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Genesis
t h e b e g i n n i n g o f t h e w o r l d
The First Day—Light
1 1 God created the sky and the earth. At
its own kind of seeds. And God saw that this
was good.
13 There was evening, and then there was
morning. This was the third day.
first, 2 the earth was completely empty.
There was nothing on the earth. Darkness
covered the ocean, and God’s Spirit moved
over a the water. 3 Then God said, “Let there
be light!” And light began to shine. b 4 He saw
the light, and he knew that it was good. Then
he separated the light from the darkness.
5 God named the light “day,” and he named
the darkness “night.”
There was evening, and then there was
morning. This was the first day.
The Fourth Day—Sun, Moon, and Stars
14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in
the sky. These lights will separate the days
from the nights. They will be used for signs
to show when special meetings d begin and to
show the days and years. 15 They will be in
the sky to shine light on the earth.” And it
happened.
16 So God made the two large lights. He
made the larger light to rule during the day
and the smaller light to rule during the night.
He also made the stars. 17 God put these lights
in the sky to shine on the earth. 18 He put
them in the sky to rule over the day and over
the night. They separated the light from the
darkness. And God saw that this was good.
19 There was evening, and then there was
morning. This was the fourth day.
The Second Day—Sky
6 Then God said, “Let there be a space c to
separate the water into two parts!” 7 So God
made the space and separated the water. Some
of the water was above it, and some of the
water was below it. 8 God named that space
“sky.” There was evening, and then there was
morning. This was the second day.
The Fifth Day—Fish and Birds
20 Then God said, “Let the water be filled
with many living things, and let there be birds
to fly in the air over the earth.” 21 So God cre-
ated the large sea animals. e He created all the
many living things in the sea and every kind
of bird that flies in the air. And God saw that
this was good.
22 God blessed all the living things in the
sea and told them to have many babies and fill
the seas. And he blessed the birds on land and
told them to have many more babies.
23 There was evening, and then there was
morning. This was the fifth day.
The Third Day—Dry Land and Plants
9 Then God said, “Let the water under the
sky be gathered together so that the dry land
will appear.” And it happened. 10 God named
the dry land “earth,” and he named the water
that was gathered together “seas.” And God
saw that this was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth grow
grass, plants that make grain, and fruit trees.
The fruit trees will make fruit with seeds in
it. And each plant will make its own kind of
seed. Let these plants grow on the earth.”
And it happened. 12 The earth grew grass and
plants that made grain. And it grew trees that
made fruit with seeds in it. Every plant made
a 1:2 moved over The Hebrew word means “to fly
over” or “to swoop down,” like a bird flying over its
nest to protect its babies.
b 1:1‑3 Or “In the beginning, God created the heav‑
ens and the earth. While 2 the earth had no special
shape, and darkness covered the ocean, and God’s
Spirit hovered over the water, 3 God said, ‘Let there
be light,’ and there was light.” Or “When God began
to create the sky and the earth, 2 while the earth was
completely empty, and darkness covered the ocean,
and a powerful wind blew over the water, 3 God
said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.”
c 1:6 space Or “firmament.” The Hebrew word can
refer to a piece of metal that has been hammered
into the shape of a bowl.
The Sixth Day—Land Animals and People
24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce
many kinds of living things. Let there be many
different kinds of animals. Let there be large
animals and small crawling animals of every
kind. And let all these animals produce more
animals.” And all these things happened.
25 So God made every kind of animal. He
made the wild animals, the tame animals, and
all the small crawling things. And God saw
d 1:14 special meetings The Israelites used the sun
and moon to decide when the months and years
began. Many Israelite festivals and special meetings
began at the time of the new moon or full moon.
e 1:21 large sea animals Or “sea monsters.”
GENESIS 1:26
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that this was good.
26 Then God said, “Now let’s make humans a
who will be like us. b They will rule over all
the fish in the sea and the birds in the air.
They will rule over all the large animals and
all the little things that crawl on the earth.”
27 So God created humans in his own image.
He created them to be like himself. c He cre-
ated them male and female. 28 God blessed
them and said to them, “Have many children.
Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over
the fish in the sea and the birds in the air.
Rule over every living thing that moves on
the earth.”
29 God said, “I am giving you all the grain
bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These
trees make fruit with seeds in it. This grain
and fruit will be your food. 30 And I am giv-
ing all the green plants to the animals. These
green plants will be their food. Every animal
on earth, every bird in the air, and all the little
things that crawl on the earth will eat that
food.” And all these things happened.
31 God looked at everything he had made.
And he saw that everything was very good.
There was evening, and then there was
morning. This was the sixth day.
the man he made in that garden. 9 Then the
Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that
were good for food to grow in the garden. In
the middle of the garden, he put the tree of
life and the tree that gives knowledge about
good and evil.
10 A river flowed from Eden and watered the
garden. The river then separated and became
four smaller rivers. 11 The name of the first
river was Pishon. This river flowed around the
entire country of Havilah. g 12 (There is gold in
that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of
expensive perfume and onyx * are also found
there.) 13 The name of the second river was
Gihon. This river flowed around the whole
land of Cush. h 14 The name of the third river
was Tigris. * This river flowed east of Assyria.
The fourth river was the Euphrates. *
15 The Lord God put the man in the Gar-
den of Eden to work the soil and take care
of the garden. 16 The Lord God gave him this
command: “You may eat from any tree in the
garden. 17 But you must not eat from the tree
that gives knowledge about good and evil. If
you eat fruit from that tree, on that day you
will certainly die!”
A Companion for Adam
18 Then the Lord God said, “I see that it is
not good for the man to be alone. I will make
the companion he needs, one just right for
him.”
19 The Lord God used dust from the ground
and made every animal in the fields and every
bird in the air. He brought all these animals
to the man, and the man gave them all a
name. 20 The man gave names to all the tame
animals, to all the birds in the air, and to all
the wild animals. He saw many animals and
birds, but he could not find a companion that
was right for him. 21 So the Lord God caused
the man to sleep very deeply. While he was
asleep, God took one of the ribs from the
man’s body. Then he closed the man’s skin
where the rib had been. 22 The Lord God used
the rib from the man to make a woman. Then
he brought the woman to the man. 23 And the
man said,
The Seventh Day—Rest
2 1 So the earth, the sky, and everything in
them were finished. 2 God finished the
work he was doing, so on the seventh day he
rested from his work. 3 God blessed the sev-
enth day and made it a holy * day. He made it
special because on that day he rested from all
the work he did while creating the world.
t h e b e g i n n i n g o f h u m a n i t y
4 This is the story about the creation of the
sky and the earth. This is what happened
when the Lord God made the earth and the
sky. 5 This was before there were plants on
the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields
because the Lord God had not yet made it
rain on the earth, and there was no one to
care for the plants.
6 So water d came up from the earth and
spread over the ground. 7 Then the Lord
God took dust from the ground and made
a man. e He breathed the breath of life into
the man’s nose, and the man became a living
thing. 8 Then the Lord God planted a garden
in the East, f in a place named Eden. He put
a 1:26 humans The Hebrew word means “man,” “peo‑
ple,” or the name “Adam.” It is like the word meaning
“earth” or “red clay.”
b 1:26 Now let’s make … like us Or “Now let’s make
humans in our image and in our likeness.”
c 1:27 So God created humans … himself Or “So God
created them in his image. In the image of God he
created them.” Compare Gen. 5:1, 3.
d 2:6 water Or “a mist.”
e 2:7 man The Hebrew word means “man,” “people,”
or the name “Adam.” It is like the word meaning
“earth” or “red clay.”
f 2:8 East This usually means the area between the
“Finally! One like me,
with bones from my bones
and a body from my body.
She was taken out of a man,
so I will call her ‘woman.’”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and
mother and is joined to his wife. In this way
Tigris and Euphrates rivers as far east as the Persian
Gulf.
g 2:11 Havilah The land along the west coast of the
Arabian peninsula and possibly, the part of Africa
south of Ethiopia.
h 2:13 Cush Usually this means Ethiopia, but here,
it probably refers to the area north and east of the
Tigris River.
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GENESIS 4:1
two people become one.
25 The man and his wife were naked, but
they were not ashamed.
16 Then the Lord God said to the woman,
“I will cause you to have much trouble
when you are pregnant.
And when you give birth to children,
you will have much pain.
You will want your husband very much,
The Beginning of Sin
3 1 The snake was the most clever of all
the wild animals that the Lord God had
made. The snake spoke to the woman and
said, “Woman, did God really tell you that you
must not eat from any tree in the garden?”
2 The woman answered the snake, “No, we
can eat fruit from the trees in the garden. 3 But
there is one tree we must not eat from. God
told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree
that is in the middle of the garden. You must
not even touch that tree, or you will die.’”
4 But the snake said to the woman, “You
will not die. 5 God knows that if you eat the
fruit from that tree you will learn about good
and evil, and then you will be like God!”
6 The woman could see that the tree was
beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat.
She also liked the idea that it would make her
wise. So she took some of the fruit from the
tree and ate it. Her husband was there with
her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and
he ate it.
7 Then it was as if their eyes opened, and
they saw things differently. They saw that
they were naked. So they got some fig leaves,
sewed them together, and wore them for
clothes.
8 During the cool part of the day, the Lord
God was walking in the garden. The man and
the woman heard him, and they hid among
the trees in the garden. 9 The Lord God called
to the man and said, “Where are you?”
10 The man said, “I heard you walking in
the garden, and I was afraid. I was naked, so
I hid.”
11 The Lord God said to the man, “Who told
you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit
from that special tree? I told you not to eat
from that tree!”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here
with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I
ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman,
“What have you done?”
She said, “The snake tricked me, so I ate
the fruit.”
14 So the Lord God said to the snake,
but he will rule over you.” a
17 Then the Lord God said to the man,
“I commanded you not to eat from that
tree.
But you listened to your wife and ate
from it.
So I will curse * the ground because of
you.
You will have to work hard all your life
for the food the ground produces.
18 The ground will grow thorns and weeds
for you.
And you will have to eat the plants that
grow wild in the fields. b
19 You will work hard for your food,
until your face is covered with sweat.
You will work hard until the day you die,
and then you will become dust again.
I used dust to make you,
and when you die, you will become dust
again.”
20 Adam c named his wife Eve. d He gave her
this name because Eve would be the mother
of everyone who ever lived.
21 The Lord God used animal skins and
made some clothes for the man and his wife.
Then he put the clothes on them.
22 The Lord God said, “Look, the man has
become like us—he knows about good and
evil. And now the man might take the fruit
from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit,
he will live forever.”
23 So the Lord God forced the man out of
the Garden of Eden to work the ground he
was made from. 24 The Lord God forced the
man to leave the garden. Then he put Cherub
angels * and a sword of fire at the entrance to
the garden to protect it. The sword flashed
around and around, guarding the way to the
tree of life.
The First Family
4 1 Adam had sexual relations with his wife
“You did this very bad thing,
so bad things will happen to you.
It will be worse for you
than for any other animal.
You must crawl on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will make you and the woman
enemies to each other.
Your children and her children
will be enemies.
You will bite her child’s foot,
Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth
to a son. She named him Cain. e Eve said,
a 3:16 You will … over you Or “You will want to rule
your husband, but he will rule over you.” In Hebrew
this is like the last part of Gen. 4:7.
b 3:18 See Gen. 1:28‑29.
c 3:20 Adam This name means “man” or “people.” It is
like the word meaning “earth” or “red clay.”
d 3:20 Eve This name is like the Hebrew word mean‑
ing “life.”
e 4:1 Cain This name is like the Hebrew word mean‑
ing “make” or “get.”
but he will crush your head.”
GENESIS 4:2
4
“With the Lord’s help, I have made a man!”
2 Eve gave birth again to Cain’s brother
Abel. Abel became a shepherd, and Cain
became a farmer.
city the same name as his son Enoch.
18 Enoch had a son named Irad. Irad had
a son named Mehujael. Mehujael had a son
named Methushael. And Methushael had a
son named Lamech.
19 Lamech married two women. One wife
was named Adah, and the other was named
Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal. Jabal was
the father f of people who live in tents and
earn their living by keeping cattle. 21 Jabal
was Jubal’s brother. Jubal was the father of
people who play the harp and flute. 22 Zillah
gave birth to Tubal-Cain. Tubal-Cain was the
father of people who work with bronze and
iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was named
Naamah.
23 Lamech said to his wives:
The First Murder
3‑4 At harvest time, a Cain brought a gift to
the Lord. He brought some of the food that
he grew from the ground, but Abel brought
some animals from his flock. He chose some
of his best sheep and brought the best parts
from them. b
The Lord accepted Abel and his gift. 5 But
he did not accept Cain and his offering. Cain
was sad because of this, and he became very
angry. 6 The Lord asked Cain, “Why are you
angry? Why does your face look sad? 7 You
know that if you do what is right, I will accept
you. But if you don’t, sin is ready to attack
you. That sin will want to control you, but you
must control it.” c
8 Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out
to the field.” d So they went to the field. Then
Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed
him.
9 Later, the Lord said to Cain, “Where is
your brother Abel?”
Cain answered, “I don’t know. Is it my job
to watch over my brother?”
10‑11 Then the Lord said, “What have
you done? You killed your brother and the
ground opened up to take his blood from your
hands. Now his blood is shouting to me from
the ground. So you will be cursed from this
ground. 12 Now when you work the soil, the
ground will not help your plants grow. You
will not have a home in this land. You will
wander from place to place.”
13 Then Cain said, “This punishment is
more than I can bear! 14 You are forcing me
to leave the land, and I will not be able to be
near you or have a home! Now I must wander
from place to place, and anyone I meet could
kill me.”
15 Then the Lord said to Cain, “No, if any-
one kills you, I will punish that person much,
much more.” Then the Lord put a mark on
Cain to show that no one should kill him.
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice!
You wives of Lamech, listen to me.
A man hurt me, so I killed him.
I even killed a child for hitting me.
24 The punishment for killing Cain was very
bad.
But the punishment for killing me will
be many times worse!”
Adam and Eve Have a New Son
25 Adam again had sexual relations with his
wife, and she gave birth to another son. She
named him Seth. g Eve said, “God has given
me another son. Cain killed Abel, but now I
have Seth.” 26 Seth also had a son. He named
him Enosh. At that time people began to pray
to the Lord. h
The History of Adam’s Family
5 1 This is the history of Adam’s i family.
When God created people, he made them
like himself. j 2 He created them male and
female. And on the same day he made them,
he blessed them and called them “humans.” k
3 After Adam was 130 years old, he had
another son. This son looked just like Adam. l
Adam named his son Seth. 4 After Seth was
born, Adam lived 800 years and had other
sons and daughters. 5 So Adam lived a total of
930 years; then he died.
6 After Seth was 105 years old, he had a
son named Enosh. 7 After Enosh was born,
f 4:20 father This probably means that this man
invented these things or was the first one to use
them.
g 4:25 Seth This is like a Hebrew word meaning “to
give.”
h 4:26 people … the l o r d Literally, “people began
calling on the name Y a h w e h .”
i 5:1 Adam This name means “man” or “people.” It is
like the word meaning “earth” or “red clay.”
j 5:1 When God … like himself Literally, “He made
him in the image of God.” See Gen. 1:27; 5:3.
k 5:2 humans The Hebrew word means “Adam,”
“man,” or “people.”
l 5:3 he had … like Adam Or “he fathered a son in
his image and likeness.” In Hebrew this is like Gen.
1:27; 5:1.
Cain’s Family
16 Cain went away from the Lord and lived
in the land of Nod. e
17 Cain had sexual relations with his wife.
She became pregnant and gave birth to a son
named Enoch. Cain built a city and gave the
a 4:3‑4 At harvest time Literally, “at the end of days.”
b 4:3‑4 He chose … from them Literally, “He brought
some of his firstborn sheep, especially their fat.”
c 4:7 But if you … control it Or “But if you don’t do
right, sin is crouching at your door. It wants you, but
you must rule over it.”
d 4:8 Let’s go … field This sentence is found in the
ancient versions but not in the standard Hebrew
text.
e 4:16 Nod This name means “wandering.”
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GENESIS 6:19
Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and
daughters. 8 So Seth lived a total of 912 years;
then he died.
9 After Enosh was 90 years old, he had a
son named Kenan. 10 After Kenan was born,
Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and
daughters. 11 So Enosh lived a total of 905
years; then he died.
12 After Kenan was 70 years old, he had a
son named Mahalalel. 13 After Mahalalel was
born, Kenan lived 840 years and had other
sons and daughters. 14 So Kenan lived a total
of 910 years; then he died.
15 When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he had
a son named Jared. 16 After Jared was born,
Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons
and daughters. 17 So Mahalalel lived a total of
895 years; then he died.
18 After Jared was 162 years old, he had a
son named Enoch. 19 After Enoch was born,
Jared lived 800 years and had other sons
and daughters. 20 So Jared lived a total of 962
years; then he died.
21 After Enoch was 65 years old, he had a
son named Methuselah. 22 After Methuselah
was born, Enoch walked with God for 300
years and had other sons and daughters. 23 So
Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24 One day
Enoch was walking with God, and he disap-
peared. God took him. a
25 After Methuselah was 187 years old, he
had a son named Lamech. 26 After Lamech
was born, Methuselah lived 782 years and
had other sons and daughters. 27 So Methuse-
lah lived a total of 969 years; then he died.
28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he
had a son. 29 Lamech named his son Noah. b
Lamech said, “We work very hard as farm-
ers because God cursed the ground. But Noah
will bring us rest.”
30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595
years and had other sons and daughters. 31 So
Lamech lived a total of 777 years; then he
died.
32 After Noah was 500 years old, he had
sons named Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
During this time and also later, the
Nephilim * people lived in the land. They
have been famous as powerful soldiers since
ancient times.
5 The Lord saw that the people on the earth
were very evil. He saw that they thought
only about evil things all the time. 6 He was
sorry that he had made people on the earth. It
made him very sad in his heart. 7 So the Lord
said, “I will destroy all the people I created
on the earth. I will destroy every person and
every animal and everything that crawls on
the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in
the air, because I am sorry that I have made
them.”
8 But Noah pleased the Lord.
Noah and the Great Flood
9 This is the history of Noah’s family. He
was a good man all his life, and he always
followed God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
11‑12 When God looked at the earth, he saw
that people had ruined it. Violence was every-
where, and it had ruined their life on earth.
13 So God said to Noah, “Everyone has filled
the earth with anger and violence. So I will
destroy all living things. I will remove them
from the earth. 14 Use cypress wood d and
build a boat for yourself. Make rooms in the
boat e and cover it with tar inside and out. *
15 “This is the size I want you to make the
boat: 300 cubits f long, 50 cubits g wide, and
30 cubits h high. 16 Make a window for the
boat about 1 cubit i below the roof. j Put a
door in the side of the boat. Make three floors
in the boat: a top deck, a middle deck, and a
lower deck.
17 “Understand what I am telling you. I will
bring a great flood of water on the earth. I
will destroy all living things that live under
heaven. Everything on the earth will die. 18 I
will make a special agreement with you. You,
your wife, your sons, and their wives will all
go into the boat. 19 Also, you will take two of
every living thing on the earth with you into
People Become Evil
6 1‑4 The number of people on earth contin-
not judge people forever, because they will all die
in 120 years.”
d 6:14 cypress wood Hebrew, “gopher timbers.” It is
uncertain what kind of wood this is. It might be a
kind of tree or squared timbers.
e 6:14 Make rooms in the boat Or “Make caulking
for the boat.” This could be small plants that were
stuffed into the cracks and covered with tar.
f 6:15 300 cubits 437' 1/8" (133 m) if this was the
short cubit or 510' 1 13/16" (155.5 m) if it was the
long cubit.
g 6:15 50 cubits 72' 10" (22.2 m) if this was the short
cubit or 85' 5/16" (25.92 m) if it was the long cubit.
h 6:15 30 cubits 43' 8 7/16" (13.3 m) if this was the
short cubit or 51' 3/16" (15.55 m) if it was the long
cubit.
i 6:16 1 cubit 17 1/2" (44.4 cm) if this was the short
cubit or 20 5/8" (51.83 cm) if it was the long cubit.
j 6:16 Make a window … below the roof Or “Make
an opening for the boat about 18 inches tall.”
ued to increase. When these people had
daughters, the sons of God saw how beauti-
ful they were. So they chose the women they
wanted. They married them, and the women
had their children.
Then the Lord said, “People are only
human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled
by them forever. I will let them live only 120
years.” c
a 5:24 Or “Enoch pleased God. Enoch disappeared.
God took him.”
b 5:29 Noah This name is like the Hebrew word
meaning “to rest,” “to be sorry,” or “comfort.”
c 6:1‑4 People … 120 years Or “The spirit from me
will not live in people forever, because they are
flesh. They will live only 120 years.” Or “My Spirit will

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