Genesis 8:2-11:32 And the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

NHEB⁽ⁱ⁾ ² And the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. ³ And the waters receded steadily from the land. And after the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased significantly. ⁴ And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the vessel came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ The waters receded continually to the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible. ⁶ It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the vessel which he had made, ⁷ and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters had dried up from the earth. ⁸ Then he sent forth a dove from it, to see if the waters had abated from the surface of the ground, ⁹ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the vessel; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the vessel. ¹⁰ And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the vessel. ¹¹ The dove came back to him at evening, and, look, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had abated from the earth. ¹² He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more. ¹³ And it happened in the six hundred first year of Noah's life, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters had dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the vessel and looked out. And look, the surface of the ground was dry. ¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. ¹⁵ God spoke to Noah, saying, ¹⁶ "Go out of the vessel, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁷ Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, of flying creatures, and animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." ¹⁸ And Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him. ¹⁹ And every wild animal, and every tame animal, and every flying creature, and every creature that crawls on the earth, after their families, went out of the vessel. ²⁰ Noah built an altar to God, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean flying creature, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹ And God smelled the pleasing aroma, and God said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, nor will I again destroy every living thing, as I have done. ²² While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." ⁹ ¹ God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth. ² And the fear of you and the dread of you will be on every wild animal of the earth, and on every tame animal of the earth, and on every flying creature of the sky, and on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your power they are given. ³ Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave the green plants, I now give you everything. ⁴ But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat. ⁵ And surely I will require a reckoning for your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it, and from humans. From every human being I will require it for the life of his fellow human being. ⁶ Whoever takes a human life, by a human will his life be taken, for God made humankind in his own image. ⁷ And as for you, be fruitful and multiply, and increase abundantly on the earth, and subdue it." ⁸ God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹ "And as for me, look, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you: the flying creatures, and the tame animals, and every wild animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the vessel. ¹¹ I will establish my covenant with you; and all flesh will never again be cut off by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth." ¹² God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ¹³ I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵ and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between me and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." ¹⁷ God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." ¹⁸ The sons of Noah who came out of the vessel were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These were the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. ²⁰ Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. ²¹ He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. ²³ Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, and they did not see their father's nakedness. ²⁴ Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵ He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers." ²⁶ He said, "Blessed be the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant. ²⁷ May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant." ²⁸ Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. ²⁹ All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, then he died. ¹⁰ ¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. ² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. ³ The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴ The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. ⁵ From these, the coastlands of the nations separated into their territories, every one according to its language, according to their families, in their nations. ⁶ The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. ⁷ The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸ Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before God. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before God." ¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹ Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth Ir, and Calah, ¹² and Resen, between Nineveh and the great city of Calah. ¹³ And Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, ¹⁴ And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, which the Philistines descended from, and Caphtorim. ¹⁵ And Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, ¹⁶ and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, ¹⁷ and the Hivites, and the Arkites, and the Sinites, ¹⁸ and the Arvadites, and the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. ¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha. ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations. ²¹ To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. ²² The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram. ²³ The sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. ²⁴ And Arpachshad became the father of Kenan. And Kenan became the father of Shelah. And Shelah became the father of Eber. ²⁵ To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brotherʼs name was Joktan. ²⁶ And Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, ²⁷ and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, ²⁸ and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, ²⁹ and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰ Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. ³¹ These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations. ³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations, and from these the nations branched out on the earth after the flood. ¹¹ ¹ The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. ² It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there. ³ And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. ⁴ They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." ⁵ The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was building. ⁶ The LORD said, "Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. So now nothing which they plan to do will be too difficult for them. ⁷ Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." ⁸ Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased building the city. ⁹ Therefore its name was called Babel, because there God confused the language of all the earth. From there he scattered them over the face of the whole earth. ¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood. ¹¹ Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters. ¹² And Arpachshad lived one hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan. ¹³ And Arpachshad lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Kenan, and fathered sons and daughters. And Kenan lived one hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah. And Kenan lived three hundred and thirty years after he had become the father of Shelah, and fathered sons and daughters. ¹⁴ Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber: ¹⁵ and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters. ¹⁶ Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. ¹⁷ Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters. ¹⁸ Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu. ¹⁹ Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters. ²⁰ Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. ²¹ Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters. ²² Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. ²³ Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters. ²⁴ Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah. ²⁵ Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters. ²⁶ Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. ³⁰ And Sarai was barren. She had no child. ³¹ And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abramʼs wife, and with them he set out from Ur Kasdim to go into the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. ³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.