In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth tender sprouts (the herb seeding seed and the fruit tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself) upon the earth; and it was so.

And the earth brought forth tender sprouts, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree producing fruit after its kind, whose seed was in itself. And God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.

And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. And it was so.

And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a living soul; and let birds fly over the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas and let the fowl multiply in the earth.

And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.

And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.

And God said, Behold! I have given you every herb seeding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; to you it shall be for food.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul every green plant is for food; and it was so.

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 in it He had rested from all His work which God created to make.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that Jehovah God made the earth and the heavens.

And every shrub of the field was not yet on the earth, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward in Eden. And there He put the man whom He had formed.

And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The tree of life also was in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that surrounds the whole land of Cush.

And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree in the garden,

but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh underneath.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh.

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.

for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

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

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

To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear sons, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.

And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become as one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,

And in the end of days, it happened, Cain brought to Jehovah an offering of the fruit of the ground.

And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. And you shall be a vagabond and a fugitive in the earth.

Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today, and I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.

And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah and lived in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

And Lamech took two wives to himself. The name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.

And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents, and with cattle.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

He created them male and female, and blessed them. And He called their name man in the day when they were created.

And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, after his own image. And he called his name Seth.

And Seth lived one hundred and five years and fathered Enos.

And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years and fathered Enoch.

And Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years and fathered Lamech.

And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years and fathered a son.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.

And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and when daughters were born to them,

And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

There were giants in the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore to them, they were mighty men who existed of old, men of renown.

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

And Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was angry to His heart.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Make an ark of cyprus timbers. You shall make rooms in the ark. And you shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall finish it above to a cubit. And you shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second and third stories.

And behold! I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth in order to destroy all flesh (in which is the breath of life) from under the heavens. Everything which is in the earth shall die.

And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.

For in seven more days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And I will destroy from off the face of the earth every living thing that I have made.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

And Noah went in. And his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went in with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Of the clean animals, and of the animals that were not clean, and of the fowls, and of everything that creeps on the earth,

two by two they went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

And it happened after seven days that the waters of the flood came into being on the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened up.

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

They went in, and every animal after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.

And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which is the breath of life.

And they that entered, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

all who breathed the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

And every living thing which was on the face of the earth was destroyed, from man to cattle, and to the creeping things, and the fowls of the heavens. And they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. And the tops of the mountains were seen in the tenth month on the first day of the month.

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark.

And the dove came in to him in the evening. And, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the earth.

And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And, behold, the face of the earth was dried!

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

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

And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon the animals of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon all that moves on the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it.

Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man; for He made man in the image of God.

And you be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and increase in it.

I set my rainbow in the cloud. And it shall be a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.

And it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud.

And the rainbow shall be in the cloud. And I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And he drank of the wine and was drunk. And he was uncovered inside his tent.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and came to know what his younger son had done to him.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem. And Canaan shall be their servant.

By these were the coasts of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

And Cush fathered Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon (as you come to Gerar) to Gaza, as you go in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, even to Lasha.

These were the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

And two sons were born to Eber. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.