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The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
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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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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.”
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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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but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
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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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After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
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the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
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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.”
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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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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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.
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Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
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God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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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.
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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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You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
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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,
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
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On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
