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Noah and the Flood
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
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So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
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Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
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After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
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The Table of Nations
This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
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These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
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From Shem to Abram
This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
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so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”
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The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end,
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Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
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and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.
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At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt.
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“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
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And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
