Chapter One
9 but the dove found no resting place for
the sole of her foot, so she returned to him
into the ark, for the water was on the surface
of all the earth. Then he put out his
hand and took her, and brought her into the
ark to himself.
10 So he waited yet another seven days;
and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
11 The dove came to him toward
evening, and behold, in her beak was a
freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that
the water was abated from the earth.
12 Then he waited yet another seven days,
and sent out the dove; but she did not
return to him again.
13 Now it came about in the six hundred
and first year, in the first month, on the first
of the month, the water was dried up from
the earth. Then Noah removed the covering
of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface
of the ground was dried up.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh
day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife
and your sons and your sons' wives with
you.
17 "Bring out with you every living thing of
all flesh that is with you, birds and animals
and every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth, that they may breed abundantly on
the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the
earth."
18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his
wife and his sons' wives with him.
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and
every bird, everything that moves on the
earth, went out by their families from the
ark.
20 Then Noah 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 a smelled the soothing aroma;
and the Lord said to Himself, "I will never
again curse the ground on account of man,
for the intent of man's heart is evil from
his youth; and I will never again destroy
every living thing, as I have done.
22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night
Shall not cease."
Covenant of the Rainbow
9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and
said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply,
and fill the earth.
2 "The fear of you and the terror of you
will be on every beast of the earth and on
every bird of the sky; with everything that
creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the
sea, into your hand they are given.
3 "Every moving thing that is alive shall
be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave
the green plant.
4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life,
that is, its blood.
5 "Surely I will require your lifeblood;
from every beast I will require it. And
from every man, from every man's brother
I will require the life of man.
6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God
He made man.
7 "As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and
multiply in it."
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his
sons with him, saying,
9 "Now behold, I Myself do establish My
covenant with you, and with your descendants
after you;
10 and with every living creature that is
with you, the birds, the cattle, and every
beast of the earth with you; of all that comes
out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
11 "I establish My covenant with you; and
all flesh shall never again be cut off by the
water of the flood, neither shall there again
be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant
which I am making between Me and
you and every living creature that is with
you, for all successive generations;
13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall
be for a sign of a covenant between Me and
the earth.
14 "It shall come about, when I bring a
cloud over the earth, that the bow 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 never again
shall the water become a flood to destroy all
flesh.
16 "When the bow is in the cloud, then I
will look upon it, to remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every living
creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
17 And God said to Noah, "This is the sign
of the covenant which I have established
between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."
18 Now the sons of Noah who came out of
the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth;
and Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and
from these the whole earth was populated.
20 Then Noah began farming and planted
a vineyard.
21 He drank of the wine and became
drunk, and uncovered himself inside his
tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his two
brothers outside.
23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment
and laid it upon both their shoulders and
walked backward and covered the nakedness
of their father; and their faces were turned
away, so that they did not see their father's
nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine, he
knew what his youngest son had done to
him.
25 So he said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers."
26 He also said, "Blessed be the Lord, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
27 "May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant."
28 Noah lived three hundred and fifty
years after the flood.
29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred
and fifty years, and he died.
Descendants of Noah
10 Now these are the records of the generations
of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the
sons of Noah; and sons were born to them
after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer and
Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal
and Meshech and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz
and Riphath and Togarmah.
4 The sons of Javan were Elishah and
Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.
5 From these the coastlands of the
nations were separated into their lands,
every one according to his language, according
to their families, into their nations.
6 The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim
and Put and Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush were aSeba and Havilah
and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and
the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod;
he became a mighty one on the earth.
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
Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in
the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went forth a into
Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir
and Calah,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and
Calah; that is the great city.
13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim
and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim
14 and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from
which came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.
15 Canaan became the father of Sidon,
his firstborn, and Heth
16 and the Jebusite and the Amorite and
the Girgashite
17 and the Hivite and the Arkite and the
Sinite
18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and
the Hamathite; and afterward the families of
the Canaanite were spread abroad.
19 The territory of the Canaanite extended
from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far
as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and
Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as
Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, according
to their families, according to their languages,
by their lands, by their nations.
21 Also to Shem, the father of all the children
of Eber, and the older brother of
Japheth, children were born.
22 The sons of Shem were Elam and
Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and
Aram.
23 The sons of Aram were Uz and Hul
and Gether and Mash.
24 Arpachshad became the father of
Shelah; and Shelah became the father of
Eber.
25 Two sons were born to Eber; the name
of the one was Peleg, for in his days the
earth was divided; and his brother's namewas Joktan.
26 Joktan became the father of Almodad
and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
27 and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
28 and Obal and Abimael and Sheba
29 and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all
these were the sons of Joktan.
30 Now their settlement extended from
Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill
country of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, according
to their families, according to their languages,
by their lands, according to their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of
Noah, according to their genealogies, by
their nations; and out of these the nations
were separated on the earth after the flood.
Universal Language, Babel, Confusion
11 Now the whole earth used the same
language and the same words.
2 It came about as they journeyed east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar
and settled there.
3 They said to one another, "Come, let us
make bricks and burn them thoroughly."
And they used brick for stone, and they used
tar for mortar.
4 They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves
a city, and a tower whose top will
reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves
a name, otherwise we will be scattered
abroad over the face of the whole
earth."
5 The Lord came down to see the city
and the tower which the sons of men had
built.
6 The Lord said, "Behold, they are one
people, and they all have the same language.
And this is what they began to do,
and now nothing which they purpose to do
will be impossible for them.
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse
their language, so that they will not
understand one another's speech."
8 So the Lord a scattered them abroad
from there over the face of the whole earth;
and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel,
because there the Lord confused the language
of the whole earth; and from there the
Lord scattered them abroad over the face of
the whole earth.
Descendants of Shem
10 These are the records of the generations
of Shem. Shem was one hundred years
old, and became the father of Arpachshad
two years after the flood;
11 and Shem lived five hundred years
after he became the father of Arpachshad,
and he had other sons and daughters.
12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and
became the father of Shelah;
13 and Arpachshad lived four hundred
and three years after he became the father of
Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.
14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became
the father of Eber;
15 and Shelah lived four hundred and
three years after he became the father of
Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.
16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and
became the father of Peleg;
17 and Eber lived four hundred and thirty
years after he became the father of Peleg,
and he had other sons and daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the
father of Reu;
19 and Peleg lived two hundred and nine
years after he became the father of Reu, and
he had other sons and daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became
the father of Serug;
21 and Reu lived two hundred and seven
years after he became the father of Serug,
and he had other sons and daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and became
the father of Nahor;
23 and Serug lived two hundred years
after he became the father of Nahor, and he
had other sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and
became the father of Terah;
25 and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen
years after he became the father of
Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.
26 Terah lived seventy years, and became
the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 Now these are the records of the generations
of Terah. Terah became the father of
Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran
became the father of Lot.
28 Haran died in the presence of his
father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of
the Chaldeans.
29 Abram and Nahor took wives for
themselves. The name of Abram's wife was
Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was
Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of
Milcah and Iscah.
30 Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the
son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his
daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and
they went out together from Ur of the
Chaldeans in order to enter the land of
Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and
settled there.
32 The days of Terah were two hundred
and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
Abram Journeys to Egypt
12 Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, And from your relatives
And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you; 2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless
you, And the one who curses you I will
curse.
And in you all the families of the
earth will be blessed."
4 So Abram went forth as the Lord had
spoken to him; and Lot went with him.
Now Abram was seventy-five years old when
he departed from Haran.
5 Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his
nephew, and all their possessions which
they had accumulated, and the persons
which they had acquired in Haran, and they
set out for the land of Canaan; thus they
came to the land of Canaan.
6 Abram passed through the land as far
as the site of Shechem, to the oak of
Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the
land.
7 The Lord appeared to Abram and
said, "To your descendants I will give this
land." So he built an altar there to the Lord
who had appeared to him.
8 Then he proceeded from there to the
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched
his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on
the east; and there he built an altar to the
Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
9 Abram journeyed on, continuing
toward the Negev.
10 Now there was a famine in the land;
so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn
there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Continues.
