Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh. Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died. When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.
Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
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