It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter.

Obey the king’s command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

But God heard the boy’s voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy’s voice right where he is crying.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

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

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

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

And Noah did all that God commanded him – he did indeed.

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

May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!”

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.