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

10. Noah became the father of three sons:  Shem , Ham , and Japheth .

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

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

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

14. Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

15. This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark 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 ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark 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 earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

18. But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, 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 ark, 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 Noah  did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Chapter 7

1. יהוה said to Noah , “Come with all of your household into the ark, 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 earth.

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

5. Noah  did everything that יהוה commanded him.

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

7. Noah  went into the ark 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 Noah  into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah .

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

11. In the six hundredth  year of Noah ’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 earth forty days and forty nights.

13. In the same day Noah , and Shem , Ham , and Japheth , the sons of Noah , and Noah ’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;

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

15. They went to Noah  into the ark, 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 יהוה shut him in.

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

18. The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

19. The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. 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 earth, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, 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 the birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah  was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

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

Chapter 8

1. God remembered Noah , all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. 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 earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

4. The ark 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 Noah  opened the window of the ark 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 earth.

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 ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

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

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

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 the earth. Noah  removed the covering of the ark, 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 earth was dry.

15. God spoke to Noah , saying,

16. “Go forth from the ark, 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 earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

18. Noah  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 earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.

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

21. יהוה smelled the sweet savor. יהוה 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 earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

Chapter 9

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

2. The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, 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 earth, and multiply in it.”

8. God spoke to Noah  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 earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth.

11. I will establish my covenant with you: neither will all flesh will  cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.”

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 earth.

14. It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, 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 earth.”

17. God said to Noah , “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

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

19. These three were the sons of Noah , and from these, the whole earth was populated.

20. Noah  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 Canaan , saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

23. Shem  and Japheth  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. Noah  awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

25. He said, “Cursed be Canaan . A servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”

26. He said, “Blessed be יהוה, the God of Shem ; Let Canaan  be his servant.

27. God enlarged Japheth , Let him dwell in the tents of Shem ; Let Canaan  be his servant.”

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

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

Chapter 10

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

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

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

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

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

6. The sons of Ham : Cush , Mizraim , Put , and Canaan .

7. The sons of Cush : Seba , Havilah , Sabtah , Raamah , and Sabteca . The sons of Raamah : Sheba and Dedan .

8. Cush  became the father of Nimrod . He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9. He was a mighty hunter before יהוה. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod , a mighty hunter before יהוה”

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

11. Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth, Ir, Calah,

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

13. Mizraim  became the father of Ludim , Anamim , Lehabim , Naphtuhim , 

14. Pathrusim , Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim .

15. Canaan  became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth ,

16. The Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

17. The Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

18. The Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

19. The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, 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 Eber , the elder brother of Japheth , to him also were children born.

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

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

24. Arpachshad  became the father of Shelah . Shelah  became the father of Eber .

25. To Eber  were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg , for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan .

26. Joktan  became the father of Almodad , Sheleph , Hazarmaveth , Jerah ,

27. Hadoram , Uzal , Diklah ,

28. Obal , Abimael , Sheba ,

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

30. Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, 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 Noah , after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Chapter 11

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

2. It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

3. They said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, 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 earth.”

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

6. יהוה 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 יהוה scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

9. Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because יהוה confused the language of all the earth there. From there, יהוה scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

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

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

12. Arpachshad  lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah .

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

14. Shelah  lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber :

15. And Shelah  lived after he became the father of Eber  four hundred three years , and became the father of sons and daughters.

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

17. Eber   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 Reu .

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

20. Reu  lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug .

21. Reu  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 Nahor .

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

24. Nahor  lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah .

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

26. Terah  lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram , Nahor , and Haran .

27.  Now this is the history of the generations of Terah . Terah  became the father of Abram , Nahor , and Haran . Haran  became the father of Lot .

28. Haran  died before his father Terah  in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29. Abram  and Nahor  took wives. The name of Abram ’s wife was Sarai , and the name of Nahor  wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran  who was also the father of Iscah .

30. Sarai  was barren. She had no child.

31. Terah  took Abram  his son,  Lot , the son of Haran , his son’s son, and Sarai  his daughter-in-law, his son Abram ’s wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

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