He named him Noah,<n id="1" /> saying, &#8220;This one will bring us comfort<n id="2" /> from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the <sc>Lordsc> has cursed.&#8221;

the sons of God<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="1" />

And you must take<n id="1" /> for yourself every kind of food<n id="2" /> that is eaten,<n id="3" /> and gather it together.<n id="4" /> It will be food for you and for them.p>

You must take with you seven<n id="1" /> of every kind of clean animal,<n id="2" /> the male and its mate,<n id="3" /> two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

male and female, came into the ark to Noah,<n id="1" /> just as God had commanded him.<n id="2" />

Pairs<n id="1" /> of all creatures<n id="2" /> that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

Those that entered were male and female,<n id="1" /> just as God commanded him. Then the <sc>Lordsc> shut him in.p>

The waters completely inundated<n id="1" /> the earth so that even<n id="2" /> all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

You may eat any moving thing that lives.<n id="1" /> As I gave you<n id="2" /> the green plants, I now give<n id="3" /> you everything.p>

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 &#8211; every living creature of the earth.<n id="1" />

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember<n id="1" /> the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.&#8221; p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Now the <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="1" /> to Abram,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Go out<n id="3" /> from your country, your relatives, and your father&#8217;s householdp> <p class="poetry">to the land that I will show you.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So Abram left,<n id="1" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had told him to do,<n id="2" /> and Lot went with him. (Now<n id="3" /> Abram was 75 years old<n id="4" /> when he departed from Haran.)

As he approached<n id="1" /> Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, &#8220;Look,<n id="2" /> I know that you are a beautiful woman.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">And he journeyed from place to place<n id="1" /> from the Negev as far as Bethel.<n id="2" /> He returned<n id="3" /> to the place where he had pitched his tent<n id="4" /> 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.<n id="1" />

that I will take nothing<n id="1" /> belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, &#8216;It is I<n id="2" /> who made Abram rich.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">But look,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to him: &#8220;This man<n id="2" /> will not be your heir,<n id="3" /> but instead<n id="4" /> a son<n id="5" /> who comes from your own body will be<n id="6" /> your heir.&#8221;<n id="7" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="1" /> to him, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans<n id="3" /> to give you this land to possess.&#8221;