Leeser(i)
1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy household into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven pairs of each, the male and his female; and of beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female.
3 Also of the fowls of the heaven, seven pairs of each, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For after only seven days more, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will blot out every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did all just as the Lord had 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 the clean beasts, and of the beasts that are not clean, and of the fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 One pair of each went in unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had 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 this same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On that self-same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird, every thing that hath wings.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, one pair of each, of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and then the 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 floated along upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that are under the whole heavens were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits above them did the waters prevail; and the mountains were thus covered.
21 And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that were on the dry land, died.
23 And it swept off every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowls of the heaven; and they were swept from the earth; and Noah only was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
8 1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were assuaged;
2 The fountains also 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, gradually returning; and the waters were abated after the end of the hundred and fifty days.
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, were the tops of the mountains 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 which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 He then 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 resting-place for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him unto the ark; for there was water on the face of the whole earth; then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her 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 the time of the evening; and, lo, an olive-leaf plucked off was in her mouth; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned not again unto him any more.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that 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 dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth perfectly dried up.
15 And God spoke unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
17 Every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee; 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 fowl, whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah built an altar unto the Lord, and he took of every clean cattle, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man; although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 All the while the earth remaineth, seed-time 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 unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the heaven; whatever is that moveth upon the earth, and all the fishes of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be yours for food; even as the green herbs have I given you all things.
4 But flesh in which its life is, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.
5 Your blood, however, on which your lives depend, will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply thereon.
8 And God spoke unto 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, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all those that go out of the ark, for every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; and all flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.
13 My bow I do set in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of the covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, that, when I bring a cloud over the earth, and the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
15 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 unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark, were Shem, Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah, who was a husbandman, began his work, and he planted a vineyard.
21 And he drank of the wine, and became drunken; and he uncovered himself within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told it his two brothers without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon the shoulders of both of them, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and discovered what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant unto them.
27 May God enlarge the boundaries of Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant unto them.
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tirass.
3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 From these were separated the isles of the nations in their lands, every one after his tongue: after their families, in their nations.
6 And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizrayim, Put and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, Sabtah and Raamah, and Sabtecha; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty man on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city of Rechoboth, and Calach.
12 And Ressen between Nineveh and Calach: the same is the great city.
13 And Mizrayim begat the Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuchim.
14 And the Pethrussim, and Casluchin, out of whom came the Pelishtim, and the Caphtorim.
15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
16 And the Jebusite, and the Emorite, 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 were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gazzah; as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboyim, even unto Lesha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, in their nations.
21 But unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, were children born.
22 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
23 And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
24 And Arpachshad begat Shelach; and Shelach begat Eber.
25 And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerach,
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 goest unto Sephar, the mount of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and from these were the nations separated on the earth after the flood.
11 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one kind of words.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed toward the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
3 And they said to one another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And thus the brick served them for stone, and slime served them for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower, the top of which may reach unto heaven; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man were building.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, it is one people, and they have all one language, and this is the first thing they undertake to do; and now shall they not be restrained in all which they have imagined to do?
7 Go to, let us go down, and confound there their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem, when a hundred years old, begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
11 And Shem lived after he had begotten Arpachshad five hundred years; and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelach.
13 And Arpachshad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and three years; and begat sons and daughters.
14 And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber.
15 And Shelach lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years; and begat sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg.
17 And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years; and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.
19 And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years; and begat sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.
21 And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years; and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor.
23 And Serug lived after he had begotten Nachor two hundred years; and begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terach.
25 And Nachor lived after he had begotten Terach a hundred and nineteen years; and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terach lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of Terach: Terach begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terach in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nachor took themselves wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nachor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Yiscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terach took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Charan, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terach were two hundred and five years; and Terach died in Charan.