Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the flying creatures of the heavens, and over the beasts, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that moves on the earth.

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all day long.

And Jehovah regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved to His heart.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

And Jehovah said, Behold, the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they devise to do will be withheld from them.

You answered them, O Jehovah our God; You were to them the Mighty God who forgives, though You took vengeance on their deeds.

Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, and the plague broke out upon them.

Thus they were defiled with their own works, and went whoring with their deeds.

Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid; be greatly desolated, says Jehovah.

For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of Living Waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Behold, the rulers of Israel: each one was in you by his power to shed blood in you.

You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.

In you men uncover the nakedness of their fathers; in you they humble women during their menstrual impurity.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men; the dipping of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.

And He said to them, Full well you set aside the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

Then God turned and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.

and change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

who change the truth of God into the lie, and fear and serve the created things more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Likewise also the men, abandoning the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men with men performing what is shameful, and receiving the retribution within themselves, the penalty which is fitting for their error.

being filled with every unrighteousness, sexual perversion, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, depravity; whisperers,

without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

What then? Do we surpass them? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God.

Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

and the way of peace they have not known.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.