Quotes from Genesis

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

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   And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

2. 3

   And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

3. 4

   In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

4. 5

   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

5. 6

   And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.

6. 7

   Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

7. 8

   And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

8. 9

   And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

9. 10

   For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

10. 11

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

11. 12

    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

12. 13

    I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

13. 14

    And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

14. 15

    Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.

15. 16

    And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

16. 17

    And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

17. 18

    And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

18. 19

    And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

19. 20

    Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

20. 21

    But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

21. 22

    And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

22. 23

    And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.