<p class="bodytext">God blessed<n id="1" /> them and said<n id="2" /> to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it!<n id="3" /> Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Then God said, &#8220;I now<n id="1" /> give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.<n id="2" />

And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground &#8211; everything that has the breath of life in it &#8211; I give<n id="1" /> every green plant for food.&#8221; It was so.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field<n id="2" /> had yet sprouted, for the <sc>Lordsc> God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> God said to the serpent,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Because you have done this,p> <p class="poetry">cursed<n id="2" /> are you above all the wild beastsp> <p class="poetry">and all the living creatures of the field!p> <p class="poetry">On your belly you will crawl<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and dust you will eat<n id="4" /> all the days of your life.p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth &#8211; everything from humankind to animals,<n id="1" /> including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.&#8221;p>

I am about to bring<n id="1" /> floodwaters<n id="2" /> on the earth to destroy<n id="3" /> from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them.<n id="4" /> Everything that is on the earth will die,

They entered,<n id="1" /> along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.<n id="2" />

So the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> destroyed<n id="2" /> every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky.<n id="3" /> They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">But God remembered<n id="1" /> Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over<n id="2" /> the earth and the waters receded.

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered<n id="1" /> the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah<n id="2" /> in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove,<n id="3" /> and brought it back into the ark.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">In Noah&#8217;s six hundred and first year,<n id="1" /> in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that<n id="2" /> the surface of the ground was dry.

Shem and Japheth took the garment<n id="1" /> and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father&#8217;s nakedness. Their faces were turned<n id="2" /> the other way so they did not see their father&#8217;s nakedness.p>

Then Sarai said to Abram, &#8220;You have brought this wrong on me!<n id="1" /> I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you,<n id="2" /> but when she realized<n id="3" /> that she was pregnant, she despised me.<n id="4" /> May the <sc>Lordsc> judge between you and me!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with<n id="1" /> a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please.<n id="2" /> Only don&#8217;t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection<n id="3" /> of my roof.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

When they had brought them outside, they<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Run<n id="2" /> for your lives! Don&#8217;t look<n id="3" /> behind you or stop anywhere in the valley!<n id="4" /> Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then in the dream God replied to him, &#8220;Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience.<n id="1" /> That is why I have kept you<n id="2" /> from sinning against me and why<n id="3" /> I did not allow you to touch her.

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning Abraham took<n id="1" /> some food<n id="2" /> and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child,<n id="3" /> and sent her away. So she went wandering<n id="4" /> aimlessly through the wilderness<n id="5" /> of Beer Sheba.

God<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Take your son &#8211; your only son, whom you love, Isaac<n id="2" /> &#8211; and go to the land of Moriah!<n id="3" /> Offer him up there as a burnt offering<n id="4" /> on one of the mountains which I will indicate to<n id="5" /> you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there<n id="1" /> and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up<n id="2" /> his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.