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All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
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“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
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I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
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When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
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But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
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(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
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From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
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Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered
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and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
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These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
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These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
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The Tower of Babel
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
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The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
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That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
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The Call of Abram
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
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He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
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Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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Abram in Egypt
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
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But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
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And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
