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Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat of it. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."

Yahweh said, "My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant.

He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.