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Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
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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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But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
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When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
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“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
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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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I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
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I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
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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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When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
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The Japhethites
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
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The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.
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The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
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So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
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The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
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Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
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Abram and Lot Separate
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
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So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.
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So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
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The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.
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In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim
