The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may swarm in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.'

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;

every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families; went forth out of the ark.

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'

And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying:

'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.'

And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the cloud,

that I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.'

And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'

And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.

These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread.

And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.

God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.'

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah — the same is the great city.

And Mizraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — whence went forth the Philistines — and Caphtorim.

And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, and Heth;

and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite;

and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite;

and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.

And the border of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

And Arpachshad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.

And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah;

and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah;

and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba;

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.

And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah.

And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.

And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.

And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Now the LORD said unto Abram: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.