January 3
Genesis 8:1 — 10:32
January 3
Genesis 8:1 —
10:32
8 After
that God remembered Noah and every wild beast and every domestic animal that was
with him in the ark, and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the
waters began to subside.
2 And
the springs of the watery deep and the floodgates of the heavens became stopped
up, and so the downpour from the heavens was restrained.
3 And
the waters began receding from off the earth, progressively receding; and at the
end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lacking.
4 And
in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest
on the mountains of Ararat.
5 And
the waters kept on progressively lessening until the tenth month. In the tenth
month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 So it
occurred that at the end of forty days Noah proceeded to open the window of the
ark that he had made.
7 After
that he sent out a raven, and it continued flying outdoors, going and returning,
until the waters dried off the earth.
8 Later
he sent out from him a dove to see whether the waters had abated from the
surface of the ground.
9 And
the dove did not find any resting-place for the sole of its foot, and so it
returned to him into the ark because the waters were yet upon the surface of the
whole earth. At that he put his hand out and took it and brought it to himself
inside the ark.
10 And
he went on waiting still another seven days, and once again he sent out the dove
from the ark.
11 Later
on the dove came to him about the time of evening and, look! there was an olive
leaf freshly plucked in its bill, and so Noah got to know that the waters had
abated from the earth.
12 And
he went on waiting still another seven days. Then he sent out the dove, but it
did not come back again to him anymore.
13 Now
in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the
month, it came about that the waters had drained from off the earth; and Noah
proceeded to remove the covering of the ark and to look, and here the surface of
the ground had drained dry.
14 And
in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried
off.
15 God
now spoke to Noah, saying:
16 “Go
out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
17 Every
living creature that is with you of every sort of flesh, among the flying
creatures and among the beasts and among all the moving animals that move upon
the earth, bring out with you, as they must swarm in the earth and be fruitful
and become many upon the earth.”
18 At
that Noah went out, and also his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
19 Every
living creature, every moving animal and every flying creature, everything that
moves on the earth, according to their families they went out of the ark.
20 And
Noah began to build an altar to Jehovah and to take some of all the clean beasts
and of all the clean flying creatures and to offer burnt offerings upon the
altar.
21 And
Jehovah began to smell a restful odor, and so Jehovah said in his heart: “Never
again shall I call down evil upon the ground on man’s account, because the
inclination of the heart of man is bad from his youth up; and never again shall
I deal every living thing a blow just as I have done.
22 For
all the days the earth continues, seed sowing and harvest, and cold and heat,
and summer and winter, and day and night, will never cease.”
9
And God went
on to bless Noah and his sons and to say to them: “Be fruitful and become many
and fill the earth.
2 And a
fear of YOU and a terror of YOU will continue upon every living creature of the
earth and upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that goes
moving on the ground, and upon all the fishes of the sea. Into YOUR hand they
are now given.
3 Every
moving animal that is alive may serve as food for YOU. As in the case of green
vegetation, I do give it all to YOU.
4 Only
flesh with its soul—its blood—YOU must not eat.
5 And,
besides that, YOUR blood of YOUR souls shall I ask back. From the hand of every
living creature shall I ask it back; and from the hand of man, from the hand of
each one who is his brother, shall I ask back the soul of man.
6 Anyone
shedding man’s blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God’s image he
made man.
7 And
as for YOU men, be fruitful and become many, make the earth swarm with YOU and
become many in it.”
8 And
God went on to say to Noah and to his sons with him:
9 “And
as for me, here I am establishing my covenant with YOU men and with YOUR
offspring after YOU,
10 and
with every living soul that is with YOU, among fowls, among beasts and among all
living creatures of the earth with YOU, from all those going out of the ark to
every living creature of the earth.
11 Yes,
I do establish my covenant with YOU: No more will all flesh be cut off by waters
of a deluge, and no more will there occur a deluge to bring the earth to ruin.”
12 And
God added: “This is the sign of the covenant that I am giving between me and YOU
and every living soul that is with YOU, for the generations to time indefinite.
13 My
rainbow I do give in the cloud, and it must serve as a sign of the covenant
between me and the earth.
14 And
it shall occur that when I bring a cloud over the earth, then the rainbow will
certainly appear in the cloud.
15 And I
shall certainly remember my covenant which is between me and YOU and every
living soul among all flesh; and no more will the waters become a deluge to
bring all flesh to ruin.
16 And
the rainbow must occur in the cloud, and I shall certainly see it to remember
the covenant to time indefinite between God and every living soul among all
flesh that is upon the earth.”
17 And
God repeated to Noah: “This is the sign of the covenant that I do establish
between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”
18 And
Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. Later Ham
was the father of Canaan.
19 These
three were Noah’s sons, and from these was all the earth’s population spread
abroad.
20 Now
Noah started off as a farmer and proceeded to plant a vineyard.
21 And
he began drinking of the wine and became intoxicated, and so he uncovered
himself in the midst of his tent.
22 Later
Ham the father of Canaan saw his father’s nakedness and went telling it to his
two brothers outside.
23 At
that Shem and Japheth took a mantle and put it upon both their shoulders and
walked in backwards. Thus they covered their father’s nakedness, while their
faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24 Finally
Noah awoke from his wine and got to know what his youngest son had done to him.
25 At
this he said:
“Cursed be Canaan.
Let him become the lowest slave to his brothers.”
26 And
he added:
“Blessed be Jehovah, Shem’s God,
And let Canaan become a slave to him.
27 Let
God grant ample space to Japheth,
And let him reside in the tents of Shem.
Let Canaan become a slave to him also.”
28 And
Noah continued to live three hundred and fifty years after the deluge.
29 So
all the days of Noah amounted to nine hundred and fifty years and he died.
10 And
this is the history of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Now
sons began to be born to them after the deluge.
2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
3 And
the sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz
and Riphath and Togarmah.
4 And
the sons of Javan were Elishah
and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.
5 From
these the population of the isles of the nations was spread about in their
lands, each according to its tongue, according to their families, by their
nations.
6 And the sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7 And
the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah
and Sabtah and Raamah
and Sabteca.
And the sons of Raamah
were Sheba and Dedan.
8 And Cush became father to Nimrod. He made the start in becoming a mighty one in the earth. 9 He displayed himself a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah. That is why there is a saying: “Just like Nimrod a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah.” 10 And the beginning of his kingdom came to be Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria and set himself to building Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah: this is the great city.
13 And
Mizraim
became father to Ludim and Anamim
and Lehabim
and Naphtuhim
14 and
Pathrusim
and Casluhim
(from among whom the Philistines
went forth) and Caphtorim.
15 And
Canaan became father to Sidon his firstborn and Heth
16 and
the Jebusite
and the Amorite
and the Girgashite
17 and
the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite
18 and
the Arvadite
and the Zemarite
and the Hamathite;
and afterward the families of the Canaanite
were scattered.
19 So
the boundary of the Canaanite
came to be from Sidon as far as Gerar, near Gaza, as far as Sodom and Gomorrah
and Admah and Zeboiim,
near Lasha.
20 These
were the sons of Ham according to their families, according to their tongues, in
their lands, by their nations.
21 And to Shem, the forefather of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the oldest, there was also progeny born. 22 The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
23 And
the sons of Aram were Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
24 And
Arpachshad
became father to Shelah, and Shelah became father to Eber.
25 And
to Eber there were two sons born. The name of the one was Peleg, because in
his days the earth was divided; and the name of his brother was Joktan.
26 And
Joktan became father to 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 And
their place of dwelling came to extend from Mesha as far as Sephar, the
mountainous region of the East.
31 These
were the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their tongues,
in their lands, according to their nations.
32 These
were the families of the sons of Noah according to their family descents, by
their nations, and from these the nations were spread about in the earth after
the deluge.