Following is a selection of some of the most memorable Key verses and passages in this book.
1:1
In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth.
John 1:1
1:27 God also created mankind+ in His own image ... He created them as male and female.
2:2 On the seventh day, God ended His work and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had made.
2:7 When the Lord formed man from the dust of the ground, He breathed the breath of life into his nostrils and man became a living soul.
2:15-17 The Lord put man into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And He commanded the man, saying: Of every tree in the garden you may freely eat, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.
2:18 The Lord God said: It is not good that a man should be alone. I will make a help meet for him.
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and be joined+ to his wife and they shall be one flesh.
3:1-5 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made, and he said to the woman: Has God said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The woman said to the serpent: We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden, except from the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, for God said: You shall not eat from it nor shall you touch it, or else you will die. The serpent said to the woman: You will not die, for God knows that in the day that you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you yourselves will be like gods, knowing good and evil.
3:6-7 Therefore, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes and desired to make one wise, she took some of the fruit and ate and gave it to her husband with her and he ate. Then their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked. So they knit+ fig leaves together and made aprons to cover themselves.
3:8-13 When Adam and his wife heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden, they hid themselves from His presence ... God said: Have you disobeyed me and eaten from the tree that I commanded that you should not eat? Adam said: The woman that you gave me, gave me fruit from the tree and I did eat. The Lord God said to the woman: What have you done? The woman said: The serpent beguiled me and I did eat.
3:16-17 The Lord said to the woman: Because you have done this, I will greatly multiply your sorrow in your conception. In sorrow you shall bring forth children and your desire shall be to your husband and he shall rule over you. Then to Adam He said: Because you have listened+ to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree that I commanded you saying: You shall not eat from it, cursed is the ground for your sake. In sorrow shall you eat from it all the days of your life.
3:23 Therefore the Lord banished+ mankind+ out of the garden of Eden ...
4:8 Cain talked with Abel his brother: and, when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.
6:3 the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
6:5-7 Later, when God saw all the wickedness on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. He regretted+ that He had made mankind+ ... all the rebellion grieved Him ... and the Lord said, I will destroy mankind+ from the face of the earth.
6:8 However, one righteous man, Noah, found grace in the eyes of the Lord ... and God saved Noah and his family ...
7:7 Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
12:1 Now the Lord had said to Abram, Get out of your country and from your kindred and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:
12:2 I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
13:10 Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.
15:5 He brought him forth abroad and said, Look now toward heaven and count+ the stars, if you are able to number them. And he said to him, So shall your descendants+ be.
15:6 He believed in the Lord, and He counted it to him for righteousness.
15:14 That nation, whom they shall serve, I will judge, and afterward they shall come out with great substance.
16:13 She called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You God see me. For she said, Have I also here looked after him who sees me?
17:2-21 Later, God said to another righteous man, Abraham: I will make my covenant between you and me and I will multiply you exceedingly. My covenant is with you and you shall be a father of many nations. I will establish my covenant between you and me and your descendants+ after you for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
17:5 Neither shall your name be called Abram any more, but your name shall be Abraham. For I have made you a father of many nations.
17:19 God said, Sarah your wife shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants+ after him.
17:21 I will establish my covenant with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear to you at this set time in the next year.
18:18 Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
18:25 Far be it from you to do this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, as though the righteous should be as the wicked. Far be that from you, Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
21:5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.
21:10 Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son. For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
21:12 God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the lad and because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac shall your descendants+ be called.
22:17 In blessing I will bless you. And in multiplying I will multiply your descendants+ as the stars of the heaven and as the sand on the sea shore. And your descendants+ shall possess the gate of their enemies.
22:18 In your descendants+, all nations of the earth will be blessed because you have obeyed my voice.
24:1-4 When Abraham was old ... he said to his eldest servant ... go to my country, to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
24:67 Isaac took Rebekah into his mother's tent and she became his wife ... and he loved her ...
25:23 The Lord said to Rebekah: Two nations are in your womb and two kinds+ of people shall be separated from your bowels. One people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger.
27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, my father.
32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth that you have shown to your servant. For with my staff I passed over this Jordan. And now I have become two bands.
32:22 He rose up that night and took his two wives and his two women servants and his eleven sons and passed over the ford Jabbok.
32:23 He took them and sent them over the brook and sent over all that he had.
32:24 Jacob was left alone. And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
32:25 When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him.
32:26 He said, Let me go. For the day breaks. He said, I will not let you go except you bless me.
32:27 He said to him, What is your name? He said, Jacob.
32:28 He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel. For as a prince have you power with God and with men and have prevailed.
32:29 Jacob asked him, Tell me your name, I ask you. He said, Why do ask my name? He blessed him there.
32:30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel. For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
32:31 As he passed over Penuel the sun rose on him and he halted on his thigh.
38:11-14 Judah said to his daughter in law Tamar, remain a widow at your father's house until my son Shelah is grown, lest he also dies as his brothers did. So Tamar went and lived in her father's house. In time, Judah's wife died and Judah went to Timnath to shear shep with his friend Hirah the Adullamite. When Tamar was told, your father in law has gone up to Timnath to shear his sheep, she took off her widow's garments, covered her face with a veil, and wrapped herself up and sat in an open place on the way to Timnath. For she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given to him to be his wife.
38:15-19 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot because she had covered her face. So he went to her and said, let me come in to you. He did this because he did not know that she was his daughter in law. She said, what will you give me to come in to me? He said, I will give you a kid from the flock. She said, will you give me a pledge until you send it? He said, what pledge shall I give you? She said, your signet and your bracelets and the staff in your hand. So he gave them to her and came in to her and she conceived by him. Then she arose and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's garments.
42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, You have deprived+ me of my children. Joseph is not here and Simeon is not here and now you will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.
43:3 Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did solemnly protest to us, saying, You shall not see my face, unless your brother be with you.
43:4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
43:5 If you will not send him, we will not go down. For the man said to us, You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.
43:6 Israel said, Therefore do you deal so ill with me to tell the man that you had yet a brother?
43:7 They said, The man asked us strictly of our state and of our kindred, saying, Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. How could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
43:8 Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me and we will arise and go so that we may live and not die, both you and us and also our little ones.
43:9 I will be responsible+ for his. ... If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
43:10 Unless we had delayed+ surely by now we could have returned a second time.
43:11 Their father Israel said to them, If it must be so now, do this. Take the best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry a present to the man, a little balm and a little honey, spices, myrrh, nuts, and almonds.
43:15 The men took that present and they took double money in their hands, and Benjamin, and rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
47:9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes. And the gathering of the people shall be to him.
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