Genesis 6-11

Genesis 6

¹And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

²that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

³And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

⁴In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

⁵And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.

⁶And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

⁷And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created, from the earth -- from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.

⁸But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁹This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.

¹⁰And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence.

¹²And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.

¹³And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹⁴Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: with cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

¹⁵And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

¹⁶A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: with a lower, second, and third story shalt thou make it.

¹⁷For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of life: everything that is on the earth shall expire.

¹⁸But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

¹⁹And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee: they shall be male and female.

²⁰Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep them alive.

²¹And take thou of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee, that it may be for food for thee and for them.

²²And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded him, so did he.

Genesis 7

¹And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

²Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two, a male and its female.

³Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

⁴For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

⁵And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him.

⁶And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.

⁷And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

⁸Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

⁹there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

¹²And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

¹⁴they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind -- every bird of every wing.

¹⁵And they went to Noah, into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which was the breath of life.

¹⁶And they that came, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

¹⁷And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters.

¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.

²⁰Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.

²¹And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:

²²everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

²³And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.

²⁴And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8

¹And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

²And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.

³And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.

⁴And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

⁵And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

⁷And he sent out the raven, which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth.

⁸And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.

⁹But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

¹⁰And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

¹¹And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth.

¹²And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him.

¹³And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.

¹⁴And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵And God spoke to Noah, saying,

¹⁶Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

¹⁷Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.

¹⁸And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

¹⁹All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl -- everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

²⁰And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar.

²¹And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

²²Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

Genesis 9

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

²And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth on the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

³Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

⁴Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

⁵And indeed your blood, 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 each the blood of his brother, will I require the life of Man.

⁶Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.

⁷And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

⁸And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

¹⁰and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark -- every animal of the earth.

¹¹And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.

¹²And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:

¹³I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁴And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

¹⁵and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶And 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 soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷And 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.

¹⁸And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

¹⁹These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was the population of the whole earth spread abroad.

²⁰And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.

²¹And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent.

²²And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.

²³And Shem and Japheth took the upper garment and both laid it upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father's nakedness.

²⁴And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.

²⁵And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.

²⁶And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

²⁷Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

²⁸And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

²⁹And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

Genesis 10

¹And these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and to them were sons born after the flood.

²The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

³And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁴And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

⁵From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

⁶And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

⁷And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

⁸And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

⁹He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah!

¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

¹¹From that land went out Asshur, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

¹²and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah: this is the great city.

¹³-- And Mizraim begot the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim,

¹⁴and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim, out of whom came the Philistines, and the Caphtorim.

¹⁵-- And Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,

¹⁶and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

¹⁷and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

¹⁸and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread themselves abroad.

¹⁹And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as one goes to Gerar, up to Gazah; as one goes to Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, up to Lesha.

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

²¹And to Shem -- to him also were sons born; he is the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

²²The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

²³And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

²⁴-- And Arphaxad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.

²⁵And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

²⁶And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

²⁷and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

²⁸and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

²⁹and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were sons of Joktan.

³⁰And their dwelling was from Mesha, as one goes to Sephar, the eastern mountain.

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

³²These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these came the distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11

¹And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

²And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

³And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

⁴And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

⁵And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

⁶And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.

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

⁸And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.

⁹Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.

¹⁰These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

¹¹And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹²And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.

¹³And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

¹⁵And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁶And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

¹⁷And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁸And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

¹⁹And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁰And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

²¹And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

²²And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

²³And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁴And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.

²⁵And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁶And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

²⁸And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

³⁰And Sarai was barren: she had no child.

³¹And 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 together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.