Verse 1

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Verse 2

 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Verse 3

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Verse 4

So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Verse 5

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

Verse 6

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Verse 7

And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

Verse 8

 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

Verse 9

 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

 Verse 10

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

Verse 11

 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

^Verse 12

Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

Verse 13

 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

Verse 14

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

Verse 15

 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

^Verse 16

And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

Verse 17

 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

Verse 18

And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Verse 19

Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

Verse 20

 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Verse 1

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

Verse 2

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

Verse 3

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

Verse 4

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Verse 5

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

Verse 6

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

Verse 7

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

Verse 8

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

Verse 9

Therefore is 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.

Verse 10

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.

Verse 11

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Verse 12

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah.

Verse 13

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Verse 14

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber.

Verse 15

And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Verse 16

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

Verse 17

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

Verse 18

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.

Verse 19

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

Verse 20

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

Verse 21

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

Verse 22

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor.

Verse 23

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

Verse 24

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

Verse 25

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

Verse 26

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

Verse 27

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

Verse 28

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

Verse 29

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.

Verse 30

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Verse 31

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.

Verse 32

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

Verse 1

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

Verse 2

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

Verse 3

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

Verse 4

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

Verse 5

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

Verse 6

And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

Verse 7

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

Verse 8

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Verse 9

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

Verse 10

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

Verse 11

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah.

Verse 12

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

Verse 13

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim.

Verse 14

And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

Verse 15

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth.

Verse 16

And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite.

Verse 17

And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite.

Verse 18

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

Verse 19

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

Verse 20

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

Verse 21

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

Verse 22

The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

Verse 23

And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

Verse 24

And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

Verse 25

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

Verse 26

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah.

Verse 27

And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah.

Verse 28

And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba.

Verse 29

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

Verse 30

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

Verse 31

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

Verse 32

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

Verse 1

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

Verse 2

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, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Verse 3

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

Verse 4

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

Verse 5

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; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

Verse 6

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Verse 7

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Verse 8

And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying.

Verse 9

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you.

Verse 10

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

Verse 11

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

Verse 12

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.

Verse 13

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Verse 14

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.

Verse 15

And 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.

Verse 16

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.

Verse 17

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.

Verse 18

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

Verse 19

These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

Verse 20

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

Verse 21

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

Verse 22

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

Verse 23

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.

Verse 24

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

Verse 25

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

Verse 26

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Verse 27

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

Verse 28

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

Verse 29

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

Chapter 8 of the Book of Genesis details the aftermath of the great flood and God’s interactions with Noah as the waters recede. Here’s a summary of the key events:

1. God Remembers Noah: The chapter begins with God remembering Noah and all the wild animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. God sends a wind over the earth, and the waters begin to recede.
2. The Water Recedes: The ark comes to rest on the mountains of Ararat as the water levels lower over several months. Noah first sends out a raven, which keeps flying until the waters have dried up. He then sends out a dove to see if the water has receded from the surface of the ground. The dove initially finds no place to set its feet and returns. Noah waits another seven days and sends the dove out again, and this time it returns with a freshly plucked olive leaf, showing that water levels have fallen. After another seven days, he sends the dove out again, and it does not return, indicating that the earth is dry.
3. God Instructs Noah to Leave the Ark: God tells Noah to come out of the ark with his family and to release all the animals so that they can multiply on the earth. Noah complies with God’s instructions, leaving the ark with his family and all the animals.
4. Noah Builds an Altar: After exiting the ark, Noah builds an altar to the Lord and offers burnt offerings from some of the clean animals and birds. God is pleased with the offering and makes a promise in His heart never to curse the ground again because of humans, despite their inclination to evil from childhood. God also vows never to destroy all living creatures as He did with the flood.
5. God’s Promise: The chapter concludes with God establishing a covenant, signifying a new beginning for humanity and the earth after the flood. God’s promise marks a pivotal moment, setting the stage for His ongoing relationship with Noah, his descendants, and all living creatures.

This chapter highlights themes of renewal, divine mercy, and the beginnings of a covenant relationship between God and humanity, underscored by the symbolic act of sacrifice and God’s responsive promise.

¹ 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. 

² The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 

³ The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded. 

⁴ The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains. 

⁵ The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

⁶ At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, 

⁷ and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. ⁸ He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, 

⁹ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship. 

¹⁰ He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. 

¹¹ 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. 

¹² He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

¹³ 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 dry. 

¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵ God spoke to Noah, saying, 

¹⁶ “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 

¹⁷ Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.”

¹⁸ Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. 

¹⁹ Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

²⁰ Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 

²¹ Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done. 

²² While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Verse 1

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Verse 2

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Verse 3

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Verse 4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Verse 5

And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

Verse 6

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Verse 7

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Verse 8

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Verse 9

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

Verse 10

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

Verse 11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Verse 12

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Verse 13

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark.

Verse 14

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

Verse 15

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

Verse 16

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

Verse 17

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

Verse 18

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

Verse 19

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Verse 20

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Verse 21

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.

Verse 22

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Verse 23

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

Verse 24

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