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

The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,

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

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

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

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

May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

So his father Isaac said to him, “Indeed, your home will be away from the richness of the earth, and away from the dew of the sky above.

He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”