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.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

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.”

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”

Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.

Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

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

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.

God said, “Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”