and surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

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

And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Behold! I, even I, establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

and with every living creature that is with you, of the birds, of the cattle, and of every animal of the earth with you; from all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the earth.

And I will establish My covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature with you, for everlasting generations:

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 I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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

And the sons of Noah that went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

These are the three sons of Noah, and the whole earth was overspread from them.

And Noah began to be a husbandman. And he planted a vineyard.

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

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

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

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

And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.

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

And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years. And he died.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.

And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.

And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish and Kittim and Dodanim.

And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan.

And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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.

Out of that land he went forth to Asshur. And he built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a great city.

And Mizraim fathered Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim,

and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

And Canaan fathered Sidon, his first-born, and Heth,

and the Jebusite and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

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 to Shem were born, even him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash,

And Arpachshad fathered Salah; and Salah fathered Eber.

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.

And Joktan fathered Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah,

and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah,

and Obal and Abimael and Sheba,

and Ophir and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go to Sephar, a mountain of the east.

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

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

And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

And it happened, as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar. And they lived there.

And they said to one another, Come, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole earth.

And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of Adam had built.

And Jehovah said, Behold! The people is one and they all have one language. And this they begin to do. And now nothing which they have imagined to do will be restrained from them.

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another's speech.

So Jehovah scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of all the earth. And they quit building the city.

Therefore the name of it is called Babel; because Jehovah confused the language of all the earth there. And from there Jehovah scattered them abroad on the face of all the earth.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

And after he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Salah.

And after he fathered Salah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Salah lived thirty years and fathered Eber.

And after he fathered Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg.

And after he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu.

After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug.

And after he fathered Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.

And after he fathered Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah.

And after he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot.

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

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai. And the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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

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

And Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house into a land that I will show you.

And I will make you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing.

And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.

And Abram departed, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

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

And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, unto the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your seed. And he built an altar there to Jehovah who appeared to him.

And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Hai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.

And Abram journeyed, going on and pulled up stakes toward the south.

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to stay there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

And it happened, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon.

And it will be when the Egyptians see you, they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save you alive.

I pray you, say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me for your sake. And my soul shall live because of you.

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

The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.