Then the Lord God said, “See, the humans have become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now they might reach out their hands and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever”—

therefore the Lord God sent them forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which they were taken.

Cain Murders Abel

Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”

Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him.”

Adam’s Descendants to Noah and His Sons

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans, he made them in the likeness of God.

Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years and had other sons and daughters.

Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him.

the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.

So the Lord said, “I will blot out from the earth the humans I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Noah Pleases God

These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God saw that the earth was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth.

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

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

Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and put the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks.

But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

Also take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it up, and it shall serve as food for you and for them.”

Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate;

And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.

On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,

They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.