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Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.

It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;

It returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down.

Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth."

So Noah went out of the boat with his wife, his sons, and their wives.

God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.

Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

"You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth."

Then Shem and Japheth took a robe and held it behind them on their shoulders. They walked backward into the tent and covered their father, keeping their faces turned away so as not to see him naked.

They said to one another, "Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard." So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together.

They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."

Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."

So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.

I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while.

When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.

Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.

The king gave orders to his men, so they took Abram and put him out of the country, together with his wife and everything he owned.

And so there was not enough pasture land for the two of them to stay together, because they had too many animals.

So quarrels broke out between the men who took care of Abram's animals and those who took care of Lot's animals. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land.)