-
Cain and Abel
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
-
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,
-
but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
-
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
-
Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
-
His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.
-
Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.
-
After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
-
Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
-
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
-
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
-
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.”
-
Noah and the Flood
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
-
God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
-
So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
-
So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
-
Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
-
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
-
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.
-
You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
-
Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
-
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.”
-
And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
-
Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
-
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
