Opening lines from the books of the Bible

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Adam, Sheth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem,...

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying: "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names"

As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto ___the son of Nun

Now the word of the Lord came unto ___ the son of Amittai, saying: "Arise, go to Nineveh"

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was __; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob.

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up.

When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him.