Quotes About Life

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”

And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.