Archive · 2024
31 posts published on 31 days in July 2024, listed by the day of publication.
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 moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light…
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years]; and was gathered to his people.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed:
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.