Genesis 6:1-11:32 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, ² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose. ³ And LORD said, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ The giants were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and they bore sons to them, the same were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. ⁵ And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷ And LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man, to beast, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, for I regret that I have made them. ⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of LORD. ⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ¹¹ And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. ¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. ¹⁴ Make thee an ark of gopher wood. Thou shall make rooms in the ark, and shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch. ¹⁵ And this is how thou shall make it: The length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. ¹⁶ Thou shall make a light for the ark, and thou shall finish it to a cubit upward. And thou shall set the door of the ark in the side of it, with lower, second, and third stories thou shall make it. ¹⁷ And I, behold, I bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. ¹⁸ But I will establish my covenant with thee. And thou shall come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. ¹⁹ And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort thou shall bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee. They shall be male and female. ²⁰ Of the birds according to their kind, and of the cattle according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two of every sort shall come to thee, to keep them alive. ²¹ And take thou to thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee, and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. ²² Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. ⁷ ¹ And LORD said to Noah, Come, thou and all thy house into the ark, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation. ² Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens, the male and his female. And of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female. ³ Also of the birds of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. ⁴ For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground. ⁵ And Noah did according to all that LORD commanded him. ⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. ⁷ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. ⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps upon the ground, ⁹ there went in two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³ In the selfsame day Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark, ¹⁴ they, and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort. ¹⁵ And they went in to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶ And those that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him. And LORD shut him in. ¹⁷ And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. ¹⁸ And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered, ²⁰ fifteen cubits upward. The waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered. ²¹ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man. ²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. ²³ And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. ²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days. ⁸ ¹ And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. ² Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. ³ And the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. ⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. ⁶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. ⁷ And he sent forth a raven. And it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. ⁸ And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. ⁹ But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. And he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in to him into the ark. ¹⁰ And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. ¹¹ And the dove came in to him at evening. And, lo, in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. ¹² And he stayed yet seven other days, and sent forth the dove. And she did not return again to him any more. ¹³ And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. And, behold, the face of the ground was dried. ¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. ¹⁵ And God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶ Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. ¹⁷ Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds and cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. ¹⁸ And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. ¹⁹ Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves upon the earth, according to their families, went forth out of the ark. ²⁰ And Noah built an altar to LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹ And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything living, as I have done. ²² While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. ⁹ ¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth. ² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, with all with which the ground teems, and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. ³ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all. ⁴ But flesh with the life of it, which is the blood of it, ye shall not eat. ⁵ And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man. ⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man. ⁷ And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it. ⁸ And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹ And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. ¹¹ And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth. ¹² And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ¹³ I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. ¹⁵ And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. ¹⁸ And the sons of Noah, who went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread over. ²⁰ And Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. ²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. ²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers. ²⁶ And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant. ²⁷ God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant. ²⁸ And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. ²⁹ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. ¹⁰ ¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood. ² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. ³ And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴ And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁵ From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations. ⁶ And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. ⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. ⁸ And Cush begot Nimrod. He began to be a mighty man on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before LORD. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before LORD. ¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹ He went forth out of that land into Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah, ¹² and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city). ¹³ And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, ¹⁴ and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from where the Philistines went forth), and Caphtorim. ¹⁵ And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, ¹⁶ and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, ¹⁷ and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, ¹⁸ and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad. ¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as thou go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha. ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, in their nations. ²¹ And to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were also born to him. ²² The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. ²³ And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. ²⁴ And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber. ²⁵ And to Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan. ²⁶ And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, ²⁷ and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, ²⁸ and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, ²⁹ and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. ³¹ These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, according to their nations. ³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood. ¹¹ ¹ And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. ² And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. ³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had slime for mortar. ⁴ And they said, Come, let us build a city for us, and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for us, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. ⁵ And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built. ⁶ And LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do. ⁷ Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech. ⁸ So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. ⁹ Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth. ¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. ¹¹ And Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arphaxad, and begot sons and daughters. ¹² And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan. ¹³ And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Shelah; and Cainan lived after he had begotten Shelah, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. ¹⁴ And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. ¹⁵ And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he begot Eber, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁶ And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. ¹⁷ And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he begot Peleg, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁸ And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. ¹⁹ And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he begot Reu, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁰ And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. ²¹ And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he begot Serug, and begot sons and daughters. ²² And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. ²³ And Serug lived two hundred years after he begot Nahor, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁴ And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. ²⁵ And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years after he begot Terah, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begot Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives to themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. ³⁰ And Sarai was barren; she had no child. ³¹ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. And they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran, and dwelt there. ³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.