Genesis 6; Genesis 7; Genesis 8; Genesis 9; Genesis 10; Genesis 11

Genesis 6

1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

3 The LORD said, "My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

4 The Nefilim were in the eretz in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the eretz, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the eretz, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

8 But Noach found favor in the LORD's eyes.

9 This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with God.

10 Noach became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Yefet.

11 The eretz was corrupt before God, and the eretz was filled with violence.

12 God saw the eretz, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the eretz.

13 God said to Noach, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the eretz is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the eretz.

14 Make a teivah of gofer wood. You shall make rooms in the teivah, and shall seal it inside and outside with kofer.

15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the teivah will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16 You shall make a roof in the teivah, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the teivah in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

17 I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this eretz, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the eretz will die.

18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the teivah, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the teivah, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

20 Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them.

22 Thus Noach did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Genesis 7

1 The LORD said to Noach, "Come with all of your household into the teivah, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the eretz.

4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the eretz for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

5 Noach did everything that the LORD commanded him.

6 Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the eretz.

7 Noach went into the teivah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

9 went by pairs to Noach into the teivah, male and female, as God commanded Noach.

10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the eretz.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

12 The rain was on the eretz forty days and forty nights.

13 In the same day Noach, and Shem, Ham, and Yefet, the sons of Noach, and Noach's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the teivah;

14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

15 They went to Noach into the teivah, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

17 The flood was forty days on the eretz. The waters increased, and lifted up the teivah, and it was lifted up above the eretz.

18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the eretz; and the teivah floated on the surface of the waters.

19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the eretz. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

21 All flesh died that moved on the eretz, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz, and every man.

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the eretz. Only Noach was left, and those who were with him in the teivah.

24 The waters prevailed on the eretz one hundred fifty days.

Genesis 8

1 God remembered Noach, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the teivah; and God made a wind to pass over the eretz. The waters subsided.

2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3 The waters receded from off the eretz continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

4 The teivah rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noach opened the window of the teivah which he had made,

7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the eretz.

8 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,

9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the teivah; for the waters were on the surface of the whole eretz. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the teivah.

10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the teivah.

11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noach knew that the waters were abated from off the eretz.

12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the eretz. Noach removed the covering of the teivah, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the eretz was dry.

15 God spoke to Noach, saying,

16 "Go forth from the teivah, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz; that they may breed abundantly in the eretz, and be fruitful, and multiply on the eretz."

18 Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the eretz, after their families, went forth out of the teivah.

20 Noach built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

22 While the eretz remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

Genesis 9

1 God blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the eretz.

2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the eretz, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

4 But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.

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

6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

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

8 God spoke to Noach, and to his sons with him, saying,

9 "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the eretz with you. Of all that go out of the teivah, even every animal of the eretz.

11 I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the eretz."

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

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

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

15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 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 eretz."

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

18 The sons of Noach who went forth from the teivah were Shem, Ham, and Yefet. Ham is the father of Kana`an.

19 These three were the sons of Noach, and from these, the whole eretz was populated.

20 Noach began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

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

22 Ham, the father of Kana`an, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

23 Shem and Yefet 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 didn't see their father's nakedness.

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

25 He said, "Cursed be Kana`an; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."

26 He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; Let Kana`an be his servant.

27 God enlarge Yefet, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Kana`an be his servant."

28 Noach lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.

29 All the days of Noach were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

Genesis 10

1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noach and of Shem, Ham, and Yefet. Sons were born to them after the flood.

2 The sons of Yefet: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Yavan, Tuval, Meshekh, and Tiras.

3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarmah.

4 The sons of Yavan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

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

6 The sons of Ham: Kush, Mitzrayim, Put, and Kana`an.

7 The sons of Kush: Seva, Havilah, Savtah, Ra`mah, and Savtekha. The sons of Ra`mah: Sheva and Dedan.

8 Kush became the father of Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the eretz.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."

10 The beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar.

11 Out of that land he went forth into Ashshur, and built Nineveh, Rechovot-Ir, Kelach,

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

13 Mitzrayim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehavim, Naftuchim,

14 Patrusim, Kasluchim (which the Pelishtim descended from), and Kaftorim.

15 Kana`an became the father of Tzidon (his firstborn), Het,

16 the Yevusi, the Amori, the Girgashi,

17 the Hivvi, the `Arki, the Sini,

18 the Arvadi, the Tzemari, and the Hamati. Afterward the families of the Kana`anim were spread abroad.

19 The border of the Kana`anim was from Tzidon, as you go toward Gerar, to `Aza; as you go toward Sedom, `Amorah, Admah, and Tzevoyim, to Lasha.

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

21 To Shem, the father of all the children of `Ever, the elder brother of Yefet, to him also were children born.

22 The sons of Shem: `Elam, Ashshur, Arpakhshad, Lud, and Aram.

23 The sons of Aram: `Utz, Hul, Geter, and Mash.

24 Arpakhshad became the father of Shelach. Shelach became the father of `Ever.

25 To `Ever were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the eretz divided. His brother's name was Yoktan.

26 Yoktan became the father of Almodad, Shelef, Hatzarmavat, Yerach,

27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

28 `Oval, Avima'el, Sheva,

29 Ofir, Havilah, and Yovav. All these were the sons of Yoktan.

30 Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sefar, the mountain of the east.

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

32 These are the families of the sons of Noach, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the eretz after the flood.

Genesis 11

1 The whole eretz was of one language and of one speech.

2 It happened, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shin`ar; and they lived there.

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

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

5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6 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.

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

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

9 Therefore the name of it was called Bavel, because the LORD confused the language of all the eretz, there. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the eretz.

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

11 Shem lived after he became the father of Arpakhshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

12 Arpakhshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelach.

13 Arpakhshad lived after he became the father of Shelach four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

14 Shelach lived thirty years, and became the father of `Ever:

15 and Shelach lived after he became the father of `Ever four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

16 `Ever lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

17 `Ever lived after he became the father of Peleg four hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Re`u.

19 Peleg lived after he became the father of Re`u two hundred nine years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

20 Re`u lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

21 Re`u lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nachor.

23 Serug lived after he became the father of Nachor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

24 Nachor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terach.

25 Nachor lived after he became the father of Terach one hundred nineteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

26 Terach lived seventy years, and became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Haran.

27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terach. Terach became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

28 Haran died before his father Terach in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Kasdim.

29 Avram and Nachor took wives. The name of Avram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife, Milkah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Yiskah.

30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

31 Terach took Avram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Kasdim, to go into the land of Kana`an. They came to Haran, and lived there.

32 The days of Terach were two hundred five years. Terach died in Haran.