GOD in the Old Testament - Part 8

Genesis 14:18-20 

    Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram saying,

    "Blessed be Abram by God Most High,

        Creator of heaven and earth.

    And praise be to God Most High,

        who delivered your enemies into your hands."

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

 

Genesis 14:21-23  

    The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself."

     But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, 'I made Abram rich'.  

(see all Genesis 14)

 

Genesis 16:13-16  

    She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me." That is why the well is called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

    So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.  (see all Genesis 16)

 

Genesis 17:1-5  

    When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."

    Abram fell face down, and God said to him, "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations."  (see Genesis 17:1-6) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 7

Genesis 8:1  

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.  (see Genesis 8:1-14)

 

Genesis 8:15-17  

    Then God said to Noah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."  (see Genesis 8:15-22) 

 

Genesis 9:1  

    Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth."  

(see Genesis 9:1-3)

 

Genesis 9:6  

    "Whoever sheds human blood,

        by humans shall their blood be shed;

    for in the image of God

        has God made mankind."  (see Genesis 9:4-7)

 

Genesis 9:8-11  

    Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." 

 

Genesis 9:12-13  

    And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and earth."

 

Genesis 9:16  

"Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."  (see Genesis 9:8-17)

 

Genesis 9:26-27  

    He also said,

    "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem!

        May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

    May God extend Japheth's territory;

        may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,

    and may Canaan be the slave Japheth."  

    (see Genesis 9:18-29)

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 6

Genesis 6:1-4 

    When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the Sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the Sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.  (see Genesis 6:1-8)

 

Genesis 6:8-13  

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

    This is the account of Noah and his family.

    Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

    Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."  (see Genesis 6:8-21)

 

Genesis 6:22-7:1  

    Noah did everything just as God commanded him. 

    The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation."

 

Genesis 7:8-9  

Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

 

Genesis 7:16  

The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.  (see all Genesis 7) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 5

Genesis 3:21-24  

    The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

 

Genesis 4:25-26  

    Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another child in the place of Abel, since Cain killed him." Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.

    At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.  (see all Genesis 4)

 

Genesis 5:1-2  

    This is the written account of Adam's family line.

    When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them "Mankind" when they were created.

 

Genesis 5:21-24  

    When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.  (see all Genesis 5) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 4

Genesis 2:15-22

    The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."

    The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

    Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

    But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.  (see Genesis 2:15-25)

 

Genesis 3:1-5  

    Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

    The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you rill die.' "

    "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

 

Genesis 3:8-9  

    Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"  (see Genesis 3:1-12) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 3

Genesis 1:28 - 2:1-9  

    God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

    Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground--everything that has breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

    God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning--the sixth day. 

 

    Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

 

By the seventh day, God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

 

    This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

 

    Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

 

    Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed. The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 2

Genesis 1:14-19

And God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day.

 

Genesis 1:20-23  

And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning--the fifth day.

 

Genesis 1:24-27  

And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds, the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

    Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

    So God created mankind in his own image,

        in the image of God he created them;

        male and female he created them.

  

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