Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, so that they will have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet grown, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

Then Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us to know good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever”—

If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is lying at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Then Cain spoke to Abel his brother; and it happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

And to Seth, to him also, a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of Yahweh.

Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the pain of our hands arising from the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Then Yahweh saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And Yahweh regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

As for Me, behold I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall breathe its last.

Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.

Now it happened after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

Then the rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the surface of the water.

And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

And all flesh that moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind.

Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark.

And the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.

The Water Dries Up

Then God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.

In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

Now the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

and he sent out a raven, and it went out flying back and forth until the water was dried up from the earth.