Bible verses about "genesis" | Leeser

¹ And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar. ² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister; and Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. ³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou shalt die for the sake of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife. ⁴ But Abimelech had not come near to her; and he said, Lord, wilt thou then slay also a righteous nation? ⁵ Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother; in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this. ⁶ And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I also well know that thou hast done this in the integrity of thy heart; therefore did I also withhold thee from sinning against me; for this cause I suffered thee not to touch her. ⁷ And now restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for thee, that thou mayest live; and if thou restore her not, know thou, that thou shalt surety die, thou and all that are thine. ⁸ And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were greatly afraid. ⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and in what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? deeds that ought not to be done thou hast done unto me. ¹⁰ And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou didst this thing? ¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me for the sake of my wife. ¹² And yet indeed she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. ¹³ And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. ¹⁴ And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife. ¹⁵ And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it is pleasing in thy eyes. ¹⁶ And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, this is to thee a covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee; and with all others thou canst thus justify thyself. ¹⁷ And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, so that they could bear children. ¹⁸ For the Lord had fast closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

²⁰ But as for you, though ye thought evil against me, God meant it unto good; in order to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save alive a numerous people.

¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood. ² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tirass. ³ And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴ And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁵ From these were separated the isles of the nations in their lands, every one after his tongue: after their families, in their nations. ⁶ And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizrayim, Put and Canaan. ⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, Sabtah and Raamah, and Sabtecha; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty man on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord. ¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹ Out of that land went forth Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city of Rechoboth, and Calach. ¹² And Ressen between Nineveh and Calach: the same is the great city. ¹³ And Mizrayim begat the Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuchim. ¹⁴ And the Pethrussim, and Casluchin, out of whom came the Pelishtim, and the Caphtorim. ¹⁵ And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth, ¹⁶ And the Jebusite, and the Emorite, and the Girgashite, ¹⁷ And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, ¹⁸ And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. ¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gazzah; as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboyim, even unto Lesha. ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, in their nations. ²¹ But unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, were children born. ²² The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram. ²³ And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. ²⁴ And Arpachshad begat Shelach; and Shelach begat Eber. ²⁵ And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. ²⁶ And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerach, ²⁷ And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, ²⁸ And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba. ²⁹ And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, the mount of the east. ³¹ These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. ³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and from these were the nations separated on the earth after the flood.

¹ And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.

¹ And it came to pass after these things, that some one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick; and he took his two sons with him, Menasseh and Ephraim. ² And some one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph is coming unto thee; and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. ³ And Jacob said unto Joseph, God, the Almighty, appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, ⁴ And he said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and I will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. ⁵ And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, shall be mine; Ephraim and Menasseh shall be unto me as Reuben and Simeon. ⁶ And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, after the name of their brothers shall they be called in their inheritance. ⁷ And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when yet there was some distance to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there on the way of Ephrath, the same is Beth-lechem. ⁸ And Israel perceived the sons of Joseph, and said, Who are these? ⁹ And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. ¹⁰ Now the eyes of Israel were dim through age, he could not see; and he brought them near unto him, and he kissed them, and embraced them. ¹¹ And Israel said unto Joseph, To see thy face I had not hoped; and lo, God hath shown me also thy seed. ¹² And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. ¹³ And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Menasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them near unto him. ¹⁴ And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Menasseh’s head; he laid his hands wittingly; although Menasseh was the first-born. ¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who fed me from my first being unto this day, ¹⁶ The angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. ¹⁷ And when Joseph saw that his father would lay his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he took hold of his father’s hand, to remove it from the head of Ephraim unto the head of Menasseh. ¹⁸ And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born, put thy right hand upon his head. ¹⁹ And his father refused, and said, I know, my son, I know, he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day, saying, With thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Menasseh: and so he set Ephraim before Menasseh. ²¹ And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers ²² Moreover I have given unto thee one portion above thy brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Emorite with my sword and with my bow.

⁷ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou canst rule over it.

¹ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were assuaged; ² The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped; and the rain from heaven was restrained. ³ And the waters returned from off the earth, gradually returning; and the waters were abated after the end of the hundred and fifty days. ⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen; ⁶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; ⁷ And he sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. ⁸ He then sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. ⁹ But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him unto the ark; for there was water on the face of the whole earth; then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her into the ark. ¹⁰ And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. ¹¹ And the dove came in to him at the time of the evening; and, lo, an olive-leaf plucked off was in her mouth; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. ¹² And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned not again unto him any more. ¹³ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. ¹⁴ And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth perfectly dried up. ¹⁵ And God spoke unto Noah, saying, ¹⁶ Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. ¹⁷ Every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee; that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. ¹⁸ And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. ¹⁹ Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark. ²⁰ And Noah built an altar unto the Lord, and he took of every clean cattle, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. ²¹ And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man; although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. ²² All the while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and they shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. ²⁷ And God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ² And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God was waving over the face of the waters. ³ And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness. ⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And it was evening and it was morning, the first day. ⁶ And God said, Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between waters and waters. ⁷ And God made the expansion, and divided between the waters which were under the expansion and the waters which were above the expansion: and it was so. ⁸ And God called the expansion Heaven. And it was evening and it was morning, the second day. ⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land be visible: and it was so. ¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas: and God saw that it was good. ¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs yielding seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, in which its seed is upon the earth: and it was so. ¹² And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees yielding fruit, in which its seed is after their kind: and God saw that it was good. ¹³ And it was evening and it was morning, the third day. ¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the expansion of the heaven to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years; ¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the expansion of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. ¹⁷ And God set them in the expansion of the heaven to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸ And to rule by day and by night, and to divide between the light and the darkness: and God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And it was evening and it was morning, the fourth day. ²⁰ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly moving creatures that have life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open expansion of the heaven. ²¹ And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply on the earth. ²³ And it was evening and it was morning, the fifth day. ²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind: and God saw that it was good. ²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and they shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. ²⁷ And God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. ²⁹ And God said, Behold I have given unto you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree on which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so. ³¹ And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.