For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.

For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”

because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast – seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off

God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

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

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

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”

But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

Then Sarah lied, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the Lord said, “No! You did laugh.”

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.