Study Desk

Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him."

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

And the Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

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

but the dove found no place to set its foot, and it returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark with him.

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

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

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

Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person's blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind.

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

He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent.

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

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

he said, "Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers."

He also said, "Blessed by the Lord my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.

May God make space for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.

Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,