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Selected Scripture Passages
The seven days of creation
Genesis 1:1-2:4a (Jewish Publication
Society Tanakh Translation) cont.
And it was so. And God
saw all that He had made, and found it very good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the
sixth day.
The heaven and the earth
were finished, and all their array. On the seventh
day God finished the work that He had been doing,
and He ceased a on the seventh day from all the
work that He had done. And God blessed the seventh
day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased
from all the work of creation that He had done.
Such is the story of heaven and earth when they
were created.
Adam in the Garden of Eden
Genesis 2:7-9, 15 (New American Bible)
The LORD God formed man
out of the clay of the ground and blew into his
nostrils the breath of life, and so man became
a living being. Then the LORD God planted a garden
in Eden, in the east, and he placed there the
man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the
LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful
to look at and good for food, with the tree of
life in the middle of the garden and the tree
of the knowledge of good and bad...
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The LORD God
then took the man and settled him in the garden
of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.
Noah and the flood
Genesis 6:9a-14, 17-22; 7:11-14, 18-19,
21; 7:23b-8:3; 8:15-19 (New Revised Standard Version)
These are the descendants
of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in
his generation; Noah walked with God. And Noah
had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Now the earth was corrupt
in God’s sight, and the earth was filled
with violence. And God saw that the earth was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways
upon the earth. And God said to Noah, "I
have determined to make an end of all flesh, for
the earth is filled with violence because of them;
now I am going to destroy them along with the
earth. Make yourself an ark of cypress-wood; make
rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out
with pitch...
For my part, I am going
to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy
from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath
of life; everything that is on the earth shall
die. But I will establish my covenant with you;
and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons,
your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall
bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep
them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
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