9 Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and
wholehearted; Noach walked with ELOHIM.
10 Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet.
11 The earth was corrupt before ELOHIM, the earth was filled with violence.
12 ELOHIM saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had
corrupted their ways on the earth.
13 ELOHIM said to Noach, “The end of all living beings has come before me, for
because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along
with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark
with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside.
15 Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its
width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet. 16 You are to make an
opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in
its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.
17 “Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from
under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be
destroyed.
18 But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you,
your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
19 “From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two
into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female.
20 Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal
creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive.
21 Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for
yourself; it is to be food for you and for them.”
22 This is what Noach did; he did all that ELOHIM ordered him to do.
*~Genesis Chapter 7 ~*
1 YAHUVEH said to Noach, “Come into the ark, you and all your household; for I
have seen that you alone in this generation are righteous before me.
2 Of every clean animal you are to take seven couples, and of the animals that
are not clean, one couple;
3 also of the birds in the air take seven couples — in order to preserve their
species throughout the earth.
4 For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and
forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face
of the earth.”
5 Noach did all that YAHUVEH ordered him to do.
6 Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.
7 Noach went into the ark with his sons, his wife and his sons’ wives, because
of the floodwaters.
8 Of clean animals, of animals that are not clean, of birds, and of everything
that creeps on the ground,
9 couples, male and female, went in to Noach in the ark, as ELOHIM had ordered
Noach.
10 After seven days the water flooded the earth.
11 On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach’s life
all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky
were opened.
12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On that same day Noach entered the ark with Shem, Ham and Yefet the sons of
Noach, Noach’s wife and the three wives of his sons accompanying them;
14 they, and every animal of every species, all the livestock of every species,
every animal that creeps on the ground of every species, and every bird of every
species — all sorts of winged creatures.
15 They went in to Noach in the ark, couples from every kind of living thing
that breathes.
16 Those that entered went in, male and female, from every kind of living being,
as ELOHIM had ordered him; and YAHUVEH shut him inside.
17 The flood was forty days on the earth; the water grew higher and floated the
ark, so that it was lifted up off the earth.
18 The water overflowed the earth and grew deeper, until the ark floated on the
surface of the water.
19 The water overpowered the earth mightily; all the high mountains under the
entire sky were covered;
20 the water covered the mountains by more than twenty-two-and-a-half feet.
21 All living beings that moved on the earth perished — birds, livestock, other
animals, insects, and every human being,
22 everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life; whatever
was on dry land died.
23 He wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground — not only human
beings, but livestock, creeping animals and birds in the air. They were wiped
out from the earth; only Noach was left, along with those who were with him in
the ark.
24 The water held power over the earth for 150 days.
*~Genesis Chapter 8 ~*
1 ELOHIM remembered Noach, every living thing and all the livestock with him in
the ark; so ELOHIM caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to
go down.
2 Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of the sky were stopped, the
rain from the sky was restrained,
3 and the water came back from completely covering the earth. It was after 150
days that the water went down.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the
mountains of Ararat.
5 The water kept going down until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth
month the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 After forty days Noach opened the window of the ark which he had built;
7 and he sent out a raven, which flew back and forth until the water had dried
up from the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove, to see if the water had gone from the surface of the
ground.
9 But the dove found no place for her feet to rest, so she returned to him in
the ark, because the water still covered the whole earth. He put out his hand,
took her and brought her in to him in the ark.
10 He waited another seven days and again sent the dove out from the ark.
11 The dove came in to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly
plucked olive leaf, so Noach knew that the water had cleared from the earth.
12 He waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, and she didn’t return
to him any more.
13 By the first day of the first month of the 601st year the water had dried up
from off the earth; so Noach removed the covering of the ark and looked; and,
yes, the surface of the ground was dry.
14 It was on the twenty-seventh day of the second month that the earth was dry.
15 ELOHIM said to Noach,
16 “Go out from the ark, you, your wife, your sons and your son’s wives with
you.
17 Bring out with you every living thing you have with you — birds, livestock
and every animal that creeps on the earth — so that they can swarm on the earth,
be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18 So Noach went out with his sons, his wife and his sons’ wives;
19 every animal, every creeping thing and every bird, whatever moves on the
earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
20 Noach built an altar to YAHUVEH. Then he took from every clean animal and
every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 YAHUVEH smelled the sweet aroma, and YAHUVEH said in his heart, “I will never
again curse the ground because of humankind, since the imaginings of a person’s
heart are evil from his youth; nor will I ever again destroy all living things,
as I have done.
22 So long as the earth exists, sowing time and harvest, cold and heat, summer
and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
*~Genesis Chapter 9 ~*
1 ELOHIM blessed Noach and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply and
fill the earth.
2 The fear and dread of you will be upon every wild animal, every bird in the
air, every creature populating the ground, and all the fish in the sea; they
have been handed over to you.
3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; just as I gave you green
plants before, so now I give you everything —
4 only flesh with its life, which is its blood, you are not to eat.
5 I will certainly demand an accounting for the blood of your lives: I will
demand it from every animal and from every human being. I will demand from every
human being an accounting for the life of his fellow human being.
6 Whoever sheds human blood, by a human being will his own blood be shed; for
ELOHIM made human beings in his image.
7 And you people, be fruitful, multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply on it.”
8 ELOHIM spoke to Noach and his sons with him; he said,
9 “As for me — I am herewith establishing my covenant with you, with your
descendants after you,
10 and with every living creature that is with you — the birds, the livestock
and every wild animal with you, all going out of the ark, every animal on earth.
11 I will establish my covenant with you that never again will all living beings
be destroyed by the waters of a flood, and there will never again be a flood to
destroy the earth.”
12 ELOHIM added, “Here is the sign of the covenant I am making between myself
and you and every living creature with you, for all generations to come:
13 I am putting my rainbow in the cloud — it will be there as a sign of the
covenant between myself and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth, and the rainbow is seen in the cloud;
15 I will remember my covenant which is between myself and you and every living
creature of any kind; and the water will never again become a flood to destroy
all living beings.
16 The rainbow will be in the cloud; so that when I look at it, I will remember
the everlasting covenant between ELOHIM and every living creature of any kind on
the earth.”
17 ELOHIM said to Noach, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have
established between myself and every living creature on the earth.”
18 The sons of Noach who went out from the ark were Shem, Ham and Yefet. Ham is
the father of Kena‘an.
19 These three were the sons of Noach, and the whole earth was populated by
them.
20 Noach, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard.
21 He drank so much of the wine that he got drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Kena‘an, saw his father shamefully exposed, went out and
told his two brothers.
23 Shem and Yefet took a cloak, put it over both their shoulders, and, walking
backward, went in and covered their naked father. Their faces were turned away,
so that they did not see their father lying there shamefully exposed.
24 When Noach awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to
him.
25 He said, “Cursed be Kena‘an; he will be a servant of servants to his
brothers.”
26 Then he said, “Blessed be YAHUVEH, the ELOHIM of Shem; Kena‘an will be their
servant.
27 May ELOHIM enlarge Yefet; he will live in the tents of Shem, but Kena‘an will
be their servant.”
28 After the flood Noach lived 350 years.
29 In all, Noach lived 950 years; then he died.
*~Genesis Chapter 10 ~*
1 Here is the genealogy of the sons of Noach — Shem, Ham and Yefet; sons were
born to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Yefet were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Yavan, Tuval, Meshekh and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Rifat and Togarmah.
4 The sons of Yavan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.
5 From these the islands of the nations were divided into their lands, each
according to its language, according to their families, in their nations.
6 The sons of Ham were Kush, Mitzrayim, Put and Kena‘an.
7 The sons of Kush were S’va, Havilah, Savta, Ra‘mah and Savt’kha. The sons of
Ra‘mah were Sh’va and D’dan.
8 Kush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful ruler on earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before YAHUVEH — this is why people say, “Like Nimrod,
a mighty hunter before YAHUVEH.”
10 His kingdom began with Bavel, Erekh, Akkad and Kalneh, in the land of Shin‘ar.
11 Ashur went out from that land and built Ninveh, the city Rechovot, Kelach,
12 and Resen between Ninveh and Kelach — that one is the great city.
13 Mitzrayim fathered the Ludim, the ‘Anamim, the L’havim, the Naftuchim,
14 the Patrusim, the Kasluchim (from whom came the P’lishtim) and the Kaftorim.
15 Kena‘an fathered Tzidon his firstborn, Het, 16 the Y’vusi, the Emori, the
Girgashi,
17 the Hivi, the ‘Arki, the Sini,
18 the Arvadi, the Tz’mari and the Hamati. Afterwards, the families of the
Kena‘ani were dispersed.
19 The border of the Kena‘ani was from Tzidon, as you go toward G’rar, to ‘Azah;
as you go toward S’dom, ‘Amora, Admah and Tzvoyim, to Lesha.
20 These were the descendants of Ham, according to their families and languages,
in their lands and in their nations.
21 Children were also born to Shem, ancestor of all the descendants of ‘Ever and
older brother of Yefet.
22 The sons of Shem were ‘Elam, Ashur, Arpakhshad, Lud and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram were ‘Utz, Hul, Geter and Mash.
24 Arpakhshad fathered Shelach, and Shelach fathered ‘Ever.
25 To ‘Ever were born two sons. One was given the name Peleg [division], because
during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Yoktan.
26 Yoktan fathered Almodad, Shelef, Hatzar-Mavet, Yerach,
27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 ‘Oval, Avima’el, Sheva,
29 Ofir, Havilah and Yovav — all these were the sons of Yoktan.
30 Their territory stretched from Mesha, as you go toward S’far, to the mountain
in the east.
31 These were the descendants of Shem, according to their families and
languages, in their lands and in their nations.
32 These were the families of the sons of Noach, according to their generations,
in their nations. From these the nations of the earth were divided up after the
flood.
*~Genesis Chapter 11 ~*
1 The whole earth used the same language, the same words.
2 It came about that as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the
land of Shin‘ar and lived there.
3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them in the fire.”
So they had bricks for building-stone and clay for mortar.
4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city with a tower that has its
top reaching up into heaven, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be
scattered all over the earth.”
5 YAHUVEH came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6 YAHUVEH said, “Look, the people are united, they all have a single language,
and see what they’re starting to do! At this rate, nothing they set out to
accomplish will be impossible for them!
7 Come, let’s go down and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand
each other’s speech.”
8 So from there YAHUVEH scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped
building the city.
9 For this reason it is called Bavel [confusion] — because there YAHUVEH
confused the language of the whole earth, and from there YAHUVEH scattered them
all over the earth.
10 Here is the genealogy of Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he fathered
Arpakhshad two years after the flood.
11 After Arpakhshad was born, Shem lived another 500 years and had sons and
daughters.
12 Arpakhshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelach.
13 After Shelach was born, Arpakhshad lived another 403 years and had sons and
daughters.
14 Shelach lived thirty years and fathered ‘Ever.
15 After ‘Ever was born, Shelach lived another 403 years and had sons and
daughters.
16 ‘Ever lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg.
17 After Peleg was born, ‘Ever lived another 430 years and had sons and
daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Re‘u.
19 After Re‘u was born, Peleg lived another 209 years and had sons and
daughters.
20 Re‘u lived thirty-two years and fathered S’rug.
21 After S’rug was born, Re‘u lived another 207 years and had sons and
daughters.
22 S’rug lived thirty years and fathered Nachor.
23 After Nachor was born, S’rug lived another 200 years and had sons and
daughters.
24 Nachor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terach.
25 After Terach was born, Nachor lived another 119 years and had sons and
daughters.
26 Terach lived seventy years and fathered Avram, Nachor and Haran.
27 Here is the genealogy of Terach. Terach fathered Avram, Nachor and Haran; and
Haran fathered Lot.
28 Haran died before his father Terach in the land where he was born, in Ur of
the Kasdim.
29 Then Avram and Nachor took wives for themselves. The name of Avram’s wife was
Sarai, and the name of Nachor’s wife was Milkah the daughter of Haran. He was
the father of Milkah and of Yiskah.
30 Sarai was barren — she had no child.
31 Terach took his son Avram, his son Haran’s son Lot, and Sarai his
daughter-in-law, his son Avram’s wife; and they left Ur of the Kasdim to go to
the land of Kena‘an. But when they came to Haran, they stayed there.
32 Terach lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.