Genesis 4:1-11:32 And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.

BBE⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord. ² Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer. ³ And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth. ⁴ And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering; ⁵ But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad. ⁶ And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad? ⁷ If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master. ⁸ And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death. ⁹ And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper? ¹⁰ And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth. ¹¹ And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand; ¹² No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth. ¹³ And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength. ¹⁴ You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death. ¹⁵ And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death. ¹⁶ And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. ¹⁷ And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son. ¹⁸ And Enoch had a son Irad: and Irad became the father of Mehujael: and Mehujael became the father of Methushael: and Methushael became the father of Lamech. ¹⁹ And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. ²⁰ And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle. ²¹ And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music. ²² And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. ²³ And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow; ²⁴ If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's. ²⁵ And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put to death. ²⁶ And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship. ⁵ ¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God; ² Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made. ³ Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth: ⁴ And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ⁵ And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end. ⁶ And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh: ⁷ And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: ⁸ And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end. ⁹ And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan: ¹⁰ And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters: ¹¹ And all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and he came to his end. ¹² And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel: ¹³ And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁴ And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end. ¹⁵ And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared: ¹⁶ And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁷ And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end. ¹⁸ And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch: ¹⁹ And Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁰ And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end. ²¹ And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah: ²² And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ²³ And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five: ²⁴ And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him. ²⁵ And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech: ²⁶ And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁷ And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end. ²⁸ And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son: ²⁹ And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God. ³⁰ And after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters: ³¹ And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end. ³² And when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ⁶ ¹ And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters, ² The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them. ³ And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name. ⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil. ⁶ And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart. ⁷ And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them. ⁸ But Noah had grace in the eyes of God. ⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God. ¹⁰ And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ¹¹ And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways. ¹² And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth. ¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth. ¹⁴ Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out. ¹⁵ And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. ¹⁶ You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors. ¹⁷ For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end. ¹⁸ But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁹ And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female. ²⁰ Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction. ²¹ And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them. ²² And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did. ⁷ ¹ And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright. ² Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female; ³ And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth. ⁴ For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth. ⁵ And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do. ⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth. ⁷ And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters. ⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth, ⁹ In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said. ¹⁰ And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; ¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights. ¹³ On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark; ¹⁴ And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird. ¹⁵ They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶ Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord. ¹⁷ And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth. ¹⁸ And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered. ²⁰ The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered. ²¹ And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man. ²² Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end. ²³ Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death. ²⁴ And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days. ⁸ ¹ And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down. ² And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped. ³ And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower. ⁴ And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen. ⁶ Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made, ⁷ Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth. ⁸ And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth; ⁹ But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark. ¹⁰ And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again; ¹¹ And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth. ¹² And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him. ¹³ And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry. ¹⁴ And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. ¹⁵ And God said to Noah, ¹⁶ Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives. ¹⁷ Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth. ¹⁸ And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives; ¹⁹ And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark. ²⁰ And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar. ²¹ And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done. ²² While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end. ⁹ ¹ And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full. ² And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands. ³ Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things. ⁴ But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food. ⁵ And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man. ⁶ Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image. ⁷ And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number. ⁸ And God said to Noah and to his sons, ⁹ Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you, ¹⁰ And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you. ¹¹ And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction. ¹² And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations: ¹³ I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth. ¹⁴ And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵ And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh. ¹⁶ And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth. ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth. ¹⁸ And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled. ²⁰ In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden. ²¹ And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed. ²⁴ And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said, ²⁵ Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers. ²⁶ And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant. ²⁷ May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant. ²⁸ And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters; ²⁹ all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end. ¹⁰ ¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters 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, the Kittim and the Dodanim. ⁵ From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages. 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 was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth. ⁹ He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman. ¹⁰ And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹ From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah, ¹² And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town. ¹³ And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim; ¹⁴ And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines. ¹⁵ And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, 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; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions; ¹⁹ Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim. ²⁰ All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham. ²¹ And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition. ²² These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. ²³ And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. ²⁴ And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber. ²⁵ And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan. ²⁶ And Joktan was the father of 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 country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east. ³¹ These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem. ³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters. ¹¹ ¹ And all the earth had one language and one tongue. ² And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place. ³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. ⁴ And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth. ⁵ And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. ⁶ And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs. ⁷ Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. ⁸ So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. ⁹ So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth. ¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters; ¹¹ And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ¹² And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah: ¹³ And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁴ And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber: ¹⁵ And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁶ And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg: ¹⁷ And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: ¹⁸ And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu: ¹⁹ And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁰ And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug: ²¹ And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: ²² And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor: ²³ And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁴ And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah: ²⁵ And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters: ²⁶ And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. ²⁸ And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. ³⁰ And Sarai had no child. ³¹ And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time. ³² And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.