Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

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

May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."

Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

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

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

And the days of Terah were two hundred five years. And Terah died in Haran.

And I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you all of the families of the earth be blessed."

So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to the LORD, who appeared to him.

He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

Abram traveled, going on still toward the Negev.

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

He went on his journeys from the Negev even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.

There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

They returned, and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;

They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."

He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not divide the birds.

The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."

It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you."

But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

The angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not go away from your servant.

They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? He said, "See, in the tent."