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Genesis 5-7
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The Descendants of Adam

5 This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings,[a] he made them to be like himself. 2 He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”

3 When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth. 4 After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 5 Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

6 When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of[b] Enosh. 7 After the birth of[c] Enosh, Seth lived another 807 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 8 Seth lived 912 years, and then he died.

9 When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan. 10 After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived another 815 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 11 Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died.

12 When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13 After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived another 840 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 14 Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died.

15 When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared. 16 After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived another 830 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 17 Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died.

18 When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch. 19 After the birth of Enoch, Jared lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 20 Jared lived 962 years, and then he died.

21 When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 Enoch lived 365 years, 24 walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.

25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech. 26 After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 27 Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.

28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he became the father of a son. 29 Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, “May he bring us relief[d] from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the Lord has cursed.” 30 After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived another 595 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 31 Lamech lived 777 years, and then he died.

32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

A World Gone Wrong

6 Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them. 2 The sons of God saw the beautiful women[e] and took any they wanted as their wives. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not put up with[f] humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.”

4 In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.

5 The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. 6 So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart. 7 And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.” 8 But Noah found favor with the Lord.

The Story of Noah

9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God. 10 Noah was the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. 12 God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt. 13 So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!

14 “Build a large boat[g] from cypress wood[h] and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior. 15 Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.[i] 16 Leave an 18-inch opening[j] below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.

17 “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die. 18 But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 19 Bring a pair of every kind of animal—a male and a female—into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood. 20 Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive. 21 And be sure to take on board enough food for your family and for all the animals.”

22 So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.

The Flood Covers the Earth

7 When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous. 2 Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice,[k] and take one pair of each of the others. 3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood. 4 Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”

5 So Noah did everything as the Lord commanded him.

6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth. 7 He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives. 8 With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground. 9 They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. 10 After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth.

11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. 12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.

13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. 14 With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind. 15 Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes. 16 A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.

17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. 18 As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. 19 Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, 20 rising more than twenty-two feet[l] above the highest peaks. 21 All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people. 22 Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died. 23 God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat. 24 And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.

Footnotes

  1. 5:1 Or man; Hebrew reads adam; similarly in 5:2.
  2. 5:6 Or the ancestor of; also in 5:9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 25.
  3. 5:7 Or the birth of this ancestor of; also in 5:10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 26.
  4. 5:29 Noah sounds like a Hebrew term that can mean “relief” or “comfort.”
  5. 6:2 Hebrew daughters of men; also in 6:4.
  6. 6:3 Greek version reads will not remain in.
  7. 6:14a Traditionally rendered an ark.
  8. 6:14b Or gopher wood.
  9. 6:15 Hebrew 300 cubits [138 meters] long, 50 cubits [23 meters] wide, and 30 cubits [13.8 meters] high.
  10. 6:16 Hebrew an opening of 1 cubit [46 centimeters].
  11. 7:2 Hebrew of each clean animal; similarly in 7:8.
  12. 7:20 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters].
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Genesis 5-7
New International Version

From Adam to Noah

5 This is the written account(A) of Adam’s family line.(B)

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.(C) 2 He created them(D) male and female(E) and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created.

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image;(F) and he named him Seth.(G) 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.(H)

6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father[b] of Enosh.(I) 7 After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters. 8 Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.(J) 10 After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters. 11 Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.(K) 13 After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters. 14 Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.(L) 16 After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters. 17 Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.(M) 19 After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.(N) 22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God(O) 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24 Enoch walked faithfully with God;(P) then he was no more, because God took him away.(Q)

25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.(R) 26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. 27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. 29 He named him Noah[c](S) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.(T)” 30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. 31 Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

32 After Noah was 500 years old,(U) he became the father of Shem,(V) Ham and Japheth.(W)

Wickedness in the World

6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth(X) and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God(Y) saw that the daughters(Z) of humans were beautiful,(AA) and they married(AB) any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit(AC) will not contend with[d] humans forever,(AD) for they are mortal[e];(AE) their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

4 The Nephilim(AF) were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans(AG) and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.(AH)

5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth,(AI) and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.(AJ) 6 The Lord regretted(AK) that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth(AL) the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.(AM)” 8 But Noah(AN) found favor in the eyes of the Lord.(AO)

Noah and the Flood

9 This is the account(AP) of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless(AQ) among the people of his time,(AR) and he walked faithfully with God.(AS) 10 Noah had three sons: Shem,(AT) Ham and Japheth.(AU)

11 Now the earth was corrupt(AV) in God’s sight and was full of violence.(AW) 12 God saw how corrupt(AX) the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.(AY) 13 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(AZ) both them and the earth.(BA) 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[f] wood;(BB) make rooms in it and coat it with pitch(BC) inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[g] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[h] high all around.[i] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters(BD) 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.(BE) 18 But I will establish my covenant with you,(BF) and you will enter the ark(BG)—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.(BH) 20 Two(BI) of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind(BJ) of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.(BK) 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.(BL)

7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family,(BM) because I have found you righteous(BN) in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean(BO) animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive(BP) throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain(BQ) on the earth(BR) for forty days(BS) and forty nights,(BT) and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.(BU)”

5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.(BV)

6 Noah was six hundred years old(BW) when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark(BX) to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean(BY) animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.(BZ) 10 And after the seven days(CA) the floodwaters came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,(CB) on the seventeenth day of the second month(CC)—on that day all the springs of the great deep(CD) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens(CE) were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.(CF)

13 On that very day Noah and his sons,(CG) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.(CH) 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,(CI) everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.(CJ) 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.(CK) Then the Lord shut him in.

17 For forty days(CL) the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.(CM) 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.[j][k] (CN) 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.(CO) 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life(CP) in its nostrils died. 23 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.(CQ) Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.(CR)

24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.(CS)

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam
  2. Genesis 5:6 Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 7-26.
  3. Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.
  4. Genesis 6:3 Or My spirit will not remain in
  5. Genesis 6:3 Or corrupt
  6. Genesis 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  7. Genesis 6:15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high
  8. Genesis 6:16 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
  9. Genesis 6:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
  10. Genesis 7:20 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters
  11. Genesis 7:20 Or rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered
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