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Gen 2:1

(NIV)
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
(ESV)
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Gen 3:6

(NIV)
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
(ESV)
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Gen 3:12

(NIV)
The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me – she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’

(ESV)
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

Gen 11:6

(NIV)
The Lord said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
(ESV)
And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

Gen 13:1

(NIV)
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
(ESV)
So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

Gen 14:2

(NIV)
these kings went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
(ESV)
these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Gen 14:8

(NIV)
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim
(ESV)
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim

Gen 14:16

(NIV)
He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

(ESV)
Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.

Gen 17:4

(NIV)
‘As for me, this is my covenant with you: you will be the father of many nations.
(ESV)
Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

Gen 17:5

(NIV)
No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
(ESV)
No longer shall your name be called Abram but your name shall be Abraham for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

Gen 17:14

(NIV)
Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.’

(ESV)
Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

Gen 17:16

(NIV)
I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.’

(ESV)
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

Gen 18:16

(NIV)
When the men got up to leave, they looked down towards Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.
(ESV)
Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.

Gen 18:23

(NIV)
Then Abraham approached him and said: ‘Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
(ESV)
Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Gen 18:25

(NIV)
Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?’

(ESV)
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Gen 19:4

(NIV)
Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom – both young and old – surrounded the house.
(ESV)
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.

Gen 19:19

(NIV)
Your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.
(ESV)
Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.

Gen 19:30

(NIV)
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
(ESV)
Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Gen 19:32

(NIV)
Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.’

(ESV)
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

Gen 19:34

(NIV)
The next day the elder daughter said to the younger, ‘Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.’
(ESV)
The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

Gen 19:35

(NIV)
So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

(ESV)
So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Gen 20:9

(NIV)
Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, ‘What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.’
(ESV)
Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

Gen 20:13

(NIV)
And when God caused me to wander from my father’s household, I said to her, “This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, ‘He is my brother.’”’

(ESV)
And when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

Gen 21:10

(NIV)
and she said to Abraham, ‘Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.’

(ESV)
So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”

Gen 21:22

(NIV)
At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, ‘God is with you in everything you do.
(ESV)
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, God is with you in all that you do.

Gen 21:23

(NIV)
Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness that I have shown to you.’

(ESV)
Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”

Gen 21:32

(NIV)
After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.
(ESV)
So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Gen 22:5

(NIV)
He said to his servants, ‘Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.’

(ESV)
Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”

Gen 23:4

(NIV)
‘I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so that I can bury my dead.’

(ESV)
“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Gen 23:7

(NIV)
Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
(ESV)
Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.

Gen 23:11

(NIV)
‘No, my lord,’ he said. ‘Listen to me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.’

(ESV)
No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

Gen 23:12

(NIV)
Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land
(ESV)
Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

Gen 23:13

(NIV)
and he said to Ephron in their hearing, ‘Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so that I can bury my dead there.’

(ESV)
And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”

Gen 24:12

(NIV)
Then he prayed, ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
(ESV)
And he said, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

Gen 24:14

(NIV)
May it be that when I say to a young woman, “Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,” and she says, “Drink, and I’ll water your camels too” – let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.’

(ESV)
Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”

Gen 24:25

(NIV)
And she added, ‘We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.’

(ESV)
She added, “We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night.”

Gen 24:54

(NIV)
Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there.

When they got up the next morning, he said, ‘Send me on my way to my master.’

(ESV)
And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my master.”

Gen 24:58

(NIV)
So they called Rebekah and asked her, ‘Will you go with this man?’

‘I will go,’ she said.

(ESV)
And they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”

Gen 25:8

(NIV)
Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.
(ESV)
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Gen 25:11

(NIV)
After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

(ESV)
After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.

Gen 25:17

(NIV)
Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.
(ESV)
(These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)

Gen 26:3

(NIV)
Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
(ESV)
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

Gen 26:10

(NIV)
Then Abimelek said, ‘What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.’

(ESV)
Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

Gen 26:11

(NIV)
So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: ‘Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.’

(ESV)
So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

Gen 26:20

(NIV)
But the herdsmen of Gerar quarrelled with those of Isaac and said, ‘The water is ours!’ So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.
(ESV)
the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Gen 26:26

(NIV)
Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal advisor and Phicol the commander of his forces.
(ESV)
When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army,

Gen 26:28

(NIV)
They answered, ‘We saw clearly that the Lord was with you; so we said, “There ought to be a sworn agreement between us” – between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you
(ESV)
They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

Gen 26:29

(NIV)
that you will do us no harm, just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the Lord.’

(ESV)
that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.”

Gen 27:29

(NIV)
May nations serve you
and peoples bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.
May those who curse you be cursed
and those who bless you be blessed.’
(ESV)
Let peoples serve you,
and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

Gen 27:44

(NIV)
Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides.
(ESV)
and stay with him a while, until your brother’s fury turns away

Gen 28:3

(NIV)
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
(ESV)
God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

Gen 28:15

(NIV)
I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.’

(ESV)
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Gen 28:20

(NIV)
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, ‘If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear
(ESV)
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

Gen 29:6

(NIV)
Then Jacob asked them, ‘Is he well?’

‘Yes, he is,’ they said, ‘and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.’

(ESV)
He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!”

Gen 29:9

(NIV)
While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd.
(ESV)
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Gen 29:14

(NIV)
Then Laban said to him, ‘You are my own flesh and blood.’

After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,
(ESV)
and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.

Gen 29:19

(NIV)
Laban said, ‘It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.’
(ESV)
Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”

Gen 29:25

(NIV)
When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, ‘What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?’

(ESV)
And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

Gen 29:27

(NIV)
Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.’

(ESV)
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”

Gen 29:30

(NIV)
Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

(ESV)
So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

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