So the <sc>Lordsc> God said to the woman, &#8220;What is this<n id="1" /> you have done?&#8221; And the woman replied, &#8220;The serpent<n id="2" /> tricked<n id="3" /> me, and I ate.&#8221;p>

But the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;What have you done?<n id="1" /> The voice<n id="2" /> of your brother&#8217;s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the record<n id="1" /> of the family line<n id="2" /> of Adam.p> <p class="bodytext">When God created humankind,<n id="3" /> he made them<n id="4" /> in the likeness of God.

The <sc>Lordsc> regretted<n id="1" /> that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">At the end of forty days,<n id="1" /> Noah opened the window he had made in the ark<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Whoever sheds human blood,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">by other humans<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">must his blood be shed;p> <p class="poetry">for in God&#8217;s image<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">God<n id="4" /> has made humankind.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor<n id="1" /> he learned<n id="2" /> what his youngest son had done<n id="3" /> to him.

This was the place where he had first built the altar,<n id="1" /> and there Abram worshiped the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p>

that I must go down<n id="1" /> and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests.<n id="2" /> If not,<n id="3" /> I want to know.&#8221;p>

Then Abimelech asked<n id="1" /> Abraham, &#8220;What prompted you to do this thing?&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> visited<n id="1" /> Sarah just as he had said he would and did<n id="2" /> for Sarah what he had promised.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Sarah said, &#8220;God has made me laugh.<n id="1" /> Everyone who hears about this<n id="2" /> will laugh<n id="3" /> with me.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared<n id="1" /> a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.<n id="2" />

&#8216;Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat<n id="1" /> it and bless you<n id="2" /> in the presence of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" /> before I die.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">So he went and got the goats<n id="1" /> and brought them to his mother. She<n id="2" /> prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Then she handed<n id="1" /> the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.p>

&#8220;It is not our custom here,&#8221;<n id="1" /> Laban replied, &#8220;to give the younger daughter in marriage<n id="2" /> before the firstborn.

His master observed that the <sc>Lordsc> was with him and that the <sc>Lordsc> made everything he was doing successful.<n id="1" />

This is just what I told<n id="1" /> Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

On the third day Joseph said to them, &#8220;Do as I say<n id="1" /> and you will live,<n id="2" /> for I fear God.<n id="3" />