whom he named Noah, because he said, "May this one comfort us from our work, from pain that is caused by our manual labor, and from the ground that the LORD has cursed."

After he fathered Noah, Lamech lived 595 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

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

However, the LORD was pleased with Noah.

These are the family records of Noah: Noah was a righteous man. Blameless during his times, Noah communed with God.

Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

So God announced to Noah, "I've decided to destroy every living thing on earth, because it has become filled with violence due to them. Look! I'm about to annihilate them, along with the earth.

Noah did all of this, precisely as God had commanded.

Then the LORD told Noah, "Come you and all your household into the ark, because I've seen that you alone are righteous in this generation.

Noah did everything that the LORD commanded.

Noah was 600 years old when water began to flood the earth.

Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived.

two by two, male and female, they entered the ark to join Noah, just as God had commanded.

On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened,

On that very day, Noah entered the ark with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, his sons' three wives with them,

Two of each living creature entered the ark with Noah.

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.

God kept Noah in mind, along with all the wildlife and livestock that were with him in the ark. God's Spirit moved throughout the earth, causing the flood waters to subside.

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

but the dove could not yet find a place to rest, so it returned to Noah on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back into the ark with him.

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

The dove returned to him in the evening, but in its beak there was an olive leaf that it had plucked! So Noah knew that the flood waters had decreased on the land.

In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, during the first month, the flood water began to evaporate from the land. Noah then removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the land was drying.

God spoke to Noah,

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird.

God blessed Noah and his sons and ordered them, "Be productive, multiply, and fill the earth.

Later, God told Noah and his sons,

God also told Noah, "This is the symbol of the covenant that I've established between me and everything that lives on the earth."

Noah's sons who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham later fathered Canaan.)

These three were Noah's sons, and from these men the whole earth was repopulated.

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant and farm a vineyard.

When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

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

These are the records of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, to whom descendants were born after the flood.

These are the families of Noah's sons, according to their records, by their nations. From these people, the nations on the earth spread out after the flood.