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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
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And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
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So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
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And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
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Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
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Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
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The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
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Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
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So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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From Adam to Noah
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
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So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
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So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
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But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
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The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
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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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Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
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and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
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Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
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He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from 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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By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
