Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

Seven days later the waters of the flood came on the earth.

The Flood

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

The flood continued for 40 days on the earth; the waters increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.

The Flood Recedes

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

I confirm My covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.

Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

The Table of Nations

These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

From Shem to Abram

These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as a burial place.”

Then the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

and Joseph moved the people to the cities from one end of Egypt to the other.

At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the Lord’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt.

The floods covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.

If you do this, and God so directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

Also observe the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.