Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.

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

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,

When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

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

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

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

Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it.”