In all, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

In all, Shet lived 912 years; then he died.

In all, Enosh lived 905 years; then he died.

In all, Kenan lived 910 years; then he died.

In all, Mahalal’el lived 895 years; then he died.

In all, Yered lived 962 years; then he died.

After Metushelach was born, Hanokh walked with God 300 years and had sons and daughters.

In all, Hanokh lived 365 years.

Hanokh walked with God, and then he wasn’t there, because God took him.

In all, Metushelach lived 969 years; then he died.

whom he called Noach [restful]; for he said, “This one will comfort us in our labor, in the hard work we do with our hands [to get what comes] from the ground that Adonai cursed.”

In all, Lemekh lived 777 years; then he died.

(Maftir) Adonai saw that the people on earth were very wicked, that all the imaginings of their hearts were always of evil only.

Parashah 2: Noach (Noah) 6:9–11:32

Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God.

The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence.

God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth.

God 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.

Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside.

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.

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.

“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.

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.”

This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.

(ii) Adonai 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.

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.”