but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

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.”

So the Lord said, “My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”

You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, ‘It is I who made Abram rich.’

But look, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

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.

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people – he has failed to carry out my requirement.”

Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?” He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Abraham spoke to him again, “What if forty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”