And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah.

And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.