Genesis 5:32-10:1

Jubilee Bible 2000

³² And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

6 ¶ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them,

² that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose.

³ ¶ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for certainly he is flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.

⁴ ¶ There were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore sons to them, the same became mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵ And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

⁶ ¶ And the LORD repented of having made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

⁷ And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the animals and the fowls of the air; for I repent of having made them.

⁸ ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

¹⁰ And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ ¶ The earth corrupted itself before God, and the earth filled itself with violence.

¹² And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

¹³ ¶ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹⁴ Make thee an ark of cedar trees; rooms shalt thou make in the ark and shalt reconcile it within and without covering it over with pitch. {Heb. ransom or atonement}

¹⁵ And this is the fashion of which thou shalt make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

¹⁶ A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

¹⁷ And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the spirit of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

¹⁸ But with thee I will establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons’ wives with thee.

¹⁹ And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

²⁰ Of fowls after their kind and of beasts after their kind, of every animal of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

²¹ And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee and for them.

²² ¶ Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

7 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Enter thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

² Of every clean animal thou shalt take to thee seven pairs, the male and his female; but of animals that are not clean, two, the male and his female.

³ Of fowls also of the heavens by seven pairs, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

⁴ For yet in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every substance that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the earth.

⁵ ¶ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

⁷ And Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

⁸ Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of fowls and of every thing that moves upon the earth,

⁹ there went in two by two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰ And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

¹¹ ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

¹² And there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ ¶ In that same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered into the ark,

¹⁴ they and every animal after its kind and all the beasts after their kind and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every thing with wings.

¹⁵ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.

¹⁶ And those that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him, and the LORD shut him in.

¹⁷ ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.

²⁰ Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.

²¹ ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;

²² all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that was in the dry land died.

²³ And every substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle and the animals and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah remained alive and those that were with him in the ark.

²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

8 ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters ceased;

² the fountains also of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

³ and the waters turned back and forth upon the earth, and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

⁴ ¶ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ ¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

⁷ and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

⁸ Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground,

⁹ but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were still upon the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

¹⁰ And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark,

¹¹ and the dove came in to him in the evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

¹² And he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.

¹³ ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year of Noah, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

¹⁵ ¶ And God spoke unto Noah, saying,

¹⁶ Go forth from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

¹⁷ Bring forth with thee every animal that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and of beasts and of every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

¹⁸ And Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him;

¹⁹ all the animals, every creature and every fowl and whatever moves upon the earth after their kinds went forth out of the ark.

²⁰ ¶ And Noah built an altar unto the LORD and took of every clean animal and of every clean fowl and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹ And the LORD smelled a savour of rest, and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his childhood; neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done.

²² While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

9 ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth and upon every fowl of the heavens, upon all that moves upon the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.

³ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green grass I have given you all things.

⁴ But flesh with the soul (or life) thereof, which is its blood, ye shall not eat.

⁵ For surely your blood which is your souls I will require; at the hand of every animal I will require it and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother I will require the soul (or life) of man.

⁶ Whoever sheds man’s blood in man, his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God is man made.

⁷ And you, be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein.

⁸ ¶ And God spoke unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹ Behold that I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you

¹⁰ and with every living soul that is with you, of the fowl, of the animals, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every animal of the earth,

¹¹ that I will establish my covenant with you, that all flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

¹² ¶ And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for perpetual ages:

¹³ I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁴ And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall appear in the clouds;

¹⁵ and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷ And God said unto Noah, This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁸ ¶ And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

¹⁹ These are the three sons of Noah; and of them was the whole earth overspread.

²⁰ And Noah began to till the ground, and he planted a vineyard;

²¹ and he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren outside.

²³ Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.

²⁴ ¶ And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be unto his brethren.

²⁶ And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his slave.

²⁷ God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his slave.

²⁸ ¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

²⁹ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

10 ¶ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were born sons after the flood.