Shortened Stories From The Bible

GENESIS( Adam and Eve)

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen 1:1

26 Then God said, " let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28 then God blessed them, and God said to them, " Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29 and God said, " see, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

30 "also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so.

31 Then God saw everything
That he had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were sixth day.

Chapter 2

16 and the Lord God commanded the man, saying, " Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 " but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

18 and the Lord God said, " it is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."

19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from a man he made into a woman, and he brought her to a man.

23 And Adam said, " this is now my bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man."

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Chapter 3

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God has made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, " you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"

2 and the woman said to the serpent, "we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;

3 " but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said " you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die."

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, " you will not surely die.

5 " for God knows that in the day 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, she took of its fruit and eat; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.