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Creation Stories
Genesis
Creation
1:1
In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 And the earth was without
form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light. 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the
light from the darkness. 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day.
1:6 And God
said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waters. 1:7 And God
made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven.
And the evening and the morning were the second day.
1:9 And God
said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and
the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after
his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was
in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
1:14 And God
said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from
the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
1:15 And let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater
light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made
the stars also. 1:17 And God set them in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 1:18
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the
light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven. 1:21 And God
created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged
fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply
in the earth. 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
1:24 And God
said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so. 1:25 And God made
the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it
was good.
1:26 And God
said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 1:27 So God created man in his
own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created
he them. 1:28 And God blessed them, and
God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1:29 And God
said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the
face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 1:30 And to every beast of the
earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing
that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is
life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 1:31 And God saw every thing
that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them. 2:2 And on the seventh day
God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all
his work which he had made. 2:3 And God
blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested
from all his work which God created and made.
Creation of Man and Woman in the Garden of Eden
2:4 These
are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in
the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the
ground. 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the
ground. 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul.
2:8 And the
LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he
had formed. 2:9 And out of the ground
made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good
for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the
garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is
it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 2:12
And the gold of that land is good: there is
bdellium and the onyx stone. 2:13 And the name of the second river is
Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the
whole land of Ethiopia. 2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth
toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him
into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat: 2:17 But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
2:18 And the
LORD God said, It is not good that the
man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed
every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every
living creature, that was the name thereof. 2:20
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet
for him. 2:21 And the LORD God caused a
deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof; 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man. 2:23 And
Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh. 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had
made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
3:2 And the
woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the
garden: 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of
it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 3:4 And the serpent said unto
the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 3:5 For
God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that
it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat. 3:7 And the eyes of them both
were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 3:8 And they heard the voice
of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his
wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the
garden. 3:9 And the LORD God called unto
Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was
naked; and I hid myself. 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I
commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to
be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 3:13
And the LORD God said unto the woman, What
is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat
all the days of thy life: 3:15 And I
will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and
thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall
be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 3:17
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice
of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 3:18
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou
shalt eat the herb of the field; 3:19 In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return. 3:20 And
Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD
God make coats of skins, and clothed them. 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know
good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree
of life, and eat, and live for ever: 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from
the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the
tree of life.
4:1 And
Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. 4:2
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 4:3 And in process of time it
came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the
LORD. 4:4
And Abel, he also brought of the
firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto
Abel and to his offering: 4:5 But unto
Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain
was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and
why is thy countenance fallen? 4:7 If
thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his
desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they
were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his
brother, and slew him.
4:9 And the
LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of
thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. 4:11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth
to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; 4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou
be in the earth. 4:13 And Cain said unto
the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from
the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a
fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that
every one that findeth me shall slay me. 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain,
lest any finding him should kill him.
4:16 And
Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on
the east of Eden. 4:17 And Cain knew his
wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded
a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was
Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of
such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. 4:21 And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ. 4:22 And
Zillah, she also bare Tubal- cain,
an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron:
and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah,
Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my
speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech
seventy and sevenfold.
6:1 And
it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and
daughters were born unto them, 6:2 That
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives of all which they chose. 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always
strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an
hundred and twenty years. 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those
days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of
men, and they bare children to them, the same became
mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
6:5 And GOD
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart. 6:7 And the LORD said,
I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man,
and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
6:9 These are the generations of Noah:
Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah
walked with God. 6:10 And Noah begat three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 6:11
The earth also was
corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold,
it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh
is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
6:14 Make
thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch
it within and without with pitch. 6:15 And this is the
fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits. 6:16 A window shalt thou
make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the
ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories
shalt thou make it. 6:17 And, behold, I,
even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh,
wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. 6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant;
and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
sons’ wives with thee. 6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two
of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive
with thee; they shall be male and female. 6:20 Of fowls after their
kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth
after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them
alive. 6:21 And take thou unto thee of
all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall
be for food for thee, and for them. 6:22 Thus did Noah; according
to all that God commanded him, so did he.
7:1 And the
LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his
female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his
female. 7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed
alive upon the face of all the earth. 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty
days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I
destroy from off the face of the earth. 7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old
when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7:7 And
Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into
the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls,
and of every thing that creepeth
upon the earth, 7:9 There went in two and
two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were
upon the earth.
7:11 In the
six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of
the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and
the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 And the rain was upon the
earth forty days and forty nights. 7:13 In
the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of
Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
7:14 They, and every beast after his
kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl
after his kind, every bird of every sort. 7:15 And they went in unto
Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life. 7:16 And they that went in, went
in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut
him in. 7:17 And the flood was forty
days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was
lift up above the earth. 7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were
increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high
hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth,
both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath
of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the
ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the
heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive,
and they that were with him in the ark. 7:24 And the waters prevailed
upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
8:1 And God
remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was
with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters
asswaged; 8:2 The
fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain
from heaven was restrained; 8:3 And the
waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the
hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 8:4 And the ark rested in the
seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of
Ararat. 8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month,
on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
8:6 And it
came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark
which he had made: 8:7 And he sent forth
a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off
the earth. 8:8 Also he sent forth a dove
from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her
foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the
face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled
her in unto him into the ark. 8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and
again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was
an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters
were abated from off the earth. 8:12 And he stayed yet other
seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
8:13 And it
came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month,
the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth:
and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of
the ground was dry. 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
8:15 And God
spake unto Noah, saying, 8:16
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
sons’ wives with thee. 8:17 Bring forth
with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both
of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful,
and multiply upon the earth. 8:18 And
Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out
of the ark.
8:20 And
Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of
every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the
altar. 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet
savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not
again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s
heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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