Scripture passages from Genesis

Scripture passages from Genesis

1. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." - Genesis 1:1

2. "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.'" - Genesis 1:26

3. "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." - Genesis 2:15

4. "But the Lord God warned him, 'You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.'" - Genesis 2:16-17

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’?'” - Genesis 3:1

6. "So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made." - Genesis 3:23

7. "The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: 'Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.'" - Genesis 8:21

8. "God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.'" - Genesis 9:1

9. "So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran." - Genesis 12:4

10. "And he brought him outside and said, 'Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.' Then he said to him, 'So shall your offspring be.'" - Genesis 15:5

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