All the Stories of the Bible - Full Length

https://www.btstories.com/creation/In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was lifeless, empty, and dark. Then the Spirit of God moved across the vast emptiness. He said, “Let there be light.” Suddenly light shone around the entire sphere of the earth! God looked at the light, and saw that it was good.

https://www.btstories.com/adam-and-eve/Imagine the earth when it was new—before the plants had come up. In those days, God hadn’t yet allowed it to rain on the earth, but caused a mist to come each day to water the land. During this time, God took some soil and shaped the first man. He breathed into his nostrils, and Adam was alive.

https://www.btstories.com/the-fall/God created Adam and Eve and provided all they needed in the Garden of Eden. Like the animals, they had no need of clothes, yet they were not ashamed.The snake was the cleverest of all the animals. One day he said to Eve, “Is it true God won’t let you eat from all the trees in the garden?”

https://www.btstories.com/cain-and-abel/Adam and Eve had a son and named him Cain. In time they had another son named Abel.Abel became a herdsman—working with animals. Cain became a farmer, tilling the soil.One day, when it was time to bring a sacrifice to the Lord, Cain decided to bring fruits and vegetables, instead of a lamb. Abel also brought an offering, but it was the best lamb from his flock. The Lord was pleased with Abel’s offering, but he wasn’t happy with Cain’s.

https://www.btstories.com/the-flood/After people disobeyed God and went into sin, they became extremely wicked. All of their thoughts and actions were evil. God knew he had to destroy the people he created.

https://www.btstories.com/after-the-flood/After the Flood, Noah planted a vineyard. In time he drank some of the wine from his harvest and got drunk. He went to his tent and fell asleep on the floor without any clothes on.His youngest son saw his father lying there, and went and told his brothers what he had seen. His brothers draped a coat between them and walked backwards into the tent, draping the coat over their father.When Noah woke up, he learned what had happened. So he put a curse on the family of his youngest son, and blessed the families of the other two.

https://www.btstories.com/call-of-abraham/There was a man named Terah who lived in a place called Ur. He had three sons, and one of them was Abram. Now Abram was married to his half-sister Sarai, but they had no children.Terah took Abram, Sarai, and his grandson Lot (who was an orphan) and moved north to a place called Haran. They stayed there until Terah died.

https://www.btstories.com/melchizedek/Both Abram and Lot were prosperous. Soon their herdsmen started arguing over grazing rights. Abram said, “We shouldn’t be fighting. After all, we’re family. There is plenty of land here. You choose. You go one way and I’ll go the other.” Lot knew which direction he wanted to go. The Jordan valley had plenty of water, and it reminded him of Egypt. He’d often say to himself, “It’s like the Lord’s garden.” So he chose the entire Jordan Valley. He set up his tent near Sodom, even though the men there were extremely wicked.

https://www.btstories.com/the-god-who-sees-me/After Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai became concerned that she hadn’t yet had a child like the Lord promised. She said to her husband, “I have a solution to this problem. Go to bed with my slave Hagar. When she delivers a child, it’ll be the same as if I had the child. Abram agreed and did as she said. But as soon as Hagar became pregnant, she started acting like she was better than Sarai. This made Sarai angry. She said to Abram. “You’re the one who has caused all my problems! You got my slave pregnant, and now she thinks she’s better than me.

https://www.btstories.com/birth-of-isaac/When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord said to him, “You’ll be the father of many nations and some of your descendants will be kings! Therefore I’m changing your name to Abraham, which means the ‘father of many nations’. I will be with you and I will give this land to you and your descendants. As a sign of these promises, you are to circumcise every male among you.” Then the Lord said to him, “From now on, your wife will be called Sarah. I will bless her, and she’ll bear you a son.”

https://www.btstories.com/bargaining-with-god/Abraham had three guests. One of them was the Lord. He served them a meal under the shade of a tree. Afterwards they got up and started walking toward Sodom. Abraham walked with them for a short distance. Suddenly the Lord stopped and said to the others, “I’m going to tell Abraham what I’m about to do. After all, he’ll become a great and powerful nation. All the nations on earth will be blessed through him. I know he’ll teach his children to honor God and do right.”

https://www.btstories.com/sodom-and-gomorrah/In the early evening, two angels entered Sodom. They found Lot sitting at the city gate. As soon ashe saw them, he went and bowed before them. He said, “I’m your humble servant. Please cometo my house so I can make you comfortable. I’ll wash your feet and give you a place to spend thenight. Then I’ll wake you up early so you can be on your way.”They said, “No, we’ll just spend the night here in the town square.”“Oh, no, my lords! You must come with me right now. Please follow me.”

https://www.btstories.com/two-daughters/After the destruction of Sodom, Lot and his two daughters left the little town where they lived because Lot was afraid of what might happen to them there. They went to the mountains and lived in a cave.

https://www.btstories.com/shes-my-sister/Abraham traveled to an area where Abimelech was king. He told the people there, “Sarah is my sister.” So Abimelech sent people to get Sarah and bring her to his household. Once she was there, the Lord prevented the king from having sex with her. God came to Abimelech in a dream and said, “You’re about to die because that woman you brought into your house is married.”

https://www.btstories.com/god-hears/When Abraham was a hundred years old, Sarah gave birth to a son. They called him Isaac, which means “laughter,” because Sarah said; “God has put laughter in my heart. And all who hear about me giving birth to a child will laugh with me. Who would have thought that I could nurse a baby?” When Ishmael was a young man, Sarah saw him mocking Isaac. She was furious and said to Abraham, “Send that woman away, as well as her son. I don’t want them to inherit anything that belongs to Isaac.”

https://www.btstories.com/trial-of-abraham/When Isaac was a young man, God came to Abraham and said, “Abraham, take Isaac, the son you love so dearly, and go to a place I’ll show you. There, I want you to sacrifice him as a burnt offering.”

https://www.btstories.com/Death-of-Sarah/Sarah died when she was 127 years old. Their encampment was near Hebron at the time, so Abraham went to the Hittites and said, “We both live in this land together. Please allow me to buy a place where I can bury my dead.”

https://www.btstories.com/rebekah/When Sarah died, Abraham realized he needed to find a wife for his son Isaac. He said to his servant, “I’m sending you back to my homeland so you can find a wife for my son. Promise me you won’t choose a woman from the people around here. Make sure she’s from among my relatives.”The servant was concerned. “What if I find a woman, and she’s not willing to leave her home and come here? Perhaps I should take Isaac back there to marry her.”

https://www.btstories.com/selling-the-birthright/After Sarah died, Abraham married a woman named Keturah. Together they had six sons. Years later, when Abraham knew he was going to die, he gave gifts to Keturah and her sons, and sent them away to the land of the East. He then gave everything he owned to Isaac. Abraham died when he was 175 years old. Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the same cave where Sarah was buried.

https://www.btstories.com/shes-my-sister-ii/A great famine hit the place where Isaac lived, so he realized he needed to move to another area. The Lord appeared to him and said, “Don’t go to Egypt. Stay in this land, even though you’re a foreigner here. I’ll bless you, and give you all the promises I gave to your father Abraham. Your descendants will be as hard to count as the stars. I’ll give them all of this land, and through them all the nations on earth will be blessed.”