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Genesis

 

            In the beginning God creates the Earth, the sea, the sky, and all the living creatures that live on this planet, including man, in six days. On the seventh day he rested, and it goes back to saying how man was created, and how from his rib woman was created to be his wife. God tells them that they can eat from any tree in the Garden of Eden except the fruit from the tree of knowledge, for if they ate from that tree they would die. The serpent convinces Eve that the fruit would not kill them so she eats some and then gives some to Adam. After eating the fruit they realize that they are naked and they cover themselves. Once God finds out that they ate from the tree of knowledge he casts them out of Eden. Adam and Eve's first two children are Cain, the tiller of the soil, and Abel, the keeper of sheep. Cain and Able bring God an offering and he holds Abel's offering in higher regard than Cain's so Cain murdered Able. The story begins to list the descendants from Adam to Noah. God decides to drown the earth when he sees its wickedness but chooses Noah to survive. Noah builds an arc according to God's specifications and survives a flood that lasts forty days and forty nights with his family and two of every animal. After the flood destroys everyone, except Noah and his family, he repents and promises never to flood the world again. As proof he created a rainbow as a sign of peace. Then if begins to list the descendents of Noah. Once the Earth was populated again everyone spoke the same language and decided to build a tower that would reach the heavens. God was angered by their presumptuousness and destroyed the tower. He then makes it so there are more than just one language and the people scatter throughout the world. The Lord tell Abram that if he left his home, he would make him a great nation. So he leaves with his wife and brother Lot and eventually ends up in Egypt. Pharaoh becomes interested in his wife, whom he had pose as his sister, but once the truth is revealed they are cast out of Egypt.


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