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To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Now he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed."

Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

"You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.

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

The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

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

"Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.

Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

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

When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

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