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Genesis 1In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, 2the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. 3Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." Thus evening came, and morning followed-- the first day. 6Then God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other." And so it happened: 7God made the dome, and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it. 8God called the dome "the sky." Evening came, and morning followed--the second day. 9Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear." And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared. 10God called the dry land "the earth," and the basin of the water he called "the sea." God saw how good it was. 11Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth vegetation: every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it." And so it happened: 12the earth brought forth every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it. God saw how good it was. 13Evening came, and morning followed-- the third day. 14Then God said: "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the fixed times, the days and the years, 15and serve as luminaries in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth." And so it happened: 16God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night; and he made the stars. 17God set them in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth, 18to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw how good it was. 19Evening came, and morning followed-- the fourth day. 20Then God said, "Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky." And so it happened: 21God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of swimming creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw how good it was, 22and God blessed them, saying, "Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth." 23Evening came, and morning followed-- the fifth day. 24Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth all kinds of living creatures: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals of all kinds." And so it happened: 25God made all kinds of wild animals, all kinds of cattle, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth. God saw how good it was. 26Then God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground." 27God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. 28God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth." 29God also said: "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; 30and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food." And so it happened. 31God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed--the sixth day. 2Thus the heavens and the earth and all their array were completed. 2Since on the seventh day God was finished with the work he had been doing, he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken. 3So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation. 4Such is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-- 5while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil, 6but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground-- 7the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. 8Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and he placed there the man whom he had formed. 9Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. 10A river rises in Eden to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches. 11The name of the first is the Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12The gold of that land is excellent; bdellium and lapis lazuli are also there. 13The name of the second river is the Gihon; it is the one that winds all through the land of Cush. 14The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates. 15The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it. 16The LORD God gave man this order: "You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden 17except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die." 18The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." 19So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name. 20The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man. 21So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22The LORD God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man, 23the man said: "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man' this one has been taken." 24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body. 25The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame. 3Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent asked the woman, "Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?" 2The woman answered the serpent: "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; 3it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, 'You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.'" 4But the serpent said to the woman: "You certainly will not die! 5No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad." 6The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. 8When they heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of the day, the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9The LORD God then called to the man and asked him, "Where are you?" 10He answered, "I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself." 11Then he asked, "Who told you that you were naked? You have eaten, then, from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!" 12The man replied, "The woman whom you put here with me--she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it." 13The LORD God then asked the woman, "Why did you do such a thing?" The woman answered, "The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it." 14Then the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild creatures; On your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life. 15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel." 16To the woman he said: "I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall you bring forth children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall be your master." 17To the man he said: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, "Cursed be the ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your life. 18Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, as you eat of the plants of the field. 19By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dirt, and to dirt you shall return." 20The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living. 21For the man and his wife the LORD God made leather garments, with which he clothed them. 22Then the LORD God said: "See! The man has become like one of us, knowing what is good and what is bad! Therefore, he must not be allowed to put out his hand to take fruit from the tree of life also, and thus eat of it and live forever." 23The LORD God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he had been taken. 24When he expelled the man, he settled him east of the garden of Eden; and he stationed the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword, to guard the way to the tree of life. 4The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have produced a man with the help of the LORD." 2Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil. 3In the course of time Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the soil, 4while Abel, for his part, brought one of the best firstlings of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5but on Cain and his offering he did not. Cain greatly resented this and was crestfallen. 6So the LORD said to Cain: "Why are you so resentful and crestfallen? 7If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master." 8Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out in the field." When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9Then the LORD asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He answered, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" 10The LORD then said: "What have you done! Listen: your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil! 11Therefore you shall be banned from the soil that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12If you till the soil, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a restless wanderer on the earth." 13Cain said to the LORD: "My punishment is too great to bear. 14Since you have now banished me from the soil, and I must avoid your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, anyone may kill me at sight." 15Not so!" the LORD said to him. "If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged sevenfold." So the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest anyone should kill him at sight. 16Cain then left the LORD'S presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 17Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch. 18To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael; Mehujael became the father of Methusael, and Methusael became the father of Lamech. 19Lamech took two wives; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah. 20Adah gave birth to Jabal, the ancestor of all who dwell in tents and keep cattle. 21His brother's name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all who play the lyre and the pipe. 22Zillah, on her part, gave birth to Tubalcain, the ancestor of all who forge instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. 23Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my utterance: I have killed a man for wounding me, a boy for bruising me. 24If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold." 25Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she called Seth. "God has granted me more offspring in place of Abel," she said, "because Cain slew him." 26To Seth, in turn, a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to invoke the LORD by name. 5This is the record of the descendants of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God; 2he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and named them "man." 3Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when he begot a son in his likeness, after his image; and he named him Seth. 4Adam lived eight hundred years after the birth of Seth, and he had other sons and daughters. 5The whole lifetime of Adam was nine hundred and thirty years; then he died. 6When Seth was one hundred and five years old, he became the father of Enosh. 7Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after the birth of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters. 8The whole lifetime of Seth was nine hundred and twelve years; then he died. 9When Enosh was ninety years old, he became the father of Kenan. 10Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after the birth of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters. 11The whole lifetime of Enosh was nine hundred and five years; then he died. 12When Kenan was seventy years old, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after the birth of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters. 14The whole lifetime of Kenan was nine hundred and ten years; then he died. 15When Mahalalel was sixty-five years old, he became the father of Jared. 16Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after the birth of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters. 17The whole lifetime of Mahalalel was eight hundred and ninety-five years; then he died. 18When Jared was one hundred and sixty-two years old, he became the father of Enoch. 19Jared lived eight hundred years after the birth of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters. 20The whole lifetime of Jared was nine hundred and sixty-two years; then he died. 21When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he became the father of Methuselah. 22Enoch lived three hundred years after the birth of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. 23The whole lifetime of Enoch was three hundred and sixty-five years. 24Then Enoch walked with God, and he was no longer here, for God took him. 25When Methuselah was one hundred and eighty-seven years old, he became the father of Lamech. 26Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after the birth of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters. 27The whole lifetime of Methuselah was nine hundred and sixty-nine years; then he died. 28When Lamech was one hundred and eighty-two years old, he begot a son 29and named him Noah, saying, "Out of the very ground that the LORD has put under a curse, this one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands." 30Lamech lived five hundred and ninety- five years after the birth of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters. 31The whole lifetime of Lamech was seven hundred and seventy-seven years; then he died. 32When Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 6When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, 2the sons of heaven saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. 3Then the LORD said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years." 4At that time the Nephilim appeared on earth (as well as later), after the sons of heaven had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown. 5When the LORD saw how great was man's wickedness on earth, and how no desire that his heart conceived was ever anything but evil, 6he regretted that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was grieved. 7So the LORD said: "I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created, and not only the men, but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air, for I am sorry that I made them." 8But Noah found favor with the LORD. 9These are the descendants of Noah. Noah, a good man and blameless in that age, 10for he walked with God, begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11In the eyes of God the earth was corrupt and full of lawlessness. 12When God saw how corrupt the earth had become, since all mortals led depraved lives on earth, 13he said to Noah: "I have decided to put an end to all mortals on earth; the earth is full of lawlessness because of them. So I will destroy them and all life on earth. 14Make yourself an ark of gopherwood, put various compartments in it, and cover it inside and out with pitch. 15This is how you shall build it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16Make an opening for daylight in the ark, and finish the ark a cubit above it. Put an entrance in the side of the ark, which you shall make with bottom, second and third decks. 17I, on my part, am about to bring the flood (waters) on the earth, to destroy everywhere all creatures in which there is the breath of life; everything on earth shall perish. 18But with you I will establish my covenant; you and your sons, your wife and your sons' wives, shall go into the ark. 19Of all other living creatures you shall bring two into the ark, one male and one female, that you may keep them alive with you. 20Of all kinds of birds, of all kinds of beasts, and of all kinds of creeping things, two of each shall come into the ark with you, to stay alive. 21Moreover, you are to provide yourself with all the food that is to be eaten, and store it away, that it may serve as provisions for you and for them." 22This Noah did; he carried out all the commands that God gave him. 7Then the LORD said to Noah: "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just. 2Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate; 3likewise, of every clean bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, and of all the unclean birds, one pair, a male and a female. Thus you will keep their issue alive over all the earth. 4Seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the surface of the earth every moving creature that I have made." 5Noah did just as the LORD had commanded him. 6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters came upon the earth. 7Together with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, Noah went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8Of the clean animals and the unclean, of the birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9(two by two) male and female entered the ark with Noah, just as the LORD had commanded him. 10As soon as the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month: it was on that day that All the fountains of the great abyss burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth. 13On the precise day named, Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of Noah's sons had entered the ark, 14together with every kind of wild beast, every kind of domestic animal, every kind of creeping thing of the earth, and every kind of bird. 15Pairs of all creatures in which there was the breath of life entered the ark with Noah. 16Those that entered were male and female, and of all species they came, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. 17The flood continued upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark, so that it rose above the earth. 18The swelling waters increased greatly, but the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19Higher and higher above the earth rose the waters, until all the highest mountains everywhere were submerged, 20the crest rising fifteen cubits higher than the submerged mountains. 21All creatures that stirred on earth perished: birds, cattle, wild animals, and all that swarmed on the earth, as well as all mankind. 22Everything on dry land with the faintest breath of life in its nostrils died out. 23The LORD wiped out every living thing on earth: man and cattle, the creeping things and the birds of the air; all were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left. 24The waters maintained their crest over the earth for one hundred and fifty days, 8and then God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark. So God made a wind sweep over the earth, and the waters began to subside. 2The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back. 3Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished 4that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared. 6At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark, 7and he sent out a raven, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth. 8Then he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. 9But the dove could find no place to alight and perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water all over the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark. 10He waited seven days more and again sent the dove out from the ark. 11In the evening the dove came back to him, and there in its bill was a plucked- off olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had lessened on the earth. 12He waited still another seven days and then released the dove once more; and this time it did not come back. 13In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water began to dry up on the earth. Noah then removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was drying up. 14In the second month, on the twenty- seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15Then God said to Noah: 16"Go out of the ark, together with your wife and your sons and your sons' wives. 17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you--all bodily creatures, be they birds or animals or creeping things of the earth-and let them abound on the earth, breeding and multiplying on it." 18So Noah came out, together with his wife and his sons and his sons' wives; 19and all the animals, wild and tame, all the birds, and all the creeping creatures of the earth left the ark, one kind after another. 20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered holocausts on the altar. 21When the LORD smelled the sweet odor, he said to himself: "Never again will I doom the earth because of man, since the desires of man's heart are evil from the start; nor will I ever again strike down all living beings, as I have done. 22As long as the earth lasts, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." 9God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: "Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth. 2Dread fear of you shall come upon all the animals of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon all the creatures that move about on the ground and all the fishes of the sea; into your power they are delivered. 3Every creature that is alive shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants. 4Only flesh with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat. 5For your own lifeblood, too, I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from man in regard to his fellow man I will demand an accounting for human life. 6If anyone sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; For in the image of God has man been made. 7Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it." 8God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9"See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you 10and with every living creature that was with you: all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals that were with you and came out of the ark. 11I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth." 12God added: "This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come, of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you: 13I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, 15I will recall the covenant I have made between me and you and all living beings, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal beings. 16As the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and recall the everlasting covenant that I have established between God and all living beings--all mortal creatures that are on earth." 17God told Noah: "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all mortal creatures that are on earth." 18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was peopled. 20Now Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. 21When he drank some of the wine, he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent. 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness, and he told his two brothers outside about it. 23Shem and Japheth, however, took a robe, and holding it on their backs, they walked backward and covered their father's nakedness; since their faces were turned the other way, they did not see their father's nakedness. 24When Noah woke up from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, 25he said: "Cursed be Caanan! The lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers." 26He also said: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! Let Canaan be his slave. 27May God expand Japheth, so that he dwells among the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave." 28Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. 29The whole lifetime of Noah was nine hundred and fifty years; then he died. 10These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, to whom sons were born after the flood. 2The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3The descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4The descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim, and the Rodanim. 5These are the descendants of Japheth, and from them sprang the maritime nations, in their respective lands--each with its own language--by their clans within their nations. 6The descendants of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was the first potentate on earth. 9He was a mighty hunter by the grace of the LORD; hence the saying, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter by the grace of the LORD." 10The chief cities of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.