Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and fathered sons and daughters.

Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,

and he named him Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."

Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and fathered sons and daughters.

Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

The LORD said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

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 burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

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:

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

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.

The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.

The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

And Arpachshad became the father of Cainan. And Cainan became the father of Shelah. And Shelah became the father of Eber.

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.

And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Cainan.