Adonai Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

Then the man said, “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one is called woman, for from man was taken this one.”

This is why a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife; and they become one flesh.

Then Adonai said, “My Spirit will not remain with humankind forever, since they are flesh. So their days will be 120 years.

God saw the earth, and behold it was ruined because all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Instructions for the Ark

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh is coming before Me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Behold, I am about to bring ruin upon them along with the land.

Now I am about to bring the flood—water upon the land—to destroy all flesh in which is the spirit of life from under the sky. Everything that is on the land will perish.

Also of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of everything—male and female—into the ark to keep alive with you.

So to Noah and into the ark they went by twos—all flesh in which was the spirit of life.

Those that came, male and female of all flesh, came just as God commanded him. Then Adonai shut him in.

All flesh perished—those that crawl on the land, the flying creatures, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that swarm upon the land, and all humankind.

Every animal that is with you of all flesh, including the flying creatures, livestock and every crawling creature that crawls on the land, bring out with you, and let them swarm in the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the land.”

Only flesh with its life—that is, its blood—you must not eat!

I will confirm My covenant with you—never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again will there be a flood to ruin the land.”

I will remember My covenant that is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh.

When the rainbow is in the cloud, I will look at it, to remember the perpetual covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the land.”

Then God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have confirmed between Me and all flesh that is on the land.”

You must be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and this will become a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Your house-born slave and your purchased slave must surely be circumcised. So My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

But the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin—that person will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all of his house-born slaves and all his purchased slaves—every male among the men of Abraham’s house—and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on this very same day, just as God had spoken with him.

Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin,

and his son Ishmael was 13 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my own bone and flesh.” And he stayed with him for a month.

Let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let’s not lay our hand on him—since he’s our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers listened to him.