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Genesis · read by Paris Reidhead
54 verses, in order. Only the verses Paris read aloud are shown.
Genesis 1
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Read from ESV · Loved With Everlasting Love - Part 2
Genesis 3
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So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.Read from KJV · Healing
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And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."Read from KJV · Redeemed From the Curse of the Law
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To the woman He said: "I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."Read from KJV · Healing
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Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.Read from KJV · Redeemed From the Curse of the Law
Genesis 12
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.Read from KJV · Isaac
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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 KJV · Isaac
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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 KJV · Isaac
Genesis 13
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I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.Read from KJV · Isaac
Genesis 15
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But Abram replied, "O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"Read from KJV · Isaac
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Abram continued, "Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir."Read from KJV · Isaac
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Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, "This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir."Read from KJV · Isaac
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 KJV · Isaac
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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 KJV · Isaac
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So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.Read from KJV · Isaac
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And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.Read from KJV · Isaac
Genesis 17
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Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.Read from KJV · Isaac
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And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her."Read from KJV · Isaac
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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 KJV · Isaac
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But God replied, "Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.Read from KJV · Isaac
Genesis 18
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Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.Read from KJV · Isaac
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And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.Read from KJV · Isaac
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So she laughed to herself, saying, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"Read from KJV · Isaac
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And the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I really bear a child when I am old?'Read from KJV · Isaac
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Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son."Read from KJV · Isaac
Genesis 21
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So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.Read from KJV · Isaac
Genesis 22
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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 KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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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 · Isaac
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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 KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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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 · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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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 · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.Read from KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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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 KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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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 KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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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 · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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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 · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
Genesis 28
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so that I may return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God.Read from ESV · Jacob
Genesis 32
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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.Read from KJV · Jacob
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But You have said, 'I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.'"Read from KJV · Jacob
Genesis 35
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Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."Read from KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone."Read from KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.Read from KJV · Jacob
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As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob's sons.Read from KJV · Jacob
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There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.Read from KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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And God said to him, "Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel. " So God named him Israel.Read from KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
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And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.Read from KJV · El Shaddai - the God Who Is Enough
Genesis 42
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Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, "You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable."Read from KJV · (So Great a Salvation) Conviction and Repentance
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"Not so, my lord," they replied. "Your servants have come to buy food.Read from KJV · (So Great a Salvation) Conviction and Repentance
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We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies."Read from KJV · (So Great a Salvation) Conviction and Repentance
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"No," he told them. "You have come to see if our land is vulnerable."Read from KJV · (So Great a Salvation) Conviction and Repentance
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But they answered, "Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more."Read from KJV · (So Great a Salvation) Conviction and Repentance
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Then they said to one another, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."Read from KJV · (So Great a Salvation) Conviction and Repentance