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And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more smite all living flesh as I have done.

And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it.

For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.

He that sheds man’s blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

And God spoke to Noe, and to his sons with him, saying,

And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house.

And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.

And Noe recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger son had done to him.

And he said, Cursed be the servant Chanaan, a slave shall he be to his brethren.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shall be his bond-servant.

May God make room for Japheth, and let him dwell in the habitations of Sem, and let Chanaan be his servant.

From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Orech, and Archad, and Chalanne, in the land of Senaar.

And Chanaan begot Sidon his fist-born, and the Chettite,

And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one, Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother Jektan.

And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.

Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.

And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.

And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he dwelt there.

And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan.