Noah

whom he called Noach [restful]; for he said, “This one will comfort us in our labor, in the hard work we do with our hands [to get what comes] from the ground that Adonai cursed.”

After Noach was born, Lemekh lived 595 years and had sons and daughters.

Noach was 500 years old; and Noach fathered Shem, Ham and Yefet.

But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai.

Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God.

Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet.

God said to Noach, “The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.

This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.

Adonai said to Noach, “Come into the ark, you and all your household; for I have seen that you alone in this generation are righteous before me.

Noach did all that Adonai ordered him to do.

Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.

Noach went into the ark with his sons, his wife and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

couples, male and female, went in to Noach in the ark, as God had ordered Noach.

On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach’s life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.

On that same day Noach entered the ark with Shem, Ham and Yefet the sons of Noach, Noach’s wife and the three wives of his sons accompanying them;

They went in to Noach in the ark, couples from every kind of living thing that breathes.

He wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground — not only human beings, but livestock, creeping animals and birds in the air. They were wiped out from the earth; only Noach was left, along with those who were with him in the ark.

God remembered Noach, every living thing and all the livestock with him in the ark; so God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to go down.

After forty days Noach opened the window of the ark which he had built;

The dove came in to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf, so Noach knew that the water had cleared from the earth.

By the first day of the first month of the 601st year the water had dried up from off the earth; so Noach removed the covering of the ark and looked; and, yes, the surface of the ground was dry.

God said to Noach,

So Noach went out with his sons, his wife and his sons’ wives;

Noach built an altar to Adonai. Then he took from every clean animal and every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

God blessed Noach and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.