Study Desk

So Cain went away from the [manifested] presence of the LORD, and lived in the land of Nod [wandering in exile], east of Eden.

So Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years in all, and he died.

So Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

So Enosh lived nine hundred and five years, and he died.

So Kenan lived nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

So Mahalalel lived eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.

So Jared lived nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

So Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

So the LORD said, "I will destroy (annihilate) mankind whom I have created from the surface of the earth—not only man, but the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air—because it [deeply] grieves Me [to see mankind's sin] and I regret that I have made them."

So Noah did this; according to all that God commanded him, that is what he did.

So Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

So they went into the ark with Noah, two by two of all living beings in which there was the breath and spirit of life.

The waters prevailed so greatly and were so mighty and overwhelming on the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.

But the dove found no place on which to rest the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were [still] on the face of the entire earth. So he reached out his hand and took the dove, and brought her into the ark.

The dove came back to him in the evening, and there, in her beak, was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water level had subsided from the earth.

So Noah went out, and his wife and his sons and their wives with him [after being in the ark one year and ten days].

So Shem and Japheth took a robe and put it on both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

So he said, "Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham]; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers."