You also say, ‘How tiresome it is.’ You turn up your nose at it,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and instead bring what is stolen, lame, or sick. You bring these things for an offering! Should I accept this from you?” asks the Lord.

God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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

From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

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,

Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.

Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

These were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon: She bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah to Esau.

When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

Now Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, so I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”