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He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.

Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all human beings.

And the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them.

Then Adam had intercourse with his wife, and she became pregnant. She bore a son and said, "By the Lord 's help I have gotten a son." So she named him Cain.

After some time Cain brought some of his harvest and gave it as an offering to the Lord .

Then Abel brought the first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave the best parts of it as an offering. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,

but he rejected Cain and his offering. Cain became furious, and he scowled in anger.

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out in the fields." When they were out in the fields, Cain turned on his brother and killed him.

Cain and his wife had a son and named him Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son.

His brother was Jubal, the ancestor of all musicians who play the harp and the flute.

Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to me: I have killed a young man because he struck me.

Adam and his wife had another son. She said, "God has given me a son to replace Abel, whom Cain killed." So she named him Seth.

He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.

This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God,

He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.

On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.

So Noah went out of the boat with his wife, his sons, and their wives.

God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.