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

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

God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”

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.

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

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

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.”