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Genesis Chapter 3
3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God say, “You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?”
3:2 The woman answered the serpent, “We are allowed to eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
3:3 “But we are not allowed to eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden. God said, “You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, or you will die.”
3:4 Then serpent said to the woman, “You will not die.
3:5 “God knows that when you eat of that tree, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.”
3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and that
it was a delight to the eyes, and a desirable tree to make one wise, she took some of the fruit and ate it. She gave some of the fruit to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.
3:7 Then their eyes were opened, and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together, and made clothes for themselves.
3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God as he walked in the garden in
the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
3:9 And the LORD God called to Adam, “Where are you?
3:10 And Adam said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
3:11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I told you not to eat?
3:12 And the man said, “The woman you gave me, she gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.
3:13 And the LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” And the woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
3:14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done
this, you are cursed more than all livestock, and more than all wild animals. You will crawl on your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
3:15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He will bruise your head and you will bruise his heel.”
3:16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your labor in childbirth; with pain you will give birth. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and ate of the tree which I told you, “You shalt not eat of it,” the ground is cursed because of you. In toil and pain will you eat from it all the days of your life.
3:18 “It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the herb of the field.
3:19 By the sweat of your brow, you will produce bread until you return to the ground, for out of the ground you were taken. Dust you are, and to dust you will return.”
3:20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all who live.
3:21 The LORD God make clothing of animal skins for Adam and his wife.
3:22 And the LORD God said, “The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. If he stretches out his hand and takes from the tree of life and eats its fruit, he will live for ever.
3:23 So the LORD God banished him from the garden of Eden to work the ground
from which he had been made.
3:24 So he drove the man out, and on the east of the garden of Eden, he placed Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis Chapter 4
4:1 And Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve, and she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. And she said, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.”
4:2 Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel was a shepherd, but Cain worked the soil.
4:3 After a time, Cain brought an offering of his harvest to the LORD.
4:4 And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and their fat. And the LORD approved of Abel and his offering,
4:5 But did not approve of Cain and his offering. Cain was exceedingly angy, and his countenance fell.
4:6 And the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you so angry, and why has your countenance fallen?
4:7 “If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is waiting at the door. And it will want to have you, but you must master it.”
4:8 Cain talked with his brother Abel. And when they were in the field, Cain attacked his bother Abel and killed him.
4:9 And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he
said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
4:10 And he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
4:11 “Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from thy hand.
4:12 “When you work the ground, from now on it will not give its best to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.
4:13 And Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can
bear.
4:14 “Today you have banished me from the land, and I will be hidden from your face. I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me shall kill me.”
4:15 And the LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain shall receive seven times as much punishment. And the LORD put a mark on Cain, so that whoever found him would not kill him.
4:16 And Cain left the presence of the LORD, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
4:17 And Cain had sexual relations with his wife, and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch (EE-knock): and he built a city, and named the city after his
son, Enoch (EE-knock).
4:18 And to Enoch (EE-knock) was born Irad (EYE-rad (as in “had”)): and Irad (EYE-rad (as in “had”)) was the father of Mehujael (meh-HOO-jay-el): and
Mehujael (meh-HOO-jay-el) was the father of Methusael (meh-THOO-shay-el): and Methusael (meh-THOO-shay-el) was the father of Lamech (LAY-mek).
4:19 And Lamech (LAY-mek) took two wives: the name of one was Adah (AY-duh),
and the name of the other was Zillah (ZIL-uh).
4:20 And Adah (AY-duh) gave birth to Jabal (JAY-buhl). He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
4:21 His brother’s name was Jubal (Jew-buhl): he was the father of those who play musical instruments.
4:22 And Zillah (ZIL-uh), she also bare Tubalcain (TOO-buhl Cain), an expert in forging tools of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain (TOO-buhl Cain) was Naamah (NAY-uh-muh).
4:23 And Lamech (LAY-mek) said to his wives, Adah (AY-duh) and Zillah (ZIL-uh), Hear my voice, you wives of Lamech (LAY-mek), hear my words, because I have killed a man for wounding me, and a young man for injuring me.
4:24 If Cain will be avenged seven times, then Lamech (LAY-mek) will be avenged seventy-seven times.
4:25 And Adam had sexual relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, “Because,” she said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel, whom Cain killed.
4:26 Seth also had a son, whom he named him Enosh (EE-nosh). Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
Matthew Chapter 3
3:1 In those days John the Baptist came and preached in the Judean desert,
3:2 saying, “Turn from your sins! Repent! Because the kingdom of heaven is near.”
3:3 This is the man that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah (eye-ZAY-uh), when he said, “The voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’”
3:4 John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist; and he ate locusts and wild honey.
3:5 The people of Jerusalem went out to see him, and all the people of Judea (jew-DAY-uh), and all the areas around Jordan,
3:6 And John baptized them in the Jordan River, and they confessed their sins.
3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to watch him baptizing, he said to them, “You are the children of snakes! Who warned
you to flee from the wrath to come?
3:8 “Produce fruit that shows you have turned from sin.
3:9 “Do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We are descendants of Abraham’, because I tell you that God can turn these stones to into descendants of Abraham.
3:10 “And now the ax is laid at the roots of the trees. Every tree which does not produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
3:11 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but the man who comes after me is mightier than I am. I am not worthy to carry his shoes. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
3:12 “His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will throughly clean his floor, and
gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.”
3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan River, to be baptized by John.
3:14 But John protested, and said, “I need to be baptized by you, and you are coming to me?”
3:15 Jesus answered him, “Allow it to happen now, because in this way we must fulfill all righteousness.” And then, John agreed to baptize Jesus.
3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went immediately up out of the
water, and the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and landing on him:
3:17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love, and with whom I am very pleased.”
The World Premiere
Welcome to the world premiere of the Lifespring! Audio Bible! This is a project that has been on my heart for several years, but because life sometimes gets in the way of the important things, I have pushed it to the back burner. Now is the time to make it happen.
I do still hope to get through the entire Bible in one year, but please give me some latitude if it goes long. I will try to read about sixty-seven verses from the Old Testament and twenty-two verses from the New Testament on each episode.
The Lifespring! Audio Bible is a brand new translation/paraphrase/version of the Bible that I, your host, Steve Webb, am writing. Listen to the introduction to this episode to hear what my method will be in completing this project.
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Genesis 1
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without structure, and empty; and over the vast emptiness there was darkness. And the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God separated the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be an expanse which shall separate the waters .
7 And God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were under the atmosphere from the waters which were above the atmosphere: and it was so.
8 And God called the expanse “sky”. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the sky come together in one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land “earth”; and the body of waters He called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth grow vegetation, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding its own species of fruit, from its own seed, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth grew vegetation, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, from its own seed, of its species: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the brighter, larger light to rule the day, and the lesser, smaller light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light upon the earth,
18 And to dominate over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let there be teeming life and diverse species in the waters, and birds to fly above the earth in the vast expanse of the sky.
21 And God created all the creatures to swim the seas, large and small, diverse species. And God created the birds that fly: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the seas with life, and the earth with birds.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let there be living creatures on the earth. Each species reproducing its own kind: livestock, those who crawl on the land, and wild animals,: and it was so.
25 And God made the wild animals reproduce wild animals, and livestock reproduce livestock, and those who crawl on the land reproduce those who crawl on the land: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness: and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every animal that crawls on the earth.
27 So God created the human in the image of himself, and in his image, God created both male and female.
28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and tame it: and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that crawls on the earth.”
29 And God said, “Look, I have given you every herb bearing seed on the surface of all the earth, and every tree with seed that bears fruit; and this is to be your food.
30 And to every wild animal on the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to every creature that crawls on the land which has life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 2
2:1 And so the heavens and the earth were finished, and everything in
them.
2:2 And on the seventh day, God finished his work which he had done; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because on that
day he had rested from all his work of creation.
2:4 This is the account of the heavens and of the earth when
they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the
heavens.
2:5 There were no plants or herbs yet on the earth, none had yet grown, for the LORD God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the
ground.
2:6 But a mist rose up from the earth, and watered all the ground.
2:7 And the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living
soul.
2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden to the east, in Eden; and that is where he
put the man whom he had formed.
2:9 And the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The tree of life was also in the garden, as well as the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there
it divided into four branches.
2:11 The name of the first is Pyshon (PYE-shahn): that is it which goes through all the area of Havila (HAVE-il-uh), where there is gold.
2:12 The gold there is good, and also there is bdellium (DELL-ee-um ) and onyx.
2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon (gee-HONE (hard “g”)): it goes through all the area of Cush .
2:14 And the name of the third river is Tigris. It flows toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is Euphrates.
2:15 The LORD God placed the man in the garden of Eden to farm it and to care for it.
2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, “You may eat freely of any tree in the garden,
2:17 except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Of that tree you must not eat, because if you do, you will surely die.”
2:18 And the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make a helper suitable for him.
2:19 So the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird of the air. He brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. Whatever Adam called each creature, that became its name.
2:20 And Adam gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the air,
and to all the wild animals. But there was no helper found for Adam.
2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam. While he slept, he took one of his ribs, and then closed up the flesh where it had been.
2:22 And the LORD God took the rib which the had taken from man, and
he made a woman from it. And he brought her to the man.
2:23 And Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and join with his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not
ashamed.
Matthew Chapter 1
1:1 The book of the ancestors of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
son of Abraham.
1:2 Abraham was the father of Isaac; and Isaac was the father of Jacob; and Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers;
1:3 And Judah was the father of Perez (PEE-rez) and Zara (ZEE-ruh) of Thamar (TAY-mar); and Perez (PEE-rez) was the father of Hezron (HEZ-ron); and Hezron (HEZ-ron) was the father of Aram;
1:4 And Aram was the father of Aminadab; and Aminadab was the father of Naasson (NAH-shahn); and Naasson (NAH-shahn) was the father of Salmon (SAL-muhn (as in “pal”));
1:5 And Salmon (SAL-muhn (as in “pal”)) was the father of Booz (BO-azz), whose mother was Rachab (RAY-hab); and Booz (BO-azz) was the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth; and Obed was the father of Jesse;
1:6 And Jesse was the father of David the king; and David the king was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been the wife of Uriah (yuh-RYE-uh);
1:7 And Solomon was the father of Roboam (ree-uh-BO-um); and Roboam (ree-uh-BO-um) was the father of Abijah (uh-BYE-juh); and Abijah (uh-BYE-juh) was the father of Asa (AY-suh);
1:8 And Asa (AY-suh) was the father of Josaphat (je-HOSH-uh-fat); and Josaphat (je-HOSH-uh-fat) was the father of Jehoram (jeh-HO-rum); and Jehoram (jeh-HO-rum) was the father of Uzziah (uz-ZYE-uh);
1:9 And Uzziah (uz-ZYE-uh) was the father of Jotham (JO-thum); and Jotham (JO-thum) was the father of Ahaz (AY-haz); and Ahaz (AY-haz) was the father of Hezekiah (HEZ-uh-KYE-uh);
1:10 And Hezekiah (HEZ-uh-KYE-uh) was the father of Manasseh (muh-NASS-uh); and Manasseh (muh-NASS-uh) was the father of Amon (AM-un); and Amon (AM-un) was the father of Josiah (joe-ZYE-uh);
1:11 And Josiah (joe-ZYE-uh) was the father of Jehoiachin (jeh-HOY-uh-kin) and his brothers, about the time they were exiled to Babylon:
1:12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jehoiachin (jeh-HOY-uh-kin) was the father of Shealtiel (SHE-el-TEE-el); and Shealtiel (SHE-el-TEE-el) was the father of Zerubbabel (zeh-RUB-uh-bul);
1:13 And Zerubbabel (zeh-RUB-uh-bul) was the father of Abiud (uh-BYE-ud); and Abiud (uh-BYE-ud) was the father of Eliakim (eh-LYE-uh-kim); and Eliakim (eh-LYE-uh-kim) was the father of Azor (AY-zor);
1:14 And Azor (AY-zor) was the father of Zadok (ZAY-dock); and Zadok (ZAY-dock) was the father of Akim (AY-kim); and Akim (AY-kim) was the father of Eliud (eh-LYE-ud);
1:15 And Eliud (eh-LYE-ud) was the father of Eleazar (el-ee-AY-zer); and Eleazar (el-ee-AY-zer) was the father of Matthan (MATH-un); and Matthan (MATH-un) was the father of Jacob;
1:16 And Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
1:17 So there are fourteen generations from Abraham to David; and fourteen generations from David until the exile to Babylon; and fourteen generations from the exile to Babylon to Christ.
1:18 Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ happened: When his mother Mary was pledged to Joseph, and before they came together, she was found to be pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit.
1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being an honorable man, and not willing to disgrace her, decided to secretly break the marriage pledge.
1:20 But as he pondered this, the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to marry Mary, because the baby within her is from the Holy Spirit.
1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.
1:22 Now all this happened so what the Lord had spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled.
1:23 “Look, a virgin will become pregnant, and will give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel, which means, “God with us.”
1:24 When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord
told him, and took Mary as his wife.
1:25 And he had no sexual relations with her until she gave birth to her son; and he named him Jesus.
Matthew Chapter 2
2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea during the reign of
King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem.
2:2 They said, “Where is he that is born King of the Jews? We have seen his star in the east, and we have come to worship him.”
2:3 When Herod the king heard about this, he was troubled, along with all the people of Jerusalem.
2:4 And when he had brought all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law together, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
2:5 And they told him, “In Bethlehem in Judea. For the prophet wrote,
2:6 “And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the rulers of Judah, because from you shall come a ruler who will be a shepherd to my people Israel.”
2:7 Herod then secretly called the Magi and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and find the young child; and when you have found him, come back and tell me so that I too may come and worship him.”
2:9 After they had heard the king, they left. And the star they saw in the east guided them, until it came and stopped over the place where the young child was.
2:10 When they saw the star, they were filled with joy.
2:11 And when they came into the house, they saw the young child
with his mother, Mary, and fell to the ground and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures, and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
2:12 They were warned by God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, and they went to their own country by another route.
2:13 And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the young child and his mother, and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I bring word to you, because Herod intends to find the young child so that he might kill him.”
2:14 When he awoke, he took the young child and his mother in the night and went to Egypt.
2:15 They stayed until Herod died, so that what the Lord said through the prophet would come to pass, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
2:16 When Herod realized that he had been tricked by the Magi, he was extremely angry, and had all the male children killed that were in Bethlehem and the surrounding areas, from two years old and
under, according to the time which he had learned from the
Magi.
2:17 So that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled,
2:18 “In Ramah (RAY-muh) was heard a sound, wailing, weeping, and great mourning. Rachel was weeping for her children, and
she would not be comforted, because they are dead.”
2:19 But when Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared
in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
2:20 and said, “Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go to Israel, because those who wanted to kill the child are dead.
2:21 So he got up and took the young child and his mother, and went to Israel.
2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus (ARE-keh-LAY-us) reigned in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there; and being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee.
2:23 So they went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that which was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, “He will be
called a Nazarene.”
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