Study Desk

Then Cain left the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Now it came about, when mankind began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

Then the LORD said, "I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, and animals as well, and crawling things, and the birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them."

"For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."

So He wiped out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

Then he sent out a dove, to see if the water was low on the surface of the land;

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

And it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Haran died during the lifetime of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and settled there.

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you;

Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the people which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.

Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.

And the land could not support both of them while living together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.

And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.

Lot raised his eyes and saw all the vicinity of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt going toward Zoar.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the vicinity of the Jordan, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.

for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.

"Arise, walk about in the land through its length and width; for I will give it to you."