In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and 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 cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed after its kind, and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in them, after their kind. 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 on the earth. And it was so.

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

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on 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 the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.

And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;

and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so.

And God had finished on the seventh day 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 hallowed it, because that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.

These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,

and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.

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

but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.

but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.

And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden.

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

And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ...!

And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah.

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat. And Jehovah looked upon Abel, and on his offering;

and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth.

Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a wanderer and fugitive on the earth; and it will come to pass, that every one who finds me will slay me.

And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever slayeth Cain, it shall be revenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

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

And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah.

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

And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.

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

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.

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

And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

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.

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

And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.

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

Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: with cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: with a lower, second, and third story shalt thou make it.

For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of life: everything that is on the earth shall expire.

Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep them alive.

And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

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

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

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

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

And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind every bird of every wing.

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

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

And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.

And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.

And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:

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

And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.

And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.

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

And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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

But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

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.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.

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

Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.

All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar.

And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth on the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.

And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

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

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.