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And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.

And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:

I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together, for their property was great; and they could not dwell together.

And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.

And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:

for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

Arise, walk through the land according to the length of it and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.

And they took Lot and his property, Abram's brother's son, and departed. For he dwelt in Sodom.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the souls, and take the property for thyself.

And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.