Genesis
Genesis
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Genesis 1.
1 In the beginning, when God made the skies and land, 2 the land was unshaped and had nothing on it.
The ocean’s surface was dark. God’s Spirit hovered over the waters’ surface.
3 God said, “Be, light.” And light was. 4 God saw light, and how good it was.
God distinguished between light and dark: 5 God called the light day, and called the dark night.
It was dusk, then dawn: Day one.
6 God said, “Be, space in the middle of the waters. Be, distinction between waters and waters.”
7 God made space. He distinguished between waters which are under space,
and between the waters which are over space.
It was so. 8 God called the space skies.
It was dusk, then dawn: Day two.
9 God said, “Gather, waters from under the skies, to one place. Be seen, dry ground.”
It was so. 10 God called dry ground land. The gathered water he called seas. God saw how good it was.
11 God said, “Sprout sprouts, earth. Sow seeds, grass.
Fruit trees, make fruit which has seed in it, by species, on the land.”
It was so. 12 The earth produced sprouts, grass sowed seeds by species,
trees produced fruit which had seed in it, by its species. God saw how good it was.
13 It was dusk, then dawn: Day three.
14 God said, “Be, lights in the space of the skies, to distinguish between the day and night;
to be signs, seasons, days, and years; 15 to be lights in the space of the skies; to light the land.”
It was so. 16 God made two great lights:
The great light for ruling the day, and the small light for ruling the night. And the stars.
17 God put them in the space in the skies to light the land,
18 and to rule the day and night, and to distinguish between light and dark. God saw how good it was.
19 It was dusk, then dawn: Day four.
20 God said, “Swarm the waters, you swarming, living soul.
Fly, bird, over the land, over the face of the space in the skies.”
21 God created the great serpents and every living, crawling soul which swarms the waters, by species;
and every winged bird, by species. God saw how good it was.
22 God blessed them, saying, “Bear fruit. Be many. Fill the waters of the seas.
And bird, be many on the land.”
23 It was dusk, then dawn: Day five.
24 God said, “Bring out, land, living souls: Species of livestock, animal, and vermin, by species.”
It was so. 25 God made life on the land, by species:
the livestock by species, every dirt-burrowing animal by species. God saw how good it was.
26 God said, “We’re making humanity in our shape, like we’re like,
to rule the sea’s fish, the skies’ birds, all the land’s livestock, and every land animal.”
27 God created humanity in his shape; in God’s shape he created it: He created male and female.
28 God blessed them and told them, “Bear fruit. Be many. Fill the land and take it over.
Rule the sea’s fish, the skies’ birds, and all life—everything crawling on the land.
29 Look, I give you every single seeding plant on the face of the earth,
and every tree, and every seeding fruit in it. It’s for food.
And to every life on earth, to all the skies’ birds,
and everything crawling on the land with a living soul in it, every green plant is food.”
It was so. 31 God saw everything he did, and look, it was very good.
It was dusk, then dawn: Day six.
Genesis 2.
2.1 The skies, the land, and all the creatures were finished.
2 God finished the work which he did on day seven,
and stopped all the work which he did on day seven.
3 God blessed day seven and made it sacred,
because on it God stopped working on his creation.
7 The LORD God sculpted the human of dust from the ground.
God breathed into his nose the breath of life, giving the human a living soul.
17 “The knowing-good-and-evil tree: Don’t eat from it.
When you eat from it, you die, die.”
24 This is why a man leaves his father and his mother.
He bonds with his woman, and in flesh they’re one.
Genesis 3.
14 The LORD God told the serpent, “Because you did this,
you’re cursed more than any animal, more than any living thing in the wild.
You’ll walk on your belly. You’ll eat dirt every day of your life.
15 I declare war between you and the woman, between your seed and hers.
He’ll crush your head. You’ll crush his heel.”
16 To the woman the LORD said, “I give you great, great pain:
Your childbearing: In pain you’ll have children.
You’ll long for your man.
But he’ll reign over you.”
22 The LORD God said, “Look, Adam is like one of us: He knows good and evil.
Now, lest he stretches out his hand and takes from the life tree, eats, and lives forever…”
23 The LORD God sent him away from the Eden garden
to work for the ground he was taken from.
Genesis 4.
6 The LORD told Cain, “Why are you hot?
Why is your face down?
7 If you’re doing good, won’t you be lifted up? If you’re not doing good, sin sits by the gate:
It may desire you, but you take charge of it.”
8 Yet Cain spoke to his brother Abel,
and while they were in a field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.
23 Lemékh says to his women, Adá and Zillá:
“Listen to my voice, Lemékh’s women. Give your ears to my saying.
I killed a man for my injury, killed a boy for my bruising.
24 Seven will die in revenge for Cain; 77 for Lemékh.”
Genesis 5.
18 Yeréd lived 162 years, and fathered Enoch.
19 After he fathered Enoch, Yeréd lived 800 years. He begat sons and daughters.
20 All the days of Yeréd were 962 years. He died.
21 Enoch lived 65 years, and fathered Methushalákh.
22 After he fathered Methushalákh, Enoch walked with God 300 years. He begat sons and daughters.
23 All the days of Enoch were 365 years, and… where is he?
Enoch walked with God. And God took him.
Genesis 6.
1 This happened when Adam became a large number on the face of the earth: He begat daughters.
2 God’s sons saw Adam’s daughters were good. They chose and took women for themselves.
3 The LORD said, “My Spirit doesn’t govern humanity forever: They’re flesh. Their days are 120 years.”
4 In those days, the Nefilím came to be, after God’s sons came to Adam’s daughters.
They begat exceptional men by them, the well-known mortals of that era.
5 The LORD saw how Adam did great evil on the earth.
Every inclination, every thought in his heart: Only evil, every day.
6 The LORD was sorry he put Adam on the earth.
It grieved his heart.
Genesis 9.
1 God blessed Noah and his sons.
He told them, “Bear fruit. Be many. Fill the earth.
2 Respect for you, and terror of you, is upon every beast of the earth, bird of the skies;
upon everything which crawls in the dirt, every fish in the sea. They’re put in your hand.
3 Every moving, living thing is for you,
for food like the plants I gave you. All for you.
4 Only don’t eat living meat, or blood.
5 I only demand from your hand your blood, your lives.
I demand it of every living thing; I demand it of humanity.
I demand the life of humanity from your and your brother’s hand.
6 One who spills human blood: Their blood will be spilled by humanity.
For God made humanity in God’s image.
7 And you: Bear fruit. Be many.
Swarm the earth. Be many in it.”
Genesis 11.
3 Each man told his fellow, “Come; let’s brick some bricks.
Let’s fire up fires to bake them.” Bricks for stone; tar for their mortar.
4 They said, “Come; let’s build us a city. A tower. A head in the heavens.
Let’s make ourselves a name, lest we scatter over the face of all the earth.”
5 The LORD went down to see the city and tower which Adam’s children built.
6 The LORD said, “Look: One people, one tongue, and they begin to do all this?
Now what they plan to do isn’t impossible for them.”
Genesis 12.
1 The LORD told Avrám, “Leave your land, your homeland, your father’s house. Go to a land which I’ll show you.
2 I’m making a great nation out of you. I’m blessing you, and growing your name. Be a blessing!
3 I’m blessing anyone who blesses you. Anyone who makes little of you, I’m cursing.
Your blessings will affect every family in the world.”
Genesis 14.
18 King Melchizédek of Salém brought out bread and wine.
He was a priest of the Highest God, 19 and blessed Avrám and said,
“Avrám is blessed by the Highest God, owner of the heavens and earth.
20 The Highest God is blessed: He handed your opponents to you.”
Avrám gave Melchizédek a tithe from everything.
Genesis 15.
6 Avram believed in the LORD, and to the LORD this was considered rightness.
Genesis 18.
1 The LORD appeared to Abraham at the Mamré oak.
Abraham sat at the tentflap, as the day was hot,
2 lifted his eyes, and saw: Look, three men standing over him.
Abraham saw. He ran from the tentflap to meet them. He bowed to the ground.
3 Abraham said, “Please, my master, if I find grace in your eye, please don’t pass by your slave.
4 Please take a little water. Wash your feet. Lean under the tree.
5 I’ll bring a piece of bread and sustain your heart.
Pass by afterward, because you came upon your slave.”
The men said, “Then do as you said.”
6 Abraham rushed into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Hurry!
Three tubs of the best dough! [80 pounds] Knead it! Make a loaf!”
7 Abraham ran to the cattle and took a tender, good calf.
He gave it to the boy, who hurried to prepare it.
8 Abraham took cottage cheese, milk, and the calf he’d prepared, and gave it to them.
He stood by them under the tree. They ate.
16 The LORD and his angels rose from there, and turned their faces towards Sodom.
Abraham went with them to send them off.
17 The LORD said, “Do I conceal from Abraham what I’m doing?
18 Abraham is becoming, becoming a great, loyal nation.
Every nation of the earth is blessed by him, 19 for I know him.
I know that he’ll instruct his sons and household after him:
They’ll keep the LORD’s way, do what’s right and fair,
and fulfill for Abraham what the LORD spoke about him.”
20 The LORD said, “The great outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah: They have very heavy sins.
21Now I’ll go see about all the cries which came to me. Whether they do all that or not, I’ll know.”
22 The angels turned round and went to Sodom.
Abraham stood still to face the LORD, 23 came close, and said,
“Really? You’ll sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
24 Maybe 50 of the righteous are in the midst of the city. Really? You’ll sweep them away?
You won’t spare the place on account of 50 righteous within it?
25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill righteous with the wicked, to make righteous like the wicked.
Far be it from you, the one who judges all the earth! Aren’t you fair?”
26 The LORD said, “If I find 50 righteous in the midst of the city of Sodom, I’ll spare the place for their sake.”
27 In reply Abraham said, “Look—please—since I dare speak to my Master, I who am dirt and muck—
28 Maybe the 50 righteous lack five. You’ll waste the whole city over five?”
The LORD said, “I won’t waste it if I find 45 there.”
29 Abraham pushed further to speak to God, saying, “Maybe 40 are found there.”
The LORD said, “I won’t act for the 40’s sake.”
30 Abraham said, “Please don’t be angry that I’m speaking, my Master: Maybe 30 are found there.”
The LORD> said, “I won’t act if I find 30 there.”
31 Abraham said, “Look—please—since I dare speak to my Master: Maybe 20 are found there.”
The LORD said, “I won’t waste it for the 20’s sake.”
32 Abraham said, “Please don’t be angry that I speak once more, my Master: Maybe 10 are found there.”
The LORD said, “I won’t waste it for the 10’s sake.”
33 When he finished speaking with Abraham, the LORD left.
Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 20.
3 God came to Avimelekh in a nightly dream and told him, “Look: You’re dead.
For the woman you’re taking has a husband, a husband!”
4 Avimelekh hadn’t come near her, and said, “My Master, would you destroy a righteous gentile?
5 Didn’t he tell me, ‘She’s my sister,’ and she said, ‘He’s my brother’?
I did this with an upright heart and clean hands.”
6 In the dream, God told him, “Yes, I know how you did this with an upright heart.
I kept you from sinning against me: I didn’t let you touch her.
7 Return the man’s wife. He’s a prophet. He’ll pray for you. You’ll live.
If you don’t return her, know this: You’ll die, die. You, and all who are yours.”
Genesis 28.
15 “Look: I’m with you. I guard you everywhere you go.
I’ll return you to this ground: I won’t leave you till I do what I told you.”
16 Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “I didn’t know the LORD was surely in this place.”
17 Afraid, he said, “What fearful place is this? Isn’t this God’s house? Isn’t this heaven’s gate?”
18 Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone he placed as his mattress.
He set it up as a monument. He poured oil on top of it.
19 Jacob called the place’s name Beit El/“God’s House”
—though at first the city’s name was Luz.
20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “God, if you’re with me on the way I’m going,
you’ll give me bread to eat and clothes to wear, 21 and I’ll return in peace to my father’s house.
LORD, be God to me.
22 This stone, which I set up as a marker, is God’s house.
Everything you give me, I tithe you a tenth of it.”