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5This is the record of Adam's descendants. On the day God created humanity, he made them to resemble God 2and created them male and female. He blessed them and called them humanityv on the day they were created. 3When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son in his image, resembling him, and named him Seth. 4After Seth's birth, Adam lived 800 years; he had other sons and daughters. 5In all, Adam lived 930 years, and he died.
6When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh. 7After the birth of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 8In all, Seth lived 912 years, and he died.
9When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan. 10After Kenan's birth, Enosh lived 815 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 11In all, Enosh lived 905 years, and he died.
12When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 14In all, Kenan lived 910 years, and he died.
15When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared. 16After Jared's birth, Mahalalel lived 830 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 17In all, Mahalalel lived 895 years, and he died.
18When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch. 19After Enoch's birth, Jared lived 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 20In all, Jared lived 962 years, and he died.
21When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah. 22Enoch walked with God. After Methuselah's birth, Enoch lived 300 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 23In all, Enoch lived 365 years. 24Enoch walked with God and disappeared because God took him.
25When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech. 26After Lamech's birth, Methuselah lived 782 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 27In all, Methuselah lived 969 years, and he died.
28When Lamech was 182 years old, he became the father of a son 29and named him Noah, saying, "This one will give us reliefw from our hard work, from the pain in our hands, because of the fertile land that the LORD cursed."30After Noah's birth, Lamech lived 595 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 31In all, Lamech lived 777 years, and he died.
32When Noah was 500 years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Ancient heroes
Genesis 6When the number of people started to increase throughout the fertile land, daughters were born to them. 2The divine beings saw how beautiful these human women were, so they married the ones they chose. 3The LORD said, "My breathx will not remain in humans forever, because they are flesh. They will live one hundred twenty years."4In those days, giantsy lived on the earth and also afterward, when divine beings and human daughters had sexual relations and gave birth to children. These were the ancient heroes, famous men.
Great flood
5The LORD saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on the earth and that every idea their minds thought up was always completely evil. 6The LORD regretted making human beings on the earth, and he was heartbroken. 7So the LORD said, "I will wipe off of the land the human race that I've created: from human beings to livestock to the crawling things to the birds in the skies, because I regret I ever made them."8But as for Noah, the LORD approved of him.
9These are Noah's descendants. In his generation, Noah was a moral and exemplary man; hez walked with God. 10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11In God's sight, the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. 12God saw that the earth was corrupt, because all creatures behaved corruptly on the earth.
13God said to Noah, "The end has come for all creatures, since they have filled the earth with violence. I am now about to destroy them along with the earth, 14so make a wooden ark.a Make the ark with nesting places and cover it inside and out with tar. 15This is how you should make it: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. 16Make a roofb for the ark and complete it one foot from the top.c Put a door in its side. In the hold below, make the second and third decks.
17"I am now bringing the floodwaters over the earth to destroy everything under the sky that breathes. Everything on earth is about to take its last breath. 18But I will set up my covenant with you. You will go into the ark together with your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives. 19From all living things--from all creatures--you are to bring a pair, male and female, into the ark with you to keep them alive. 20From each kind of bird, from each kind of livestock, and from each kind of everything that crawls on the ground--a pair from each will go in with you to stay alive. 21Take some from every kind of food and stow it as food for you and for the animals."
22Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.
Genesis 7The LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark with your whole household, because among this generation I've seen that you are a moral man. 2From every clean animal, take seven pairs, a male and his mate; and from every unclean animal, take one pair, a male and his mate;3and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth. 4In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made."
5Noah did everything the LORD commanded him.
6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth. 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters. 8From the clean and unclean animals, from the birds and everything crawling on the ground, 9two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah. 10After seven days, the floodwaters arrived on the earth. 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day--on that day all the springs of the deep sea erupted, and the windows in the skies opened. 12It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13That same day Noah, with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, and his sons' three wives, went into the ark. 14They and every kind of animal--every kind of livestock, every kind that crawls on the ground, every kind of birdd --15they came to Noah and entered the ark, two of every creature that breathes. 16Male and female of every creature went in, just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD closed the door behind them.e
17The flood remained on the earth for forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, and it rode high above the earth. 18The waters rose and spread out over the earth. The ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky. 20The waters rose twenty-three feet high, covering the mountains. 21Every creature took its last breath: the things crawling on the ground, birds, livestock, wild animals, everything swarming on the ground, and every human being. 22Everything on dry land with life's breath in its nostrils died. 23God wiped away every living thing that was on the fertile land--from human beings to livestock to crawling things to birds in the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left. 24The waters rose over the earth for one hundred fifty days.
Genesis 8God remembered Noah, all those alive, and all the animals with him in the ark. God sent a wind over the earth so that the waters receded. 2The springs of the deep sea and the skiesf closed