Genesis 1:9
1:9 God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.
Genesis 1:16
1:16 God made two great lights – the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.
Genesis 1:18
1:18 to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:20
1:20 God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1:22
1:22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:24
1:24 God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.
Genesis 1:31
1:31 God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2:2-4
2:2 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.
2:3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
The Creation of Man and Woman
2:4 This is the account of the heavens and
the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.
Genesis 2:7
2:7 The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:15
2:15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.
Genesis 2:18
2:18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”
Genesis 2:22
2:22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Genesis 3:5
3:5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”
Genesis 3:11
3:11 And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:13
3:13 So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:23
3:23 So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
Genesis 5:22
5:22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 6:2
6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
Genesis 6:9
The Judgment of the Flood
6:9 This is the account of Noah.
Noah was a godly man; he was blameless
among his contemporaries. He walked with God.
Genesis 9:12
9:12 And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:
Genesis 9:17
9:17 So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”
Genesis 9:27
9:27 May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers!
May he live in the tents of Shem
and may Canaan be his slave!”
Genesis 14:20
14:20 Worthy of praise is the Most High God,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
Genesis 14:22
14:22 But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow
Genesis 16:13
16:13 So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”
Genesis 17:1
The Sign of the Covenant
17:1 When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.
Genesis 17:9
17:9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
Genesis 17:15
17:15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.
Genesis 20:11
20:11 Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’
Genesis 21:2
21:2 So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
Genesis 21:19
21:19 Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.
Genesis 21:22
21:22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 22:8
22:8 “God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.
Genesis 27:20
27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” he replied.
Genesis 27:28
27:28 May God give you
the dew of the sky
and the richness of the earth,
and plenty of grain and new wine.
Genesis 28:3
28:3 May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
Genesis 28:17
28:17 He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”
Genesis 30:2
30:2 Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
Genesis 30:6
30:6 Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer and given me a son.” That is why she named him Dan.
Genesis 30:18
30:18 Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.
Genesis 30:20
30:20 Then Leah said, “God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
Genesis 31:5
31:5 There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:7
31:7 but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
Genesis 31:24
31:24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, “Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”
Genesis 31:29
31:29 I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’
Genesis 31:50
31:50 If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions.”
Genesis 32:28
32:28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
Genesis 35:5
35:5 and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Genesis 35:7
35:7 He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
Genesis 40:8
40:8 They told him, “We both had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me.”
Genesis 41:25
41:25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Genesis 41:38-39
41:38 So Pharaoh asked his officials, “Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?”
41:39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!
Genesis 41:51
41:51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”
Genesis 45:5
45:5 Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!
Genesis 45:7
45:7 God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 46:1
The Family of Jacob goes to Egypt
46:1 So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. When he came to Beer Sheba he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Genesis 48:9
48:9 Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” His father said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”
Genesis 48:11
48:11 Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”
Genesis 48:20-21
48:20 So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you will Israel bless, saying,
‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’”
So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
48:21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 50:25
50:25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, “God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”