Genesis 6:1-11:32 And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, ² The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose. ³ And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown. ⁵ And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times, ⁶ It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, ⁷ He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. ⁸ But Noe found grace before the Lord. ⁹ These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God. ¹⁰ And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth. ¹¹ And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity. ¹² And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth), ¹³ He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth. ¹⁴ Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without. ¹⁵ And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. ¹⁶ Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it. ¹⁷ Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed. ¹⁸ And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee. ¹⁹ And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female. ²⁰ Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live. ²¹ Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them. ²² And Noe did all things which God commanded him. ⁷ ¹ And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation. ² Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female. ³ But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth. ⁴ For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth. ⁵ And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him. ⁶ And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth. ⁷ And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. ⁸ And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth, ⁹ Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe. ¹⁰ And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened: ¹² And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³ In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark. ¹⁴ They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly, ¹⁵ Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life. ¹⁶ And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside. ¹⁷ And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. ¹⁸ For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. ²⁰ The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered. ²¹ And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men. ²² And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died. ²³ And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark. ²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days. ⁸ ¹ And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated: ² The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained. ³ And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days. ⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. ⁵ And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. ⁶ And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven: ⁷ Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth. ⁸ He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth. ⁹ But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark. ¹⁰ And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark. ¹¹ And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth. ¹² And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him. ¹³ Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried. ¹⁴ In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth was dried. ¹⁵ And God spoke to Noe, saying: ¹⁶ Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee. ¹⁷ All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it. ¹⁸ So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him. ¹⁹ And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark. ²⁰ And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar. ²¹ And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done. ²² All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease. ⁹ ¹ And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth. ² And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand. ³ And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you: ⁴ Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat. ⁵ For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. ⁶ Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God. ⁷ But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it. ⁸ Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him: ⁹ Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you: ¹⁰ And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth. ¹¹ I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth. ¹² And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations. ¹³ I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth. ¹⁴ And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds: ¹⁵ And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth. ¹⁷ And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth. ¹⁸ And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan. ¹⁹ These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth. ²⁰ And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard. ²¹ And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent. ²² Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without. ²³ But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father's nakedness. ²⁴ And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him, ²⁵ He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. ²⁶ And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant. ²⁷ May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant. ²⁸ And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. ²⁹ And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. ¹⁰ ¹ These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood. ² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras. ³ And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma. ⁴ And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim. ⁵ By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations. ⁶ And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan. ⁷ And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan. ⁸ Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth. ⁹ And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord. ¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. ¹¹ Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale. ¹² Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city. ¹³ And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim and Laabim, Nephthuim. ¹⁴ And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim. ¹⁵ And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite, ¹⁶ And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite. ¹⁷ The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite, ¹⁸ And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad. ¹⁹ And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa. ²⁰ These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations. ²¹ Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born. ²² The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. ²³ The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes. ²⁴ But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber. ²⁵ And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name Jectan. ²⁶ Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare, ²⁷ And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla, ²⁸ And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba, ²⁹ And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Jectan. ³⁰ And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the east. ³¹ These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in their nations. ³² These are the families of Noe, according to their people and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood. ¹¹ ¹ And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech. ² And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. ³ And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar: ⁴ And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. ⁵ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building. ⁶ And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. ⁷ Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. ⁸ And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city. ⁹ And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries. ¹⁰ These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood. ¹¹ And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹² And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale. ¹³ And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴ Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber. ¹⁵ And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years: and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁶ And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg. ¹⁷ And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁸ Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu. ¹⁹ And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁰ And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug. ²¹ And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. ²² And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor. ²³ And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁴ And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare. ²⁵ And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁶ And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran. ²⁷ And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot. ²⁸ And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha. ³⁰ And Sarai was barren, and had no children. ³¹ And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there. ³² And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.