Genesis 1 - 2
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In the a beginning b God created the heavens and the earth.
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The earth was c without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. d And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
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e Then God said, f "Let there be g light"; and there was light.
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And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
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God called the light Day, and the h darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
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Then God said, i "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
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Thus God made the firmament, j and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were k above the firmament; and it was so.
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And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
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Then God said, l "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and m let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
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And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
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Then God said, "Let the earth n bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the o fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
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And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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So the evening and the morning were the third day.
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Then God said, "Let there be p lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and q seasons, and for days and years;
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"and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
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Then God made two great lights: the r greater light to rule the day, and the s lesser light to rule the night. He made t the stars also.
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God set them in the firmament of the u heavens to give light on the earth,
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and to v rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."
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So w God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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And God blessed them, saying, x "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
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So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.
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And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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Then God said, y "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; z let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
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So God created man a in His own image; in the image of God He created him; b male and female He created them.
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Then God blessed them, and God said to them, c "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and d subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
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And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; e to you it shall be for food.
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"Also, to f every beast of the earth, to every g bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so.
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Then h God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 2
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Thus the heavens and the earth, and a all the host of them, were finished.
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b And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
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Then God c blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
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d This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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before any e plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not f caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man g to till the ground;
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but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
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And the LORD God formed man of the h dust of the ground, and i breathed into his j nostrils the breath of life; and k man became a living being.
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The LORD God planted l a garden m eastward in n Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
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And out of the ground the LORD God made o every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. p The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and q evil.
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Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.
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The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts r the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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And the gold of that land is good. s Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
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The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
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The name of the third river is t Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
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Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
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"but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil u you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it v you shall surely w die."
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And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; x I will make him a helper comparable to him."
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y Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and z brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
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So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
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And the LORD God caused a a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
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Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, b and He c brought her to the man.
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And Adam said:
This is now d bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was e taken out of Man."
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f Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and g be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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h And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not i ashamed.
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Psalms 102:25
Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Isaiah 40:21
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
John 1:1 - 3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Hebrews 1:10
And: "You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
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Genesis 2:4
This is the history of the heavens and the eart...
Psalms 8:3
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your ...
Psalms 89:11
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;...
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or eve...
Isaiah 44:24
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who f...
Acts 17:24
God, who made the world and everything in it, s...
Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world His invisib...
Hebrews 1:2
Has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,...
Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the worlds were fra...
Revelation 4:11
"You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and h...
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Jeremiah 4:23
I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light.
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Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive ...
Job 26:13
By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand ...
Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, ...
Psalms 104:30
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; A...
Isaiah 40:13
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as ...
Isaiah 40:14
With whom did He take counsel, and who instruct...
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Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
Psalms 33:9
For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
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2 Corinthians 4:6
For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
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Job 37:18
With Him, have you spread out the skies, Strong...
Psalms 19:2
Day unto day utters speech, And night unto nigh...
Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, ...
Psalms 74:16
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You ...
Psalms 104:20
You make darkness, and it is night, In which al...
Psalms 136:5
To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, For His ...
Jeremiah 10:12
He has made the earth by His power, He has esta...
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Job 37:18
With Him, have you spread out the skies, Strong as a cast metal mirror?
Jeremiah 10:12
He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.
2 Peter 3:5
For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water.
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Job 38:8 - 11
Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb.
Proverbs 8:27 - 29
When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep.
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Psalms 148:4
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!
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Job 26:10
He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, At the boundary of light and darkness.
Psalms 104:6 - 9
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.
Proverbs 8:29
When He assigned to the sea its limit, So that the waters would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear Me?' says the LORD. 'Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, Yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.
2 Peter 3:5
For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water.
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Psalms 24:1
The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.
Psalms 24:2
For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters.
Psalms 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses.
Psalms 95:5
The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.
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Psalms 65:9 - 13
You visit the earth and water it, You greatly enrich it; The river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, For so You have prepared it.
Psalms 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth.
Hebrews 6:7
For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God.
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2 Samuel 16:1
When David was a little past the top of the mountain, there was Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth, who met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
Luke 6:44
For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
Psalms 74:16
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms 136:5 - 9
To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, For His mercy endures forever.
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Psalms 104:19
He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down.
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Psalms 136:8
The sun to rule by day, For His mercy endures forever.
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Deuteronomy 17:3
Who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded.
Psalms 8:3
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His power; Not one is missing.
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Genesis 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be.
Jeremiah 33:20
Thus says the LORD: 'If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season.
Jeremiah 33:25
Thus says the LORD: 'If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth.
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Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name):
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Psalms 104:25 - 28
This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming things, Living things both small and great.
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Genesis 8:17
"Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
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Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
Psalms 100:3
Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought out many schemes.
Ephesians 4:24
And that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
James 3:9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.
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Genesis 9:2
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.
Psalms 8:6 - 8
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet.
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Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.
1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
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Matthew 19:4
And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female.
Mark 10:6 - 8
"But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'
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Genesis 9:1
So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:7
And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.
Leviticus 26:9
For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.
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1 Corinthians 9:27
But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
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Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
Psalms 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth.
Psalms 104:15
And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man's heart.
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Psalms 145:15
The eyes of all look expectantly to You, And You give them their food in due season.
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Job 38:41
Who provides food for the raven, When its young ones cry to God, And wander about for lack of food?
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Psalms 104:24
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1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving.
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Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
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Exodus 20:9 - 11
Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
Exodus 31:17
'It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.'"
Hebrews 4:4
For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works".
Hebrews 4:10
For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
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Isaiah 58:13
If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words.
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Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Psalms 90:1
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
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Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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Genesis 7:4
"For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."
Job 5:10
He gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields.
Job 38:26 - 28
To cause it to rain on a land where there is no one, A wilderness in which there is no man.
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Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
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Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.
Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
Psalms 103:14
For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
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Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
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Genesis 7:22
All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
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1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
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Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 3:24
So 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.
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Genesis 4:16
Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
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Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.
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Genesis 3:22
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" -
Revelation 2:7
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."'
Revelation 22:2
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
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Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
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Genesis 25:18
(They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren.
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Numbers 11:7
Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
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Daniel 10:4
Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris.
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Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?
Genesis 3:3
"but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die."'
Genesis 3:11
And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?
Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
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Genesis 3:3
"but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die."'
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned -
1 Corinthians 15:21
For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
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1 Corinthians 11:8
For man is not from woman, but woman from man.
1 Corinthians 11:9
Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.
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Psalms 8:6
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet.
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Genesis 15:12
Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul's head, and they got away; and no man saw or knew it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
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Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." And he stayed with him for a month.
Ephesians 5:28 - 30
So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
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1 Corinthians 11:8
For man is not from woman, but woman from man.
1 Corinthians 11:9
Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
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Matthew 19:5
And said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh' ?
Ephesians 5:31
"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
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Mark 10:6 - 8
"But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'
1 Corinthians 6:16
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh.
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Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Genesis 3:10
So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.
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Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, And I will not arbitrate with a man.
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