Tag: A Faithful Version

Gen 18:1  And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Gen 18:2  And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground.

Gen 18:3  And he said, “My LORD, if now I have found favor in Your sight, do not pass away, I pray, from Your servant.

Gen 18:4  Let a little water, I pray, be brought, and wash Your feet, and rest under the tree.

Gen 18:5  And I will bring a bite of bread, and will comfort your hearts. After that You shall pass on, for this is why You have come to Your servant.” And they said, “Do so, as you have said.”

Gen 18:6  And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes.”

Gen 18:7  And Abraham ran out to the herd and brought a calf, tender and good. And he gave it to a young man. And he hurried to dress it.

Gen 18:8  And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Gen 18:9  And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “Behold, in the tent.”

Gen 18:10  And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and lo, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah heard at the tent door which was behind Him.

Gen 18:11  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in days, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Gen 18:12  Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

Gen 18:13  And the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I, who am old, truly bear a child?’

Gen 18:14  Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return again, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Gen 18:15  Then Sarah denied, saying, “I did not laugh;” for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

Gen 18:16  And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham was going with them to send them on the way.

Gen 18:17  And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do,

Gen 18:18  Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Gen 18:19  For I know him, that he will command his children and his house after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken of him.”

Gen 18:20  And the LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Gen 18:21  I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come to Me. And if not, I will know.”

Abraham Intercedes for Sodom

Gen 18:22  And the men turned their faces away from there, and went toward Sodom. But Abraham still stood before the LORD.

Gen 18:23  And Abraham drew near and said, “Will You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Gen 18:24  Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city. Will You also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

Gen 18:25  Far be it from You to act in this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked. And far be it from You, that the righteous should be as the wicked. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Gen 18:26  And the LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”

Gen 18:27  And Abraham answered and said, “Behold now, I have taken upon myself to speak to the LORD —I who am but dust and ashes.

Gen 18:28  Perhaps there will be five lacking from the fifty righteous. Will You destroy all the city for lack of five?” And He said, “If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it.”

Gen 18:29  And he spoke to Him yet again, and said, “Perhaps there shall be forty found there.” And He said, “I will not do it for forty’s sake.”

Gen 18:30  And he said, “Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there.” And He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Gen 18:31  And he said, “Lo now, I have taken upon myself to speak to the LORD. Perhaps there shall be twenty found there.” And He said, “I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.”

Gen 18:32  And he said, “Oh do not let the LORD be angry, and I will speak only once more. Perhaps only ten shall be found there.” And He said, “I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.”

Gen 18:33  And the LORD went His way as soon as He had left off talking with Abraham. And Abraham returned to his place.

Gen 9:1  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and He said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Gen 9:2  And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon all that moves on the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

Gen 9:3  Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you, even as the green herb I have given you all things.

Gen 9:4  But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it—which is its blood.

Gen 9:5  And surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

Gen 9:6  Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood shall be shed by man—for He made man in the image of God.

Gen 9:7  And you, be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and increase in it.”

Gen 9:8  And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Gen 9:9  “Behold I, even I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Gen 9:10  And with every living creature that is with you—of the birds, of the livestock, and of every animal of the earth with you—from all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the earth.

Gen 9:11  And I will establish My covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Gen 9:12  And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature with you, for everlasting generations:

Gen 9:13  I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

Gen 9:14  And it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud.

Gen 9:15  And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Gen 9:16  And the rainbow shall be in the cloud. And I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”

Gen 9:17  And God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”

Noah’s Descendants

Gen 9:18  And the sons of Noah that went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

Gen 9:19  These are the three sons of Noah, and the whole earth was overspread from them.

Gen 9:20  And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

Gen 9:21  And he drank of the wine and was drunk, and he was uncovered inside his tent.

Gen 9:22  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Gen 9:23  And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and they went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father, and their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Gen 9:24  And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest grandson had done to him.

Gen 9:25  And he said, “Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

Gen 9:26  And he said, “Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Gen 9:27  God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; And Canaan shall be their servant.”

Gen 9:28  And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

Gen 9:29  And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

The Flood Subsides

Gen 8:1  And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

Gen 8:2  Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

Gen 8:3  And the waters receded from off the earth continually, and at the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.

Gen 8:4  And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

Gen 8:5  And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; and the tops of the mountains were seen in the tenth month, on the first day of the month.

Gen 8:6  And it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

Gen 8:7  And he sent forth a raven, and it kept going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off the face of the earth.

Gen 8:8  He also sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had gone down from off the face of the earth;

Gen 8:9  But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and pulled her to him into the ark.

Gen 8:10  And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Gen 8:11  And the dove came to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the face of the earth.

Gen 8:12  And he waited yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return again to him any more.

Gen 8:13  And it came to pass in Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were drying up from off the face of the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and, behold, the face of the earth was drying!

Gen 8:14  And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land was fully dry.

Gen 8:15  And God spoke to Noah, saying,

Gen 8:16  “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

Gen 8:17  Bring out with you every living thing that is with you—of all flesh, of fowl, of livestock, and of every crawling thing that crawls upon the earth—so that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.”

Gen 8:18  And Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

Gen 8:19  Every animal, every fowl, and every crawling thing, all that crawls upon the earth after their families, went forth out of the ark.

God’s Covenant with Noah

Gen 8:20  And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and he took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Gen 8:21  And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in His heart, “I will not again curse the ground for man’s sake—although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.

Gen 8:22  While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

Increasing Corruption on Earth

Gen 6:1  And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and when daughters were born to them,

Gen 6:2  That the sons of the mighty ones saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.

Gen 6:3  And the LORD said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man in his going astray, for he is but flesh, and yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”

Gen 6:4  There were tyrants on the earth in those days, and also after that, the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. They were mighty men who existed of old, men of renown.

Gen 6:5  And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Gen 6:6  And the LORD repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Gen 6:7  And the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the crawling thing, and the fowl of the air; for I repent that I have made them.”

Gen 6:8  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah and the Flood

Gen 6:9  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and perfect in his generations, for Noah walked with God.

Gen 6:10  And Noah begat three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gen 6:11  Now the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Gen 6:12  And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt—for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

Gen 6:13  And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Gen 6:14  Make an ark of cypress timbers. You shall make rooms in the ark, and you shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

Gen 6:15  And this is the way you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it shall be fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits.

Gen 6:16  You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and you shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second and third stories.

Gen 6:17  And behold, I, even I am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth in order to destroy all flesh—in which is the breath of life—from under heaven. Everything which is upon the earth shall die.

Gen 6:18  But I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Gen 6:19  And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind, of every living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

Gen 6:20  Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive—of fowls after their kind, and of animals after their kind, of every crawling thing of the earth after its kind.

Gen 6:21  And take for yourself all that is eaten as food, and you shall gather it for yourself; and it shall be for food, for you and for them.”

Gen 6:22  Noah did so, according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Adam’s Descendants to Noah

Gen 5:1  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Gen 5:2  He created them male and female and blessed them, and He called their name Adam in the day when they were created.

Gen 5:3  And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness, after his own image, and he called his name Seth.

Gen 5:4  And the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:5  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years. And he died.

Gen 5:6  And Seth lived one hundred and five years and begat Enos.

Gen 5:7  And after he begat Enos, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:8  And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years. And he died.

Gen 5:9  And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan.

Gen 5:10  And after he begat Cainan, Enos lived eight hundred and fifteen years. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:11  And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years. And he died.

Gen 5:12  And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel.

Gen 5:13  And after he begat Mahalaleel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:14  And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years. And he died.

Gen 5:15  And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years and begat Jared.

Gen 5:16  And after he begat Jared, Mahalaleel lived eight hundred and thirty years. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:17  And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years. And he died.

Gen 5:18  And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years and begat Enoch.

Gen 5:19  And after he begat Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:20  And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years. And he died.

Gen 5:21  And Enoch lived sixty-five years and begat Methuselah.

Gen 5:22  And Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he begat Methuselah. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:23  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

Gen 5:24  And Enoch walked with God, and then he was not, for God took him.

Gen 5:25  And Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years and begat Lamech.

Gen 5:26  And after he begat Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:27  And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years. And he died.

Gen 5:28  And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years and begat a son.

Gen 5:29  And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.”

Gen 5:30  And after he begat Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years. And he begat sons and daughters.

Gen 5:31  And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years. And he died.

Gen 5:32  And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Cain and Abel

Gen 4:1  Then Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man from the LORD.”

Gen 4:2  And she bore again, his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Gen 4:3  It came to pass that Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground.

Gen 4:4  And Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat of it. And the LORD had regard unto Abel and his offering,

Gen 4:5  But He did not have regard unto Cain and his offering. And Cain was extremely angry and his countenance fell.

Gen 4:6  And the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you so angry? And why has your countenance fallen?

Gen 4:7  If you do well, shall you not be accepted? But if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it!”

Gen 4:8  And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it came to pass that when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Gen 4:9  And the LORD said unto Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Gen 4:10  And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to Me from the ground.

Gen 4:11  And now you are cursed from the earth, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Gen 4:12  When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you, and you shall be a wanderer and a fugitive upon the earth.”

Gen 4:13  And Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Gen 4:14  Behold, You have driven me out from the face of the earth today, and I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.”

Gen 4:15  And the LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD set a mark upon Cain so that anyone who found him should not kill him.

Gen 4:16  And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and lived in the land of Nod, to the east of Eden.

Gen 4:17  And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

Gen 4:18  And Irad was born to Enoch. And Irad begat Mehujael, and Mehujael begat Methusael, and Methusael begat Lamech.

Gen 4:19  And Lamech took two wives to himself: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.

Gen 4:20  And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

Gen 4:21  And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who corruptly play the lyre and the pipe.

Gen 4:22  And Zillah also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

Gen 4:23  And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, “Hear my voice, wives of Lamech, hearken to my words, for I have killed a man because he wounded me, a young man because he hurt me;

Gen 4:24  For if Cain is avenged seven times, then truly Lamech is avenged seventy-seven times.”

Gen 4:25  And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.”

Gen 4:26  And there was also a son born to Seth, and he called his name Enos. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD .

The Fall

Gen 3:1  Now the serpent was more cunning than any creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Is it true that God has said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’ “

Gen 3:2  And the woman said to the serpent, “We may freely eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

Gen 3:3  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ “

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said to the woman, “In dying, you shall not surely die!

Gen 3:5  For God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like God, deciding good and evil.”

Gen 3:6  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Gen 3:7  And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Gen 3:8  And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Then Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Gen 3:9  And the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

Gen 3:10  And he said, “I heard You walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, and so I hid myself.”

Gen 3:11  And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree which I commanded you that you should not eat?”

Gen 3:12  And the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

Gen 3:13  And the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Gen 3:14  And the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go upon your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”

Gen 3:16  To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception—in sorrow shall you bring forth children. Your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Gen 3:17  And to Adam He said, “Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree—of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it!’—the ground is cursed for your sake. In sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life.

Gen 3:18  It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you, and thus you shall eat the herbs of the field;

Gen 3:19  In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Gen 3:20  And Adam called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

Gen 3:21  And for Adam and his wife the LORD God made coats of skins and clothed them.

Gen 3:22  And the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to decide good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

Gen 3:23  Therefore, the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.

Gen 3:24  And He drove out the man, and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

The Seventh Day, God Rests

Gen 2:1  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Gen 2:2  And by the beginning of the seventh day God finished His work which He had made. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.

Gen 2:3  And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The Creation of Man and Woman

Gen 2:4  This is the account of the heavens and of the earth when they were created; in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Gen 2:5  The shrub of the field was not yet growing upon the earth, and the herb of the field had not yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground,

Gen 2:6  But there went up from the earth a mist and watered all the face of the ground.

Gen 2:7  Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Gen 2:8  And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.

Gen 2:9  And out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life also was in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 2:10  And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was divided and became four heads.

Gen 2:11  The name of the first is Pishon, which surrounds all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Gen 2:12  And the gold of that land is good. There is also bdellium and the onyx stone.

Gen 2:13  And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that surrounds the whole land of Cush.

Gen 2:14  And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Gen 2:15  And the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and keep it.

Gen 2:16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree in the garden,

Gen 2:17  But you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it in dying you shall surely die.”

Gen 2:18  And the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a helper compatible for him.”

Gen 2:19  And out of the ground the LORD God had formed every animal of the field and every fowl of the air—and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that became its name.

Gen 2:20  And Adam gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field, but there was not found a helper compatible for Adam.

Gen 2:21  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall over Adam, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and afterward closed up the flesh underneath.

Gen 2:22  Then the LORD God made the rib (which He had taken out of the man) into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

Gen 2:23  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.”

Gen 2:24  For this reason shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife—and they shall become one flesh.

Gen 2:25  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.