Genesis 5–33

Chapter 5

¹This is the book of Adam’s generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him. ²Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. ³And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth. ⁴And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. ⁵And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

⁶And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh. ⁷And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. ⁸And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died. ⁹And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan. ¹⁰And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹¹And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died. ¹²And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel. ¹³And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died. ¹⁵And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared. ¹⁶And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁷And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died. ¹⁸And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch. ¹⁹And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁰And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.

²¹And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methushelah. ²²And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. ²³And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

²⁵And Methushelah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lemech. ²⁶And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁷And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.

²⁸And Lemech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son. ²⁹And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed. ³⁰And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters. ³¹And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died. ³²And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Chapter 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.

Chapter 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.

Chapter 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…