אֶ֫רֶץ (e.rets)

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…

God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.

God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…

The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after…

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the…

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the…

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on…

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over…

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree,…

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh…

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused…

but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.

The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the…

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a…

Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had…

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart…

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will…

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the…

Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing…

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the…

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the…

The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the…

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and…

The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass…

The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface…

The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the…

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth.…

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping…

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the…

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not…

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything…

Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of…

I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will…

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every…

God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the…

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in…

Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name…

These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from…

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for…

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh…

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife.…

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I…

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom…

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who…

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in…

The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they…

There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the…

Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the…

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh…

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your…

Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”

He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will…

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of…

Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and…

I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an…

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the…

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be…

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed…

The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up…

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way…

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in…

Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son.…

So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into…

Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a…

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’”

Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep…

Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.

Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the…

“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury…

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the…

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son…

But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the…

Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who…

My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose…

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son,…

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to…

Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these…

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your…

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now…

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky…

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters…

and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you…

He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were…

Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will…

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the…

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land,…

and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had…

He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped…

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”

“These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large…

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…

So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the…

They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now…

Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his…

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because…

chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the…

These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs…

These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in…

These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their…

Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you…

Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the…

For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me…

and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of…

Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.

Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will…

and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s…

The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife.…

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,…

In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.

He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He…

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of…

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians,…

The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The…

All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and…

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He…

Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the…

He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest…

They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of…

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers…

Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will…

The famine was severe in the land.

Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your…

When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down…

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then…

Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing…

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and…

You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will…

Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and…

Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he…

They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and…

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez…

To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,…

Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My…

that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our…

Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all…

They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’…

The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in…

Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in…

There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan…

Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which…

When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and…

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine…

Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were…

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred…

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and…

Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and…

As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some…

Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my…

Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and…

in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with…

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of…

Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the…

all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds,…

When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous…

for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham…

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land…