Genesis 6:9-11:32

New American Standard Bible

⁹ These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a ^(A)righteous man, ^[a](B)blameless in his generation. Noah ^(C)walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ Now the earth was ^(D)corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was ^(E)filled with violence. ¹² And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for ^[b](F)humanity had corrupted its way upon the earth.

¹³ Then God said to Noah, “^(G)The end of ^[c]humanity has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of ^[d]people; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. ¹⁴ Make for yourself an ark of ^[e]gopher wood; you shall make the ark with compartments, and ^[f]cover it inside and out with pitch. ¹⁵ This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be ^[g]three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. ¹⁶ You shall make a ^[h]window for the ark, and finish it to a ^[i]cubit from ^[j]the top; and put the door of the ark on the side; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. ¹⁷ Now behold, ^(H)I Myself am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. ¹⁸ But I will establish ^(I)My covenant with you; and ^(J)you shall enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. ^19 (K)And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. ^20 (L)Of the birds according to their kind, and of the animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. ²¹ As for you, take for yourself some of every ^(M)food that is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and them.” ^22 (N)So Noah did these things; according to everything that God had commanded him, so he did.

The Flood

7 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be ^(O)righteous before Me in this generation. ² You shall take ^[k]with you ^[l]seven pairs of every ^(P)clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female; ³ also of the birds of the sky, ^[m]seven pairs, male and female, to keep their ^[n]offspring alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴ For after ^(Q)seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for ^(R)forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land ^(S)every living thing that I have made.” ⁵ So ^(T)Noah acted in accordance with everything that the Lord had commanded him.

⁶ Now Noah was ^(U)six hundred years old when the flood of water ^[o]came upon the earth. ⁷ Then ^(V)Noah and his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. ^8 (W)Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that crawls on the ground, ⁹ they all went into the ark to Noah ^[p]by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ Now it came about after ^(X)the seven days, that the waters of the flood ^[q]came upon the earth. ¹¹ In the ^(Y)six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all ^(Z)the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the ^[r]floodgates of the sky were opened. ^12 (AA)The rain ^[s]fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On this very same day ^(AB)Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, ¹⁴ they and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to ^[t]their kind, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, ^[u]all sorts of birds. ¹⁵ So they went into the ark to Noah, ^(AC)by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. ¹⁶ Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed the door behind him.

¹⁷ Then the flood ^[v]came upon the earth for ^(AD)forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. ¹⁸ The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark ^[w]floated on the ^[x]surface of the water. ¹⁹ And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains ^[y]everywhere under the heavens were covered. ²⁰ The water prevailed ^[z]fifteen cubits higher, ^(AE)and the mountains were covered. ²¹ So ^(AF)all ^[aa]creatures that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; ²² of all that was on the dry land, all ^(AG)in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. ²³ So He wiped out ^[ab]every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only ^(AH)Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark. ^24 (AI)The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

The Flood Subsides

8 But ^(AJ)God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and ^(AK)God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. ² Also ^(AL)the fountains of the deep and the ^[ac]floodgates of the sky were closed, and ^(AM)the rain from the sky was restrained; ³ and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end ^(AN)of 150 days the water decreased. ⁴ Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, ^(AO)the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

⁶ Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the ^(AP)window of the ark which he had made; ⁷ and he sent out a raven, and it ^[ad]flew here and there until the water was dried up ^[ae]from the earth. ⁸ Then he sent out a ^[af]dove, to see if the water was low on the ^[ag]surface of the land; ⁹ but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the ^[ah]surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself. ¹⁰ So he waited another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹ And the dove came to him in ^[ai]the evening, and behold, in its ^[aj]beak was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was low on the earth. ¹² Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out ^(AQ)the dove; but it did not return to him again.

¹³ Now it came about in the ^(AR)six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up ^[ak]from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the ^[al]surface of the ground had dried up. ¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. ¹⁵ Then God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶ “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁷ Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth, that they may ^[am](AS)breed abundantly on the earth, and ^(AT)be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” ¹⁸ So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. ¹⁹ Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out ^[an]by their families from the ark.

²⁰ Then Noah built ^(AU)an altar to the Lord, and took some of every kind of ^(AV)clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered ^(AW)burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹ The Lord ^(AX)smelled the soothing aroma, and the Lord said ^[ao]to Himself, “I will never again ^(AY)curse the ground on account of man, for ^(AZ)the ^[ap]intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; ^(BA)and I will never again ^[aq]destroy every living thing, as I have done.

Covenant of the Rainbow

9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “^(BD)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ² The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you. ³ Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, ^(BE)as I gave the green plant. ⁴ But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, ^(BF)its blood. ⁵ I certainly will require ^[ar](BG)your lifeblood; ^[as](BH)from every animal I will require it. And ^[at]from every person, ^[au]from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.

⁸ Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹ “Now behold, ^(BL)I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your ^[aw]descendants after you; ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth. ¹¹ I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall ^(BM)never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, ^(BN)nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.” ¹² God said, “This is ^(BO)the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ^[ax]all future generations; ¹³ I have set My ^(BP)rainbow in the cloud, and it shall ^[ay]serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴ It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵ and ^(BQ)I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and ^(BR)never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the ^(BS)everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

¹⁸ Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and ^(BT)Ham was the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah, and ^(BU)from these the whole earth was ^[az]populated.

²⁰ Then Noah began ^[ba]farming and planted a vineyard. ²¹ He drank some of the wine and ^(BV)became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. ²² Ham, the father of Canaan, ^(BW)saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. ²³ But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were ^[bb]turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. ²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵ So he said,

²⁶ He also said,

²⁸ Noah lived 350 years after the flood. ²⁹ So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

Descendants of Noah

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

^2 (CB)The sons of Japheth were ^(CC)Gomer, Magog, ^(CD)Madai, ^(CE)Javan, Tubal, ^(CF)Meshech, and Tiras. ³ The sons of Gomer were ^(CG)Ashkenaz, ^[bf]Riphath, and ^(CH)Togarmah. ⁴ The sons of Javan were Elishah, ^(CI)Tarshish, Kittim, and ^[bg]Dodanim. ⁵ From these the people of the coastlands of the nations ^[bh]were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

^6 (CJ)The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. ⁷ The sons of Cush were ^(CK)Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, ^(CL)Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were ^(CM)Sheba and ^(CN)Dedan. ⁸ Now Cush fathered Nimrod; he ^[bi]became a mighty one on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” ¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was ^[bj](CO)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of ^(CP)Shinar. ¹¹ From that land he went ^(CQ)to Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, ¹² and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. ¹³ Mizraim fathered ^(CR)Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, ^14 (CS)Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

¹⁵ Canaan fathered ^(CT)Sidon, his firstborn, and ^(CU)Heth, ^16 (CV)the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, ¹⁷ the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, ¹⁸ the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad. ^19 (CW)The territory of the Canaanite ^[bk]extended from Sidon ^[bl]going toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; and ^[bm]going toward ^(CX)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

²¹ Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born. ^22 (CY)The sons of Shem were ^(CZ)Elam, Asshur, ^(DA)Arpachshad, ^(DB)Lud, and Aram. ²³ The sons of Aram were ^(DC)Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. ²⁴ Arpachshad fathered ^(DD)Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. ^25 (DE)Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was ^[bn]Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. ²⁶ Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ^28 [bo]Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all of these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰ Now their ^[bp]settlement ^[bq]extended from Mesha ^[br]going toward Sephar, the hill country of the east. ³¹ These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and ^(DF)out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

The Tower of Babel

11 Now all the earth ^[bs]used the same language and ^[bt]the same words. ² And it came about, as they journeyed ^[bu]east, that they found a plain in the land ^(DG)of Shinar and ^[bv]settled there. ³ Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and ^[bw]fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used ^(DH)tar for mortar. ⁴ And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top ^(DI)will reach into heaven, and let’s make ^(DJ)a name for ourselves; otherwise we ^(DK)will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.” ⁵ Now ^(DL)the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the ^[bx]men had built. ⁶ And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have ^[by](DM)the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be ^[bz]impossible for them. ⁷ Come, ^[ca](DN)let Us go down and there ^(DO)confuse their ^[cb]language, so that they will not understand one another’s ^[cc]speech.” ⁸ So the Lord ^(DP)scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city. ⁹ Therefore it was named ^[cd](DQ)Babel, because there the Lord confused the ^[ce]language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Descendants of Shem

^10 (DR)These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood; ¹¹ and Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹² Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and fathered Shelah; ¹³ and Arpachshad lived 403 years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁴ Shelah lived thirty years, and fathered Eber; ¹⁵ and Shelah lived 403 years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁶ Eber lived thirty-four years, and fathered Peleg; ¹⁷ and Eber lived 430 years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁸ Peleg lived thirty years, and fathered Reu; ¹⁹ and Peleg lived 209 years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁰ Reu lived thirty-two years, and fathered Serug; ²¹ and Reu lived 207 years after he fathered Serug, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²² Serug lived thirty years, and fathered Nahor; ²³ and Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁴ Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and fathered ^(DS)Terah; ²⁵ and Nahor lived 119 years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁶ Terah lived seventy years, and ^(DT)fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷ Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and ^(DU)Haran fathered ^(DV)Lot. ²⁸ Haran died ^[cf]during the lifetime of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in ^(DW)Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹ Abram and ^(DX)Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was ^(DY)Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was ^(DZ)Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah ^[cg]and Iscah. ^30 (EA)Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.

³¹ Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they departed ^[ch]together from ^(EB)Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and ^[ci]settled there. ³² The days of Terah were 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.