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Genesis 4

    ²And [next] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

    ³And in the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground.

    ⁴And Abel brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat portions. And the Lord had respect and regard for Abel and for his offering,^(A)

    ⁵But for ^[a]Cain and his offering He had no respect or regard. So Cain was exceedingly angry and indignant, and he looked sad and depressed.

    ⁶And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? And why do you look sad and depressed and dejected?

    ⁷If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.

    ⁸And Cain said to his brother, ^[b]Let us go out to the field. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.^(B)

    ⁹And the Lord said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?

    ¹⁰And [the Lord] said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.

    ¹¹And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.

    ¹²When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast].

    ¹³Then Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is ^[c]greater than I can bear.

    ¹⁴Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land, and from Your face I will be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.

    ¹⁵And the Lord said to him, ^[d]Therefore, if anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a ^[e]mark or sign upon Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

    ¹⁶So Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod [wandering], east of Eden.

    ¹⁷And Cain's wife [one of Adam's offspring] became pregnant and bore Enoch; and Cain built a ^[f]city and named it after his son Enoch.

    ¹⁸To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael the father of Methusael, and Methusael the father of Lamech.

    ¹⁹And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah and of the other was Zillah.

    ²⁰Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle and purchase possessions.

    ²¹His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

    ²²Zillah bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all [cutting] instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

    ²³Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say; for I have slain a man [merely] for wounding me, and a young man [only] for striking and bruising me.

    ²⁴If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech [will be avenged] seventy-sevenfold.

    ²⁵And Adam's wife again became pregnant, and she bore a son and called his name Seth. For God, she said, has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him.

    ²⁶And to Seth also a son was born, whom he named Enosh. At that time men began to call [upon God] by the name of the Lord.

Genesis 5

    ²He created them male and female and blessed them and named them [both] Adam [Man] at the time they were created.

    ³When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, after his image; and he named him Seth.

    ⁴After he had Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ⁵So altogether Adam lived 930 years, and he died.

    ⁶When Seth was 105 years old, Enosh was born.

    ⁷Seth lived after the birth of Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ⁸So Seth lived 912 years, and he died.

    ⁹When Enosh was 90 years old, Kenan was born to him.

    ¹⁰Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹¹So Enosh lived 905 years, and he died.

    ¹²When Kenan was 70 years old, Mahalalel was born.

    ¹³Kenan lived after the birth of Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹⁴So Kenan lived 910 years, and he died.

    ¹⁵When Mahalalel was 65 years old, Jared was born.

    ¹⁶Mahalalel lived after the birth of Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹⁷So Mahalalel lived 895 years, and he died.

    ¹⁸When Jared was 162 years old, Enoch was born.

    ¹⁹Jared lived after the birth of Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²⁰So Jared lived 962 years, and he died.

    ²¹When Enoch was 65 years old, Methuselah was born.

    ²²Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God after the birth of Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²³So all the days of Enoch were 365 years.

    ²⁴And Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God; and he was not, for God took him [home with Him].^(C)

    ²⁵When Methuselah was 187 years old, Lamech was born to him.

    ²⁶Methuselah lived after the birth of Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²⁷So Methuselah lived 969 years, and he died.

    ²⁸When Lamech was 182 years old, a son was born.

    ²⁹He named him Noah, saying, This one shall bring us relief and comfort from our work and the [grievous] toil of our hands due to the ground being cursed by the Lord.

    ³⁰Lamech lived after the birth of Noah 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ³¹So all the days of ^[g]Lamech were 777 years, and he died.

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

Genesis 6

    ²The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took wives of all they desired and chose.

    ³Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not forever dwell and strive with man, for he also is flesh; but his days shall yet be 120 years.

    ⁴There were giants on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

    ⁵The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually.

    ⁶And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart.

    ⁷So the Lord said, I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away mankind, whom I have created from the face of the ground--not only man, [but] the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air--for it grieves Me and makes Me regretful that I have made them.

    ⁸But Noah found grace (favor) in the eyes of the Lord.

    ⁹This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a just and righteous man, blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked [in habitual fellowship] with God.

    ¹⁰And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

    ¹¹The earth was depraved and putrid in God's sight, and the land was filled with violence (desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power).

    ¹²And God looked upon the world and saw how degenerate, debased, and vicious it was, for all humanity had corrupted their way upon the earth and lost their true direction.

    ¹³God said to Noah, I intend to make an end of all flesh, for through men the land is filled with violence; and behold, I will ^[h]destroy them and the land.

    ¹⁴Make yourself an ark of gopher or cypress wood; make in it rooms (stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, and compartments) and cover it inside and out with pitch (bitumen).

    ¹⁵And this is the way you are to make it: the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits [that is, 450 ft. x 75 ft. x 45 ft.].

    ¹⁶You shall make a roof or ^[i]window [a place for light] for the ark and finish it to a cubit [at least 18 inches] above--and the ^[j]door of the ark you shall put in the side of it; and you shall make it with lower, second, and third stories.

    ¹⁷For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy and make putrid all flesh under the heavens in which are the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.

    ¹⁸But I will establish My covenant (promise, pledge) with you, and you shall come into the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

    ¹⁹And of every living thing of all flesh [found on land], you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

    ²⁰Of fowls and birds according to their kinds, of beasts according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind--two of every sort shall come in with you, that they may be kept alive.

    ²¹Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and you shall collect and store it up, and it shall serve as food for you and for them.

    ²²Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

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Matthew 2

    ²Where is He Who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east ^[a]at its rising and have come to worship Him.^(A)

    ³When Herod the king heard this, he was disturbed and troubled, and the whole of Jerusalem with him.

    ⁴So he called together all the chief priests and learned men (scribes) of the people and ^[b]anxiously asked them where the Christ was to be born.

    ⁵They replied to him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:

    ⁶And you Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, you are not in any way least or insignificant among the ^[c]chief cities of Judah; for from you shall come a Ruler (^[d]Leader) Who will govern and ^[e]shepherd My people Israel.^(B)

    ⁷Then Herod sent for the wise men [astrologers] secretly, and ^[f]accurately to the last point ascertained from them the time of the appearing of the star [that is, ^[g]how long the star had made itself visible since its rising in the east].

    ⁸Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, Go and search for the Child carefully and diligently, and when you have found ^[h]Him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship Him.

    ⁹When they had listened to the king, they went their way, and behold, the star which had been seen in the east ^[i]in its rising went before them until it came and stood over the place where the young Child was.

    ¹⁰When they saw the star, they were thrilled with ecstatic joy.

    ¹¹And on going into the house, they saw the Child with Mary His mother, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then opening their treasure bags, they presented to Him gifts--gold and frankincense and myrrh.

    ¹²And ^[j]receiving an answer to their asking, they were divinely instructed and warned in a dream not to go back to Herod; so they departed to their own country by a different way.

    ¹³Now after they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, Get up! [^[k]Tenderly] take unto you the young Child and His mother and flee to Egypt; and remain there till I tell you [otherwise], for Herod intends to search for the Child in order to destroy Him.

    ¹⁴And having risen, he took the Child and His mother by night and withdrew to Egypt

    ¹⁵And remained there until Herod's death. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, Out of Egypt have I called My Son.^(C)

    ¹⁶Then Herod, when he realized that he had been misled by the wise men, was furiously enraged, and he sent and put to death all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that territory who were two years old and under, reckoning according to the date which he had investigated diligently and had learned exactly from the wise men.

    ¹⁷Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

    ¹⁸A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they were no more.^(D)

    ¹⁹But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

    ²⁰And said, Rise, [^[l]tenderly] take unto you the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the Child's life are dead.

    ²¹Then he awoke and arose and [^[m]tenderly] took the Child and His mother and came into the land of Israel.

    ²²But because he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in the place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being divinely warned in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee.

    ²³He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled: He shall be called a Nazarene [Branch, Separated One].^(E)