And God saw everything that he had made and, behold, [it was] very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

{before any plant of the field was} on earth, and [before] {any plant of the field} had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground,

And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man. While he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up {the flesh where it had been}.

And Yahweh God fashioned the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other {wild animal} which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth.

When Seth had lived one hundred and five years, he fathered Enosh.

And after Seth had fathered Enosh he lived eight hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters.

When Kenan had lived seventy years, he fathered Mahalalel.

And after Kenan had fathered Mahalalel, he lived eight hundred and forty years, and fathered sons and daughters.

When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Jared.

And after Mahalalel had fathered Jared, he lived eight hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.

When Jared had lived one hundred and sixty-two years, he fathered Enoch.

And after Jared had fathered Enoch, he lived eight hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Methuselah.

When Methuselah had lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he fathered Lamech.

And after Methuselah had fathered Lamech, he lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and fathered sons and daughters.

When Lamech had lived one hundred and eighty-two years, he fathered a son.

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us} from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.

And after Lamech had fathered Noah he lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and he fathered sons and daughters.

And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and {he was grieved in his heart}.

And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

{two of each} went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him.

And it happened [that] at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.

And {he sent out a dove} to see [whether] the waters had subsided from upon the ground.

And the dove came to him {in the evening}, and behold, a freshly-picked olive tree leaf [was] in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.

Then Noah awoke from his drunkenness, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Now the whole earth [had] one language and the same words.

And they said {to each other}, "Come, let us make bricks and {burn them thoroughly}." And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.

When Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, he fathered Shelah.

When Shelah had lived thirty years, he fathered Eber.

When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he fathered Peleg.

When Peleg had lived thirty years, he fathered Reu.

When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he fathered Serug.

When Serug had lived thirty years, he fathered Nahor.

When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he fathered Terah.

When Terah had lived seventy years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

And Abram went [out] as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram {was seventy-five years old} when he went out from Haran.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot {his nephew}, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and all the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to the land of Canaan.

And Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." And he built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

And he dealt well with Abram on account of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

to the place where he had made an altar at the beginning. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.

And Lot, who went with Abram, also had herds and tents.

And Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes and look from the place where you [are] to the north, and to the south, and to the east and to the west,

Twelve years they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

And they took Lot, the son of the brother of Abram, and his possessions, and left. (Now he had been living in Sodom.)

And after the sun had gone down and it [was] dusk, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between those half pieces.

Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name [was] Hagar.

Then Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife.

And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And [when] she saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.

And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm [be] upon you. {I had my servant sleep with you}, and [when] she saw that she had conceived, {she no longer respected me}. May Yahweh judge between me and you!"

And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael.

Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old, {advanced in age}; {the way of women} had ceased to be for Sarah.

[After] the sun {had risen} upon the earth and Lot had entered Zoar,

And Abraham arose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, "my Lord, will you even kill a righteous people?"

For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised.

And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son [when he was] eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne Abraham, mocking.

Then Abraham complained to Abimelech on account of the well of water that servants of Abimelech had seized.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. And he took two of his servants with him, and Isaac his son. And he chopped wood for a burnt offering. And he got up and went to the place which God had told him.

And they came to the place that God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. Then he bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar atop the wood.

Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.

Now Abraham [was] old, {advanced in age}, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.

And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh

And it happened [that] before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah--who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham--came out, and her jar [was] on her shoulder.

Now the girl [was] very pleasing in appearance. [She was] a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.

And the man [was] gazing at her silently to know [if] Yahweh had made his journey successful or not.

Now Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] Laban. And Laban ran out to the man toward the spring.

I had not yet finished speaking to myself when, behold, Rebekah [was] coming out with her jar on her shoulder. And she went down to the spring and drew water. And I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'

And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

And Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.

the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried and Sarah his wife.

And it happened [that], {when he had been there a long time}, Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw--behold--Isaac [was] fondling Rebekah his wife.

And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham. And he gave to them {the same names} which his father had given them.

And it happened [that] on that same day the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug. And they said, "We have found water!"

And she put the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob, her son.

And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, {immediately after} Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came [back] from his hunting.

Then Esau held a grudge against Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother."

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-Aram, to take for himself a wife from there, and he blessed him and instructed him, saying, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"

then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth, as a wife, in addition to the wives he had.

And he arrived at a [certain] place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took [one] of the stones of the place and put [it] under his head and slept at that place.

And Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up [as] a stone pillar, and poured oil on top of it.

Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older [was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.

When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

And it happened [that] as soon as Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away that I may go to my place and my land.

For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you {wherever I turned}. So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?"

But that day he removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that [had] white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and {put them in the charge of his sons}.

And he set the branches that he had peeled in front of the flocks, in the troughs [and] in the water containers. And they were in heat when they came to drink.

And the man became {exceedingly} rich and had large flocks, female slaves, male slaves, camels, and donkeys.

Then Jacob saw the face of Laban and, behold, {it was not like it had been in the past}.

And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.