These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God was making the earth and the heavens,

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.

And she gave him Bilhah her maid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

And when Leah saw that she had stopped giving birth, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife.

And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali;

and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan.

Now Eli was very old; and he heard everything his sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tent of meeting.

No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I am hearing. You cause the people of Jehovah to transgress.

The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I bear witness of it that its works are evil.

For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

Everywhere it is heard that there is sexual perversion among you, and such sexual perversion as is not even named among the Gentiles; that a man has his father's wife.

For first of all, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.