The Bible, King James Version, Book 1: Genesis
1611
The Bible, King James Version, Book 1: Genesis
1611
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. There is no other opening line in English literature quite like it. Genesis is where everything starts: light parting from darkness, order rising from chaos, humanity named and placed in a garden that will not keep them. Here are the stories that have echoed through centuries of art, literature, and culture, the serpent in the tree, the first murder, the flood that drowned the world, the tower that reached for heaven and was scattered by God. Here too is Abraham, called from Ur to become the father of nations, his faith tested by a command that still haunts readers. The King James Version, translated in 1611, gave these ancient narratives a language of staggering beauty and power. Genesis is not merely the beginning of the Bible; it is the beginning of the Western imagination. For believers, it is sacred truth. For readers of literature, it is simply indispensable.
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“Take care to keep open house : Because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it ". Hebrews 13:2.””
— Anonymous
“The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.””
— Anonymous
“Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”10 The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.””
— Anonymous
“Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?””
— Anonymous
“And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.””
— Anonymous
“And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked; and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.””
— Anonymous
