0 Genesis selected verses

The wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. He ... had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. 2 Chronicles 36:16

Trivia: Who waxed mighty and married 18 wives?

Genesis: Selected Verses

  1. He made the stars also ... And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.   1:16
  2. He rested.   2:2
  3. Out of the ground made the LORD God to grow... the tree of life ... and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.   2:9
  4. Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them.   2:19
  5. But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.   2:20
  6. The rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman.   2:22
  7. The serpent ... said to the woman....   3:1
  8. And the woman said unto the serpent... .   3:2
  9. They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden.   3:8
  10. God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? .   3:9
  11. The serpent beguiled me.   3:13
  12. The LORD God said unto the serpent ... thou art cursed ... above every beast ... upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat.   3:14
  13. I will put enmity ... between thy seed and her seed.   3:15
  14. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.   3:16
  15. Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife ... cursed is the ground for thy sake.   3:17
  16. The LORD God make coats of skins.   3:21
  17. Behold, the man is become as one of us.   3:22
  18. Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.   4:15
  19. And Lamech took unto him two wives.   4:19
  20. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.   4:24
  21. He ... called their name Adam.   5:2
  22. And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.   5:5
  23. Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.   5:32
  24. The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives.   6:2
  25. There were giants in the earth in those days ... when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.   6:4
  26. It repented the LORD that he had made man.   6:6
  27. I will destroy man whom I have created ... and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.   6:7
  28. Behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.   6:17
  29. Every living substance that I have made will I destroy.   7:4
  30. All flesh died that moved upon the earth.   7:21
  31. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.   7:22
  32. Every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground ... Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.   7:23
  33. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour.   8:21
  34. Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.   9:20
  35. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father.   9:22
  36. Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.   9:24
  37. Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.   9:25
  38. The whole earth was of one language.   11:1
  39. Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven.   11:4
  40. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower.   11:5
  41. Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language ... Now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.   11:6
  42. Let us go down, and ... confound their language.   11:7
  43. The LORD did there confound the language of all the earth.   11:9
  44. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister.   12:13
  45. The LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.   12:17
  46. The men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.   13:13
  47. Sarai said unto Abram, ... go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.   16:2
  48. Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee.   16:6
  49. The angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.   16:9
  50. Ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin.   17:11
  51. He that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised.   17:13
  52. And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people.   17:14
  53. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? .   18:12
  54. And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do.   18:17
  55. I will go down now, and see.   18:21
  56. Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? .   18:23
  57. I will not destroy it for ten's sake.   18:32
  58. And the LORD went his way.   18:33
  59. There came two angels to Sodom.   19:1
  60. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, an do ye to them as is good in your eyes.   19:8
  61. The LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.   19:24
  62. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.   19:26
  63. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father .   19:32
  64. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose .   19:33
  65. Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father .   19:34
  66. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose .   19:35
  67. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.   19:36
  68. Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister.   20:2
  69. God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man.   20:3
  70. The LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah.   20:18
  71. Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.   21:9
  72. God did tempt Abraham.   22:1
  73. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and ... offer him there for a burnt offering.   22:2
  74. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.   22:10
  75. Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh.   24:2
  76. The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware.   24:9
  77. Rebekah ... was very fair to look upon, a virgin.   24:15
  78. The LORD ... hath given him ... menservants, and maidservants.   24:35
  79. Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.   25:28
  80. She is my sister.   26:7
  81. Behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah.   26:8
  82. Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife ... that I may go in unto her.   29:21
  83. Laban ... took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.   29:22
  84. And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah.   29:25
  85. He gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.   29:28
  86. And he went in also unto Rachel , and he loved also Rachel more than Leah.   29:30
  87. When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.   29:31
  88. Give me children or else I die.   30:1
  89. Behold my maid Bilhah, Go in unto her.   30:3
  90. When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.   30:9
  91. And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.   30:15
  92. Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes.   30:16
  93. God remembered Rachel, and ... opened her womb.   30:22
  94. The flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.   30:39
  95. I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me.   31:35
  96. Behold this heap ... This heap be a witness.   31:51
  97. Jacob ... there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.   32:24
  98. Let me go, for the day breaketh.   32:26
  99. I have seen God face to face.   32:30
  100. His soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.   34:3
  101. On the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.   34:25
  102. They slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword.   34:26
  103. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.   34:27
  104. Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? .   34:31
  105. The terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them.   35:5
  106. Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine.   35:22
  107. Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.   38:2
  108. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.   38:7
  109. Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife.   38:8
  110. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground.   38:9
  111. And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.   38:10
  112. Judah ... said ... let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.   38:16
  113. Within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.   40:19
  114. Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh.   47:29

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