Genesis 4-7 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

Genesis 4

 ¹And Adam knew Eve his wife: who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.

    ²And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.

    ³And it came to pass after many days, that Cain offered, of the fruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord.

    ⁴Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.

    ⁵But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was exceedingly angry, and his countenance fell.

    ⁶And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?

    ⁷If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.

    ⁸And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.

    ⁹And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?

    ¹⁰And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

    ¹¹Now, therefore, cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand,

    ¹²When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

    ¹³And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.

    ¹⁴Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from thy face, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: everyone, therefore, that findeth me, shall kill me.

    ¹⁵And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not be so: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.

    ¹⁶And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth, at the east side of Eden.

    ¹⁷And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.

    ¹⁸And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad begot Maviael, and Maviael begot Mathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech:

    ¹⁹Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Sella.

    ²⁰And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.

    ²¹And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of them that play upon the harp and the organs.

    ²²Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and artificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema.

    ²³And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sell: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.

    ²⁴Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.

    ²⁵Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed, for Abel whom Cain slew.

    ²⁶But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos; this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.

   

Genesis 5

 ¹This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

    ²He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

    ³And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.

    ⁴And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters.

    ⁵And all the time that Adam lived came to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

    ⁶Seth also lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos.

    ⁷And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

    ⁸And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

    ⁹And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.

    ¹⁰After whose birth he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

    ¹¹And the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

    ¹²And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Malaleel.

    ¹³And Cainan lived after he begot Malaleel, eight hundred forty years, and begot sons and daughters.

    ¹⁴And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

    ¹⁵And Malaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.

    ¹⁶And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

    ¹⁷And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.

    ¹⁸And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Henoch.

    ¹⁹And Jared lived after he begot Henoch, eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

    ²⁰And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

    ²¹And Henoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Mathusala.

    ²²And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

    ²³And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

    ²⁴And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.

    ²⁵And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.

    ²⁶And Mathusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.

    ²⁷And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

    ²⁸And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.

    ²⁹And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth which the Lord hath cursed.

    ³⁰And Lamech lived after he begot Noe, five hundred and ninety-five years, and he begot sons and daughters.

    ³¹And all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

   

Genesis 6

 ¹And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them.

    ²The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took themselves wives of all which they chose.

    ³And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

    ⁴Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.

    ⁵And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

    ⁶It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,

    ⁷He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.

    ⁸But Noe found grace before the Lord.

    ⁹These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

    ¹⁰And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

    ¹¹And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.

    ¹²And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth,)

    ¹³He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.

    ¹⁴Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.

    ¹⁵And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

    ¹⁶Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.

    ¹⁷Behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.

    ¹⁸And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

    ¹⁹And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of each sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex, and the female.

    ²⁰Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on earth according to its kind; two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.

    ²¹Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.

    ²²And Noe did all things which God commanded him.

   

Genesis 7

 ¹And the Lord said to him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

    ²Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and female.

    ³But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven,the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

    ⁴For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

    ⁵And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.

    ⁶And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

    ⁷And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

    ⁸And of the beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

    ⁹Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.

    ¹⁰And after seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

    ¹¹In the six hundreth year of the life of Noe in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were open:

    ¹²And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

    ¹³In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark:

    ¹⁴They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly.

    ¹⁵Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.

    ¹⁶And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.

    ¹⁷And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from earth.

    ¹⁸For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.

    ¹⁹And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

    ²⁰The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

    ²¹And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.

    ²²And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.

    ²³And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

    ²⁴And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.