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Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
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After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
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“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
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So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
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The Semites
Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
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From Shem to Abram
This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
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So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
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So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
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You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
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The Covenant of Circumcision
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
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For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
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Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
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Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
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Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
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So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
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Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’
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Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.
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Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
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One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.
