He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”

So the Lord said, “My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow

But look, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

The Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child when I am old?’

So the Lord replied, “If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.

For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

and said, “‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the Lord, ‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

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.

He prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.