So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

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.”

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

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

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.

You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

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

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

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

and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of 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.”

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

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.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, ‘It is I who made Abram rich.’

But look, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

The Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people – he has failed to carry out my requirement.”