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Then Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for injuring me.

Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for she said "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."

And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he began to call on the name of Yahweh.

And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth.

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall relieve us from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.

And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind was great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was always only evil.

And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,

But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

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

And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said to himself, "Never again will I curse the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. Nor will I ever again destroy all life as I have done.

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

And your lifeblood I will require; from every animal I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of each man to his brother I will require the life of humankind.

"As for the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image.

And God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent.

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