Genesis 8-11

21st Century King James Version

8 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were assuaged.

² The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

³ And the waters returned from off the earth continually, and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

⁶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

⁷ And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

⁸ Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

⁹ but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

¹⁰ And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

¹¹ And the dove came in to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

¹² And he stayed yet another seven days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.

¹³ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

¹⁴ And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

¹⁵ And God spoke unto Noah, saying,

¹⁶ “Go forth from the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons and thy sons’ wives with thee.

¹⁷ Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both of fowl and of cattle and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.”

¹⁸ And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

¹⁹ Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

²⁰ And Noah built an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹ And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in His heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

²² While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

9 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

⁴ “But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

⁵ And surely your blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

⁶ Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.

⁷ And you, be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”

⁸ And God spoke unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹ “And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you,

¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you — of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth.

¹¹ And I will establish My covenant with you: Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹² And God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

¹³ I do set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.

¹⁴ And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud.

¹⁵ And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶ And the rainbow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”

¹⁷ And God said unto Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”

¹⁸ And the sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

¹⁹ These are the three sons of Noah, and from them was the whole earth overspread.

²⁰ And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren outside.

²³ And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

²⁵ And he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”

²⁶ And he said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

²⁷ God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”

²⁸ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

²⁹ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

10 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.

² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

³ And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.

⁴ And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

⁵ By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided into their lands, every one after his own tongue, according to their families, into their nations.

⁶ And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim, and Put and Canaan.

⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

⁸ And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.”

¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

¹¹ Out of that land he went forth to Assyria, and built Nineveh and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

¹² and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; the same is a great city.

¹³ And Mizraim begot Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim

¹⁴ and Pathrusim and Casluhim (out of whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

¹⁵ And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;

¹⁶ and the Jebusite and the Amorite, and the Girgashite

¹⁷ and the Hivite, and the Arkite and the Sinite,

¹⁸ and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; and as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah and Zeboiim, even unto Lasha.

²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their countries and in their nations.

²¹ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

²² The children of Shem: Elam and Asshur, and Arphaxad and Lud and Aram.

²³ And the children of Aram: Uz and Hul, and Gether and Mash.

²⁴ And Arphaxad begot Salah, and Salah begot Eber.

²⁵ And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

²⁶ And Joktan begot Almodad and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth and Jerah,

²⁷ and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah,

²⁸ and Obal and Abimael and Sheba,

²⁹ and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east.

³¹ These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, according to their nations.

³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and by these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.

11 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

² And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

³ And they said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

⁴ And they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

⁵ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

⁶ And the Lord said, “Behold, the people are one and they have all one language, and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them which they have imagined to do.

⁷ Come, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

⁸ So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off building the city.

⁹ Therefore is the name of it called Babel [that is, Confusion], because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood;

¹¹ and Shem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹² And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years and begot Salah;

¹³ and Arphaxad lived after he begot Salah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴ And Salah lived thirty years and begot Eber;

¹⁵ and Salah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁶ And Eber lived four and thirty years and begot Peleg;

¹⁷ and Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁸ And Peleg lived thirty years and begot Reu;

¹⁹ and Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁰ And Reu lived two and thirty years and begot Serug;

²¹ and Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

²² And Serug lived thirty years and begot Nahor;

²³ and Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁴ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years and begot Terah;

²⁵ and Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took for themselves wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

³⁰ But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

³¹ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran and dwelt there.

³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.