused a
adeep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
22 The Lord God
1fashioned into a woman
athe rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
“
aThis is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
1She shall be called
2Woman,
Because
1she was taken out of
3Man.”
24
aFor this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
25
aAnd the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Chapter 3
The Fall of Man
1 Now
athe serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from
1any tree of the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “
aFrom the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4
aThe serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!
5 “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and
ayou will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6
aWhen the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make
one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they
aknew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves
1loin coverings.
8 They heard the sound of
athe Lord God walking in the garden in the
1cool of the day,
band the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “
aWhere are you?”
10 He said, “
aI heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
12
aThe man said, “The woman whom You gave
to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “
aThe serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 The Lord God said to the serpent,
“
aBecause 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
bdust you will eat
All the days of your life;
15 And I will put
aenmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
bHe shall
1bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
16 To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain
1in childbirth,
In pain you will
abring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And
bhe will rule over you.”
17 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’;
aCursed is the ground because of you;
bIn
1toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the
1plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you
areturn to the ground,
Because
bfrom it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
20 Now the man called his wife’s name
1aEve, because she was the mother of all
the living.
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of
aUs, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from
bthe tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—
23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
24 So
aHe drove the man out; and at the
beast of the garden of Eden He stationed the
ccherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to
dthe tree of life.
Chapter 4
Cain and Abel
1 Now the man
1had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to
2Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a
3manchild with
the help of the Lord.”
2 Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And
aAbel was
ba keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 So it came about
1in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground.
4
aAbel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And
bthe Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering;
5 but
afor Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So
bCain became very angry and his countenance fell.
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “
aWhy are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
7 “
aIf you do well,
1will not
your countenance be lifted up?
bAnd if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you,
cbut you must master it.”
8 Cain
1told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and
akilled him.
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “
aWhere is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10 He said, “What have you done?
aThe voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.
11 “Now
ayou are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
12 “
aWhen you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you;
byou will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”
13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear!
14 “Behold, You have
adriven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and
bI will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and
cwhoever finds me will kill me.”
15 So the Lord said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him
asevenfold.” And the Lord
1bappointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.
16 Then Cain went out from the presence
aof the Lord, and
1settled in the land of
2Nod, east of Eden.
17 Cain
1had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.
18 Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad
1became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael
1became the father of Methushael, and Methushael
1became the father of Lamech.
19 Lamech took to himself
atwo wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and
have livestock.
21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
22 As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
23 Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah,
Listen to my voice,
You wives of Lamech,
Give heed to my speech,
aFor I
1have killed a man for wounding me;
And a boy for striking me;
24 If Cain is avenged
asevenfold,
Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
25 aAdam
1had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him
2Seth, for,
she said, “God
3has appointed me another
4offspring in place of Abel,
bfor Cain killed him.”
26 To Seth, to him also
aa son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then
men began
bto call
1upon the name of the Lord.
Chapter 5
Descendants of Adam
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him
ain the likeness of God.
2 He created them
amale and female, and He
bblessed them and named them
1Man in the day when they were created.
3 When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he
1became the father of
a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
4 Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had
other sons and daughters.
5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
6 Seth lived one hundred and five years, and became the father of Enosh.
7 Then Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had
other sons and daughters.
8 So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
10 Then Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had
other sons and daughters.
11 So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
12 Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
13 Then Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had
other sons and daughters.
14 So all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.
16 Then Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Jared, and he had
other sons and daughters.
17 So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.
18 Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
19 Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had
other sons and daughters.
20 So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.
21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
22 Then Enoch
awalked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had
other sons and daughters.
23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24
aEnoch walked with God; and he was not, for God
btook him.
25 Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
26 Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had
other sons and daughters.
27 So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.
28 Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son.
29 Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will
1give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands
arising from
athe ground which the Lord has cursed.”
30 Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he became the father of Noah, and he had
other sons and daughters.
31 So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.
32 Noah was
afive hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Chapter 6
The Corruption of Mankind
1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were
1beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
3 Then the Lord said, “
aMy Spirit shall not
1strive with man forever,
2bbecause he also is flesh;
3nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
4 The
aNephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore
children to them. Those were the mighty men who
were of old, men of renown.
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that
aevery intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6
aThe Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was
bgrieved
1in His heart.
7 The Lord said, “
aI will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the
1sky; for
bI am sorry that I have made them.”
8 But
aNoah
bfound favor in the eyes of the Lord.
9 These are
the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a
arighteous man,
1bblameless in his
2time; Noah
cwalked with God.
10 Noah
1became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was
acorrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was
bfilled with violence.
12 God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for
aall flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
13 Then God said to Noah, “
aThe 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.
14 “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall
1cover it inside and out with pitch.
15 “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred
1cubits, its breadth fifty
1cubits, and its height thirty
1cubits.
16 “You shall make a
1window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from
2the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
17 “Behold,
aI, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
18 “But I will establish
aMy covenant with you; and
byou shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
19 “
aAnd of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every
kind into the ark, to keep
them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
20 “
aOf the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every
kind will come to you to keep
them alive.
21 “As for you, take for yourself some of all
afood which is edible, and gather
it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.”
22
aThus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
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