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And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
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And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
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And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
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And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
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And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
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And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
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And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
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And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
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And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
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So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
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And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
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And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
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And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
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Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.