By the seventh day God completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested from His work of creation.

No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

“Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.

This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within 18 inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives.

You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.

On that same day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and his three sons’ wives entered the ark with him.

Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah.

The flood continued for 40 days on the earth; the waters increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.

The waters surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

All wildlife, all livestock, every bird, and every creature that crawls on the earth came out of the ark by their groups.

and with every living creature that is with you—birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you—all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.

Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.

His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.

Laban said to him, “Just because you’re my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, “I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night.”

Now one day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were there.