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- Genesis 1:9
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And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
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- Genesis 2:19
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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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- Genesis 2:22
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And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.
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- Genesis 3:1
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Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
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- Genesis 3:2
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The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
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- Genesis 3:4
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“You will not surely die,” the serpent told the woman.
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- Genesis 3:9
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But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
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- Genesis 3:14
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So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
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- Genesis 3:16
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To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
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- Genesis 3:19
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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
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- Genesis 4:4
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while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
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- Genesis 4:5
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but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
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- Genesis 4:6
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“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
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- Genesis 4:7
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
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- Genesis 4:8
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Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
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- Genesis 4:9
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And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
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- Genesis 4:10
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“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
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- Genesis 4:13
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But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
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- Genesis 6:4
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
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- Genesis 6:6
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And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
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- Genesis 6:16
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You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
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- Genesis 6:18
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But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
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- Genesis 6:19
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And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
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- Genesis 6:20
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Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
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- Genesis 6:21
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You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
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- Genesis 7:1
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Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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- Genesis 7:7
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And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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- Genesis 7:9
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came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
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- Genesis 7:13
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On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
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- Genesis 7:15
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They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
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- Genesis 8:9
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But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
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- Genesis 8:11
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And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
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- Genesis 8:12
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And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
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- Genesis 8:15
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Then God said to Noah,
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- Genesis 8:21
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When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
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- Genesis 9:8
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Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
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- Genesis 9:17
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So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
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- Genesis 11:3
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And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
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- Genesis 12:1
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Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
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- Genesis 12:4
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So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
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- Genesis 12:7
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Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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- Genesis 12:11
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As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
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- Genesis 12:15
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When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.
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- Genesis 13:4
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to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
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- Genesis 13:8
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So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.
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- Genesis 13:14
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After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
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- Genesis 14:3
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The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
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- Genesis 14:7
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Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
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- Genesis 14:17
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After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
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- Genesis 14:21
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”
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