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Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so.

The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.”

Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

And after he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.

And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”

Then the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”

Noah, however, found favor with the Lord.

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

“Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.

You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within eighteen inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.