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So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.

but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.

So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.

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

But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

So he said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers."

So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;

So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

"Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you."

"Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go."