Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”

Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

The Tower of Babel

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”

So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.

I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.