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God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.
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He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
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Noah and the Flood
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
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God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
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God’s Covenant With Noah
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
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These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.
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(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
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As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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The Call of Abram
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
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“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
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I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
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He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
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Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
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He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
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and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
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The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
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Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
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I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
