Study Desk

Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Pay attention to my words, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me!

Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, "God has appointed me another child in place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Then the LORD said, "I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, and animals as well, and crawling things, and the birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them."

And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for humanity had corrupted its way upon the earth.

Then God said to Noah, "The end of humanity has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of people; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

"Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

"You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and put the door of the ark on the side; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

"As for you, take for yourself some of every food that is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and them."

Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.

"For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."

The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself.

The LORD smelled the soothing aroma, and the LORD said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

"Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.

"Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made mankind.

"As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."