1 ThenYahweh said to Noah, “Go—you and all your household—into the ark, for I have seen you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 From all the clean animals…

The Flood Subsides 1 And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind…

God’s Covenant with Noah and Humankind 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 And fear of…

The Descendants of the Sons of Noah 1 These are the generationsof the sons of Noah—Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Childrenwere born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of…

The Tower of Babel 1 Nowthe whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migratedfrom the east they found a plain in the land of…

The Call of Abram 1 And Yahweh said to Abram, “Go out from your land and from your relatives, and from the house of your father, to the land that…

The Parting of Abram and Lot 1 Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that was with him. And Lot went with him to the…

Abram Rescues Lot 1 And it happened that in the days of Amraphel, the king of Shinar, Arioch, the king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer, the king of Elam, and Tidal, the…

Yahweh’s Covenant with Abram 1 After these things the word of Yahweh cameto Abram in a vision, saying: “Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward…

Sarai and Hagar 1 NowSarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said…