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

This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

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

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

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

Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

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.”

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.

And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

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

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!”

But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.