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Genesis · read by Brian Brodersen
100 verses, in order. Only the verses Brian read aloud are shown.
Genesis 1
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Read from KJV · (Colossians) the Pre-Eminence of Christ
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And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.Read from ESV · (Colossians) Introduction to Colossians
Genesis 2
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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) God and Marriage
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So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man's ribs and closed up the area with flesh.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) God and Marriage
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And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) God and Marriage
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And the man said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for out of man she was taken."Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) God and Marriage
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For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.Read from NKJV · (Ephesians) God and Marriage
Genesis 3
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And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.Read from NKJV · Clothed by God
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And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.Read from NKJV · Clothed by God
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Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."Read from NKJV · Clothed by God
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Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.Read from NKJV · Clothed by God
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So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.Read from NKJV · Clothed by God
Genesis 4
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And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man," she said.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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Later she gave birth to Cain's brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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"Why are you angry," said the LORD to Cain, "and why has your countenance fallen?Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it."Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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And the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I do not know!" he answered. "Am I my brother's keeper?"Read from ESV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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But Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.Read from ESV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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"Not so!" replied the LORD. "If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold." And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.Read from ESV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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Then Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
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And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.Read from NKJV · The Spread of Sin and Death
Genesis 13
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And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)Read from NKJV · Lessons From Lot
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So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.Read from NKJV · Lessons From Lot
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.Read from NKJV · Lessons From Lot
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But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.Read from NKJV · Lessons From Lot
Genesis 19
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So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. "Get up," he said. "Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.Read from NKJV · Lessons From Lot
Genesis 27
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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," Esau replied.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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"Look," said Isaac, "I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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'Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.'Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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His mother replied, "Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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So Jacob went to his father and said, "My father." "Here I am!" he answered. "Which one are you, my son?"Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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But Isaac asked his son, "How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?" "Because the LORD your God brought it to me," he replied.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.Read from ESV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Again he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he replied, "I am."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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"Serve me," said Isaac, "and let me eat some of my son's game, so that I may bless you." Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come near and kiss me, my son."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father's presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, "My father, sit up and eat of your son's game, so that you may bless me."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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But his father Isaac replied, "Who are you?" "I am Esau, your firstborn son," he answered.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Isaac began to tremble violently and said, "Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!"Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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But Isaac replied, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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His father Isaac answered him: "Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, "Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Stay with him for a while, until your brother's fury subsides—Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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until your brother's rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?"Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
Genesis 28
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So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. "Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women," he commanded.Read from NASB1995 · The Folly of Self Reliance
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"Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, "Do not marry a Canaanite woman,"Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God's angels were going up and down the ladder.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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When Jacob woke up, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it."Read from ESV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!"Read from ESV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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so that I may return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God.Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance
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And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth."Read from NKJV · The Folly of Self Reliance