Can a person rob<n id="1" /> God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say, &#8216;How are we robbing you?&#8217; In tithes and contributions!<n id="2" />

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful.<n id="1" /> In fact, those who challenge<n id="2" /> God escape!&#8217;&#8221;p>

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between<n id="1" /> the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.p>

God created the great sea creatures<n id="1" /> and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

<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" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> the serpent<n id="2" /> was more shrewd<n id="3" />p> <p class="bodytext">than any of the wild animals<n id="4" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> God had made. He said to the woman, &#8220;Is it really true that<n id="5" /> God<n id="6" /> said, &#8216;You must not eat from any tree of the orchard&#8217;?&#8221;<n id="7" />

<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.

<p class="bodytext">So when God destroyed<n id="1" /> the cities of the region,<n id="2" /> God honored<n id="3" /> Abraham&#8217;s request. He removed Lot<n id="4" /> from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed<n id="5" /> the cities Lot had lived in.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When Pharaoh released<n id="2" /> the people, God did not lead them<n id="3" /> by the way to the land<n id="4" /> of the Philistines,<n id="5" /> although<n id="6" /> that was nearby, for God said,<n id="7" /> &#8220;Lest<n id="8" /> the people change their minds<n id="9" /> and return to Egypt when they experience<n id="10" /> war.&#8221;

&#8220;El, God, the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" /> El, God, the <sc>Lordsc>! He knows the truth!<n id="2" /> Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="3" /> don&#8217;t spare us<n id="4" /> today!

<t /><p class="bodytext">King David said to the entire assembly: &#8220;My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man,<n id="1" /> and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the <sc>Lordsc> God.

&#8220;Son of man, say to the prince<n id="1" /> of Tyre, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Your heart is proud<n id="2" /> and you said, &#8220;I am a god;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas&#8221; &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">yet you are a man and not a god,p> <p class="poetry">though you think you are godlike.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,p> <p class="poetry">nor could the fir trees<n id="1" /> match its boughs;p> <p class="poetry">the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;p> <p class="poetry">no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.p>

<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" />

God called<n id="1" /> the light &#8220;day&#8221; and the darkness<n id="2" /> &#8220;night.&#8221; There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.<n id="3" />p>

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.<n id="1" /> It was so.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place<n id="1" /> and let dry ground appear.&#8221;<n id="2" /> It was so.

The land produced vegetation &#8211; plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let there be lights<n id="1" /> in the expanse<n id="2" /> of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs<n id="3" /> to indicate seasons and days and years,

God made two great lights<n id="1" /> &#8211; the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.<n id="2" />