Genesis
Genesis 1
Last Updated: April 19, 2026In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light...
Genesis 2
Last Updated: April 19, 2026The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of...
Genesis 3
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,but not the fruit...
Genesis 4
Last Updated: April 19, 2026The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with the LORD’s help.”Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.As time passed, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from...
Genesis 5
Last Updated: April 19, 2026This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own...
Genesis 6
Last Updated: April 19, 2026When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be...
Genesis 7
Last Updated: April 19, 2026The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.Also of...
Genesis 8
Last Updated: April 19, 2026God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.The waters continually receded from the earth. After the...
Genesis 9
Last Updated: April 19, 2026God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered...
Genesis 10
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and...
Genesis 11
Last Updated: April 19, 2026The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves...
Genesis 12
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.I will bless those who bless you, and I...
Genesis 13
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,to the...
Genesis 14
Last Updated: April 19, 2026In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,they made war with Bera, king of Sodom; Birsha, king of Gomorrah; Shinab, king of Admah; Shemeber, king of Zeboiim; and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).All these joined together in the valley of...
Genesis 15
Last Updated: April 19, 2026After these things the LORD’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children...
Genesis 16
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.Sarai, Abram’s wife,...
Genesis 17
Last Updated: April 19, 2026When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you....
Genesis 18
Last Updated: April 19, 2026The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the...
Genesis 19
Last Updated: April 19, 2026The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise...
Genesis 20
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold,...
Genesis 21
Last Updated: April 19, 2026The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.Abraham circumcised his...
Genesis 22
Last Updated: April 19, 2026After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”Abraham rose early...
Genesis 23
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,“I am a stranger and a...
Genesis 24
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the...
Genesis 25
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.Abraham gave all that he...
Genesis 26
Last Updated: April 19, 2026There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.The LORD appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.Live in this land, and I...
Genesis 27
Last Updated: April 19, 2026When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver...
Genesis 28
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you,...
Genesis 29
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.There all the flocks...
Genesis 30
Last Updated: April 19, 2026When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to...
Genesis 31
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.The LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to...
Genesis 32
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.He commanded them, saying, “This is what you...
Genesis 33
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.He himself passed over in front of...
Genesis 34
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady,...
Genesis 35
Last Updated: April 19, 2026God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves,...
Genesis 36
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.Oholibamah bore Jeush,...
Genesis 37
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them...
Genesis 38
Last Updated: April 19, 2026At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.She conceived again, and bore a son; and she...
Genesis 39
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.His master saw that...
Genesis 40
Last Updated: April 19, 2026After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was...
Genesis 41
Last Updated: April 19, 2026At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other...
Genesis 42
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”Joseph’s ten brothers went down to...
Genesis 43
Last Updated: April 19, 2026The famine was severe in the land.When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’If...
Genesis 44
Last Updated: April 19, 2026He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.As...
Genesis 45
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph!...
Genesis 46
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into...
Genesis 47
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.Pharaoh said to...
Genesis 48
Last Updated: April 19, 2026After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land...
Genesis 49
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in dignity, and excelling...
Genesis 50
Last Updated: April 19, 2026Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.When the days of weeping for him...