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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 the earth, going and returning. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
4 And the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month. 5 And the waters decreased, going and returning 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 happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 And he sent out a raven. And it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had abated from 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, because the waters were on the face of the whole earth. And he put out his hand and took her and brought her in, to him and into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet another seven days and again he sent out the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in, in the evening to him. And behold, in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from 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 happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month of the year and the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was nearly dried. 14 And the earth was dry in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.
15 And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you. 17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, 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 Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet aroma. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. I will not again kill* 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 will 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* will be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, with all that creeps on the ground and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your* hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you*. As the green herb, I have given you* all. 4 But you* will not eat flesh in its life, that is its blood.
5 And surely I will require your* blood, the blood of your* lives. I will require it at the hand of every beast. And I will require the life of man at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother. 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man. For in the image of God he made man. 7 And you* be 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 will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor will 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*, everlasting. 13 I set my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will 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 will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow will 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 will be a servant to his brothers.
26 And he said, Praise Jehovah, 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 genealogies of the sons of Noah, of Shem, Ham and Japheth. And the sons who were born to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth were : Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer were : Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan were : 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 were : Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush were : Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah were : Sheba and Dedan.
8 And Cush fathered Nimrod. He began to be a mighty man on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah. 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; that is the great city.
13 And Mizraim fathered Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim 14 and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from where the Philistines went forth) and Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan fathered 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 Canaanite family were spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as you 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 languages, 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 were : Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. 23 And the sons of Aram were : Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. 24 And Arpachshad fathered Shelah and Shelah fathered 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 fathered 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 you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, 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 happened, as they traveled 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 tar 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 ourselves, lest we are scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of man built.
6 And Jehovah 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 there and confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.
8 So Jehovah 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 Jehovah confounded the language of all the earth there and Jehovah scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth from there.
10 These are the genealogies of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11 And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad and fathered more sons and daughters.
12 And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelah. 13 And Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he had fathered Shelah and fathered more sons and daughters.
14 And Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber. 15 And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber and he fathered more sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg. 17 And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg and fathered more sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu. 19 And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he fathered Reu and fathered more sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug. 21 And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he fathered Serug and fathered more sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor. 23 And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor and fathered more sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah. 25 And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years after he fathered Terah and fathered more sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 Now these are the genealogies of Terah were : Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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 Chaldeans, 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.
4 And the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month. 5 And the waters decreased, going and returning 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 happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 And he sent out a raven. And it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had abated from 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, because the waters were on the face of the whole earth. And he put out his hand and took her and brought her in, to him and into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet another seven days and again he sent out the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in, in the evening to him. And behold, in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from 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 happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month of the year and the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was nearly dried. 14 And the earth was dry in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.
15 And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you. 17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, 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 Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet aroma. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. I will not again kill* 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 will 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* will be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, with all that creeps on the ground and all the fishes of the sea. They are delivered into your* hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you*. As the green herb, I have given you* all. 4 But you* will not eat flesh in its life, that is its blood.
5 And surely I will require your* blood, the blood of your* lives. I will require it at the hand of every beast. And I will require the life of man at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother. 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man. For in the image of God he made man. 7 And you* be 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 will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor will 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*, everlasting. 13 I set my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will 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 will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow will 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 will be a servant to his brothers.
26 And he said, Praise Jehovah, 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 genealogies of the sons of Noah, of Shem, Ham and Japheth. And the sons who were born to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth were : Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer were : Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan were : 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 were : Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush were : Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah were : Sheba and Dedan.
8 And Cush fathered Nimrod. He began to be a mighty man on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah. 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; that is the great city.
13 And Mizraim fathered Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim 14 and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from where the Philistines went forth) and Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan fathered 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 Canaanite family were spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as you 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 languages, 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 were : Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. 23 And the sons of Aram were : Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. 24 And Arpachshad fathered Shelah and Shelah fathered 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 fathered 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 you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, 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 happened, as they traveled 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 tar 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 ourselves, lest we are scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of man built.
6 And Jehovah 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 there and confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.
8 So Jehovah 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 Jehovah confounded the language of all the earth there and Jehovah scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth from there.
10 These are the genealogies of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11 And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad and fathered more sons and daughters.
12 And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelah. 13 And Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he had fathered Shelah and fathered more sons and daughters.
14 And Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber. 15 And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber and he fathered more sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg. 17 And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg and fathered more sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu. 19 And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he fathered Reu and fathered more sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug. 21 And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he fathered Serug and fathered more sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor. 23 And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor and fathered more sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah. 25 And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years after he fathered Terah and fathered more sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 Now these are the genealogies of Terah were : Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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 Chaldeans, 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.