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God said, "Let the eretz put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the eretz," and it was so.

The eretz brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the eretz in the open expanse of sky."

God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

The man knew Havah his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Kayin, and said, "I have gotten a man with the LORD's help."

Hanokh walked with God after he became the father of Metushelach three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Hanokh walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

The LORD said, "My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with God.

The eretz was corrupt before God, and the eretz was filled with violence.

God said to Noach, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the eretz is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the eretz.

Make a teivah of gofer wood. You shall make rooms in the teivah, and shall seal it inside and outside with kofer.

You shall make a roof in the teivah, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the teivah in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the teivah, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the teivah, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them.