¹⁷ And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

²⁹ And he named him Noah,^[a] saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”^(A)

⁷ Then the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”