Bible Verses About Sciences

Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside.

Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet.

You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.

Here is the genealogy of the sons of Noach — Shem, Ham and Yefet; sons were born to them after the flood.

The sons of Yefet were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Yavan, Tuval, Meshekh and Tiras.

The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Rifat and Togarmah.

The sons of Yavan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

From these the islands of the nations were divided into their lands, each according to its language, according to their families, in their nations.

The sons of Ham were Kush, Mitzrayim, Put and Kena‘an.

The sons of Kush were S’va, Havilah, Savta, Ra‘mah and Savt’kha. The sons of Ra‘mah were Sh’va and D’dan.

Kush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful ruler on earth.

He was a mighty hunter before Adonai — this is why people say, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Adonai.”

His kingdom began with Bavel, Erekh, Akkad and Kalneh, in the land of Shin‘ar.

Ashur went out from that land and built Ninveh, the city Rechovot, Kelach,

and Resen between Ninveh and Kelach — that one is the great city.

Mitzrayim fathered the Ludim, the ‘Anamim, the L’havim, the Naftuchim,

the Patrusim, the Kasluchim (from whom came the P’lishtim) and the Kaftorim.

Kena‘an fathered Tzidon his firstborn, Het,

the Y’vusi, the Emori, the Girgashi,

the Hivi, the ‘Arki, the Sini,

the Arvadi, the Tz’mari and the Hamati. Afterwards, the families of the Kena‘ani were dispersed.

The border of the Kena‘ani was from Tzidon, as you go toward G’rar, to ‘Azah; as you go toward S’dom, ‘Amora, Admah and Tzvoyim, to Lesha.

These were the descendants of Ham, according to their families and languages, in their lands and in their nations.

Children were also born to Shem, ancestor of all the descendants of ‘Ever and older brother of Yefet.

The sons of Shem were ‘Elam, Ashur, Arpakhshad, Lud and Aram.