The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”

Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.

And Noah did all that God commanded him—he did indeed.

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

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

The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

I will take nothing except compensation for what the young men have eaten. As for the share of the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre—let them take their share.”