Author: Mark

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fertile and increase, and fill the earth. 2 The fear and the dread of you shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the birds of the sky—everything with which the earth is astir—and upon all the fish of the […]

God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, and God caused a wind to blow across the earth, and the waters subsided. וַיִּזְכֹּ֤ר אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־נֹ֔חַ 2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were stopped up, and the rain from the […]

Then the LORD said to Noah, “GO INTO THE ARK, WITH ALL YOUR HOUSEHOLD, FOR YOU ALONE HAVE I FOUND RIGHTEOUS BEFORE ME IN THIS GENERATION. 2 Of every clean animal you shall take seven pairs, males and their mates, and of every animal that is not clean, two, a male and its mate; 3 […]

When men began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the divine beings saw how beautiful the daughters of men were and took wives from among those that pleased them.—3 The LORD said, “My breath shall not abide in man forever, since he too is flesh; let the days allowed him […]

This is the record of Adam’s line.—When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God; 2 male and female He created them. And when they were created, He blessed them and called them Man.— 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he begot a son in his likeness after his image, and […]

Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gained a male child with the help of the LORD.” 2 She then bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the soil. 3 In the course of time, Cain brought […]

Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild beasts that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say: You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?” 2 The woman replied to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the other trees of the […]

The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array. 2 On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He had done. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God […]

When God began to create heaven and earth—2 the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water—3 God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from […]