יְהֹוָה (ye.ho.vah)

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…

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a…

Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the…

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh…

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God…

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves…

Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal…

Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand,…

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign…

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

A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground…

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred…

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.

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping…

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in…

Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on…

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake…

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now…

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…

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

So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

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

He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai…

Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

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

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are,…

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

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

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your…

Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body…

He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

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

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

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will…

Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had…

Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because…

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after…

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and…

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will…

Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the…

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Yahweh went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent…

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this…

But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to…

Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will…

Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son,…

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

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…

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…

He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.

The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth…

He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the…

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male…

He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife…

I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my…

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right…

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.

Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”

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

He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife…

The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of…

Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be…

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

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…

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with…

He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.

They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and…

that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you…

‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me…

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my…

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

Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction;…

She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me…

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then…

She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me…

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I…

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

and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.

The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for…

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that…

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.