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From Adam to Noah
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
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After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
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the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
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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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Noah and the Flood
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
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Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
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God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
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The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
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But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
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Then God said to Noah,
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God’s Covenant With Noah
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
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“Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
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Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
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And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
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Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
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So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
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He also said, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
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May God extend Japheth’s territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
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Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
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and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
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And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
