Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place – that is, if you do not repent.

Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.

Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and dried up its water to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.

But he said to me, “Do not do this! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who obey the words of this book. Worship God!”

God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

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

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

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

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

And sons were also born to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), the father of all the sons of Eber.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,