Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their heavenly lights.

By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

Then the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all the livestock, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life;

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; With hard labor you shall eat from it All the days of your life.

Now the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and flute.

As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

So all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

So all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.

So all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.

So all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.

So all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.

So all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.

So all the days of Enoch were 365 years.

So all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

So all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.

Now behold, 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.

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.

The Flood

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.

also of the birds of the sky, seven pairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.