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And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth across the face of the vaulted dome of heaven.

So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kind, and every bird with wings according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate.

And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave to me from the tree and I ate."

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with the help of Yahweh."

and Abel also brought an offering from the choicest firstlings of his flock. And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,

but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell.

And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more, for God took him.

And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

And the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth was filled with violence because of them. Now, look, I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark with rooms, then you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside.

You must make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above. And as for the door of the ark, you must put it in its side. You must make it with a lower, second, and a third deck.

And I will establish my covenant with you, and you must go into the ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and the wives of your sons with you.

And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,