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So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years."

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

And Noah entered the ark, along with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, to escape the waters of the flood.

On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons-

But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because water still covered the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

he said, "Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."

May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant."

His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,