Old Testament Books

"And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. (KJV)"

"There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. (KJV)"

"For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. (KJV)"

"And the said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. (KJV)"

"And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. (NASB)"

"Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. (NASB)"

"Yes, God looked upon the earth, and it was ruined; all flesh had ruined its way on the earth. (NWT)"

"These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. (NWT)"

"Consequently, Jehovah saw that man’s wickedness was great on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only bad all the time. Jehovah regretted that he had made men on the earth, and his heart was saddened. So Jehovah said: “I am going to wipe men whom I have created off the surface of the ground, man together with domestic animals, creeping animals, and flying creatures of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah. (NWT)"

"Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (NASB)"

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (KJV)"

"And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (KJV)"

"Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died. (NRSV)"

"And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. (KJV)"

"Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him. (NRSV)"

"And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. (KJV)"

"When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them. (NRSV)"

"And Cain went out from the presence of the , and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. (KJV)"

"And the Lord put a mark on Cain. (NRSV)"

"And the set a mark upon Cain. (KJV)"

"My punishment is greater than I can bear. (KJV)"

"And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. (KJV)"

"Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground! (NRSV)"

"The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. (KJV)"

"I do not know; am I my brother's keeper? (NRSV)"

"And the said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? (KJV)"

"Now the man knew his wife Eve. (NRSV)"

"Therefore the God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (KJV)"

"And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. (KJV)"

"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (KJV)"

"And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will strike him in the heel. (NWT)"

"And the God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. (KJV)"

"The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. (KJV)"

"And they heard the voice of the God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. (KJV)"

"So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. (NIV)"

"And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. (KJV)"

"Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

"Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. (NIV)"

"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field. (KJV)"

"Then the man said: "This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one will be called Woman, because from man this one was taken." That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh. And both of them continued to be naked, the man and his wife, and yet they did not become ashamed. (NWT)"

"And the God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: and the rib, which the God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. (KJV)"

"And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. (KJV)"

"It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. (KJV)"

"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. (KJV)"

"And the God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. (KJV)"

"And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. (KJV)"

"And out of the ground made the God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (KJV)"

"And the God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (KJV)"

"And the God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (KJV)"

"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his Work which he made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (KJV)"