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Then God said, "Let plants grow from the earth, plants that have seeds. Let fruit trees grow on the earth that bring their kind of fruit with their own seeds." And it was so.

Plants grew out of the earth, giving their own kind of seeds. Trees grew with their fruit, and their kind of seeds. And God saw that it was good.

So the Lord God put the man to sleep as if he were dead. And while he was sleeping, He took one of the bones from his side and closed up the place with flesh.

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

So He drove the man out. And He placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden with a sword of fire that turned every way. They kept watch over the path to the tree of life.

The man lay with his wife Eve and she was going to have a child and she gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have given birth to a man with the help of the Lord."

Cain lay with his wife and she was going to have a child and she gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city and gave it the name of Enoch, the name of his son.

And Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and gave him the name Seth. For she said, "God has let me have another son in the place of Abel, for Cain killed him."

Enoch walked with God 300 years after the birth of Methuselah. He had other sons and daughters.

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

Very large men were on the earth in those days, and later also, when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, who gave birth to their children. These were the powerful men of long ago, men of much strength.

This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was right with God. He was without blame in his time. Noah walked with God.

Now the earth was sinful in the eyes of God. The earth was filled with people hurting each other.

Make a large boat of gopher wood for yourself. Build rooms in the boat. And cover it inside and out with tar.

Make a window for the boat, that goes down a cubit from the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. And make it with first, second, and third floors.

But I will make My agreement with you. You will go into the large boat, you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

You are to bring into the large boat two of every kind of living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They will be male and female.

Two of all the kinds of birds, and animals, and every thing that moves on the ground are to be with you to keep them alive.

And take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it. It will be food for you and for them."

Take with you seven of every clean animal of each sex, and one of each sex of the animals that are unclean.