This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

The Lord said, “Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

“‘Any tithe of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.

the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’”

The pomegranates have appeared in the land, the time for pruning and singing has come; the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

They come from a distant land, from the horizon. It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, coming to destroy the whole earth.

The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away.

Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’”