The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

So now you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Look, you are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me!”

So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

From Adam to Noah

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

So the Lord said, “I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.”

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.