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When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years."

So the LORD was sorry that He had made mankind 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 generation. Noah walked with God.

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

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

On this very same day Noah, Shem, 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 its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it 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.

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

"I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it. And from every person, from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.

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

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

He drank some 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."

He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant.

"May God enlarge Japheth, And may he live in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant."