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but he did not accept Cain and his gift. So Cain became very angry and felt rejected.

The Lord asked Cain, "Why are you angry? Why do you look so unhappy?

So Cain went away from the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

So Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

So the Lord said, "I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry I have made them."

Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.

The water rose so much that even the highest mountains under the sky were covered by it.

So everything on dry land that had the breath of life in it died.

The water that covered the earth began to go down. After one hundred fifty days it had gone down so much that the boat touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

The water continued to go down so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains could be seen.

The dove could not find a place to land because water still covered the earth, so it came back to the boat. Noah reached out his hand and took the bird and brought it back into the boat.

Bring every animal out of the boat with you—the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. Let them have many young ones so that they might grow in number."