The Book of Genesis
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless
and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving
over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let
there be light"; and there was light. 4 God saw that the
light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God
called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there
was morning, one day.
6 Then God said, "Let there be an
expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." 7 God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below
the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8 God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there
was morning, a second day.
9 Then God said, "Let the waters
below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it
was so. 10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering
of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. 11 Then
God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on
the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after
their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that
it was good. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a
third day.
14 Then God said, "Let there be
lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be
for signs and for seasons and for days and years; 15 and let
them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it
was so. 16 God made the two great lights, the greater light
to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. 17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on
the earth, 18 and to govern the day and the night, and to
separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19
There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 Then God said, "Let the waters
teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open
expanse of the heavens." 21 God created the great sea
monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their
kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 Then God said, "Let the earth
bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of
the earth after their kind"; and it was so. 25 God made
the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything
that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to
Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and
over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth." 27 God created man in His own image, in the
image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 God
blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,
and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over
every living thing that moves on the earth." 29 Then God
said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of
all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and
to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for
food"; and it was so. 31 God saw all that He had made,
and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2 (NASB)
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Genesis 3 (NASB)
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Genesis 4 (NASB)
1 Now the man had F68
relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, F69
and she said, "I have gotten a manchild F70
with the help of the Lord." 2 And again, she
gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but
Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 So it came about in F71
the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the
fruit of the ground. 4 And Abel, on his part also
brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And
the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering; 5 but
for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very
angry and his countenance fell.
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you
angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7 "If
you do well, will F72
not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is
crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master
it."
8 And Cain told F73
Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that
Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel
your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's
keeper?" 10 And He said, "What have you
done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
11 "And now you are cursed from the ground,
which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your
hand. 12 "When you cultivate the ground, it
shall no longer yield its strength to you; you shall be a vagrant and a
wanderer on the earth."
13 And Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment
is too great to bear! 14 "Behold, Thou hast
driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Thy face I
shall be hidden, and I shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth,
and it will come about that whoever finds me will kill me." 15 So
the Lord said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will
be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord appointed F74
a sign for Cain, lest anyone finding him should slay him.
16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the
Lord, and settled F75
in the land of Nod, F76
east of Eden. 17 And Cain had F77
relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and
he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name
of his son. 18 Now to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad
became F78 the
father of Mehujael; and Mehujael became the father of Methushael; and
Methushael became the father of Lamech.
19 And Lamech took to himself two wives: the name
of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah. 20 And
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents
and have livestock. 21 And
his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play
the lyre and pipe. 22 As for Zillah, she also gave
birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron;
and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
23 And Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and
Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Give heed to my speech,
For I have F79
killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me; 24
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
25 And Adam had F80
relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named
him Seth, F81 for,
she said, "God has F82
appointed me another offspring F83
in place of Abel; for Cain killed him." 26 And
to Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then
men began to call upon F84
the name of the Lord.
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FOOTNOTES:
F68: Lit., knew
F69: I.e., gotten one
F70: Or, man, the Lord
F71: Lit., at the end of days
F72: Or, surely you will be accepted
F73: Lit., said to
F74: Or, set a mark on
F75: Lit., dwelt
F76: I.e., wandering
F77: Lit., knew
F78: Lit., begot
F79: Or, kill
F80: Lit., knew
F81: Heb., Sheth
F82: Heb., shath
F83: Lit., seed
F84: Or, by |
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Genesis 8 (NASB)
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20 Then Noah built
an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered
burnt offerings on the altar.
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Genesis 12 (NASB)
5 Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their
possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran,
and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan. 6 Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to
the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I
will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
8 Then he proceeded from there to the
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on
the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD. 9 Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
Genesis 13 (NASB)
1 So Abram went up
from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.
7 And there was strife between the
herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanite and
the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land. 8
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between
my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. 9
"Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I
will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left." 10 Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan,
that it was well watered every where this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.
11 So Lot chose for himself all the valley
of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. 12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the
cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
18 Then Abram moved his tent and
came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to
the LORD.
Genesis 14 (NASB)
5 In the fourteenth
year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and defeated the Rephaim in
Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is
by the wilderness.
Genesis 18 (NASB)
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Genesis 21 (NASB)
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Genesis 22 (NASB)
9 Then they came to
the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the
wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Genesis 24 (NASB)
10 Then the servant
took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things
of his master's in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 25 (NASB)
19 Now these are the records of the
generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham became the father of Isaac; 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he
took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the
Aramean, to be his wife.
Genesis 26 (NASB)
23 Then he went up from there to
Beersheba. 24 The LORD appeared to him the same night and
said, "I am the God of your father Abraham; Do not fear, for I am with you. I will
bless you, and multiply your descendants, For the sake of My servant Abraham." 25 So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD,
and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.
Genesis 28 (NASB)
2 "Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to
the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the
daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
18 So Jacob
rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up
as a pillar and poured oil on its top. 19 He called the name
of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz. 20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and
will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to
wear, 21 and I return to my father's house in safety, then
the LORD will be my God. 22 "This
stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God's house, and of all that You give me I
will surely give a tenth to You."
Genesis 31 (NASB)
19 When Laban had gone to shear his
flock, then Rachel stole the household idols that were her father's.
30 "Now you have indeed gone away because you longed
greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?" 31 Then Jacob replied to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I
thought that you would take your daughters from me by force. 32
"The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmen
point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself." For Jacob did
not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and
into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he
went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent. 34 Now
Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel's saddle, and she sat on
them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them. 35
She said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for
the manner of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.
Genesis 35 (NASB)
6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the
land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because
there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother. 8
Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was
named Allon-bacuth.
9 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he
came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. 10 God said to
him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be
your name." Thus He called him Israel.
Genesis 36 (NASB)
8 So Esau lived in the hill country of
Seir; Esau is Edom.
Genesis 38 (NASB)
7 But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the
LORD, so the LORD took his life. 8 Then
Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform your duty as a
brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." 9 Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in
to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to
his brother. 10 But what he did was displeasing in the sight
of the LORD; so He took his life also. 11 Then Judah said to
his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah
grows up"; for he thought, "I am afraid that he too may die like his
brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
Genesis 47 (NASB)
5 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your
brothers have come to you. 6 "The land of Egypt is at
your disposal; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live
in the land of Goshen; and if you know any capable men among them, then put them in charge
of my livestock." 7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob
and presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8
Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many years have you lived?" 9
So Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few
and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my
fathers lived during the days of their sojourning." 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from his presence. 11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as
Pharaoh had ordered. 12 Joseph provided his father and his
brothers and all his father's household with food, according to their little ones.
Genesis 49 (NASB)
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