The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

Abraham bowed before the local people

During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.

and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of the earth.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”

Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

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 gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).

And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.