And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.

Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.

And Enoch had a son Irad: and Irad became the father of Mehujael: and Mehujael became the father of Methushael: and Methushael became the father of Lamech.

And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh:

And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan:

And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:

And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared:

And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:

And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah:

And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:

And when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.

And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:

And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:

And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:

And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:

And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.

And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.

Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.

And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;

Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon.

And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son.

And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son.

And again Leah became with child, and she gave Jacob a sixth son.

And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.

At his death, Jobab, son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place.

And at the death of Jobab, Husham, from the country of the Temanites, became king in his place.

And at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who overcame the Midianites in the field of Moab, became king; his chief town was named Avith.

And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king.

And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River became king in his place.

And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor, became king.

And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadar became king in his place; his chief town was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel; she was the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.

And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What is this which God has done to us?

So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.

And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.

And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months.

And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.

And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:)

Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.

For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.

So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast.

So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.

Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger.

But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down.

And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.

And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.

And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.

Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.

And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.

And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.

Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel.

So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place.

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.

And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.

For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work.

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.

Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hands and he overcame him.

God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.

And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.

Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.

So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.

And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.