Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good.

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

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

Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.

Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.