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¹Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

²The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you.

³Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.

⁴But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

⁵I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it. And from every person, from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.

⁶Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made mankind.

⁷As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹“Now behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth.

¹¹I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹²God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations;

¹³I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

¹⁴It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

¹⁵and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

¹⁷And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

¹⁸Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

²⁰Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

²¹He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

²²Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

²³But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

²⁵So he said, “Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.”

²⁶He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant.

²⁷May God enlarge Japheth, And may he live in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant.”

²⁸Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

²⁹So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

¹Now these are the records of the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

²The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

³The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁴The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

⁵From these the people of the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

⁶The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁷The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

⁸Now Cush fathered Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.

⁹He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

¹¹From that land he went to Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

¹²and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

¹³Mizraim fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

¹⁴Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

¹⁵Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,

¹⁶the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

¹⁷the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

¹⁸the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

¹⁹The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon going toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; and going toward Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

²⁰These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.

²¹Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

²²The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

²³The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

²⁴Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.

²⁵Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

²⁶Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

²⁷Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

²⁸Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

²⁹Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all of these were the sons of Joktan.

³⁰Now their settlement extended from Mesha going toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.

³¹These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

³²These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

¹Now all the earth used the same language and the same words.

²And it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

³Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

⁴And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.”

⁵Now the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the men had built.

⁶And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be impossible for them.

⁷Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

⁸So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city.

⁹Therefore it was named Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood;

¹¹and Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹²Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and fathered Shelah;

¹³and Arpachshad lived 403 years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁴Shelah lived thirty years, and fathered Eber;

¹⁵and Shelah lived 403 years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁶Eber lived thirty-four years, and fathered Peleg;

¹⁷and Eber lived 430 years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

¹⁸Peleg lived thirty years, and fathered Reu;

¹⁹and Peleg lived 209 years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁰Reu lived thirty-two years, and fathered Serug;

²¹and Reu lived 207 years after he fathered Serug, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²²Serug lived thirty years, and fathered Nahor;

²³and Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁴Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and fathered Terah;

²⁵and Nahor lived 119 years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

²⁶Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

²⁸Haran died during the lifetime of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

³⁰Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.

³¹Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and settled there.

³²The days of Terah were 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.

¹Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you;

²And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing;

³And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

⁴So Abram went away as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

⁵Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the people which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.

⁶Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.

⁷And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

⁸Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

⁹Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

¹⁰Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.

¹¹It came about, when he was approaching Egypt, that he said to his wife Sarai, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;

¹²and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

¹³Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you, and that I may live on account of you.”

¹⁴Now it came about, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

¹⁵Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

¹⁶Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and he gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

¹⁷But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

¹⁸Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

¹⁹Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for myself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go!”

²⁰And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.