If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.”

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.

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely 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.”

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!”

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

But Abram said, “O sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

Abraham spoke to him again, “What if forty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

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.”

Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”