Genesis 4 - 7 — Legacy Standard Bible

Cain and Abel

4Now the man ¹knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and ²gave birth to ³Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a ⁴man with the help of Yahweh.” ²And again, she ¹gave birth to his brother Abel. ^aAbel was ^ba keeper of flocks, but Cain was a cultivator of the ground. ³So it happened ¹in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh of the fruit of the ground. ⁴^aAbel, on his part, also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And ^bYahweh had regard for Abel and for his offering; ⁵but ^afor Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So ^bCain became very angry, and his countenance fell. ⁶Then Yahweh said to Cain, “^aWhy are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? ⁷“^aIf you do well, ¹will not your countenance be lifted up? ^bAnd if you do not do well, sin is lying at the door; and its desire is for you, ^cbut you must rule over it.” ⁸Then Cain ¹spoke to Abel his brother; and it happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and ^akilled him.

⁹Then Yahweh said to Cain, “^aWhere is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” ¹⁰And He said, “What have you done? ^aThe voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to Me from the ground. ¹¹“And now, ^acursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. ¹²“^aWhen you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; ^byou will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.” ¹³And Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is too great to bear! ¹⁴“Behold, You have ^adriven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and ^bI will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will be that ^cwhoever finds me will kill me.” ¹⁵So Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him ^asevenfold.” And Yahweh ¹^,^bappointed a sign for Cain, so that no one who found him would strike him.

¹⁶Then Cain went out from the presence ^aof Yahweh and ¹settled in the land of ²Nod, east of Eden.

¹⁷Then Cain ¹knew his wife, and she conceived and ²gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son. ¹⁸Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad ¹was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael ²was the father of Methushael, and Methushael ³was the father of Lamech. ¹⁹And Lamech took for himself ^atwo wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah. ²⁰And Adah ¹gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and have livestock. ²¹And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. ²²As for Zillah, she also ¹gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

²³And Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah,Hear my voice,You wives of Lamech,Give ear to my word,^aFor I ¹have killed a man for ²striking me;And a boy for wounding me;

²⁴If Cain is avenged ^asevenfold,Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

²⁵^aThen Adam ¹knew his wife again; and she ²gave birth to a son and named him ³Seth, for she said, “God ⁴has set for me another ⁵seed in place of Abel, ^bfor Cain killed him.” ²⁶And to Seth, to him also, ^aa son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began ^bto call ¹upon the name of Yahweh.

The Generations of Adam

5This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him ^ain the likeness of God. ²He created them ^amale and female, and He ^bblessed them and named them ¹Man in the day when they were created.

³When Adam had lived 130 years, he ¹became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. ⁴Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were 800 years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. ⁵So all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

⁶And Seth lived 105 years and became the father of Enosh. ⁷Then Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters. ⁸So all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.

⁹And Enosh lived 90 years and became the father of Kenan. ¹⁰Then Enosh lived 815 years after he became the father of Kenan, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. ¹¹So all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.

¹²And Kenan lived 70 years and became the father of Mahalalel. ¹³Then Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. ¹⁴So all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.

¹⁵And Mahalalel lived 65 years and became the father of Jared. ¹⁶Then Mahalalel lived 830 years after he became the father of Jared, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. ¹⁷So all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.

¹⁸And Jared lived 162 years and became the father of Enoch. ¹⁹Then Jared lived 800 years after he became the father of Enoch, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. ²⁰So all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.

²¹And Enoch lived 65 years and became the father of Methuselah. ²²Then Enoch ^awalked with God 300 years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. ²³So all the days of Enoch were 365 years. ²⁴^aEnoch walked with God; and he was not, for God ^btook him.

²⁵And Methuselah lived 187 years and became the father of Lamech. ²⁶Then Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. ²⁷So all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

²⁸And Lamech lived 182 years and became the father of a son. ²⁹Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will ¹give us rest from our work and from the pain of our hands arising from ^athe ground which Yahweh has cursed.” ³⁰Then Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. ³¹So all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.

³²And Noah was ^a500 years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The Nephilim and the Daughters of Men

6Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, ²that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. ³Then Yahweh said, “^aMy Spirit shall not ¹strive with man forever ²^,^bbecause he indeed is flesh; ³nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.” ⁴The ^aNephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵Then Yahweh saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that ^aevery intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶^aAnd Yahweh regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was ^bgrieved ¹in His heart. ⁷And Yahweh said, “^aI will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ¹sky; for ^bI regret that I have made them.” ⁸But ^aNoah ^bfound favor in the eyes of Yahweh.

The Generations of Noah

⁹These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a ^arighteous man, ¹^,^bblameless among those in his generations; Noah ^cwalked with God. ¹⁰And Noah ¹became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹Now the earth was ^acorrupt before God, and the earth was ^bfilled with violence. ¹²And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for ^aall flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

¹³Then God said to Noah, “^aThe end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. ¹⁴“Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and you shall ¹cover it inside and out with pitch. ¹⁵“Now this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark ¹300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. ¹⁶“You shall make a ¹window for the ark, and complete it to one ²cubit from ³the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. ¹⁷“As for Me, behold ^aI am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall breathe its last. ¹⁸“But I will establish ^aMy covenant with you; and ^byou shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁹“^aAnd of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. ²⁰“^aOf the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. ²¹“As for you, take for yourself some of all ^afood which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.” ²²^aThus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

Noah and the Flood

7Then Yahweh said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be ^arighteous before Me in this generation. ²“You shall take ¹with you of every ^aclean animal ²by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female; ³also of the birds of the ¹sky, ²by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴“For after ^aseven more days, I will send rain on the earth ^bforty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land ^cevery living thing that I have made.” ⁵^aAnd Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him.

⁶Now Noah was ^asix hundred years old when the flood of water ¹came upon the earth. ⁷Then ^aNoah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. ⁸^aOf clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, ⁹¹by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰Now it happened after ^athe seven days, that the water of the flood ¹came upon the earth. ¹¹In the ^asix hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all ^bthe fountains of the great deep split open, and the ¹floodgates of the sky were opened. ¹²^aThen the rain ¹came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³On this very day ^aNoah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, ¹⁴they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after ¹their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every ²fowl, every winged creature. ¹⁵So they came to Noah into the ark, ^aby twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. ¹⁶And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed it behind him.

¹⁷Then the flood ¹came upon the earth for ^aforty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. ¹⁸And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the ¹surface of the water. ¹⁹And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. ²⁰The water prevailed ¹fifteen cubits higher, ^aand the mountains were covered. ²¹^aAnd all flesh that ¹moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind. ²²All ^ain whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died. ²³Thus He blotted out ¹every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ²sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only ^aNoah remained, and those that were with him in the ark. ²⁴^aAnd the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.