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

You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

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

The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

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.”

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)

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

and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

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.

So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.

At that time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations

The Lord took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.