And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.

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

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.

And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

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

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow 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 bow 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 sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

And the sons of Noah, who went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread over.

And Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within 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 went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest 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 LORD, the God of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.

God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem. And let Canaan be his 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, of 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, Kittim, and Dodanim.

And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

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

And Cush begot Nimrod. He began to be a mighty man on the earth.

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

He went forth out of that land into Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from where the Philistines went forth), and Caphtorim.

And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, 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 Canaanite were spread abroad.

And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as thou go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

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

The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

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

And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber.

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

And Joktan begot 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 thou go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

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

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

And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

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

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

And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.

And LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do.

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.

So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

And Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arphaxad, and begot sons and daughters.

And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.

And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he begot Shelah, and begot sons and daughters.

And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he begot Eber, and begot sons and daughters.

And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

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

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he begot Reu, and begot sons and daughters.

And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

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

And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

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

And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.

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

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

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

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And Abram and Nahor took wives to 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 Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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 they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Hara

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

Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing.

And I will bless those who bless thee, and he who curses thee I will curse. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

So Abram went as LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of 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 gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land o

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

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

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

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

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

And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon.

And it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

Say, I pray thee, thou are my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.

And it came to pass, that, when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-donkeys, and camels.

And LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.