And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.

These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.

And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.

For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.

And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?

And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?

If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.

And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow;

If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.

And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end.

And all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and he came to his end.

And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.

And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.

And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end.

And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:

And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.

And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end.

And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.

But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.

And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,

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

These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters

All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.

These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.