The Old Testament

Genesis 1 - Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

In the beginning when God created[a] the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the...

Genesis 2 - Another Account of the Creation

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. 2 And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done,...

Genesis 3 - The First Sin and Its Punishment

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not...

Genesis 4 - Cain Murders Abel, Beginnings of Civilization

Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced[a] a man with the help of the Lord.” 2 Next she...

Genesis 5 - Adam’s Descendants to Noah and His Sons

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humankind,[a] he made them[b] in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he...

Genesis 6 - The Wickedness of Humankind, Noah Pleases God

When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that they were fair; and...

Genesis 7 - The Great Flood

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this...

Genesis 8 - The Flood Subsides, God’s Promise to Noah

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the domestic animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow...

Genesis 9 - The Covenant with Noah, Noah and His Sons

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you shall rest on...

Genesis 10 - Nations Descended from Noah

These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood. 2 The descendants of...

Genesis 11 - The Tower of Babel, Descendants of Shem, Descendants of Terah

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as they migrated from the east,[a] they came upon a plain in the land of...

Genesis 12 - The Call of Abram, Abram and Sarai in Egypt

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will...

Genesis 13 - Abram and Lot Separate

So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. 2 Now Abram was very rich in...

Genesis 14 - Lot’s Captivity and Rescue, Abram Blessed by Melchizedek

In the days of King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim, 2 these kings made...

Genesis 15 - God’s Covenant with Abram

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very...

Genesis 16 - The Birth of Ishmael

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar, 2 and Sarai said to Abram, “You see...

Genesis 17 - The Sign of the Covenant

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be...

Genesis 18 - A Son Promised to Abraham and Sarah, Judgment Pronounced on Sodom

The Lord appeared to Abraham[a] by the oaks[b] of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. 2 He looked up and...

Genesis 19 - The Depravity of Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed, Shameful Origin of Moab and Ammon

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and...

Genesis 20 - Abraham and Sarah at Gerar

From there Abraham journeyed toward the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While residing in Gerar as an alien,...

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