Study Desk

And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."

To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

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

and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground which the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands."

Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years."

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

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

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate;

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

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

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

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

And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature 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 the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.

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

and he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and 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,