<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> the earth<n id="2" /> was without shape and empty,<n id="3" /> and darkness<n id="4" /> was over the surface of the watery deep,<n id="5" /> but the Spirit of God<n id="6" /> was moving<n id="7" /> over the surface<n id="8" /> of the water.<n id="9" />

He looked out toward<n id="1" /> Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region.<n id="2" /> As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.<n id="3" />p>

His descendants<n id="1" /> settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next<n id="2" /> to Egypt all the way<n id="3" /> to Asshur.<n id="4" /> They settled<n id="5" /> away from all their relatives.<n id="6" />p>

Springs<n id="1" /> would well up<n id="2" /> from the earth and water<n id="3" /> the whole surface of the ground.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When humankind<n id="1" /> began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born<n id="2" /> to them,<n id="3" />

The waters completely overwhelmed<n id="1" /> the earth, and the ark floated<n id="2" /> on the surface of the waters.

<p class="bodytext">Then Noah<n id="1" /> sent out a dove<n id="2" /> to see if the waters had receded<n id="3" /> from the surface of the ground.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building<n id="1" /> the city.

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans,<n id="1" /> while his father Terah was still alive.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the men got up to leave,<n id="1" /> they looked out over<n id="2" /> Sodom. (Now<n id="3" /> Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Abraham got up early in the morning and went<n id="1" /> to the place where he had stood before the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife<n id="1" /> and said to the sons of Heth,<n id="2" />

When Jacob saw the look on Laban&#8217;s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Joseph hugged his father&#8217;s face.<n id="1" /> He wept over him and kissed him.

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the water swarm with swarms<n id="1" /> of living creatures and let birds fly<n id="2" /> above the earth across the expanse of the sky.&#8221;

Look! You are driving me off the land<n id="1" /> today, and I must hide from your presence.<n id="2" /> I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.&#8221;

and also seven<n id="1" /> of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female,<n id="2" /> to preserve their offspring<n id="3" /> on the face of the earth.

Then they said, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens<n id="1" /> so that<n id="2" /> we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise<n id="3" /> we will be scattered<n id="4" /> across the face of the entire earth.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He will be a wild donkey<n id="1" /> of a man.p> <p class="poetry">He will be hostile to everyone,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and everyone will be hostile to him.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He will live away from<n id="4" /> his brothers.&#8221;p>

because we are about to destroy<n id="1" /> it. The outcry against this place<n id="2" /> is so great before the <sc>Lordsc> that he<n id="3" /> has sent us to destroy it.&#8221;p>