Noach 6:9-11:32

Noah found grace in the eyes of Y-hova. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God and had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

The earth was corrupt before El-him and full of violence. So El-him looked and indeed it was corrupt because all flesh had corrupted its way on earth.

El-him says to Noah, 'the end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy both them and the earth. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out. Make the ark 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. You shall make a window and you shall finish it a cubit from above. Set the door of the door in its side and build lower, middle, and upper decks'.

'I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens but I will establish My covenant with you. You will enter the ark with your sons and your wife and your sons' wives. You are to bring two of every living creature into the ark to keep them alive with you, male and female. Two of every kind will come to you to be kept alive. You are also to take of every kind of food that is eaten and it shall be as food for yourselves and for the animals'.

Noah did everything commanded to him by El-him.

Y-hova says to Noah, 'come into the ark because I have seen you are righteous before me'. 

'Of every clean animal you shall take with you seven, seven a male and his female and animals that are unclean, two of each. In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights'.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month when the floodwaters came. They entered the ark, two by two, male and female, as El-him had commanded. 

After seven days, the waters of the flood were upon the earth. he fountains of the great deep burst forth and the windows of the heavens were opened. On that very day they entered the ark, two by two, male and female and Y-hova shut him in.

The waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. The ark moved about on the surface of the waters.The waters kept rising and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits. Every living thing on dry land was destroyed and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained. The waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

El-him remembers Noah and all living things and all the animals with him in the ark. El-him sends a wind and the waters subside. The fountain was stopped and the windows restrained. The waters receded steadily.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark rests on the mountains of Ararat. On the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. 

After forty days, Noah opens the window he had made and sends out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth. Then Noah sends a dove. The dove finds no place to rest her foot and returns. So he reached out his hand and brings the dove back inside.

Noah waits seven more days and again sends out the dove. The dove then returns in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf. Noah waits seven more days and sends the dove out again but this time she does not return.

In Noah's six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up. So Noah removes the covering from the ark and sees the ground is dry.

When the earth is dry, El-him speaks to Noah and tells them to leave the ark and bring out all the living beings so they can multiply. 

Noah builds an altar to Y-hova and takes of every kind of clean animal and clean bird as an offering. Y-hova smells the pleasing aroma and says in His heart, 'never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease'.

El-him blesses Noah and his sons and says they should be fruitful and multiply. 

All the animals would fear them and they are delivered into his hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food, just as the green plants were given, all things were now given. 

However, we cannot eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. There will surely be an accounting for blood of every beast and man. An accounting will be required from the hand of every man for the life of his brother. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image El-him has made Adam.

El-him says to Noah and his sons that He will establish His covenant with Noah and his descendants and with every living creature with him in the ark. He establishes the covenant and says 'never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood. This is the sign of the covenant - my rainbow set in the clouds. I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant'.

Noah and his sons populate the whole earth. Noah then plants a vineyard, gets drunk and he becomes uncovered in his tent. Ham sees the nakedness and goes to tell his two brothers. Shem and Japheth take a garment, place it on their shoulders and walk backwards to cover their father's nakedness. Their faces were away from the nakedness and they did not see. 

When Noah wakes up he realises what gus younger son has done to him. Noah curses Ham's son, Canaan ('a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers'). Noah then says, 'blessed be Y-hova, the G-d of Shem, may Canaan be the servant of Shem. May El-him expand the territory of Japheth, may he dwell in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his servant'. 

Noah lived 350 years after the flood. Noah lived a total of 950 years and he died.

These are the generations of Shem, Ham and Japheth. 

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Dodanites. From these, the maritime peoples separated into territories, according to their languages, families and nations.

The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be mighty on earth, so it is said, 'like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Y-hova'. His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar. From there he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah and Resen.

Canaan is the father of Sidon, the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later, the Canaanite clans are scattered and the borders of Canaan are identified.

The whole world had one language. As people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Then they suggest they would build with baked bricks rather than stone and use tar instead of mortar. They also suggest they would build a tower to make a name for themselves and so as not to be scattered across the earth. 

But Y-hova came down to see the city and tower and said, 'indeed they have become one and have one language, now nothing will be withheld from them, all they devise to do. Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so they will not understand one another's speech'. Y-hova scatters them across the earth and they stop building. This is why it is called Babel, because Y-hova confused their speech and scattered them.

These are the generations of Shem, including Arphaxad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor and Terah. When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. During his father's lifetime, Haran dies.

Abram and Nahor take wives for themselves. Abram's wife was Sarai and Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran. Sarai was barren.

Terah takes Abram, Lot and Sarai from Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan but they settle in Haran. Terah dies in Haran.