The Family of Adam^(A)

5 This is the book of the ^(B)genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in ^(C)the likeness of God. ² He created them ^(D)male and female, and ^(E)blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. ³ And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son ^(F)in his own likeness, after his image, and ^(G)named him Seth. ⁴ After he begot Seth, ^(H)the days of Adam were eight hundred years; ^(I)and he had sons and daughters. ⁵ So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; ^(J)and he died.

⁶ Seth lived one hundred and five years, and begot ^(K)Enosh. ⁷ After he begot Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters. ⁸ So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.

⁹ Enosh lived ninety years, and begot ^[a]Cainan. ¹⁰ After he begot Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters. ¹¹ So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.

¹² Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel. ¹³ After he begot Mahalalel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters. ¹⁴ So all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

¹⁵ Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared. ¹⁶ After he begot Jared, Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters. ¹⁷ So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.

¹⁸ Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and begot ^(L)Enoch. ¹⁹ After he begot Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters. ²⁰ So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.

²¹ Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. ²² After he begot Methuselah, Enoch ^(M)walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. ²³ So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴ And ^(N)Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God ^(O)took him.

²⁵ Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech. ²⁶ After he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters. ²⁷ So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.

²⁸ Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and had a son. ²⁹ And he called his name ^(P)Noah,^[b] saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground ^(Q)which the Lord has cursed.” ³⁰ After he begot Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters. ³¹ So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.

³² And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot ^(R)Shem, Ham, ^(S)and Japheth.

The Wickedness and Judgment of Man

6 Now it came to pass, ^(T)when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, ² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they ^(U)took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

³ And the Lord said, ^(V)“My Spirit shall not ^(W)strive^[c] with man forever, ^(X)for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴ There were ^[d]giants on the earth in those ^(Y)days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵ Then ^[e]the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every ^(Z)intent^[f] of the thoughts of his heart was only evil ^[g]continually. ⁶ And ^(AA)the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and ^(AB)He was grieved in His ^(AC)heart. ⁷ So the Lord said, “I will ^(AD)destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” ⁸ But Noah ^(AE)found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Noah Pleases God

⁹ This is the genealogy of Noah. ^(AF)Noah was a just man, ^[h]perfect in his generations. Noah ^(AG)walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah begot three sons: ^(AH)Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ The earth also was corrupt ^(AI)before God, and the earth was ^(AJ)filled with violence. ¹² So God ^(AK)looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for ^(AL)all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

The Ark Prepared^(AM)

¹³ And God said to Noah, ^(AN)“The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; ^(AO)and behold, ^(AP)I will destroy them with the earth. ¹⁴ Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make ^[i]rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. ¹⁵ And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred ^[j]cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. ¹⁶ You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. ^17 (AQ)And behold, I Myself am bringing ^(AR)floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall ^(AS)die. ¹⁸ But I will establish My ^(AT)covenant with you; and ^(AU)you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁹ And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring ^(AV)two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. ²⁰ Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind ^(AW)will come to you to keep them alive. ²¹ And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”

^22 (AX)Thus Noah did; ^(AY)according to all that ^(AZ)God commanded him, so he did.

The Great Flood^(BA)

7 Then the ^(BB)Lord said to Noah, ^(BC)“Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that ^(BD)you are righteous before Me in this generation. ² You shall take with you seven each of every ^(BE)clean animal, a male and his female; ^(BF)two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; ³ also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep ^[k]the species alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴ For after ^(BG)seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth ^(BH)forty days and forty nights, and I will ^[l]destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” ^5 (BI)And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him. ⁶ Noah was ^(BJ)six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.

^7 (BK)So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. ⁸ Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, ⁹ two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on ^(BL)that day all ^(BM)the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the ^(BN)windows of heaven were opened. ^12 (BO)And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark— ^14 (BP)they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every ^(BQ)sort. ¹⁵ And they ^(BR)went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶ So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in ^(BS)as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.

^17 (BT)Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. ¹⁸ The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, ^(BU)and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. ²⁰ The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. ^21 (BV)And all flesh died that moved on ^[m]the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. ²² All in ^(BW)whose nostrils was the breath ^[n]of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. ²³ So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only ^(BX)Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. ^24 (BY)And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, ^(A)“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from ^(B)the wrath to come? ⁸ Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, ⁹ and do not think to say to yourselves, ^(C)‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. ¹⁰ And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. ^(D)Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ^11 (E)I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. ^(F)He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit ^[a]and fire. ^12 (G)His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will ^(H)burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

John Baptizes Jesus^(I)

^13 (J)Then Jesus came ^(K)from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. ¹⁴ And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”

¹⁵ But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

^16 (L)When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and ^[b]He saw ^(M)the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. ^17 (N)And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, ^(O)“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Satan Tempts Jesus^(P)

4 Then ^(Q)Jesus was led up by ^(R)the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. ² And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. ³ Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

⁴ But He answered and said, “It is written, ^(S)‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

⁵ Then the devil took Him up ^(T)into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:

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⁷ Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ^(W)‘You shall not ^[c]tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

⁸ Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and ^(X)showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. ⁹ And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”

¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, ^[d]“Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ^(Y)‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”

¹¹ Then the devil ^(Z)left Him, and behold, ^(AA)angels came and ministered to Him.

The Lord Helps His Troubled People

A Psalm of David ^(A)when he fled from Absalom his son.