Lexicon :: Strong's H834 - 'ăšer

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so.

Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so.

So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you,

On the seventh[fn] day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested[fn] on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed.

The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,[fn] where there is gold.

The LORD God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

Then the LORD God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’? ”

“But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”

Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? ”

And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.

You will eat from it by means of painful labor[fn]

all the days of your life.

So the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

“So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.[fn]

So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died.

And he named him Noah,[fn] saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”

the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

The Nephilim[fn] were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

Then the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky ​— ​for I regret that I made them.”

“This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.[fn]

“Understand that I am bringing a flood ​— ​floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

“Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them.”

“You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

“Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

From the animals that are clean, and from the animals that are not clean, and from the birds and every creature that crawls on the ground,

Two of every creature that has the breath of life in it came to Noah and entered the ark.

Then the water surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.

Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils ​— ​everything on dry land died.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

“Bring out all the living creatures that are with you ​— ​birds, livestock, those that crawl on the earth ​— ​and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

“The fear and terror of you will be in every living creature on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are placed under your authority.

“and with every living creature that is with you ​— ​birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you ​— ​all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations:

“I will remember my covenant between me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.