Study Desk

And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, "For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed."

And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."

And the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive [fn] with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

Then the Lord [fn] saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;

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

On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, 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, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.

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

And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Genesis 1:28">[fn]

"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:

Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.

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

So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

Then he said: "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren."