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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.”

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.”

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.

It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

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:

I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

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

Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

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.

But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

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.

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

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh 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.

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

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, 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.”

“Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

God spoke to Noah, saying,

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

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 ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

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 the earth.

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

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; 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 ship.

He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

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.

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

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

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

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock 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.

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 ship;

The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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.

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

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the waters of the flood.

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

Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

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.”

Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

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.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”

Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock 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.

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

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.

You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

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.

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

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

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

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.

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years.”

that God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

and he named him Noah, saying, “This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.

Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.

All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.

Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.