He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name.

The riders then agreed with the angel of the Lord, who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have been walking about on the earth, and now everything is at rest and quiet.”

The chariot with the black horses is going to the north country and the white ones are going after them, but the spotted ones are going to the south country.

Then he cried out to me, “Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me peace about the northland.”

‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

“The Lord who rules over all asserts, ‘I am about to save my people from the lands of the east and the west.

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the lands of Gilead and Lebanon, for there will not be enough room for them in their own land.

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.

But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.