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  The  Lord  Will Send a Flood 6  1-2   More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings [ a ]  came down and married the ones they wanted.  3  Then the  Lord  said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. [ b ]  No one will live for more than 120 years.” [ c ] 4   The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later. 5   The  Lord  saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.  6  He was sorry that he had made them,  7  and he said, “I'm going to destroy every person on earth! I'll even wipe out animals, birds, and reptiles. I'm sorry I ever made them.” 8  But the  Lord  was ple...

  Descendants of Adam 5  1-2   God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. The following is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man: 3-4  When Adam was 130, he had a son who was just like him, and he named him Seth. Adam had more children  5  and died at the age of 930. 6  When Seth was 105, he had a son named Enosh.  7  Seth had more children  8  and died at the age of 912. 9  When Enosh was 90, he had a son named Kenan.  10  Enosh had more children  11  and died at the age of 905. 12  When Kenan was 70, he had a son named Mahalalel.  13  Kenan had more children  14  and died at the age of 910. 15  When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son named Jared.  16  Mahalalel had more children  17  and died at the age of 895. 18  When Jared was 162, he had a son named Enoch.  19  Jared h...

  Cain Murders Abel 4  Adam [ a ]  and Eve had a son. Then Eve said, “I'll name him Cain because I got [ b ]  him with the help of the  Lord .”  2  Later she had another son and named him Abel. Abel became a sheep farmer, but Cain farmed the land.  3  One day, Cain gave part of his harvest to the  Lord ,  4   and Abel also gave an offering to the  Lord . He killed the first-born lamb from one of his sheep and gave the  Lord  the best parts of it. The  Lord  was pleased with Abel and his offering,  5  but not with Cain and his offering. This made Cain so angry that he could not hide his feelings. 6  The  Lord  said to Cain: What's wrong with you? Why do you look so angry?  7  If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling. [ c ]  But you did the wrong thing, and now sin is waiting to attack you like a lion. Sin wants to destroy you, but don't let it! 8...

  The First Sin 3   The snake was sneakier than any of the other wild animals that the  Lord  God had made. One day it came to the woman and asked, “Did God tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?” 2  The woman answered, “God said we could eat fruit from any tree in the garden,  3  except the one in the middle. He told us not to eat fruit from that tree or even to touch it. If we do, we will die.” 4  “No, you won't!” the snake replied.  5  “God understands what will happen on the day you eat fruit from that tree. You will see what you have done, and you will know the difference between right and wrong, just as God does.” 6  The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too.  7  At once they saw what they had done, and they realized they were ...

  2  So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created. The Seventh Day 2   By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested.  3  God blessed the seventh day and made it special, because on that day he rested from his work. 4  That's how God created the heavens and the earth. The Garden of Eden When the  Lord  God made the heavens and the earth,  5  no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land.  6  But streams [ a ]  came up from the ground and watered the earth. 7   The  Lord  God took some soil from the ground and made a man. [ b ]  God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.  8  The  Lord  made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there. 9   The  Lord  God filled the garden with all kinds of beautiful tre...

  The Story of Creation 1  In the beginning God created the heavens      and the earth. [ a ] 2  The earth was barren,      with no form of life; [ b ] it was under a roaring ocean      covered with darkness. But the Spirit of God [ c ]      was moving over the water. The First Day 3   God said, “I command light to shine!” And light started shining.  4  God looked at the light and saw that it was good. He separated light from darkness  5  and named the light “Day” and the darkness “Night.” Evening came, then morning—that was the first day. [ d ] The Second Day 6   God said, “I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it.”  7  And that's what happened. God made the dome  8  and named it “Sky.” Evening came, then morning—that was the second day. The Third Day 9  God said, “I command the water under the sky...