Shamash

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left. — read the full passage →

You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! — read the full passage →

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. — read the full passage →

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. — read the full passage →

Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?

He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done.

I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. — read the full passage →