【正文】 n the tent, he said. Then the LORD said, I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son. Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure? Then the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh and say, 39。 I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse。s speech. The Tower Of Babel ? The Tower of Babel ? Abram was 65 Years Old When he First Received the Promises He and His wife, Sarah, were Childless ? Abram’s Plan (Genesis 15:13) ? God Renews the Promises (Genesis 15:46) ? Sarah’s Plan (Genesis 16) Abraham was 86 when Ishmael was born to Sarah’s servant (Hagar) Abram (changed to Abraham when he was 99 by God) The LORD had said to Abram, Leave your country, your people and your father39。 and this is only the beginning of what they will do。 everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air。s blood is crying to me from the ground. Cain And Abel Cain and Abel ? Leon . Bonnat ? Grief: Adam and Abel ? (French 18341923) ? Brown inkand pencil And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered。 am I my brother39。 you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live. I will make you and the woman hate each other。 so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves. That evening they heard the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden。 but not one of them was a suitable panion to help him. Then the LORD God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man?s ribs and closed up the flesh. He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him. Then the man said, “At last, here is one of my own kind— Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. ?Woman? is her name because she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they bee one. The man and the woman were both naked, but they were not embarrassed. Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the LORD God had made. The snake asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?” “We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,” the woman answered, “except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it。 he breathed lifegiving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live. Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed. He made all kinds of beautiful trees grow there and produce good fruit. In the middle of the garden stood the tree that gives life and the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad. Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable panion to help him.” So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them。 if you do, you will die the same day.” When the LORD God made the universe, there were no plants on the earth and no seeds had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and there was no one to cultivate the land。 and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man。 and there was light. And God saw that the light was good。Bible and Christianity Bible: The Bible, a collection of sacred books of Judaism and Christianity, is posed of two main parts: the Old Testament（舊約） and the New Testament（新約） . It was the Jewish tradition which gave birth to Christianity. Christianity is by far the most influential religion in the West. 基督教各主要派系之間的發(fā)展關(guān)系 羅馬帝國國教 Judaism Judaism Christianity Orthodox Catholic Protestant Catholic (東正教，或正教） （天主教，公教） （新教） The Old Testament The Hebrews, which means “wanders”, are the ancesters of the 1300 , the Hebrews came to settle in Palestine (known as Canaan ) and formed small kingdoms. Their history was recorded in the Old Testament. It consists of 39 books, the oldest and most important are the first 5 books, called Pentateuch. Pentateuch ? Genesis (創(chuàng)世紀(jì) ) ? Exodus (出埃及記 ) ? Leviticus (利未記 ) ? Numbers (民數(shù)記 ) ? Deuteronomy (申命記 ) Old Testament 舊約 Genesis 創(chuàng)世記 Exodus 出埃及記 Leviticus 利未記 Numbers 民數(shù)記 Deuteronomy 申命記 Joshua 約書亞記 Judges 士師記 Ruth 路得記 1st Samuel 撒母耳記上 2nd Samuel撒母耳記下 1st Kings 列王紀(jì)上 2nd Kings列王紀(jì)下 1st Chronicles 歷代志上 2nd Chronicles 歷代志下 Ezra 以斯拉記 Nehemiah 尼希米記 Esther 以斯帖記 Job 約伯記 Psalms 詩篇 Proverbs 箴言 Ecclesiastes 傳道書 Song of Solomon 雅歌 Isaiah 以賽亞書 Jeremiah 耶利米書 Lamentations耶利米哀歌 Ezekiel 以西結(jié)書 Daniel 但以理書 Hosea 何西阿書 Joel 約珥書 Amos 阿摩司書 Obadiah 俄巴底亞書 Jonah 約拿書 Micah 彌迦書 Nahum 那鴻書 Habakkuk 哈巴谷書 Zephaniah 西番雅書 Haggai 哈該書 Zechariah 撒迦利亞書 Malachi 瑪拉基書 The New Testament, the part of the Bible concerned with the life and teachings of Jesus Chr