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Library Genesis (LibGen) is a file-sharing based shadow library website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. [1]
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Book of Genesis. The Book of Genesis (from Greek Γένεσις, Génesis; Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ( 'In the beginning' ).
GENESIS 9. God makes a covenant with Noah: He and his descendants are free to eat meat, the animals will fear man; and man is forbidden to eat "flesh with its life, that is, its blood." God forbids murder, and gives a commandment: "Be fruitful and multiply." As a sign of His covenant, He sets the rainbow in the sky.
Bible/Featured chapter/Genesis 5. The generations of Adam till Noah. Two names are traditionally given significance: Enoch, who walked with God, and was not, for God took him, and Methuselah who was the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He reportedly reached the age of 969 years. A close reading of the dates reveals that ...
Bible/Featured chapter/Genesis 2. On the seventh day, the Sabbath, God rests, and sanctifies the day. God forms Adam out of earth ("adamah"), and sets him in the Garden of Eden, to watch over it. Adam is allowed to eat of all the fruit within it, except that of the " Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ." God then brings all the animals to ...
Bible/Featured chapter/Genesis 24. Abraham sends his servant to his homeland to find a wife for Isaac. When the servant arrives in Nahor, he prays to God to determine who would be a good wife. Rebeccah shows kindness, proving she is worthy. He gives her special jewelry and clothing as a bridal gift. Rebeccah's family sends her away to marry Isaac.
Bible/Featured chapter/Genesis 22. God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah. Abraham agrees to God's command without argument, even though God gives him no reason for the sacrifice. After Isaac is bound to an altar, an angel stops Abraham at the last minute, at which point Abraham discovers a ram caught in some nearby bushes.