Beresheet, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} The LORD said to Noach, "Come with all of your household into
the [1>]teivah[<1], for I have seen your righteousness before me in
this generation. {7:2} You shall take seven pairs of every clean
animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not
clean, take two, the male and his female. {7:3} Also of the birds of
the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the
surface of all the earth. {7:4} In seven days, I will cause it to rain
on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that
I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
{7:5} Noach did everything that the LORD commanded him.
{7:6} Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came
on the earth. {7:7} Noach went into the [2>]teivah[<2] with his sons,
his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
{7:8} Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything
that creeps on the ground {7:9} went by pairs to Noach into the
[3>]teivah[<3], male and female, as God commanded Noach. {7:10} It
happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on
the earth. {7:11} In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the
second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all
the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows
were opened. {7:12} The rain was on the earth forty days and forty
nights.
{7:13} In the same day Noach, and Shem, Cham, and Yefet, the sons of
Noach, and Noach's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them,
entered into the [4>]teivah[<4]; {7:14} they, and every animal after
its kind, all the cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind,
every bird of every sort. {7:15} They went to Noach into the
[5>]teivah[<5], by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
{7:16} Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God
commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. {7:17} The flood was forty
days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the
[6>]teivah[<6], and it was lifted up above the earth. {7:18} The
waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the
[7>]teivah[<7] floated on the surface of the waters. {7:19} The waters
prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were
under the whole sky were covered. {7:20} The waters prevailed fifteen
cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. {7:21} All flesh died
that moved on the earth, including birds, cattle, animals, every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. {7:22} All in
whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was
on the dry land, died. {7:23} Every living thing was destroyed that
was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping
things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only
Noach was left, and those who were with him in the [8>]teivah[<8].
{7:24} The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
{8:1} God remembered Noach, all the animals, and all the cattle that
were with him in the [1>]teivah[<1]; and God made a wind to pass over
the earth. The waters subsided. {8:2} The deep's fountains and the
sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was
restrained. {8:3} The waters receded from off the earth continually.
After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased. {8:4}
The teivah rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, on Ararat's mountains. {8:5} The waters receded continually
until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the
month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
{8:6} It happened at the end of forty days, that Noach opened the
window of the [2>]teivah[<2] which he had made, {8:7} and he sent
forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up
from off the earth. {8:8} He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the
waters were abated from off the surface of the ground, {8:9} but the
dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the
[3>]teivah[<3]; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth.
He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the
[4>]teivah[<4]. {8:10} He stayed yet another seven days; and again he
sent forth the dove out of the [5>]teivah[<5]. {8:11} The dove came
back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf
plucked off. So Noach knew that the waters were abated from off the
earth. {8:12} He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the
dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
{8:13} It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first
month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off
the earth. Noach removed the covering of the [6>]teivah[<6], and
looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried. {8:14} In the
second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was
dry.
{8:15} God spoke to Noach, saying, {8:16} "Go forth from the
[7>]teivah[<7], you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons'
wives with you. {8:17} Bring forth with you every living thing that is
with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the
earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
{8:18} Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons'
wives with him. {8:19} Every animal, every creeping thing, and every
bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went forth
out of the [8>]teivah[<8].
{8:20} Noach built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean
animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the
altar. {8:21} The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his
heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake,
because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither
will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done. {8:22}
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
{9:1} God blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, "Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. {9:2} The fear of you
and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on
every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all
the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand. {9:3} Every moving
thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given
everything to you. {9:4} But flesh with the life of it, the blood of
it, you shall not eat. {9:5} I will surely require your blood of your
lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of
man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life
of man. {9:6} Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be
shed, for in the image of God made he man. {9:7} Be fruitful, and
multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
{9:8} God spoke to Noach, and to his sons with him, saying, {9:9}
"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
offspring after you, {9:10} and with every living creature that is
with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with
you. Of all that go out of the [1>]teivah[<1], even every animal of
the earth. {9:11} I will establish my covenant with you; neither will
all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will
there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." {9:12} God said,
"This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and
every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
{9:13} I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a
covenant between me and the earth. {9:14} It will happen, when I bring
a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
{9:15} and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you
and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more
become a flood to destroy all flesh. {9:16} The rainbow will be in the
cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the
earth." {9:17} God said to Noach, "This is the token of the covenant
which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the
earth."
{9:18} The sons of Noach who went forth from the [2>]teivah[<2] were
Shem, Cham, and Yefet. Cham is the father of Kana`an. {9:19} These
three were the sons of Noach, and from these, the whole earth was
populated.
{9:20} Noach began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. {9:21} He
drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
{9:22} Cham, the father of Kana`an, saw the nakedness of his father,
and told his two brothers outside. {9:23} Shem and Yefet took a
garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and
covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and
they didn't see their father's nakedness. {9:24} Noach awoke from his
wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. {9:25} He said,
"Cursed be Kana`an;
A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."
{9:26} He said,
"Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;
Let Kana`an be his servant.
{9:27} God enlarge Yefet,
Let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
Let Kana`an be his servant."
{9:28} Noach lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. {9:29}
All the days of Noach were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:1} ark
[2] {7:7} ark
[3] {7:9} ark
[4] {7:13} ark
[5] {7:15} ark
[6] {7:17} ark
[7] {7:18} ark
[8] {7:23} ark
[1] {8:1} ark
[2] {8:6} ark
[3] {8:9} ark
[4] {8:9} ark
[5] {8:10} ark
[6] {8:13} ark
[7] {8:16} ark
[8] {8:19} ark
[1] {9:10} ark
[2] {9:18} ark
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