And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.
And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.
So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.
And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.
And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end.
And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.
And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.
And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end.
And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:
And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.
And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end.
And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.
Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.
And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.
Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.
As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.
So that fountain was named, Fountain of life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.
And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!
And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;
This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.
So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.
Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.
Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.
And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?
And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.
Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.
But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life.
And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.
And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.
But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.
Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.
If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,
And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.
And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,
Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.
And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.
And these are the names of the sons of levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.
And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three.
And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.
And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.
Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,
If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.
All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.
When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.
And has not taken it to the door of the tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:
For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.
For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.
So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.
Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.
And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;
And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.
When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;
Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:
And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done this to you before? And he said, No.
Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep his life when God does this?
And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.
Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.
In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.
But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.
Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.
Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.
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