Genesis 8-11 (Amplified Bible)

Genesis 8

 ¹AND GOD [earnestly] remembered Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters sank down and abated.

    ²Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the gushing rain from the sky was checked,

    ³And the waters receded from the land continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had diminished.

    ⁴On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in Armenia].

    ⁵And the waters continued to diminish until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the high hills were seen.

    ⁶At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened a window of the ark which he had made

    ⁷And sent forth a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters were dried up from the land.

    ⁸Then he sent forth a dove to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground.

    ⁹But the dove found no resting-place on which to roost, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were [yet] on the face of the whole land. So he put forth his hand and drew her to him into the ark.

    ¹⁰He waited another seven days and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

    ¹¹And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted and freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.

    ¹²Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, but she did not return to him any more.

    ¹³In the year 601 [of Noah's life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the land. And Noah ^[a]removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was drying.

    ¹⁴And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was entirely dry.

    ¹⁵And God spoke to Noah, saying,

    ¹⁶Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives with you.

    ¹⁷Bring forth every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground--that they may breed abundantly on the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

    ¹⁸And Noah went forth, and his wife and his sons and their wives with him [after being in the ark one year and ten days].

    ¹⁹Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird--and whatever moves on the land--went forth by families out of the ark.

    ²⁰And Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean [four-footed] animal and of every clean fowl or bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

    ²¹When the Lord smelled the pleasing odor [a scent of satisfaction to His heart], the Lord said to Himself, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination (the strong desire) of man's heart is evil and wicked from his youth; neither will I ever again smite and destroy every living thing, as I have done.

    ²²While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

   

Genesis 9

 ¹AND GOD pronounced a blessing upon Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

    ²And the fear of you and the dread and terror of you shall be upon every beast of the land, every bird of the air, all that creeps upon the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are delivered into your hand.

    ³Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green vegetables and plants, I give you everything.

    ⁴But you shall not eat flesh with the life of it, which is its blood.

    ⁵And surely for your lifeblood I will require an accounting; from every beast I will require it; and from man, from every man [who spills another's lifeblood] I will require a reckoning.

    ⁶Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

    ⁷And you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.

    ⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

    ⁹Behold, I establish My covenant or pledge with you and with your descendants after you

    ¹⁰And with every living creature that is with you--whether the birds, the livestock, or the wild beasts of the earth along with you, as many as came out of the ark--every animal of the earth.

    ¹¹I will establish My covenant or pledge with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; neither shall there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth and make it corrupt.

    ¹²And God said, This is the token of the covenant (solemn pledge) which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

    ¹³I set My bow [rainbow] in the cloud, and it shall be a token or sign of a covenant or solemn pledge between Me and the earth.

    ¹⁴And it shall be that when I bring clouds over the earth and the bow [rainbow] is seen in the clouds,

    ¹⁵I will [earnestly] remember My covenant or solemn pledge which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy and make all flesh corrupt.

    ¹⁶When the bow [rainbow] is in the clouds and I look upon it, I will [earnestly] remember the everlasting covenant or pledge between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

    ¹⁷And God said to Noah, This [rainbow] is the token or sign of the covenant or solemn pledge which I have established between Me and all flesh upon the earth.

    ¹⁸The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan [born later].

    ¹⁹These are the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was overspread and stocked with inhabitants.

    ²⁰And Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

    ²¹And he drank of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered and lay naked in his tent.

    ²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, glanced at and saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

    ²³So Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon the shoulders of both, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

    ²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine, and knew the thing which his youngest son had done to him,

    ²⁵He exclaimed, Cursed be Canaan! He shall be the ^[b]servant of servants to his brethren!^(A)

    ²⁶He also said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! And blessed by the Lord my God be Shem! And let Canaan be his servant.

    ²⁷May God enlarge Japheth; and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.

    ²⁸And Noah lived after the flood 350 years.

    ²⁹All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

   

Genesis 10

 ¹THIS IS the history of the generations (descendants) of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The sons born to them after the flood were:

    ²The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

    ³The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

    ⁴The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

    ⁵From these the coastland peoples spread. [These are the sons of Japheth] in their lands, each with his own language, by their families within their nations.

    ⁶The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt [Mizraim], Put, and Canaan.

    ⁷The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

    ⁸Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth.

    ⁹He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.

    ¹⁰The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].

    ¹¹Out of the land he [Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

    ¹²And Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [suburbs combined to form] the great city.

    ¹³And Egypt [Mizraim] became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

    ¹⁴Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

    ¹⁵Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth [the Hittites],

    ¹⁶The Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

    ¹⁷The Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

    ¹⁸The Arvadites, the Zemarites and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad

    ¹⁹And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon as one goes to Gerar as far as Gaza, and as one goes to ^[c]Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

    ²⁰These are the sons of Ham by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

    ²¹To Shem also, the younger brother of Japheth and the ancestor of all the children of Eber [including the Hebrews], children were born.

    ²²The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

    ²³The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

    ²⁴Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

    ²⁵To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg [division], because [the inhabitants of] the earth were divided up in his days; and his brother's name was Joktan.

    ²⁶Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

    ²⁷Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

    ²⁸Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

    ²⁹Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

    ³⁰The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha as one goes toward Sephar to the hill country of the east.

    ³¹These are Shem's descendants by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

    ³²These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, within their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.^(B)

   

Genesis 11

 ¹AND THE whole earth was of one language and of one accent and mode of expression.

    ²And as they journeyed eastward, they found a plain (valley) in the land of Shinar, and they settled and dwelt there.

    ³And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. So they had brick for stone, and slime (bitumen) for mortar.

    ⁴And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth.

    ⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

    ⁶And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people and they have ^[d]all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them.

    ⁷Come, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

    ⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of the whole earth, and they gave up building the city.

    ⁹Therefore the name of it was called Babel--because there the Lord confounded the language of all the earth; and from that place the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

    ¹⁰This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

    ¹¹And Shem lived after Arpachshad was born 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹²When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.

    ¹³Arpachshad lived after Shelah was born 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹⁴When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.

    ¹⁵Shelah lived after Eber was born 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹⁶When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.

    ¹⁷And Eber lived after Peleg was born 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ¹⁸When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.

    ¹⁹And Peleg lived after Reu was born 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²⁰When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.

    ²¹And Reu lived after Serug was born 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²²When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.

    ²³And Serug lived after Nahor was born 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²⁴When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.

    ²⁵And Nahor lived after Terah was born 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

    ²⁶After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of [at different times], ^[e]Abram and Nahor and Haran, [his firstborn].

    ²⁷Now this is the history of the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

    ²⁸Haran died before his father Terah [died] in the land of his birth, in ^[f]Ur of the Chaldees.

    ²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

    ³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

    ³¹And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together to go from Ur of the Chaldees into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

    ³²And Terah lived 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.