Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the Lord, “but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

So I began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted of all the flock. Then I took two staffs, calling one “Pleasantness” and the other “Binders,” and I tended the flock.

On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like an igniter among sticks and a burning torch among sheaves, and they will burn up all the surrounding nations right and left. Then the people of Jerusalem will settle once more in their place, the city of Jerusalem.

If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain – instead there will be the kind of plague which the Lord inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses – indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

“Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. 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.

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.

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

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

Now Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who heated metal and shaped all kinds of tools made of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord.

The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.

Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

Enosh lived 815 years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.

Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.