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Genesis · read by Don McClure
69 verses, in order. Only the verses Don read aloud are shown.
Genesis 1
Genesis 2
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Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."Read from ESV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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The LORD God also said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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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 · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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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 · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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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 · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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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 · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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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 · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
Genesis 3
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but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'"Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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"For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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But the LORD God called out to the man, "Where are you?"Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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"Who told you that you were naked?" asked the LORD God. "Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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And the man answered, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied, "and I ate."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #3 - Adam & Eve
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And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.Read from KJV · Hebrews 2:1-9
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 KJV · Hebrews 11:3-7
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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 KJV · Hebrews 11:3-7
Genesis 5
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And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.Read from KJV · Hebrews 11:3-7
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Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.Read from ESV · Hebrews 11:3-7
Genesis 6
Genesis 12
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I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring. " So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.Read from ESV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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When Pharaoh's officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!"Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
Genesis 16
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Now Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.Read from NASB1995 · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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So Sarai said to Abram, "Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Then Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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"Here," said Abram, "your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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The angel of the LORD proceeded: "Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.Read from ESV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
Genesis 17
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I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.Read from KJV · All by Faith
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And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."Read from KJV · All by Faith
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You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.Read from KJV · All by Faith
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Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
Genesis 20
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Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
Genesis 21
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and she said to Abraham, "Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!"Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
Genesis 22
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Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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"Take your son," God said, "your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you."Read from ESV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.Read from KJV · Revival In The Life Of Abraham
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"Stay here with the donkey," Abraham told his servants. "The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.Read from KJV · Revival In The Life Of Abraham
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Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" "Here I am, my son," he replied. "The fire and the wood are here," said Isaac, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"Read from NASB1995 · Revival In The Life Of Abraham
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Abraham answered, "God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two walked on together.Read from KJV · Revival In The Life Of Abraham
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When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.Read from KJV · Revival In The Life Of Abraham
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.Read from KJV · Revival In The Life Of Abraham
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Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.Read from ESV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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"Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him," said the angel, "for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me."Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #7 - Abraham & Sarah
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Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.Read from KJV · Revival In The Life Of Abraham
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And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."Read from KJV · Revival In The Life Of Abraham
Genesis 26
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I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,Read from NASB1995 · Hebrews 11:20-21