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By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
And on the
seventh day God finished his
work that he had
done, and he
rested on the
seventh day from
all his
work that he had
done.
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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
So
God blessed the
seventh day and made it
holy,
because on it God
rested from
all his
work that he had
done in
creation.
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‘For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’
For
God knows that
when you
eat of it your
eyes will be
opened, and you will
be like
God,
knowing good and
evil.”
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Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realised that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Then the
eyes of
both were
opened,
and
they knew that they were
naked. And they
sewed fig leaves together and
made themselves
loincloths.
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Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the
Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the
Lord God among the trees of the garden.
And they
heard the
sound of the
Lord God walking in the
garden in the
cool of the
day, and the
man and his
wife hid themselves from the
presence of the
Lord God among the
trees of the
garden.
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He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’
And he
said, “I
heard the
sound of you in the
garden, and I was
afraid,
because I was
naked, and I
hid myself.”
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Then the
Lord God said to the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’
The woman said, ‘The snake deceived me, and I ate.’
Then the
Lord God said to the
woman, “
What is this
that you have
done?” The
woman said,
“The
serpent deceived me, and I
ate.”
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So the
Lord God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this,
‘Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
The
Lord God said to the
serpent,
“
Because you have
done this,
cursed are you
above all livestockand
above all beasts of the
field;
on your
belly you shall
go,
and
dust you shall
eatall the
days of
your life.
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To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, “You must not eat from it,”
‘Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
And to
Adam he
said,
“
Because you have
listened to the
voice of your
wifeand have
eaten of the
tree of
which I
commanded you,
‘You shall
not eat of it,’
cursed is the
ground because of you;
in pain you shall
eat of it
all the
days of
your life;
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And the
Lord God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live for ever.’
Then the
Lord God said,
“
Behold, the
man has
become like
one of us in
knowing good and
evil.
Now,
lest he reach
out his
hand and
take also of the
tree of
life and
eat, and
live forever—”
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Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, ‘With the help of the
Lord I have brought forth a man.’
Now
Adam knew Eve his
wife, and she
conceived and
bore Cain,
saying, “I have
gotten a
man with the help of the
Lord.”
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but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favour. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
but for
Cain and his
offering he had
no regard. So
Cain was
very angry, and
his face fell.
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Then the
Lord said to Cain, ‘Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
The
Lord said to Cain, “
Why are you
angry, and
why has
your face fallen?
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.’
If you do
well, will you not be
accepted? And
if you do
not do
well,
sin is
crouching at the
door.
Its
desire is contrary to
you, but you must
rule over
it.”
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Then the
Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’
‘I don’t know,’ he replied. ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’
Then the
Lord said to Cain, “
Where is
Abel your
brother?” He
said,
“I do
not know;
am I
my brother’s keeper?”
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The
Lord said, ‘What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
And the
Lord said, “
What have you
done? The
voice of your
brother’s blood is
crying to me
from the
ground.
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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
Cain knew his
wife, and she
conceived and
bore Enoch. When he
built a
city, he
called the
name of the
city after the
name of his
son,
Enoch.
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Lamech said to his wives,
‘Adah and Zillah, listen to me;
wives of Lamech, hear my words.
I have killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for injuring me.
Lamech said to his
wives:
“
Adah and
Zillah,
hear my
voice;
you
wives of
Lamech,
listen to what I
say:
I have
killed a
man for
wounding me,
a
young man for
striking me.
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Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, ‘God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.’
And
Adam knew his
wife again, and she
bore a
son and
called his
name Seth, for she said, “
God has
appointed for me
another offspring instead of
Abel,
for Cain killed him.”
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Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
Make a
roof for the
ark, and
finish it
to a
cubit above, and
set the
door of the
ark in its
side.
Make it with
lower,
second, and
third decks.
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Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Noah did this; he
did all that
God commanded him.
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And Noah did all that the
Lord commanded him.
And
Noah did all that the
Lord had
commanded him.
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When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
And the
dove came back to him in the
evening, and
behold, in her
mouth was a freshly
plucked olive leaf. So
Noah knew that the
waters had
subsided from the
earth.
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The
Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: ‘Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
And when the
Lord smelled the
pleasing aroma, the
Lord said in his
heart, “I will
never again curse the
ground because of
man,
for the
intention of
man’s heart is
evil from his
youth.
Neither will I ever
again strike down every living creature as I have
done.
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And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
And
for your
lifeblood I will require a
reckoning:
from every beast I will
require it and
from man.
From his
fellow man I will require a
reckoning for the
life of
man.
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When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
When
Noah awoke from his
wine and
knew what his
youngest son had
done to him,
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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.
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.
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As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, ‘I know what a beautiful woman you are.
When he was
about to
enter Egypt, he
said to Sarai his
wife, “
I know that you are a
woman beautiful in
appearance,
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Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.’
Say you are my
sister, that
it may go well with me because of you, and that my
life may be
spared for
your sake.”
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He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
And for her sake he
dealt well with
Abram; and he
had sheep,
oxen, male
donkeys, male
servants,
female servants,
female donkeys, and
camels.
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram. ‘What have you done to me?’ he said. ‘Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
So
Pharaoh called Abram and
said, “
What is
this you have
done to me?
Why did you
not tell me that
she was
your wife?
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When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
When
Abram heard that his
kinsman had been
taken captive, he
led forth his
trained men,
born in his
house,
318 of them, and went in
pursuit as far as
Dan.
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But Abram said, ‘Sovereign
Lord, how can I know that I shall gain possession of it?’
But he
said, “O
Lord God,
how am I to
know that I shall
possess it?”
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Then the
Lord said to him, ‘Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and ill-treated there.
Then the
Lord said to
Abram, “
Know for
certain that your
offspring will be
sojourners in a
land that is
not theirs and will be
servants there, and they will be
afflicted for
four hundred years.
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so she said to Abram, ‘The
Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.’
Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
And
Sarai said to Abram, “
Behold now, the
Lord has
prevented me from
bearing children.
Go in to my
servant;
it may be that I shall
obtain children by her.” And
Abram listened to the
voice of
Sarai.
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‘Your slave is in your hands,’ Abram said. ‘Do with her whatever you think best.’ Then Sarai ill-treated Hagar; so she fled from her.
But
Abram said to Sarai, “
Behold, your
servant is in your
power;
do to her as you
please.”
Then Sarai dealt
harshly with her, and she
fled from her.
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The angel of the
Lord also said to her:
‘You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
for the
Lord has heard of your misery.
And the
angel of the
Lord said to her,
“
Behold, you are
pregnantand shall
bear a
son.
You shall
call his
name Ishmael,
because the
Lord has
listened to your affliction.
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Then God said to Abraham, ‘As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
And
God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall
keep my
covenant,
you and your
offspring after you throughout
their generations.
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This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: every male among you shall be circumcised.
This is my
covenant,
which you shall
keep,
between me and
you and your
offspring after you:
Every male among you shall be
circumcised.
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
As for
Ishmael, I have
heard you;
behold, I have
blessed him and will make him
fruitful and
multiply him
greatly. He shall
father twelve princes, and I will
make him into a
great nation.
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Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way – now that you have come to your servant.’
‘Very well,’ they answered, ‘do as you say.’
while I
bring a
morsel of
bread, that you may
refresh yourselves, and
after that you may
pass on— since you have
come to your
servant.” So they
said, “
Do as you have
said.”
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Then one of them said, ‘I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.’
Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
The
Lord said, “I will
surely return to you
about this
time next year, and
Sarah your
wife shall have a
son.” And
Sarah was
listening at the
tent door behind him.
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Then the
Lord said, ‘Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
The
Lord said,
“Shall I
hide from
Abraham what I am about to
do,
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For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the
Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the
Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.’
For I have
chosen him,
that he may
command his
children and his
household after him to
keep the
way of the
Lord by
doing righteousness and
justice, so that the
Lord may
bring to
Abraham what he has
promised him.”
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that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.’
I will
go down to
see whether they have
done altogether according to the
outcry that has
come to me. And
if not,
I will
know.”
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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?’
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?”
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Once again he spoke to him, ‘What if only forty are found there?’
He said, ‘For the sake of forty, I will not do it.’
Again he
spoke to him and
said, “
Suppose forty are
found there.” He
answered, “
For the
sake of
forty I will
not do it.”
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Then he said, ‘May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?’
He answered, ‘I will not do it if I find thirty there.’
Then he
said, “
Oh let not the
Lord be
angry, and I will
speak.
Suppose thirty are
found there.” He
answered, “I will
not do it,
if I
find thirty there.”
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Then he said, ‘May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?’
He answered, ‘For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.’
Then he
said,
“
Oh let not the
Lord be
angry, and I will
speak again but this
once.
Suppose ten are
found there.” He
answered, “
For the
sake of
ten I will
not destroy it.”
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They called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’
And they
called to Lot, “
Where are the
men who came to you
tonight?
Bring them out
to us, that we may
know them.”
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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.’
Behold, I have
two daughters who have
not known any
man. Let me
bring them out
to you, and
do to them as you
please.
Only do nothing to
these men,
for they have
come under the
shelter of
my roof.”
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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.
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.
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But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.’ (That is why the town was called Zoar. )
Escape there quickly, for I
can do nothing till you
arrive there.”
Therefore the
name of the
city was
called Zoar.
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That night they got their father to drink wine, and the elder daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
So they made their
father drink wine that
night. And the
firstborn went in and
lay with her
father. He did
not know when she
lay down or when she
arose.
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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.
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.
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Did he not say to me, “She is my sister,” and didn’t she also say, “He is my brother”? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.’
Did he not himself
say to me, ‘
She is my
sister’?
And she herself said, ‘He is my
brother.’ In the
integrity of my
heart and the
innocence of my
hands I have
done this.”
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Then God said to him in the dream, ‘Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
Then
God said to him in the
dream, “
Yes,
I know that you have
done this in the
integrity of your
heart, and it was I who
kept you from
sinning against me. Therefore I did
not let you
touch her.
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Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.’
Now then,
return the
man’s wife,
for he is a
prophet, so that
he will
pray for
you, and you shall
live. But if you do
not return her,
know that
you shall
surely die, you
and all who are yours.”
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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.’
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.”
(NIV)
And Abimelek asked Abraham, ‘What was your reason for doing this?’
And
Abimelech said to Abraham, “
What did you
see, that you
did this thing?”
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