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The Amplified Bible
The Old Testament
Genesis
1
IN THE beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens
and the earth.
2The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of
the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face
of the waters.
3And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
4And God saw that the light was good (suitable, pleasant) and He approved it; and
God separated the light from the darkness.
5And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was
evening and there was morning, one day.
6And God said, Let there be a firmament [the expanse of the sky] in the midst of the
waters, and let it separate the waters [below] from the waters [above].
7And God made the firmament [the expanse] and separated the waters which were
under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.
8And God called the firmament Heavens. And there was evening and there was
morning, a second day.
9And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected into one place [of
standing], and let the dry land appear. And it was so.
10God called the dry land Earth, and the accumulated waters He called Seas. And
God saw that this was good (fitting, admirable) and He approved it.
11And God said, Let the earth put forth [tender] vegetation: plants yielding seed and
fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind, upon the
earth. And it was so.
12The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed according to their own
kinds and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And
God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it.
13And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day
from the night, and let them be signs and tokens [of God's provident care], and [to
mark] seasons, days, and years,
15And let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light upon the earth. And it
was so.
16And God made the two great lights--the greater light (the sun) to rule the day and
the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night. He also made the stars.
17And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,
18To rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good (fitting, pleasant) and He approved it.
19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly and swarm with living creatures,
and let birds fly over the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.
21God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, which
the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kinds, and every winged bird
according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He
approved it.
22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas,
and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds:
livestock, creeping things, and [wild] beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And
it was so.
25And God made the [wild] beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and domestic
animals according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the earth according
to its kind. And God saw that it was good (fitting, pleasant) and He approved it.
26God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after
Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds
of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps
upon the earth.
27So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He
created him; male and female He created them.
28And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and
subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature
that moves upon the earth.
29And God said, See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of
all the land and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.
30And to all the animals on the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that
creeps on the ground--to everything in which there is the breath of life--I have given
every green plant for food. And it was so.
31And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good (suitable,
pleasant) and He approved it completely. And there was evening and there was
morning, a sixth day.
2
THUS THE heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done; and He rested on
the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3And God blessed (spoke good of) the seventh day, set it apart as His own, and
hallowed it, because on it God rested from all His work which He had created and
done.
4This is the history of the heavens and of the earth when they were created. In the
day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens--
5When no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet
sprung up, for the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rain upon the earth and there
was no man to till the ground,
6But there went up a mist (fog, vapor) from the land and watered the whole surface of
the ground--
7Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his
nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.
8And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden [delight]; and there He
put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted).
9And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight or to be desired--good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life also in the
center of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of [the difference between] good
and evil and blessing and calamity.
10Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and
became four [river] heads.
11The first is named Pishon; it is the one flowing around the whole land of Havilah,
where there is gold.
12The gold of that land is of high quality; bdellium (pearl?) and onyx stone are there.
13The second river is named Gihon; it is the one flowing around the whole land of
Cush.
14The third river is named Hiddekel [the Tigris]; it is the one flowing east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and
guard and keep it.
16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of
the garden;
17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you
shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
18Now the Lord God said, It is not good (sufficient, satisfactory) that the man should
be alone; I will make him a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.
19And out of the ground the Lord God formed every [wild] beast and living creature of
the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would
call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.
20And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every
[wild] beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable,
adapted, complementary) for him.
21And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, He
took one of his ribs or a part of his side and closed up the [place with] flesh.
22And the rib or part of his side which the Lord God had taken from the man He built
up and made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
23Then Adam said, This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man.
24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and
cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25And the man and his wife were both naked and were not embarrassed or ashamed
in each other's presence.
3
NOW THE serpent was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field
which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, Can it really be
that God has said, You shall not eat from every tree of the garden?
2And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the
garden,
3Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You
shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
4But the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die,
5For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity.
6And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and
that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise,
she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate.
7Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apronlike girdles.
8And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God
among the trees of the garden.
9But the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?
10He said, I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because
I was naked; and I hid myself.
11And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of
which I commanded you that you should not eat?
12And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me--she gave me [fruit]
from the tree, and I ate.
13And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman
said, The serpent beguiled (cheated, outwitted, and deceived) me, and I ate.
14And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed
above all [domestic] animals and above every [wild] living thing of the field; upon your
belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust [and what it contains] all the days of your
life.
15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and
her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait
and bruise His heel.
16To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your grief and your suffering in
pregnancy and the pangs of childbearing; with spasms of distress you will bring forth
children. Yet your desire and craving will be for your husband, and he will rule over
you.
17And to Adam He said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of
your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall
not eat of it, the ground is under a curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you
eat [of the fruits] of it all the days of your life.
18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of
the field.
19In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out
of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.
20The man called his wife's name Eve [life spring], because she was the mother of all
the living.
21For Adam also and for his wife the Lord God made long coats (tunics) of skins and
clothed them.
22And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us [the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit], to know [how to distinguish between] good and evil and
blessing and calamity; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree
of life and eat, and live forever--
23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground
from which he was taken.
24So [God] drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the
cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to
the tree of life.
4
AND ADAM knew Eve as his wife, and she became pregnant and bore Cain; and
she said, I have gotten and gained a man with the help of the Lord.
2And [next] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but
Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3And in the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the
ground.
4And Abel brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat portions. And the Lord
had respect and regard for Abel and for his offering,
5But for Cain and his offering He had no respect or regard. So Cain was exceedingly
angry and indignant, and he looked sad and depressed.
6And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? And why do you look sad and
depressed and dejected?
7If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at
your door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.
8And Cain said to his brother, Let us go out to the field. And when they were in the
field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
9And the Lord said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know.
Am I my brother's keeper?
10And [the Lord] said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is
crying to Me from the ground.
11And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to
receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.
12When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a
fugitive and a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast].
13Then Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land, and from Your
face I will be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond and a wanderer on the
earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.
15And the Lord said to him, Therefore, if anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken
on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark or sign upon Cain, lest anyone finding him
should kill him.
16So Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod
[wandering], east of Eden.
17And Cain's wife [one of Adam's offspring] became pregnant and bore Enoch; and
Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.
18To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael the
father of Methusael, and Methusael the father of Lamech.
19And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah and of the other was
Zillah.
20Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle and
purchase possessions.
21His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and
pipe.
22Zillah bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all [cutting] instruments of bronze and
iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
23Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; you wives of Lamech,
listen to what I say; for I have slain a man [merely] for wounding me, and a young
man [only] for striking and bruising me.
24If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech [will be avenged] seventy-sevenfold.
25And Adam's wife again became pregnant, and she bore a son and called his name
Seth. For God, she said, has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain
slew him.
26And to Seth also a son was born, whom he named Enosh. At that time men began
to call [upon God] by the name of the Lord.
5
THIS IS the book (the written record, the history) of the generations of the
offspring of Adam. When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
2He created them male and female and blessed them and named them [both] Adam
[Man] at the time they were created.
3When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, after his image;
and he named him Seth.
4After he had Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
5So altogether Adam lived 930 years, and he died.
6When Seth was 105 years old, Enosh was born.
7Seth lived after the birth of Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
8So Seth lived 912 years, and he died.
9When Enosh was 90 years old, Kenan was born to him.