Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.

Mahalalel lived 830 years after he became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.

Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”

Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

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

This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.