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And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
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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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God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
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The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
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The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
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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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So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
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The Fall
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
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Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
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Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
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Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
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His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.
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Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
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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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He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
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When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
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Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
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He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”
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You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
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The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
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He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
