Cain made love to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city there and named it Enoch after his son.

Adah gave birth to Jabal. His descendants are those who make their homes in tents and keep livestock.

Jabal’s brother’s name was Jubal, and his descendants are musicians who play instruments such as the lyre and the pipe.

Zillah, Lamech’s other wife, gave birth to Tubal-cain. Now he was a bronze- and ironsmith, and his sister was Naamah.

One day, Lamech announced to his wives: Lamech: Adah and Zillah, listen to me! Wives of Lamech, I need to tell you something! I killed a man who struck me. He was a young man who wounded me first.

Meanwhile, Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to another son and named him Seth. Eve (to herself): God has given me another child to replace Abel, since Cain killed him.

After many years passed, Seth became the father of a son and named him Enosh. This was about the time when people began to worship and call on the name of the Eternal One.

Here now is the account of Adam’s descendants. You remember, when God created humans, He made them in His own likeness.

He created them male and female; and after creating them, God put a special blessing on them and named them “humanity.”

When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son who looked just like him. He was Adam’s spitting image, and so resembled God too. Adam named him Seth.

When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered a son named Enosh.

When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered a son named Kenan.

When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered a son named Mahalalel.

When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he fathered a son named Jared.

When Jared had lived 162 years, he fathered a son named Enoch.

When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered a son named Methuselah.

When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered a son named Lamech.

named Noah. He named him this because he predicted, “From out of the ground the Eternal cursed will now come someone who will bring relief from our work and painful toil.”

Here is the account of Noah and his descendants. Noah was a good man, a right-living man, the best man of his generation; and he walked closely with God.

Noah did everything the Eternal One asked him to do.

Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, all went into the ark in order to escape the waters of the flood.

On the same day, Noah, his wife, his sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth), and his sons’ wives went into the ark, and all were secured within it.

But the dove found no place to land safely, and it returned to the ark. The waters were still covering the surface of the whole earth. So Noah put out his hand and brought the dove back into the ark.

So Noah left the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

God spoke a blessing over Noah and his sons. Eternal One: Be fruitful, multiply, and populate the earth!