God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.

God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

The Lord regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

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

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

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

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

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

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

When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. (That is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”)

He retrieved all the stolen property. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of the people.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)

I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Then they asked him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied, “There, in the tent.”

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),