We are doing a series of the first 5 books of the old testament. The Torah. It is for people all over the world that cannot get to a bible and it makes it easier to read.
Genesis chapter 1
1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
1:3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.
1:4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
1:5 God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was morningthe first day.
1:6 And God said, Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.
1:7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
1:8 God called the vault sky. And there was evening, and there was morningthe second day.
1:9 And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. And it was so.
1:10 God called the dry ground land, and the gathered waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good.
1:11 Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds. And it was so.
1:12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
1:13 And there was evening, and there was morningthe third day.
1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
1:15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth. And it was so.
1:16 God made two great lightsthe greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
1:17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
1:18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
1:19 And there was evening, and there was morningthe fourth day.
1:20 And God said, Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.
1:21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
1:22 God blessed them and said, Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.
1:23 And there was evening, and there was morningthe fifth day.
1:24 And God said, Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind. And it was so.
1:25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
1:26 Then God said, Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
1:28 God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.
1:29 Then God said, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
1:30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the groundeverything that has the breath of life in itI give every green plant for food. And it was so.
1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morningthe sixth day.
Genesis chapter 2
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2:2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
2:5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
2:6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
2:7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
2:8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
2:9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the groundtrees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
2:11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
2:12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
2:13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
2:14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
2:15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.
2:18 The Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.
2:19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
2:20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
2:21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the mans ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
2:22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
2:23 The man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man.
2:24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
2:25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Genesis chapter 3
3:1 These are the nations the Lord left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan
3:2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):
3:3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.
3:4 They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the Lords commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.
3:5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
3:6 They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
3:7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
3:8 The anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
3:9 But when they cried out to the Lord, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Calebs younger brother, who saved them.
3:10 The Spirit of the Lord came on him, so that he became Israels judge and went to war. The Lord gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.
3:11 So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.
3:12 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and because they did this evil the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel.
3:13 Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.
3:14 The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.
3:15 Again the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he gave them a delivererEhud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
3:16 Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a cubit long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing.
3:17 He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
3:18 After Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way those who had carried it.
3:19 But on reaching the stone images near Gilgal he himself went back to Eglon and said, Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you. The king said to his attendants, Leave us! And they all left.
3:20 Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace and said, I have a message from God for you. As the king rose from his seat,
3:21 Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the kings belly.
3:22 Even the handle sank in after the blade, and his bowels discharged. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it.
3:23 Then Ehud went out to the porch; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
3:24 After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace.
3:25 They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.
3:26 While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the stone images and escaped to Seirah.
3:27 When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.
3:28 Follow me, he ordered, for the Lord has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands. So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over.
3:29 At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped.
3:30 That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.
3:31 After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.
Genesis chapter 4
4:1 Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.
4:2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
4:3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.
4:4 And Abel also brought an offeringfat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
4:5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
4:6 Then the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
4:7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.
4:8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, Lets go out to the field. While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
4:9 Then the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? I dont know, he replied. Am I my brothers keeper?
4:10 The Lord said, What have you done? Listen! Your brothers blood cries out to me from the ground.
4:11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brothers blood from your hand.
4:12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.
4:13 Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is more than I can bear.
4:14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.
4:15 But the Lord said to him, Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over. Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
4:16 So Cain went out from the Lords presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
4:17 Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
4:18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
4:19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
4:20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.
4:21 His brothers name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.
4:22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cains sister was Naamah.
4:23 Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
4:24 If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.
4:25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.
4:26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.
Genesis chapter 5
6:1 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.
6:2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.
6:3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.
6:4 They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys.
6:5 They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.
6:6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.
6:7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian,
6:8 he sent them a prophet, who said, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
6:9 I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
6:10 I said to you, I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live. But you have not listened to me.
6:11 The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
6:12 When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.
6:13 Pardon me, my lord, Gideon replied, but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.
6:14 The Lord turned to him and said, Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midians hand. Am I not sending you?
6:15 Pardon me, my lord, Gideon replied, but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.
6:16 The Lord answered, I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.
6:17 Gideon replied, If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.
6:18 Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you. And the Lord said, I will wait until you return.
6:19 Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.
6:20 The angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth. And Gideon did so.
6:21 Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared.
6:22 When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!
6:23 But the Lord said to him, Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.
6:24 So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
6:25 That same night the Lord said to him, Take the second bull from your fathers herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your fathers altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
6:26 Then build a proper kind of altar to the Lord your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.
6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.
6:28 In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baals altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar!
6:29 They asked each other, Who did this? When they carefully investigated, they were told, Gideon son of Joash did it.
6:30 The people of the town demanded of Joash, Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baals altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
6:31 But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, Are you going to plead Baals cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.
6:32 So because Gideon broke down Baals altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal that day, saying, Let Baal contend with him.
6:33 Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
6:34 Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.
6:35 He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, calling them to arms, and also into Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, so that they too went up to meet them.
6:36 Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised
6:37 look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.
6:38 And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dewa bowlful of water.
6:39 Then Gideon said to God, Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.
6:40 That night God did so. Only the flee
Genesis chapter 7
7:1 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
7:2 The Lord said to Gideon, You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, My own strength has saved me.
7:3 Now announce to the army, Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead. So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.
7:4 But the Lord said to Gideon, There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, This one shall go with you, he shall go; but if I say, This one shall not go with you, he shall not go.
7:5 So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.
7:6 Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.
7:7 The Lord said to Gideon, With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.
7:8 So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
7:9 During that night the Lord said to Gideon, Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands.
7:10 If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah
7:11 and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp. So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp.
7:12 The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.
7:13 Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. I had a dream, he was saying. A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.
7:14 His friend responded, This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.
7:15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, Get up! The Lord has given the Midianite camp into your hands.
7:16 Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.
7:17 Watch me, he told them. Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do.
7:18 When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, For the Lord and for Gideon.
7:19 Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.
7:20 The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!
7:21 While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.
7:22 When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.
7:23 Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites.
7:24 Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah. So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah.
7:25 They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.
Genesis chapter 8
8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
8:2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
8:3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
8:4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
8:6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
8:7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8:8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
8:9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
8:10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
8:11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
8:12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
8:13 By the first day of the first month of Noahs six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
8:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
8:15 Then God said to Noah,
8:16 Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
8:17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with youthe birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the groundso they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.
8:18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons wives.
8:19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birdseverything that moves on landcame out of the ark, one kind after another.
8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
8:21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.
Genesis chapter 9
9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
9:3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
9:4 But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
9:5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
9:6 Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
9:7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.
9:8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
9:9 I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
9:10 and with every living creature that was with youthe birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with youevery living creature on earth.
9:11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.
9:12 And God said, This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
9:13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
9:14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
9:15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
9:16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.
9:17 So God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.
9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
9:19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.
9:20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
9:21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
9:23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their fathers naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
9:24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
9:25 he said, Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.
9:26 He also said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
9:27 May God extend Japheths territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.
9:28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
9:29 Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
Genesis chapter 10
10:1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noahs sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
10:3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
10:4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.
10:5 (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
10:8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.
10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.
10:10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.
10:11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
10:12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calahwhich is the great city.
10:13 Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
10:14 Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
10:15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
10:16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
10:17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
10:18 Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered
10:19 and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
10:20 These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
10:21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.
10:24 Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.
10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
10:26 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
10:29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
10:30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
10:31 These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
10:32 These are the clans of Noahs sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
Genesis chapter 11
11:1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
11:2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
11:3 They said to each other, Come, lets make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
11:4 Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
11:5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
11:6 The Lord said, If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
11:7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.
11:8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
11:9 That is why it was called Babelbecause there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
11:10 This is the account of Shems family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
11:11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
11:13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.
11:17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.
11:19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.
11:21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.
11:23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
11:25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
11:26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
11:27 This is the account of Terahs family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
11:28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
11:29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abrams wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahors wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah.
11:30 Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.
11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
11:32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
Genesis chapter 12
12:1 The Lord had said to Abram, Go from your country, your people and your fathers household to the land I will show you.
12:2 I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
12:4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
12:5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, To your offspring I will give this land. So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
12:8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
12:9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
12:10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
12:11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, I know what a beautiful woman you are.
12:12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife. Then they will kill me but will let you live.
12:13 Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.
12:14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
12:15 And when Pharaohs officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.
12:16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
12:17 But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abrams wife Sarai.
12:18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram. What have you done to me? he said. Why didnt you tell me she was your wife?
12:19 Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!
12:20 Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
Genesis chapter 13
13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
13:2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
13:3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
13:4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
13:5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
13:6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
13:7 And quarreling arose between Abrams herders and Lots. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
13:8 So Abram said to Lot, Lets not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.
13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Lets part company. If you go to the left, Ill go to the right; if you go to the right, Ill go to the left.
13:10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
13:11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
13:13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
13:14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.
13:15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
13:16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
13:17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.
13:18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.
Closing prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You that You are a faithful God Whose Word is true and Whose promises will never fail. I stand in awe of the mercy, love, goodness, and grace You showed to Abraham, Isaac, and the children of Israel. I rejoice that You sent Jesus to be our Kinsman-Redeemer so that we might be brought into the family of faith and be made Your spiritual sons and daughters, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Father, I thank You for Your generous provision, Your faithfulness, and your unending love. I am so grateful for all You have done for me, and praise You for all You have promised to do. In Jesus’ name, AMEN.
Prayer of Salvation: Which is how you ask to become a child of Our Heavenly Father. Lord Jesus, I confess my sins and ask for your forgiveness. Please come into my heart as my Lord and Savior. Take complete control of my life and help me to walk in Your footsteps daily by the power of the Holy Spirit. Thank you Lord for saving me and I know you will answer my prayers. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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