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God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
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Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
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But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
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Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.
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Noah and the Flood
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
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God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
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These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.
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(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
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As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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The Call of Abram
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
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I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
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He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
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From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
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and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
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When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
