GENESIS

2 when the earth was wild and waste,

darkness over the face of Ocean,

rushing-spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters—

3 God said: Let there be light! And there was light.

4 God saw the light: that it was good.

God separated the light from the darkness.

5 God called the light: Day! and the darkness he called: Night!

There was setting, there was dawning: one day.

6 God said:

Let there be a dome amid the waters,

and let it separate waters from waters!

7 God made the dome

and separated the waters that were below the dome from the waters that were above the dome.

It was so.

8 God called the dome: Heaven!

There was setting, there was dawning: second day.

9 God said:

Let the waters under the heavens be gathered to one place,

and let the dry land be seen!

It was so.

10 God called the dry land: Earth! and the gathering of the waters he called: Seas!

God saw that it was good.

11 God said:

Let the earth sprout forth with sprouting-growth,

plants that seed forth seeds, fruit trees that yield fruit, after their kind, (and) in which is their seed, upon the earth!

It was so.

12 The earth brought forth sprouting-growth,

plants that seed forth seeds, after their kind,

trees that yield fruit, in which is their seed, after their kind.

God saw that it was good.

13 There was setting, there was dawning: third day.

14 God said:

Let there be lights in the dome of the heavens, to separate the day from the night,

that they may be for signs—for set-times, for days and years,

15 and let them be for lights in the dome of the heavens, to provide light upon the earth!

It was so.

16 God made the two great lights,

the greater light for ruling the day and the smaller light for ruling the night,

and the stars.

17 God placed them in the dome of the heavens

18 to provide light upon the earth, to rule the day and the night, to separate the light from the darkness.

God saw that it was good.

19 There was setting, there was dawning: fourth day.

20 God said:

Let the waters swarm with a swarm of living beings, and let fowl fly above the earth, across the dome of the heavens!

21 God created the great sea-serpents

and all living beings that crawl about, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind,

and all winged fowl after their kind.

God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying:

Bear fruit and be many and fill the waters in the seas,

and let the fowl be many on earth!

23 There was setting, there was dawning: fifth day.

24 God said:

Let the earth bring forth living beings after their kind,

herd-animals, crawling things, and the wildlife of the earth after their kind!

It was so.

25 God made the wildlife of the earth after their kind, and the herd-animals after their kind, and all crawling things of the soil after their kind.

God saw that it was good.

26 God said:

Let us make humankind, in our image, according to our likeness!

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the heavens, animals, all the earth, and all crawling things that crawl about upon the earth!

27 So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God did he create it,
male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them,

God said to them:

Bear fruit and be many and fill the earth

and subdue it!

Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the heavens, and all living things that crawl about upon the earth!

29 God said:

Here, I give you

all plants that bear seeds that are upon the face of all the earth,

and all trees in which there is tree fruit that bears seeds,

for you shall they be, for eating;

30 and also for all the living things of the earth, for all the fowl of the heavens, for all that crawls about upon the earth in which there is living being—

all green plants for eating.

It was so.

31 Now God saw all that he had made,

and here: it was exceedingly good!

There was setting, there was dawning: the sixth day.

2 God had finished, on the seventh day, his work that he had made,

and then he ceased, on the seventh day, from all his work that he had made.

3 God gave the seventh day his blessing, and he hallowed it,

for on it he ceased from all his work, that by creating, God had made.

4 These are the begettings of the heavens and the earth: their being created.

At the time of Yhwh, God’s making of earth and heaven,

5 no bush of the field was yet on earth,

no plant of the field had yet sprung up,

for Yhwh, God, had not made it rain upon earth,

and there was no human/adam to till the soil/adama—

6 but a surge would well up from the ground and water all the face of the soil;

7 and Yhwh, God, formed the human, of dust from the soil,

he blew into his nostrils the breath of life

and the human became a living being.

8 Yhwh, God, planted a garden in Eden/Land-of-Pleasure, in the east,

and there he placed the human whom he had formed.

9 Yhwh, God, caused to spring up from the soil

every type of tree, desirable to look at and good to eat,

and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden

and the Tree of the Knowing of Good and Evil.

10 Now a river goes out from Eden, to water the garden,

and from there it divides and becomes four stream-heads.

11 The name of the first one is Pishon/Spreader—that is the one that circles through all the land of Havila, where gold is;

12 the gold of that land is good, there too are bdellium and the
precious-stone carnelian.

13 The name of the second river is Gihon/Gusher—that is the one that circles through all the land of Cush.

14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel/Tigris—that is the one that goes to the east of Assyria.

And the fourth river—that is Perat/Euphrates.

15 Yhwh, God, took the human and set him in the garden of Eden,

to work it and to watch it.

16 Yhwh, God, commanded concerning the human, saying:

From every (other) tree of the garden you may eat, yes, eat,

17 but from the Tree of the Knowing of Good and Evil—

you are not to eat from it,

for on the day that you eat from it, you must die, yes, die.

18 Now Yhwh, God, said:

It is not good for the human to be alone,

I will make him a helper corresponding to him.

19 So Yhwh, God, formed from the soil every living-thing of the field and every fowl of the heavens

and brought each to the human, to see what he would call it;

and whatever the human called it as a living being, that became its name.

20 The human called out names for every herd-animal and for the fowl of the heavens and for every living-thing of the field,

but for the human, there could be found no helper
corresponding to him.

21 So Yhwh, God, caused a deep slumber to fall upon the human, so that he slept,

he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

22 Yhwh, God, built the rib that he had taken from the human into a woman

and brought her to the human.

23 The human said:

This-time, she-is-it!
Bone from my bones,
flesh from my flesh!
She shall be called Woman/Isha,
for from Man/Ish she was taken!

24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife,

and they become one flesh.

It said to the woman:

Even though God said: You are not to eat from any of the
trees in the garden…!

2 The woman said to the snake:

From the fruit of the (other) trees in the garden we may eat,

3 but from the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden,

God has said:

You are not to eat from it and you are not to touch it,

lest you die.

4 The snake said to the woman:

Die, you will not die!

5 Rather, God knows

that on the day that you eat from it, your eyes will be opened

and you will become like gods, knowing good and evil.

6 The woman saw

that the tree was good for eating

and that it was a delight to the eyes,

and the tree was desirable to contemplate.

She took from its fruit and ate

and gave also to her husband beside her,

and he ate.

7 The eyes of the two of them were opened

and they knew then

that they were nude.

They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

8 Now they heard the sound of Yhwh, God, (who was) walking about in the garden at the breezy-time of the day.

And the human and his wife hid themselves from the face of Yhwh, God, amid the trees of the garden.

9 Yhwh, God, called to the human and said to him:

Where are you?

10 He said:

I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid, because I am nude,

and so I hid myself.

11 He said:

Who told you that you are nude?

From the tree about which I command you not to eat,

have you eaten?

12 The human said:

The woman whom you gave to be beside me, she gave me from the tree,

and so I ate.

13 Yhwh, God, said to the woman:

What is this that you have done?

The woman said:

The snake enticed me,

and so I ate.

14 Yhwh, God, said to the snake:

Because you have done this,

damned be you from all the animals and from all the living-things of the field;

upon your belly shall you walk and dust shall you eat, all the days of your life.

15 I put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed:

they will bruise you on the head, you will bruise them in the heel.

16 To the woman he said:

I will multiply, multiply your pain (from) your pregnancy,

with pains shall you bear children.

Toward your husband will be your lust, yet he will rule over you.

17 To Adam he said:

Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife

and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying:

You are not to eat from it!

Damned be the soil on your account,

with painstaking-labor shall you eat from it, all the days of your life.

18 Thorn and sting-shrub let it spring up for you,

when you (seek to) eat the plants of the field!

19 By the sweat of your brow shall you eat bread,

until you return to the soil,

for from it you were taken.

For you are dust, and to dust shall you return.

20 The human called his wife’s name: Havva/Life-giver!

For she became the mother of all the living.

21 Now Yhwh, God, made Adam and his wife coats of skins and clothed them.

22 Yhwh, God, said:

Here, the human has become like one of us, in knowing good and evil.

So now, lest he send forth his hand

and take also from the Tree of Life

and eat

and live throughout the ages…!

23 So Yhwh, God, sent him away from the garden of Eden, to work the soil from which he had been taken.

24 He drove the human out

and caused to dwell, eastward of the garden of Eden,

the winged-sphinxes and the flashing, ever-turning sword

to watch over the way to the Tree of Life.
 

she became pregnant and bore Kayin.

She said:

Kaniti/I-have-gotten

a man, as has Yhwh!

2 She continued bearing—his brother, Hevel.

Now Hevel became a shepherd of flocks, and Kayin became a worker of the soil.

3 It was, after the passing of days

that Kayin brought, from the fruit of the soil, a gift to Yhwh,

4 and as for Hevel, he too brought—from the firstborn of his flock, from their fat-parts.

Yhwh had regard for Hevel and his gift,

5 for Kayin and his gift he had no regard.

Kayin became exceedingly upset and his face fell.

6 Yhwh said to Kayin:

Why are you so upset? Why has your face fallen?

7 Is it not thus:

If you intend good, bear-it-aloft,

but if you do not intend good,

at the entrance is sin, a crouching-demon,

toward you his lust—

but you can rule over him.

8 Kayin said to Hevel his brother…

But then it was, when they were out in the field

that Kayin rose up against Hevel his brother

and he killed him.

9 Yhwh said to Kayin:

Where is Hevel your brother?

He said:

I do not know. Am I the watcher of my brother?

10 Now he said:

What have you done!

A sound—your brother’s blood cries out to me from the soil!

11 And now,

damned be you from the soil,

which opened up its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

12 When you wish to work the soil

it will not henceforth give its strength to you;

wavering and wandering must you be on earth!

13 Kayin said to Yhwh:

My iniquity is too great to be borne!

14 Here, you drive me away today from the face of the soil,

and from your face must I conceal myself,

I must be wavering and wandering on earth—

now it will be

that whoever comes upon me will kill me!

15 Yhwh said to him:

No, therefore,

whoever kills Kayin, sevenfold will it be avenged!

So Yhwh set a sign for Kayin,

so that whoever came upon him would not strike him down.

16 Kayin went out from the face of Yhwh

and settled in the land of Nod/Wandering, east of Eden.

17 Kayin knew his wife;

she became pregnant and bore Hanokh.

Now he became the builder of a city

and called the city’s name according to his son’s name,
Hanokh.

18 To Hanokh was born Irad,

Irad begot Mehuyael,

Mehuyael begot Metushael,

Metushael begot Lemekh.

19 Lemekh took himself two wives,

the name of the (first) one was Ada, the name of the second was Tzilla.

20 Ada bore Yaval,

he was the father of those who sit amidst tent and herd.

21 His brother’s name was Yuval,

he was the father of all those who play the lyre and the pipe.

22 And Tzilla bore as well—Tuval-Kayin,

burnisher of every blade of bronze and iron.

Tuval-Kayin’s sister was Naama.

23 Lemekh said to his wives:

Ada and Tzilla, hearken to my voice,
wives of Lemekh, give ear to my saying:
Aye—a man I kill for wounding me,
a lad for only bruising me!

24 Aye—if sevenfold vengeance be for Kayin,
then for Lemekh, seventy-sevenfold!

25 Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son.

She called his name: Shet/Granted-One!

meaning: God has granted me another seed in place of Hevel,

for Kayin killed him.

26 To Shet as well a son was born,

he called his name: Enosh/Mortal.

At that time they first called out the name of Yhwh.

At the time of God’s creating humankind,
in the likeness of God did he then make it,

2 male and female he created them
and gave blessing to them
and called their name: Humankind!
on the day of their being created.

3 When Adam had lived thirty and a hundred years,

he begot one in his likeness, according to his image,

and called his name Shet.

4 Adam’s days after he begot Shet were eight hundred years, and he begot (other) sons and daughters.

5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred years
and thirty years,

then he died.

6 When Shet had lived five years and a hundred years, he begot Enosh,

7 and Shet lived after he begot Enosh seven years and eight
hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

8 And all the days of Shet were twelve years and nine hundred years, then he died.

9 When Enosh had lived ninety years, he begot Kenan,

10 and Enosh lived after he begot Kenan fifteen years and eight
hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

11 And all the days of Enosh were five years and nine hundred years,

then he died.

12 When Kenan had lived seventy years, he begot Mehalalel,

13 and Kenan lived after he begot Mehalalel forty years and eight hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

14 And all the days of Kenan were ten years and nine hundred years,

then he died.

15 When Mehalalel had lived five years and sixty years, he begot Yered.

16 and Mehalalel lived after he begot Yered thirty years and eight hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

17 And all the days of Mehalalel were ninety-five years and eight hundred years,

then he died.

18 When Yered had lived sixty-two years and a hundred years, he begot Hanokh,

19 and Yered lived after he begot Hanokh eight hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

20 And all the days of Yered were sixty-two years and nine hundred years,

then he died.

21 When Hanokh had lived sixty-five years, he begot Metushelah,

22 and Hanokh walked in accord with God after he begot Metushelah three hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

23 And all the days of Hanokh were sixty-five years and three
hundred years.

24 Now Hanokh walked in accord with God,

then he was no more,

for God had taken him.

25 When Metushelah had lived eighty-seven years and a hundred years, he begot Lemekh,

26 and Metushelah lived after he begot Lemekh eighty-two years and seven hundred years, and begot (other) sons and
daughters.

27 And all the days of Metushelah were sixty-nine years and nine hundred years,

then he died.

28 When Lemekh had lived eighty-two years and a hundred years, he begot a son.

29 He called his name: Noah!

saying:

Zeh yenahamenu/May this-one comfort-our-sorrow

from our toil, from the pains of our hands

coming from the soil, which Yhwh has damned.

30 And Lemekh lived after he begot Noah ninety-five years and five hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

31 And all the days of Lemekh were seventy-seven years and seven hundred years,

then he died.

32 When Noah was five hundred years old, Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Yefet.

and women were born to them,

2 that the divine beings saw how beautiful the human women were,

so they took themselves wives, whomever they chose.

3 Yhwh said:

My rushing-spirit shall not remain in humankind for ages, for they too are flesh;

let their days be then a hundred and twenty years!

4 The giants were on earth in those days,

and afterward as well,

when the divine beings came in to the human women

and they bore them (children)—

they were the heroes who were of former ages, the men of name.

5 Now Yhwh saw

that great was humankind’s evildoing on earth

and every form of their heart’s planning was only evil all the day.

6 Then Yhwh was sorry

that he had made humankind on earth,

and it pained his heart.

7 Yhwh said:

I will blot out humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the soil,

from man to beast, to crawling thing and to the fowl of the
heavens,

for I am sorry that I made them.

8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yhwh.

9 These are the begettings of Noah.

Noah was a righteous, wholehearted man in his generation,

in accord with God did Noah walk.

10 Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Yefet.

11 Now the earth had gone to ruin before God, the earth was filled with wrongdoing.

12 God saw the earth, and here: it had gone to ruin,

for all flesh had ruined its way upon the earth.

13 God said to Noah:

An end of all flesh has come before me,

for the earth is filled with wrongdoing through them;

here, I am about to bring ruin upon them, along with the earth.

14 Make yourself an Ark of gofer wood,

with reeds make the Ark,

and cover it within and without with a covering-of-pitch.

15 And this is how you are to make it:

Three hundred cubits the length of the Ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.

16 A skylight you are to make for the Ark, finishing it to a cubit upward.

The entrance of the Ark you are to set in its side;

with a lower, a second, and a third deck you are to make it.

17 As for me,

here, I am about to bring on the Deluge, water upon the earth,

to bring ruin upon all flesh that has rush of life in it, from under the heavens,

all that is on earth will perish.

18 But I will establish my covenant with you:

you are to come into the Ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you,

19 and from all living-things, from all flesh, you are to bring two from all into the Ark, to remain alive with you.

They are to be a male and a female (each),

20 from fowl after their kind, from herd-animals after their kind, from all crawling things of the soil after their kind,

two from all are to come to you, to remain alive.

21 As for you,

take for yourself from all edible-things that are eaten and gather it to you,

it shall be for you and for them, for eating.

22 Noah did it,

according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
 

Come, you and all your household, into the Ark!

For you I have seen as righteous before me in this generation.

2 From all (ritually) pure animals you are to take seven and seven (each), a male and his mate,

and from all the animals that are not pure, two (each), a male and his mate,

3 and also from the fowl of the heavens, seven and seven (each), male and female,

to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 For in yet seven days

I will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights

and will blot out all existing-things that I have made, from the face of the soil.

5 Noah did it, according to all that Yhwh had commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the Deluge occurred, water upon the earth;

7 and Noah came, his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him, into the Ark before the waters of the Deluge.

8 From the pure animals and from the animals that are not pure and from the fowl and all that crawls about on the soil—

9 two and two (each) came to Noah, into the Ark, male and female,

as God had commanded Noah.

10 After the seven days it was

that the waters of the Deluge were upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second
New-Moon, on the seventeenth day after the New-Moon,

on that day:

then burst all the well-springs of the great Ocean
and the sluices of the heavens opened up.

12 The torrent was upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 On that very day came Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Yefet, Noah’s sons, and Noah’s wife and his three sons’ wives with them, into the Ark,

14 they and all wildlife after their kind, all herd-animals after their kind, all crawling things that crawl upon the earth after their kind, all fowl after their kind, all chirping-things, all winged-things;

15 they came to Noah, into the Ark, two and two (each) from all flesh in which there is the rush of life.

16 And those that came, male and female from all flesh they came,

as God had commanded him.

Yhwh closed (the door) upon him.

17 The Deluge was forty days upon the earth.

The waters increased and lifted the Ark, so that it was raised above the earth;

18 the waters swelled and increased exceedingly upon the earth, so that the Ark floated upon the face of the waters.

19 When the waters had swelled exceedingly, yes, exceedingly over the earth, all high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward swelled the waters, thus the mountains were covered.

21 Then expired all flesh that crawls about upon the earth—fowl, herd-animals, wildlife, and all swarming things that swarm upon the earth,

and all humans;

22 all that had the breath of the rush of life in their nostrils,

all that were on firm-ground, died.

23 He blotted out all existing-things that were on the face of the soil,

from man to beast, to crawling thing and to fowl of the heavens,

they were blotted out from the earth.

Noah alone remained, and those who were with him in the Ark.

The waters swelled upon the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
 

and God brought a rushing-wind across the earth, so that the
waters abated.

2 The well-springs of Ocean and the sluices of the heavens were dammed up,

and the torrent from the heavens was held back.

3 The waters returned from upon the earth, continually advancing and returning,

and the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

4 And the Ark came to rest in the seventh New-Moon, on the
seventeenth day after the New-Moon, upon the mountains
of Ararat.

5 Now the waters continued to advance and diminish until the tenth New-Moon.

On the tenth, on the first day of the New-Moon, the tops of the mountains could be seen.

6 At the end of forty days it was: Noah opened the window of

7 the Ark that he had made,/ and sent out a raven;
it went off, going off and returning, until the waters were dried up from upon the earth.

8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see whether the waters had subsided from the face of the soil.

9 But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot,

so she returned to him into the Ark,

for there was water upon the face of all the earth.

He sent forth his hand and took her, and brought her to him into the Ark.

10 Then he waited yet another seven days

and sent out the dove yet again from the Ark.

11 The dove came back to him at eventime,

and here—a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak!

So Noah knew

that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.

12 Then he waited yet another seven days

and sent out the dove,

but she returned to him again no more.

13 And so it was in the six hundred and first year, in the beginning-month, on the first day of the New-Moon,

that the waters left firm ground upon the earth.

Noah removed the covering of the Ark and saw:

here, the face of the soil was firm.

14 Now in the second New-Moon, on the twenty-seventh day after the New-Moon, the earth was (completely) dry.

15 God spoke to Noah, saying:

16 Go out of the Ark, you and your wife, your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

17 All living-things that are with you, all flesh—fowl, animals, and all crawling things that crawl about upon the earth,

have them go out with you,

that they may swarm on earth, that they may bear fruit and
become many upon the earth.

18 So Noah went out, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him,

19 all living-things—all crawling things, and all fowl, all that crawl about upon the earth,

according to their clans they went out of the Ark.

20 Noah built a slaughter-site to Yhwh.

He took from all pure animals and from all pure fowl

and offered up offerings upon the slaughter-site.

21 Now Yhwh smelled the soothing savor

and Yhwh said in his heart:

I will never curse the soil again on humankind’s account, since what the human heart forms is evil from its youth;

I will never again strike down all living-things, as I have done;

22 (never) again, all the days of the earth, shall

sowing and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
ever cease!

Bear fruit and be many and fill the earth!

2 Fear-of-you, dread-of-you shall be upon all the wildlife of the earth and upon all the fowl of the heavens,

all that crawls on the soil and all the fish of the sea—

into your hand they are given.

3 All things crawling about that live, for you shall they be, for eating,

as with the green plants, I now give you all.

4 However: flesh with its life, its blood, you are not to eat!

5 However, too: for your blood, of your own lives, I will demand-
satisfaction—

from all wild-animals I will demand it,

and from humankind, from every man regarding his brother,

demand-satisfaction for human life.

6 Whoever now sheds human blood,
for that human shall his blood be shed,
for in God’s image he made humankind.

7 As for you—bear fruit and be many, swarm on earth and become many on it!

8 God said to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:

9 As for me—here, I am about to establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you,

10 and with all living beings that are with you: fowl, herd-animals, and all the wildlife of the earth with you;

all those going out of the Ark, of all the living-things of the earth.

11 I will establish my covenant with you:

All flesh shall never be cut off again by waters of the Deluge,
never again shall there be Deluge, to bring the earth to ruin!

12 And God said:

This is the sign of the covenant which I set

between me and you and all living beings that are with you, for ageless generations:

13 My bow I set in the clouds,

so that it may serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

14 It shall be:

when I becloud the earth with clouds

and in the clouds the bow is seen,

15 I will call to mind my covenant

that is between me and you and all living beings—all flesh: never again shall the waters become a Deluge, to bring all flesh to ruin!

16 When the bow is in the clouds,

I will look at it,

to call to mind the age-old covenant

between God and all living beings—

all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 God said to Noah:

This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

18 Noah’s sons who went out of the Ark were Shem, Ham, and Yefet.

Now Ham is the father of Canaan.

19 These three were Noah’s sons, and from these were scattered abroad all the earth-folk.

20 Now Noah was the first man of the soil; he planted a vineyard.

21 When he drank from the wine, he became drunk and exposed himself in the middle of his tent.

22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

23 Then Shem and Yefet took a cloak, they put it on the shoulders of the two of them,

and walked backward, to cover their father’s nakedness.

—Their faces were turned backward, their father’s nakedness they did not see.

24 Now when Noah awoke from his wine, it became known (to him) what his littlest son had done to him.

25 He said:

Damned be Canaan,

servant of servants may he be to his brothers!

26 And he said:

Blessed be Yhwh, God of Shem,

but may Canaan be servant to them!

27 May God extend/yaft

Yefet,

let him dwell in the tents of Shem,

but may Canaan be servant to them!

28 And Noah lived after the Deluge three hundred years and fifty years.

29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred years and fifty years,

then he died.

Chapter 10

Shem, Ham, and Yefet.

Sons were born to them after the Deluge.

2 The Sons of Yefet are Gomer and Magog, Madai, Yavan and Tuval, Meshekh and Tiras.

3 The Sons of Gomer are Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarma.

4 The Sons of Yavan are Elisha and Tarshish, Cittites and Dodanites.

5 From these the seacoast nations were divided by their lands,

each one after its own tongue:

according to their clans, by their nations.

6 The Sons of Ham are Cush and Mitzrayim, Put and Canaan.

7 The Sons of Cush are Seva and Havila, Savta, Ra’ma, and Savtekha;

the Sons of Ra’ma—Sheva and Dedan.

8 Cush begot Nimrod; he was the first mighty man on earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before Yhwh,

therefore the saying is:

Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yhwh.

10 His kingdom, at the beginning, was Bavel, and Erekh, Accad and

11 Calne, in the land of Shinar;

from this land Ashur went forth and built Nineveh—along with

12 the city squares and Calah,/and Resen between Nineveh and Calah—that is the great city.

13 Mitzrayim begot the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehavites,

14 the Naftuhites,/the Patrusites, and the Casluhites, from where the Philistines come, and the Caftorites.

15/16 Canaan begot Tzidon his firstborn and Het,/along with the

17 Yevusite, the Amorite and the Girgashite,/ the Hivvite,

18 the Arkite and the Sinite,/the Arvadite, the Tzemarite and the Hamatite.

Afterward the Canaanite clans were scattered abroad.

19 And the Canaanite territory went from Tzidon, then as you come toward Gerar, as far as Gaza, then as you come toward Sedom and Amora, Adma, and Tzevoyim, as far as Lasha.

20 These are the Sons of Ham after their clans, after their tongues, by their lands, by their nations.

21 (Children) were also born to Shem,

the father of all the Sons of Ever (and) Yefet’s older brother.

22 The Sons of Shem are Elam and Ashur, Arpakhshad, Lud, and Aram.

23 The Sons of Aram are Utz and Hul, Geter and Mash.

24 Arpakhshad begot Shelah, Shelah begot Ever.

25 Two sons were born to Ever:

the name of the first one was Peleg/Splitting, for in his days the earth-folk were split up,

and his brother’s name was Yoktan.

26/27 Yoktan begot Almodad and Shelef, Hatzarmavet and Yera,/

28/29 Hadoram, Uzal and Dikla,/ Oval, Avimael and Sheva,/ Ofir, Havila, and Yovav—all these are the Sons of Yoktan.

30 Now their settlements went from Mesha, then as you come
toward Sefar, to the mountain-country of the east.

31 These are the Sons of Shem after their clans, after their tongues, by their lands, after their nations.

32 These are the clan-groupings of the Sons of Noah, after their begettings, by their nations.

From these the nations were divided on earth after the Deluge.

Chapter 11

2 And it was when they migrated to the east that they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

3 They said, each man to his neighbor:

Come-now! Let us bake bricks and let us burn them well-burnt!

So for them brick-stone was like building-stone, and raw-bitumen was for them like red-mortar.

4 Now they said:

Come-now! Let us build ourselves a city and a tower, its top in the heavens,

and let us make ourselves a name,

lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth!

5 But Yhwh came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.

6 Yhwh said:

Here, (they are) one people with one language for them all, and this is merely the first of their doings—

now there will be no barrier for them in all that they scheme to do!

7 Come-now! Let us go down and there let us baffle their
language,

so that no man will understand the language of his neighbor.

8 So Yhwh scattered them from there over the face of all the earth,

and they had to stop building the city.

9 Therefore its name was called Bavel/Babble,

for there Yhwh baffled the language of all the earth-folk,

and from there, Yhwh scattered them over the face of all the earth.

10 These are the begettings of Shem:

Shem was a hundred years old, then he begot Arpakhshad, two years after the Deluge,

11 and Shem lived after he begot Arpakhshad five hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

12 Arpakhshad lived thirty-five years, then he begot Shelah,

13 and Arpakhshad lived after he begot Shelah three years and four hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

14 Shelah lived thirty years, then he begot Ever,

15 and Shelah lived after he begot Ever three years and four hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

16 When Ever had lived thirty-four years, he begot Peleg,

17 and Ever lived after he begot Peleg thirty years and four hundred years, and begot other (sons) and daughters.

18 When Peleg had lived thirty years, he begot Re’u,

19 and Peleg lived after he begot Re’u nine years and two hundred years, and begot other (sons) and daughters.

20 When Re’u had lived thirty-two years, he begot Serug,

21 and Re’u lived after he begot Serug seven years and two hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

22 When Serug had lived thirty years, he begot Nahor,

23 and Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

24 When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he begot Terah,

25 and Nahor lived after he begot Terah nineteen years and a
hundred years, and begot (other) sons and daughters.

26 When Terah had lived seventy years, he begot Avram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Now these are the begettings of Terah:

Terah begot Avram, Nahor, and Haran;

and Haran begot Lot.

28 Haran died in the living-presence of Terah his father in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

29 Avram and Nahor took themselves wives;

the name of Avram’s wife was Sarai,

the name of Nahor’s wife was Milca—daughter of Haran, father of Milca and father of Yisca.

30 Now Sarai was barren, she had no child.

31 Terah took Avram his son and Lot son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Avram his son,

they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go to the land of Canaan.

But when they had come as far as Harran, they settled there.

32 And the days of Terah were five years and two hundred years,

then Terah died,

in Harran.

Genesis 1 - 11  from the Shocken Bible, the Five Books of Moses.