- Abraham: The understanding of God is not our understanding. And what shall be brought about and how it shall be perfected is not in our power to know. Only in the promise of what shall come can we prosper. And in that trust have we pitched our tents.
- Noahs wife: [to one of her sons] Will you question your father's understanding, or doubt his ways? You should be ashaméd.
- [to Noah]
- Noahs wife: Yet when shall they be rid of the work? All things wait for this. The ground is unsown, and the house is unmended. Give me one of them to make the roof good, lest when the rain comes the house will not keep it out.
- Narrator: [Tower of Babel story] And the Lord said, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
- Narrator: In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was without form and void. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light." And there was light.
- One of the Three Angels: [after Sarah laughs when told she is to have a child at her advanced age] Why dost thou laugh? Is anything too hard for the Lord?
- God: [to the Serpent] Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above all the beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
- [last lines]
- God: [to Abraham] Behold, I have tried thee like metal in a furnace. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Now will I multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.
- Sarah: The Lord hath restrained me from bearing. I pray thee, go in unto my maid according to that law which says when a wife is barren, her handmaid may bear for her.