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And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
And the earth brought forth grass, and
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God
saw that it was good.
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters
teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God
saw that it was good.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the
livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God
saw that it was good.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
When the woman
saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and
ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he
ate it.
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
And it came to pass in the six
hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and
Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
In
Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So
Noah removed the covering from the ark and
saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
And
Ham, the father of
Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
And
Ham, the father of
Canaan,
saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
And
Shem and
Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they
saw not their father’s nakedness.
Then
Shem and
Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
And it came to pass, that, when
Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians
beheld the woman that she was very fair.
So when
Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians
saw that the woman was very beautiful.
The princes also of Pharaoh
saw her, and
commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
When Pharaoh’s officials
saw Sarai, they
commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and
beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed
Sodom and
Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
And Lot looked out and
saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed
Sodom and
Gomorrah.)
And he went in unto
Hagar, and she conceived: and when she
saw that she had conceived, her
mistress was
despised in her eyes.
And Sarai said unto
Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my
maid into thy
bosom; and when she
saw that she had conceived, I was
despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
Then Sarai said to
Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she
saw that she was
pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
And there came two angels to
Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of
Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Now the two angels arrived at
Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the
gateway of the city. When Lot
saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
And he looked toward
Sodom and
Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and
beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
He looked down toward
Sodom and
Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he
saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What
sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
And
Sarah saw the son of
Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham,
mocking.
But
Sarah saw that the son whom
Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was
mocking her son,
And God opened her eyes, and she
saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the
bottle with water, and gave the
lad drink.
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
saw the place
afar off.
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a
thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the
stead of his son.
Then Abraham looked up and
saw behind him a ram in a
thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
And it came to pass, when he
saw the
earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of
Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
As soon as he
saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard
Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
And Isaac went out to
meditate in the field at the
eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and
saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to
meditate, and looking up, he
saw the camels approaching.
And
Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she
saw Isaac, she lighted off the
camel.
And when
Rebekah looked up and
saw Isaac, she got down from her
camelAnd it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and
saw, and, behold, Isaac was
sporting with
Rebekah his wife.
When Isaac had been there a long time,
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac
caressing his wife
Rebekah.
And they said, We
saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath
betwixt us, even
betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We
recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
When
Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-
aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan;
Now
Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-
aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a
Canaanite woman,”
And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
And it came to pass, when Jacob
saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of
Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of
Laban his mother’s brother.
As soon as Jacob
saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother
Laban, with
Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
And when the LORD
saw that Leah was
hated, he opened her
womb: but
Rachel was barren.
When the LORD
saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her
womb; but
Rachel was barren.
And when
Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,
Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
When
Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she
envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
When Leah
saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
And Jacob
beheld the countenance of
Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
And Jacob
saw from the countenance of
Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and
saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which
leaped upon the cattle were
ringstraked,
speckled, and
grisled.
When the flocks were breeding, I
saw in a dream that the
streaked,
spotted, and
speckled males were mating with the females.
And when Jacob
saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place
Mahanaim.
When Jacob
saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place
Mahanaim.
And when he
saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his
thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s
thigh was out of joint, as he
wrestled with him.
And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold,
Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto
Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
Now Jacob looked up and
saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah,
Rachel, and the two maidservants.
And he lifted up his eyes, and
saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath
graciously given thy servant.
When
Esau looked up and
saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has
graciously given your servant.”
And when
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country,
saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and
defiled her.
When
Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region,
saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
And when his brethren
saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they
hated him, and could not speak
peaceably unto him.
When Joseph’s brothers
saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they
hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
And when they
saw him
afar off, even before he came near unto them, they
conspired against him to
slay him.
Now Joseph’s brothers
saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they
plotted to kill him.
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from
Gilead with their camels bearing
spicery and
balm and
myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and
saw a
caravan of
Ishmaelites coming from
Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices,
balm, and
myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
And
Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
When
Reuben returned to the pit and
saw that Joseph was not there, he
tore his clothes,
And Judah
saw there a daughter of a certain
Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
There Judah
saw the daughter of a
Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and
slept with her.
And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a
vail, and
wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she
saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a
veil to
disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she
saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
When Judah
saw her, he thought her to be an
harlot; because she had covered her face.
When Judah
saw her, he thought she was a
prostitute because she had covered her face.
And his master
saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to
prosper in his hand.
When his master
saw that the LORD was with him and made him
prosper in all he did,
And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
When she
saw that he had left his
cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,
And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were
sad.
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he
saw that they were
distraught.
When the chief
baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
When the chief
baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
And, behold, seven other
kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never
saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
After them, seven other cows—sickly,
ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such
ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
And I
saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one
stalk, full and good:
In my dream I also
saw seven heads of grain,
plump and ripe, growing on a single
stalk.
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
And Joseph
saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of
Canaan to
buy food.
And when Joseph
saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of
Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to
buy food.”
And they said one to another, We are
verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we
saw the
anguish of his soul, when he
besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We
saw his
anguish when he
pleaded with us, but we would not
listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
And as one of them opened his
sack to give his
ass provender in the inn, he
espied his money; for, behold, it was in his
sack’s mouth.
At the place where they
lodged for the night, one of them opened his
sack to get feed for his
donkey, and he
saw his silver in the mouth of the
sack.
And it came to pass as they
emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s
bundle of money was in his
sack: and when both they and their father
saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s
sack was his
bag of silver! And when they and their father
saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.
And when Joseph
saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and
slay, and make ready; for these men shall
dine with me at
noon.
When Joseph
saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the
steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall
dine with me at
noon.”
And he lifted up his eyes, and
saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be
gracious unto thee, my son.
When Joseph looked up and
saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be
gracious to you, my son.”
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is
torn in pieces; and I
saw him not since:
When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been
torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.
And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.
And Israel
beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these?
When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”
And when Joseph
saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto
Manasseh’s head.
When Joseph
saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to
Manasseh’s.
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
And when Joseph’s brethren
saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will
peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
When Joseph’s brothers
saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a
grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”
And Joseph
saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son
Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
He
saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of
Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she
saw him that he was a goodly child, she
hid him three months.
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she
saw that he was a beautiful child, she
hid him for three months.
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she
saw the ark among the flags, she sent her
maid to
fetch it.
Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to
bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she
saw the
basket among the reeds, she sent her
maidservant to
retrieve it.
And when she had opened it, she
saw the child: and, behold, the
babe wept. And she had
compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
When she opened it, she
saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had
compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he
spied an Egyptian
smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he
saw that there was no man, he
slew the Egyptian, and
hid him in the sand.
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and
hid his body in the sand.
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews
strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
God saw the Israelites and took notice.
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
bush: and he looked, and, behold, the
bush burned with fire, and the
bush was not consumed.
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a
blazing fire from within a
bush. Moses
saw the
bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
And when the LORD
saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the
bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
When the LORD
saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the
bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
But when Pharaoh
saw that there was respite, he
hardened his heart, and
hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
When Pharaoh
saw that there was relief, however, he
hardened his heart and would not
listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
And when Pharaoh
saw that the rain and the
hail and the thunders were ceased, he
sinned yet more, and
hardened his heart, he and his servants.
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
No one could see
anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
And when Pharaoh drew
nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were
sore afraid: and the children of Israel
cried out unto the LORD.
As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and
saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were
terrified and
cried out to the LORD.
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
And when the children of Israel
saw it, they said one to another, It is
manna: for they
wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
And when Moses’ father in law
saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou
thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
And all the people
saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the
trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people
saw it, they removed, and stood
afar off.
And they
saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a
paved work of a
sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
and they
saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a
pavement made of
sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they
saw Him, and they
ate and
drank.
And when the people
saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we
wot not what is become of him.
Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”
And when Aaron
saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made
proclamation, and said, To
morrow is a feast to the LORD.
When Aaron
saw this, he built an altar before the
calf and proclaimed: “
Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”
And it came to pass, as soon as he came
nigh unto the camp, that he
saw the
calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and
brake them beneath the mount.
As Moses approached the camp and
saw the
calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands,
shattering them at the base of the mountain.
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
Moses
saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a
laughingstock to their enemies.
And all the people
saw the
cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
When all the people
saw the
pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel
saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face
shone; and they were afraid to come
nigh him.
Aaron and all the Israelites looked at Moses, and behold, his face was
radiant. And they were afraid to approach him.
And the children of Israel
saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face
shone: and Moses put the
vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
and the Israelites would see that the face of Moses was
radiant. So Moses would put the
veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.
