World English Bible (Classic)

Genesis

50 chapters

Chapters

Genesis 1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 2

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

Genesis 3

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Genesis 4

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

Genesis 5

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Genesis 6

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 7

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Genesis 8

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

Genesis 9

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 10

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 11

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Genesis 12

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 13

Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.

Genesis 14

In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar; Arioch, king of Ellasar; Chedorlaomer, king of Elam; and Tidal, king of Goiim,

Genesis 15

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Genesis 16

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 17

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Genesis 18

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 19

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

Genesis 20

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Genesis 21

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Genesis 22

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

Genesis 23

Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.

Genesis 24

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 25

Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

Genesis 26

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Genesis 27

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

Genesis 28

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Genesis 29

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

Genesis 30

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Genesis 31

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Genesis 32

Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 33

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.

Genesis 34

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Genesis 35

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

Genesis 36

Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

Genesis 37

Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 38

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Genesis 39

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

Genesis 40

After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

Genesis 41

At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.

Genesis 42

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

Genesis 44

He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

Genesis 46

Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

Genesis 47

Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”

Genesis 48

After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 49

Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

Genesis 50

Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.