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

You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of the earth.

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.”

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

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.”

The Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

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.”

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

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?

They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.

Then the two visitors said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place

“Very well,” he replied, “I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.