Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”

So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.

He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.