On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which lies to the east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, leaving a great valley. Half the mountain will move northward and the other half southward.

But this will be the nature of the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.

If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses – indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

Yet you ask, “Why?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.

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

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”

Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house.