Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep, - but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters,

God called the dry ground "land," and he called the water that had come together "oceans." And God saw how good it was.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.

And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.

And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man. While he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up {the flesh where it had been}.

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’;

The ground is [now] under a curse because of you;
In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it
All the days of your life.

Now Adam had named his wife "Eve," because she was to become the mother of everyone who was living.

So Yahweh God put him forth from the garden of Eden, - to till the ground wherefrom he had been taken.

After he had expelled the man, the LORD God placed winged angels at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to the tree of life.

Adam was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.”

Later, after a while, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit that he had harvested,

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.

And Enoch had a son Irad: and Irad became the father of Mehujael: and Mehujael became the father of Methushael: and Methushael became the father of Lamech.

And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah,
Listen to my voice,
You wives of Lamech,
Give heed to my speech,
For I have killed a man for wounding me;
And a boy for striking me;

And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth, 'for God hath appointed for me another seed instead of Abel:' for Cain had slain him.

And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

When Seth had lived one hundred and five years, he fathered Enosh.

And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.

And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Kenan had lived seventy years, he fathered Mahalalel.

And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Jared.

And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Jared had lived one hundred and sixty-two years, he fathered Enoch.

And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Methuselah.

And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

and Enoch walked with God, - and was not for God had taken him.

When Methuselah had lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he fathered Lamech.

And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Lamech had lived one hundred and eighty-two years, he fathered a son.

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us} from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.

And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.

After Noah had lived 500 years, he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.

And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

By this time, the earth had become ruined in God's opinion and filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded him, so did he.

And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him.

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

both they and all manner of beasts in their kind, and all manner of cattle in their kind and all manner of worms that creep upon the earth in their kind, and all manner of birds in their kind, and all manner of fowls whatsoever had feathers.

And they came unto Noah into the ark by couples, of all flesh that had breath of life in it.

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

All existing creatures that had lived on the surface of the ground were annihilated, from humans to livestock, from crawling creatures to birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah remained, along with those who were with him in the ark.

and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

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

And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.

And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth.

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him 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.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

After Noah had lived a total of 950 years, he died.

These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.

And Shem, Japheth’s older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber.

Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

And they say, 'Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the whole earth, so that they had to stop building the city.

These are the family records of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah.

And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber.

And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg.

And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu.

And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.