Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”

When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.