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

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse;…

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

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 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…

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

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…

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

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…

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

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

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

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.

Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

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.

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

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

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of…

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

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.

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

Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

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…

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.

and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.

He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on…

The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

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.

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will…

Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred…

When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

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…

and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to…

He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and…

The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

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

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the…

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to…

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

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t…

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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

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

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…

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman…

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld…

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have…

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

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

The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all…

Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.

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…

Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife.…

They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound…

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the…

Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

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

The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of…

She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.

As the camels had finished drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her…

When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister,…

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—

behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will…

Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to…

She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So…

I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to…

Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or…

Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his…

Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.

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

Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite,…

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest,…

Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to…

Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you…

They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah.

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

The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have…

He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.

What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a…

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

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

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will…

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of…

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as…

So Esau went to Ishmael, and took, in addition to the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s…

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

Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and…

He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they…

There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the…

They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then…

When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob…

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him…

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

She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name…

He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”

So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that…

Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white…

Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in Laban’s flock. He…

During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock…

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and…

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but…

Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is…

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the…

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have…

Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young,…

Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place…

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword,…

Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

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

They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it,…

Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the…

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to…

She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate…

She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There…

Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew…

When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came…

As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?”…

Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.

Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he…

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

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.

Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into…

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup…

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold,…

In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my…

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will…

He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.

Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the…

Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief…

As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you,…

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river;

The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

“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…

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater…

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

Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen,…

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

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

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

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul,…

He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among…

They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you…

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will…

They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still…

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an…

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was…

They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each…

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men.…

Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go…

He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

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

The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision…

I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell…

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

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

Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which…

Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of…

Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.

Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the…

Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their…

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…

Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on…

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s…

Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword…

“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls…

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above,…

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient…

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

Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

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…

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to…

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on…