In Noah's six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month -- on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."

Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.

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

So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

And Noah did all that God commanded him -- he did indeed.

The Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.

Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Then God spoke to Noah and said,

Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.

Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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

God said to Noah and his sons,

So God said to Noah, "This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth."

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)

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

Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.

When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

The entire lifetime of Noah was 950 years, and then he died.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

So Laban entered Jacob's tent, and Leah's tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.

When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, it displeased him. So he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

What's more, she is indeed my sister, my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter. She became my wife.

These were the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau's wife Basemath.