So these officials said to the king, “This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.”

God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

The Lord regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.

“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”

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

When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”

He had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.

Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?”

She went on to say, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”