summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.
(Genesis)
Chapter 9
God confirms his covenant through the rainbow.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Let your fear and dread be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon every creeping thing that moveth upon the earth; and let every fish of the sea be delivered into your hand.

Every thing that moveth and liveth, that shall be your meat: as the green herb have I given you all of it.

But eat not the flesh which is yet alive in his blood.

For I will also avenge the blood of your bodies, and will avenge it upon all beasts; and I will avenge the life of man upon every man that is his brother.

Whosoever sheddeth man’s blood, his blood also shall be shed by man: for God hath made man in his own image.

Be fruitful, and multiply, and be active on the earth, and be multiplied.

and God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

Behold, I establish a covenant with you, and with your seed after you.

And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, and of the cattle, and of every beast that is with you upon the earth, of every beast that is gone out of the casket, whatsoever is upon the earth.

And establish my covenant with you, that henceforth all flesh shall no more be destroyed with the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more come a flood to destroy the earth.

And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I have made between me and you, and every living creature with you for ever:

I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall be seen in the clouds.

Then will I remember my covenant between me and you, and every living thing that is in all flesh, that there come no more floods to destroy all flesh.

Therefore shall my bow be in the clouds, that I may look upon it, and remember the everlasting covenant between GOD and every living beast in all flesh that is upon the earth.

God also said the same thing to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and all flesh on earth.

The sons of Noah, which went out of the coffer, are these: Shem, Ham, Japheth. But Ham is the father of Canaan.

These are the three sons of Noah, of whom all the land is occupied.

And Noah began, and became a husbandman, and planted vineyards.

And when he had drunk the wine, he was drunken, and lay uncovered in the tabernacle.

And when Ham the father of Canaan saw his father’s shame, he told his two brethren without.

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and put it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered their father’s shame: and their faces were turned away, that they might not see their father’s shame.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his little son had done unto him, 25. And he said, Cursed be Canaan, and be a servant of all the servants of his brethren.

And he said, Blessed be GOD, the LORD of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.

And God shall spread out Japheth, and make him to dwell in the tents of Shem: and Canaan shall be his servant.

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years, 29. And all his days were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
(Genesis)
Chapter 10
Sex and descendants of the sons of Noah.

This is the generation of the children of Noah: Shem, Ham, Japheth. And they begat children after the flood.

the children of Japheth are these: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Thubal, Mesech and Thiras.

but the children of Gomer are these: Askenas, Riphath and Thogarma.

the children of Javan are these: Elisa, Tharsis, Kittim and Dodanim.

Of these are spread abroad the isles of the heathen in their countries, every one according to his language, kindred, and people.

The children of Ham are these: Chus, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

But the children of Chus are these. Seba, Hevila, Sabtha, Raema and Sabtecha. But the children of Raema are these: Sheba and Dedan.

And Chus begat Nimrod. And he began to be a mighty lord in the earth, 9. And was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore they say, This is a mighty hunter before the LORD, as Nimrod.

And the beginning of his kingdom was at Babylon, and at Erech, and at Akkad, and at Calne,
in the land of Sinear.

Afterward came Assyria out of the land, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Kalah, 12. Resen between Nineveh and Kalah. This is a great city.

Mizraim begat Ludim, Anamim, Leabim, Naphthuhim,

Pathrusim and Kasluhim. From thence come the Philistim and Kaphthorim.

And Canaan begat Zidon his first son, and Heth,

Jebusi, Emori, Girgasi,

Hivi, Arki, Sini,

Arvadi, and Zemari, and Hamathi. Therefore the families of the Canaanites are spread out.

And their border was from Zidon, through Gerar, unto Gaza, unto Sodom, and unto Gomorrha, and unto Adama, and unto Zeboim, and unto Lasa.

These are the children of Ham in their generations, tongues, countries, and people.

And Shem, the greater brother of Japheth, begat children also, who is the father of all the children of Eber.

And these are his children; Elam, Asshur, Arphachad, Lud, and Aram.

And the children of Aram are these: Uz, Hut, Gether, and Mas.

And Arphachad begat Salah, and Salah begat Eber.

And Eber begat two sons. One was called Peleg, because in his days the world was divided: and his brother’s name was Jaketan.

And Jaketan begat Almodad, Saleph, Hazarmaveth, Jarah,

Hadoram, Usal, Dikela,

Obal, Abimael, Seba,

Ophir, Hevila and Jobab. These are all the children of Jaketan.

And their dwelling was from Mesa even unto Sephar, unto the mountain eastward.

These are the children of Shem in their generations, tongues, countries, and people.

Now these are the seed of the children of Noah in their generations and in their people. Of whom are spread abroad the people of the earth after the flood.
(Genesis)
Chapter 11
Tower of Babel. Confusion of languages. Sexes of Sem.

And all the world had one tongue and language.

And they went eastward, and found a plain land in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there, 3. And said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, and let us burn them. And they took brick for stone, and clay for lime.

And they said: Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, that we may make us a name: for we may be scattered abroad.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men were building.

And the LORD said, Behold, there is one people and one language among them all, and they have begun to do this thing; they will not cease from all that they have undertaken to do.

Come, let us go down, and confound their language there, that none may hear another’s speech.

So the LORD scattered them abroad, and they ceased from building the city.

Therefore her name is called Babylon, because there the LORD had confounded the language of all the earth, and scattered them abroad in all countries.

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood;

And after that he lived five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Arphachad was thirty and five years old, and begat Salah;

And after that he lived four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Salah was thirty years old and begat boars;

And after that he lived four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Eber was thirty-four years old and begat Peleg;

And after that he lived four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

Peleg was thirty years old and begat Regu;

And after that he lived two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

Regu was thirty-two years old and witnessed Serug;

And after that he lived two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

Serug was thirty years old and begat Nahor;

And after that he lived two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Nahor was twenty and nine years old, and begat Tharah;

And afterward he lived an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

Tharah was seventy years old, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

These are the families of Tarah: Tharah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. But Haran begat Lot.

And Haran died before Tarah his father in his fatherland at Ur in Chaldea.

And Abram and Nahor took wives. And Abram’s wife’s name was Sarai; and Nahor’s wife’s name was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, which was the father of Milcah and of Jiskah.

But Sarai was barren, and had no child.

And Tarah took Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran’s son, and Sarai his wife, his son Abram’s wife, and brought them from Ur of Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan: and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

And Tarah was two hundred and five years old, and died in Haran.
(Genesis)
Chapter 12
Abram is called and goes to Egypt.

And the LORD said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land which I will shew thee.

And I will make thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thee a great name, and thou shalt be a blessing.

I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all