Genesis 7   English Standard Version (ESV) 7  Then the  Lord  said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.   2  Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, [ a ]  the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,   3  and seven pairs [ b ]  of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.   4  For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing [ c ]  that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”   5  And Noah did all that the  Lord  had commanded him. 6  Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7  And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into th...

Genesis 3   English Standard Version (ESV) The Fall 3  Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the  Lord  God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You [ a ]  shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”   2  And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,   3  but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”   4  But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.   5  For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”   6  So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, [ b ]  she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her hus...