The Creation of Man and Woman

⁴ This is the account about the development^[a] of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens:

5 This is the account about the development of Adam’s family:

In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

Noah and the Ark

⁹ This is the account about the development of Noah’s family.

Noah was a righteous man, a man of integrity in that generation. Noah walked with God.

10 Now this is the account about the development of groups of people who descended from Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. Sons^[a] were born to them after the flood.

The Ancestors of Abraham

¹⁰ This is the account about the development of the family of Shem.

Shem was 100 years old and became the father of Arphaxad two years after the flood.

The Development of the Family of Terah

²⁷ Now this is the account about the development^[a] of the family of Terah.

Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

The Descendants of Ishmael

¹² Now this is the account about the development of the family line of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, had borne to Abraham.

The Family of Isaac

¹⁹ This is the account about the development of the family of Isaac, Abraham’s son.

Abraham became the father of Isaac.

⁷ When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” because he thought, “The men of this place might kill me for Rebekah, since she is beautiful.”