Category Archives: Genesis

The Creation 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth wasformless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God wasmoving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 God saw […]

The Creation of Man and Woman 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. 2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and […]

The Fall of Man 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LordGod had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees […]

Cain and Abel 1 Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild withthe help ofthe Lord.” 2 Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of […]

Descendants of Adam 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named themMan in the day when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived one […]

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 beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3 Then the Lordsaid, “My Spirit […]

The Flood 1 Then the Lordsaid to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for youaloneI have seento berighteous before Me in this time. 2 You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and […]

The Flood Subsides 1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. 2 Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain […]

Covenant of the Rainbow 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the […]

Descendants of Noah 1 Now these arethe records ofthe generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of JaphethwereGomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. 3 The sons of GomerwereAshkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. 4 […]