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Genesis 1 - The Creation Week
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now
the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface
of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was
light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the
light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day,"
and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening,
and there was morning--the first day. 6 And God said, "Let
there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from
water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water
under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God
called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and
there was morning--the second day. 9 And God said, "Let
the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry
ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground
"land," and the gathered waters he called "seas."
And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the
land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the
land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various
kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation:
plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing
fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that
it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning--the
third day. 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the
expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let
them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and
let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on
the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights--the
greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern
the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse
of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and
the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that
it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning--the
fourth day. 20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse
of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the
sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems,
according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to
its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and
said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water
in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23
And there was evening, and there was morning--the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along
the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind."
And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their
kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures
that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God
saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let us make man
in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish
of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over
all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the
ground." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase
in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of
the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature
that moves on the ground." 29 Then God said, "I give
you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and
every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours
for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds
of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything
that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for
food." And it was so." 31 God saw all that he had made,
and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the
sixth day.
Genesis 3 - The Creation Cursed
1 Now the serpent was more subtle than
any other wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to
the woman, "Did God say, 'You shall not eat of any tree
of the garden'?" 2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We
may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but God said,
'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst
of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die.
5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 So when
the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to
make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave
some to her husband, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were
opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard
the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of
the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence
of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD
God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
10 And he said, "I heard the sound of thee in the garden,
and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
11 He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you
eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
12 The man said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with
me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." 13 Then the
LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have
done?" The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and
I ate." 14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because
you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above
all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you
shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between
you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall
bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." 16 To
the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in
childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your
desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
17 And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the
voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded
you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because
of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall
eat the plants of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you
shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it
you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother
of all living. 21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his
wife garments of skins, and clothed them. 22 Then the LORD God
said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing
good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also
of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" -- 23 therefore
the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till
the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man;
and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim,
and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way
to the tree of life.
Genesis 6 thru 8 - The Flood of Noah
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When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters
were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of
men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man
forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty
years." 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and
also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of
men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men
of renown. 5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth
had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that
he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.
7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created,
from the face of the earth--men and animals, and creatures that
move along the ground, and birds of the air--for I am grieved
that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes
of the LORD. 9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous
man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with
God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 11 Now the
earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12
God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people
on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I
am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled
with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both
them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood;
make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This
is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75
feet wide and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for it and finish
the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side
of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going
to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the
heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything
on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with
you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife
and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark
two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive
with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal
and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will
come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of
food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and
for them." 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded
him.
Genesis 7
1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go
into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found
you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven of every
kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind
of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every
kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive
throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain
on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe
from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."
5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. 6 Noah was six
hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And
Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the
ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean
animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had
commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came
on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on
the seventeenth day of the second month--on that day all the
springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of
the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty
days and forty nights. 13 On that very day Noah and his sons,
Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of
his three sons, entered the ark. 14 They had with them every
wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to
their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according
to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything
with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of
life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. 16 The animals
going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had
commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. 17 For forty days
the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased
they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose
and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the
surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and
all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more
than twenty feet. 21 Every living thing that moved on the earth
perished--birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that
swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land
that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living
thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals
and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of
the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those
with him in the ark. 24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred
and fifty days.
Genesis 8
1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild
animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and
he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now
the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had
been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3
The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the
hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the
seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on
the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until
the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the
tops of the mountains became visible. 6 After forty days Noah
opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven,
and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up
from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water
had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could
find no place to set its feet because there was water over all
the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark.
He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back
to himself in the ark.
 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out
the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the
evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf!
Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12
He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this
time it did not return to him. 13 By the first day of the first
month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried
up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark
and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh
day of the second month the earth was completely dry. 15 Then
God said to Noah, 16 "Come out of the ark, you and your
wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of
living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and
all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can multiply
on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it."
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and
his sons' wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that
move along the ground and all the birds--everything that moves
on the earth--came out of the ark, one kind after another. 20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all
the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings
on it. 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his
heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man,
even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.
And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have
done. 22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
Genesis 11 - The Tower of Babel
 Genesis 11:1 Now the whole earth had one language
and few words. 2 And as men migrated from the east, they found
a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said
to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them
thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for
mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves
a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make
a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face
of the whole earth." 5 And the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. 6 And the
LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all
one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will
do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible
for them. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech." 8 So
the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all
the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its
name was called Ba'bel, because there the LORD confused the language
of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad
over the face of all the earth. More
on the Tower of Babel.
New Testament Passages Supporting the Creation
2 Peter 3:3-6
First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last
days with scoffing, following their own passions
4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever
since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from
the beginning of creation." 5 They
deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed
long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water,
6 through which the world that then
existed was deluged with water and perished.
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