Noah

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”

Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

But Noah found favor in the LORD’s eyes.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.

The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went to Noah into the ship.

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

God spoke to Noah, saying,

Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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