Bible verses about "genesis" | Thomson

¹ Now Abraham had removed thence into the south country, and made his abode between Kades and Sour, and sojourned among the Gerarites. ² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. For he was afraid to say, She is my wife, lest the men of the city should kill him on her account. ³ And Abimelech the king of the Gerarites sent and took Sarah. And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said, Behold thou diest for this woman, whom thou hast taken; for she is the man's wife. ⁴ Now Abimelech had not touched her. And Abimelech said, Lord, wilt thou destroy an unknowing and righteous nation? ⁵ Did he not tell me, She is my sister? And did not she say to me, He is my brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands I have done this. ⁶ And God said to him in a dream, I know indeed that with a pure heart thou hast done this, and out of compassion I withheld thee from sinning against me. For this cause I suffered thee not to touch her. ⁷ Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet; and he will pray for thee and thou shalt live. But if thou restore not, be assured that thou and all belonging to thee shall die. ⁸ And Abimelech arose early next morning and called all his servants and related all these things in their hearing. And all the men were exceedingly terrified. ⁹ Then Abimelech sent for Abraham and said to him, Why hast thou dealt thus with us? Have we in any respect sinned against thee, that thou shouldst bring upon me and upon my kingdom this great sin? Thou hast done to me what no one should do. ¹⁰ Moreover Abimelech said to Abraham, What didst thou see that thou shouldst do this? ¹¹ And Abraham said, I indeed thought, as there is no worship of God in this place, they will kill me for my wife's sake. ¹² And indeed of a truth she is my sister by the same father but not of the same mother, so she became my wife. ¹³ And when God led me out from my father's house I said to her, Thou wilt do me this kindness. To what place soever we come say of me, He is my brother. ¹⁴ Then Abimelech took, a thousand didrachms and sheep and oxen and men servants and maid servants and gave them to Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife. ¹⁵ And Abimelech said to Abraham, Behold my land is before thee; dwell wherever it may please thee. ¹⁶ And to Sarah he said, Behold I have given thy brother a thousand didrachms. Let these therefore be for thee to adorn thy countenance and for all the women with thee. Make thou therefore all things hereafter accord with truth. ¹⁷ Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maid servants and they bore children. ¹⁸ For the Lord had shut up every womb in Abimelech family on the account of Sarah the wife of Abraham. Chapter 21

²⁰ You indeed consulted against me for evil: but God determined concerning me for good, to bring to pass as at this day, that much people might be nourished.

¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, to whom sons were born after the flood. ² The sons of Japheth, Gamer, and Magog and Madoi and Jovan and Elisa and Thobel and Mosoch and Theiras. ³ And the sons of Gamer, Aschanaz and Riphath and Thorgama. ⁴ And the children of Jovan, Elisa, and the Tharsians, Ketians, Rhodians. ⁵ By these the islands of the nations were set apart in their land, each according to their language in their tribes and in their nations. ⁶ And the sons of Cham; Chous, and Mesrain, Phoud and Chanaan. ⁷ And the children of Chous; Saba and Evila and Sabatha and Regma and Sabathaka. And the sons of Regma; Saba and Dadan. ⁸ And Chous begot Nebrod. He began to be a giant on the earth. ⁹ He was a giant hunter before the Lord God. For this cause they say, "Like Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord." ¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon and Orech and Archad and Chalane in the land of Senaar. ¹¹ From this land Assour went out and builded Ninive and the city Rooboth and Chalach ¹² and Dase, between Ninive and Chalach. This was the great city. ¹³ And Mesrain begot the Loudieims and the Nephthaleims, and the Enemetieims, and Labieims, ¹⁴ and Patrosonieims, and the Chasmonieims [from whom descended the Philistines] and the Gaphthorieims. ¹⁵ And Chanaan begot Sidon his first born, and Chettaius, ¹⁶ and Jebousaius and Amoraius and Gergasaius ¹⁷ and Evaius and Aroukaius and Asennaius ¹⁸ and Aradius and Samaraius and Amathius. And after this the tribes of the Chananites were dispersed. ¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa. ²⁰ These were the children of Cham in their tribes according to their languages in their countries and in their nations. ²¹ To Sem also children were born even to him who was the father of all the children of Eber and the brother of Japheth who was older than he. ²² The children of Sem were Elam and Assour and Arphaxad and Loud and Aram and Kainan. ²³ And the children of Aram were Ouz and Oul and Gater and Mosoch. ²⁴ And Arphaxad begot Kainan; and Kainan begot Sala; and Sala begot Eber; ²⁵ and to Eber were born two sons, the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Jektan. ²⁶ And Jektan begot Elmodad and Saleth and Sarmoth and Jarach ²⁷ and Odorra and Aibel and Dekla ²⁸ and Eval and Abimael and Saba ²⁹ and Oupheir and Evila and Jobab. All these were the children of Jektan, ³⁰ and their dwelling was from Massa extending to Saphera a mountain of the east. ³¹ These were the children of Sem in their tribes according to their tongues in their countries and in their nations. ³² These were the tribes of the children of Noe according to their descents and according to their nations. From these were peopled the different countries of the nations on the earth after the flood.

¹ Now Abraham had removed thence into the south country, and made his abode between Kades and Sour, and sojourned among the Gerarites.

¹ Behold what a love the Father hath shewn us, that we should be called children of God: on this account the world doth not know us, because it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God. Though it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be, yet we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him: that we shall see him as he is.

¹ What was from the beginning; what we have heard; what we have seen with our eyes; what we have viewed attentively, and our hands have handled [with respect also to the word of the life ² even the life was manifested, and we have seen, and testify, and announce to you, that eternal life which was with the Father, and hath been clearly manifested to us] ³ that which we have seen and heard, we announce to you, that you also may have communion with us. Now this communion of ours is with the Father, and with his son Jesus Christ. ⁴ And we write these things to you that your joy may be complete. ⁵ This indeed is the message which we have heard from him, and announce to you, That God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. ⁸ If we say that we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a false speaker, and his word is not in us.

¹ After this when it was told Joseph, Thy father is sick, he took his two sons Manasses and Ephraim and went to Jacob. ² And when they told Jacob saying, Behold thy son Joseph is coming to thee, Israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed. ³ And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me at Louza in the land of Chanaan and blessed me ⁴ and said, Behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee and make thee a multitude of nations, and I will give thee this land even to thy seed after thee for a perpetual possession. ⁵ Now therefore thy two sons, who have been born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasses, like Reuben and Symeon, shall be mine. ⁶ And the issue which thou mayst have after this shall go by the name of their brothers. They shall be enrolled in their inheritances. ⁷ Now when I came out of Syrian Mesopotamia Rachel thy mother died in the land of Chanaan, just as I drew near the race ground of Chabratha on the way to Ephratha. So I buried her in the way of the race ground the same is Bethlehem. ⁸ Then Israel seeing the sons of Joseph said, Who are these with thee? ⁹ And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. Whereupon Jacob said, Bring them near to me that I may bless them. ¹⁰ Now Israel's eyes were dim by reason of old age and he could not see clearly. And when he brought them near to him, he kissed them and embraced them. ¹¹ And Israel said to Joseph, Lo! was I not deprived of thy presence? yet behold God hath shewn me even thy seed. ¹² Then Joseph took them from his knees; and when they had made obeisance to him with their face to the ground, ¹³ Joseph taking his two sons, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left and Manasses in his left hand towards Israel's right, brought them near to him. ¹⁴ But Israel stretching out his right hand laid it on Ephraim's head [now he was the youngest] and his left hand on Manasses' head crossing his hands. ¹⁵ And he blessed them and said, The God whom my fathers Abraham and Isaak worshipped; the God who hath fed me from my youth to this day; ¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth! ¹⁷ Now when Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on Ephraim's head, it appeared amiss to him; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to the head of Manasses. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first born, put thy right hand on his head. ¹⁹ But he refused and said, I know; my son; I know. This indeed will be a people and will be exalted. But his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will be a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day and said, By you Israel will bless saying, God make thee like Ephraim and Manasses. So he put Ephraim before Manasses. ²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, Lo I die. But God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers. ²² Now to thee exclusively above thy brothers, I give Sikima, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.

⁷ Though thou hast offered right, yet if thou hast not rightly divided, hast thou not sinned? Be composed. To thee shall be his recourse, and thou shalt rule over him."

¹ Now God had remembered Noe and all the beasts and all the cattle and all the fowls and all the reptiles which creep, even all that were with him in the ark; and God brought a wind over the earth and aswaged the water. ² And the fountains of the abyss were shut up and also the cataracts of heaven and the rain from heaven was stayed: ³ and the water running off from the earth subsided; so after a hundred and fifty days the water was lessened and the ark grounded in the seventh month and twenty seventh day of the month upon the mountains of Ararat. ⁴ Still the water continued to lessen till the tenth month. ⁵ And in the tenth month, on the first, day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. ⁶ And after forty days Noe opened the window which he had made in the ark ⁷ and sent forth a raven; and it having gone out did not return till the water was dried up from the earth. ⁸ So he sent out after it the dove to see if the water was abated from the earth; ⁹ and the dove finding no resting place for its feet, returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the whole face of the earth. Therefore he stretched out his hand and brought it to him in to the ark. ¹⁰ And having waited yet other seven days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark, ¹¹ and towards evening the dove returned to him and it had an olive leaf, a dry leaf in its bill. So Noe knew that the water was abated from the earth. ¹² And having waited yet other seven days he again sent out the dove, and it returned to him no more. ¹³ And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of Noe's life, in the first month and the first day of the month, the water was gone from the earth; and Noe removed the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water was gone from the face of the earth. ¹⁴ And in the second month and twenty seventh day of the month, when the ground was dry, ¹⁵ the Lord God spoke to Noe saying, ¹⁶ "Go forth out of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons' wives with thee, ¹⁷ and all the beasts which are with thee, even all flesh both of fowls and cattle. Take out also with thee every moving reptile on the earth, and be ye fruitful and multiplied on the earth." ¹⁸ So Noe and his wife and his sons and his sons' wives with him went out. ¹⁹ And all the beasts and all the cattle and every fowl and every moving reptile on the earth according to their kind, went forth out of the ark. ²⁰ And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all the cattle which are clean and of all the fowls which are clean, and offered them up upon the altar for a whole homage offering. ²¹ And the Lord God smelled a sweet savour, and the Lord God having come to a determination, said, "I will no more curse the ground on account of the works of men. Though the imagination of man is studiously bent upon evils from his youth, I will not on that account again smite all living flesh, as I have done. ²² While the earth continueth, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, with a succession of day and night shall not cease."

²⁶ Then God said, "Let us make man after our image and after a likeness; and let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the cattle, and the whole earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth." ²⁷ So God made man. After an image of God he made him. A male and a female he made them. ²⁸ And God blessed them saying, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all the cattle, and all the earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth."

¹ In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. ² And the earth was invisible and unfurnished and there was darkness over this abyss; and a breath of God was brought on above the water. ³ And God said, "Let there be Light;" and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light that it was good. And God made a separation between the light and the darkness. ⁵ And God called the light day; and the darkness he called night. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The first day. ⁶ Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water; and let it make a separation between water and water." And it was so. God made the firmament; and God made a separation between the water which was below the firmament

⁸ and the water which was above the firmament. And God called the firmament, heaven. And God saw that it was good. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The second day. ⁹ Then God said, "Let the water which is below the heaven be gathered into one receptacle and let the dry land appear." ¹⁰ And it was so. The waters which were below the heaven were gathered into their several collections, and the dry land appeared. And God called the dry land, earth; and the collections of the waters he called, seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹ And God said, "Let the earth produce the grassy plant with sowing seed according to kind and according to likeness, and the fruit bearing tree together with the fruit, the seed of which is in it according to kind, upon the earth." And it was so. ¹² The earth indeed produced the grassy plant with sowing seed according to kind and according to likeness, and the fruit tree together with fruit, the seed of which is in it, according to kind, in the earth. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was an evening and there was a morning. The third day. ¹⁴ Then God said, "Let there be luminaries in the firmament of heaven, to give light on the earth; to make a separation between the day and the night: and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years; ¹⁵ and let them be for an illumination in the firmament of heaven so as to shine on the earth." And it was so. ¹⁶ God indeed made the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for the regulations of the day, and the lesser luminary, with the stars, for the regulations of the night. ¹⁷ And God placed them in the firmament of heaven so as to shine on the earth, ¹⁸ and to regulate the day and the night, and to make a division between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was an evening and there was a morning. The fourth day. ²⁰ Then God said, "Let the waters produce moving creatures having life; and winged creatures flying above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." And it was so. ²¹ God indeed made the great sea monsters and every species of moving animals which the waters produced according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to kind. And God saw that they were good. ²² And God blessed them saying, "Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let flying creatures be multiplied on the earth." ²³ And there was an evening and there was a morning. The fifth day. ²⁴ Then God said, "Let the earth produce animal life according to kind; four footed beasts and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to kind." And it was so. ²⁵ God indeed made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to kind. And God saw that they were good. ²⁶ Then God said, "Let us make man after our image and after a likeness; and let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the cattle, and the whole earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth." ²⁷ So God made man. After an image of God he made him. A male and a female he made them. ²⁸ And God blessed them saying, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all the cattle, and all the earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth." ²⁹ Moreover God said, "Behold I have given you every seed bearing plant, the sowing seed which is on the whole earth, and every tree which hath in itself the fruit of seminal seed, you shall have for food: ³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the air, and to every reptile on the earth, which hath in it animal life, I have also given every green herb for food." And it was so. ³¹ And God saw all the things which he had made, and behold they were very good. And there was an evening and there was a morning. The sixth day.