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On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

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

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

For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.

"Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God's image God has made humankind."

God said to Noah and his sons,

When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

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

When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor he learned what his youngest son had done to him.

So he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers."

May God enlarge Japheth's territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!"

The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, while his father Terah was still alive.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord .

As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.