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Genesis · read by William Skates
35 verses, in order. Only the verses William read aloud are shown.
Genesis 1
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Read from ESV · Pentateuch linked with John 1:5
Genesis 2
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And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.Read from NKJV · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.Read from KJV · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:Read from KJV · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.Read from KJV · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.Read from KJV · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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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 KJV · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,Read from KJV · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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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 KJV · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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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 NASB1995 · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
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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 · The assembly: God's land under cultivation
Genesis 10
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This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.Read from KJV · Babylon
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From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,Read from KJV · Babylon
Genesis 11
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And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.Read from NKJV · Babylon
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And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.Read from KJV · Babylon
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Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."Read from KJV · Babylon
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And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.Read from KJV · Abraham's Altars
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 · Abraham's Altars
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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 · Abraham's Altars
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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 · Abraham's Altars
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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 KJV · Abraham's Altars
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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 KJV · Abraham's Altars
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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 KJV · Abraham's Altars
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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 KJV · Abraham's Altars
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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 KJV · Abraham's Altars
Genesis 28
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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 KJV · The Assembly Pictured as the House of God and a Body
Genesis 49
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When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.Read from KJV · Threshingfloors of Scripture
Genesis 50
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And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,Read from KJV · Threshingfloors of Scripture
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taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.Read from KJV · Threshingfloors of Scripture
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Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.Read from KJV · Threshingfloors of Scripture
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When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.Read from KJV · Threshingfloors of Scripture