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Then he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove yet again from the ark.
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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.
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Then he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, but she returned to him again no more.
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And so it was in the six hundred and first year, in the beginning-month, on the first day of the month, that the waters left firm ground * left firm ground: Or "were fully dried up" (see note to 7:22). upon the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw: here, the face of the ground had dried up.
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Now in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
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God spoke to Noah, saying:
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Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons and your sons' wives with you.
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All living-things that are with you, all flesh—birds, animals, and all crawling things that crawl about on the earth, bring out with you, that they may swarm on earth, that they may bear fruit and become many on the earth.
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So Noah went out, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him,
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all living-things—all crawling things, and all birds, all that crawl about on the earth, according to their clans * clans: Classifications. they went out of the ark.
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Noah built an altar to Y HWH . He took from all pure animals and from all pure birds and offered up * offered up: The Hebrew verb ( 'alo ) implies upward movement. offerings on the altar.
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Y HWH smelled the soothing savor * smelled the soothing savor: Conveyed by the sound in Hebrew, va-yarah et re'ah ha-niho'ah . and Y HWH said in his heart: I will never curse the ground again on humankind's account, since what the human heart forms is evil from its youth; * evil from its youth: That is, evil already begins in what we might call adolescence. But Speiser renders it "from the start." I will never again strike down all living-things, as I have done;
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[never] again, all the days of the earth, shall sowing and harvest, * sowing and harvest …: The solemn promise is expressed in verse. cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night ever cease!
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God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Bear fruit and be many and fill the earth!
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Fear-of-you, dread-of-you shall be upon all the wildlife of the earth and upon all the birds of the heavens, all that crawls on the ground and all the fish of the sea— into your hand they are given.
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All things crawling about that live, for you shall they be, for eating; as with the green plants, I now give you all.
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However: flesh with its life, its blood, you are not to eat!
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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 each one [regarding] his brother, demand-satisfaction for human life.
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Whoever * Whoever …: A poem that plays on the sounds of "humankind" ( adam ) and "blood" ( dam ): Shofekh dam ha-adam/ ba-adam damo yishafekh . [now] sheds human blood, for that human * for that human: Or "by humans." shall his blood be shed, for in God's image he made humankind.
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As for you—bear fruit and be many, swarm on earth and become many on it!
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And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
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As for me—here, I am about to establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you,
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and with all living beings that are with you: birds, 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.
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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!
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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:
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my bow I set in the clouds, that it may serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
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It shall be: when I becloud the earth with clouds and in the clouds the bow is seen,
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never again shall the waters become a Deluge, to bring all flesh to ruin!
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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.
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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.
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Noah's sons who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Yefet; Now Ham is the father of Canaan. * Now Ham is the father of Canaan: See repetition in the story to follow, vv.20–27.
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These three were Noah's sons, and from these were scattered abroad all the earth-folk.
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Noah was the first man of the soil; he planted a vineyard.
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He drank from the wine and became drunk and exposed himself in the middle of his tent.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
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Then Shem and Yefet took a cloak, they put it on the shoulders of the two of them, and they walked backward, and covered their father's nakedness. —Their faces were turned backward, so their father's nakedness they did not see.
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Noah awoke from his wine, and it became known [to him] what his littlest * littlest: Or "youngest," difficult in the light of v.18. son had done to him.
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He said: Cursed be Canaan; servant of servants may he be to his brothers!
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And he said: Blessed be Y HWH , God of Shem, but may Canaan be servant to them! * to them: Others use "to him."
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May God extend/ yaft Yefet; let him dwell in the tents of Shem, but may Canaan be servant to them!
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Noah lived after the Deluge three hundred years and fifty years.
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Now all the days of Noah were nine hundred years and fifty years; then he died.
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Now these are the begettings of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Yefet. Sons were born to them after the Deluge.
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The Sons * Sons: Here, and later, it may mean "descendants." of Yefet are Gomer and Magog, Madai, Yavan and Tuval, Meshekh and Tiras.
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The Sons of Gomer are Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarma.
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The Sons of Yavan are Elisha and Tarshish, Cittites and Dodanites. * Dodanites: Some read "Rodanites," following I Chron. 1:7.
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From these the seacoast nations were divided by their lands, each one according to its own tongue: according to their clans, by their nations.
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Now the Sons of Ham: Cush and Mitzrayim, * Mitzrayim: The biblical name for Egypt (the modern Egyptian name is Misr ). Put and Canaan.
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And the Sons of Cush: Seva and Havila, Savta, Ra'ma, and Savtekha; and the Sons of Ra'ma: Sheva and Dedan.
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Now Cush begot Nimrod; he was the first mighty man * mighty man: Three times here; clearly Nimrod was well known as an ancient hero. on earth.
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He was a mighty hunter before Y HWH ; therefore the saying is: Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Y HWH .
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His kingdom, at the beginning, was Bavel, and Erekh, Accad and Calne, * Calne: Some read cullana , "all of them." in the land of Shin'ar.
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From this land Ashur went forth and built Nineveh—along with the city squares * city squares: Some read this as a name, "Rehovot-Ir." and Calah,
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and Resen between Nineveh and Calah—that is the great city.
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Mitzrayim begot the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehavites, the Naftuhites,
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the Patrusites, and the Casluhites, from where the Philistines come, and the Caftorites. * Casluhites … Caftorites: Some reverse the order; the Bible often speaks of the origins of the Philistines in Caftor (Crete).
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Canaan begot Tzidon his firstborn and Het,
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along with the Yevusite * Yevusite, etc.: Collective names. , the Amorite and the Girgashite,
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the Hivvite, the Arkite and the Sinite,
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the Arvadite, the Tzemarite and the Hamatite. Afterward the Canaanite clans were scattered abroad.
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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.
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These are the Sons of Ham according to their clans, according to their tongues, by their lands, by their nations.
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[Children] were also born to Shem, the father of all the Sons of Ever [and] Yefet's older brother.
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The Sons of Shem: Elam and Ashur, Arpakhshad, Lud, and Aram.
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The Sons of Aram: Utz and Hul, Geter and Mash.
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Arpakhshad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Ever.
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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.
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Now Yoktan begot Almodad and Shelef, Hatzarmavet and Yera,
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Hadoram, Uzal and Dikla,
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Oval, Avimael and Sheva,
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Ofir, Havila, and Yovav—all these are the Sons of Yoktan.
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Now their settlements went from Mesha, then as you come toward Sefar, to the highlands of the east.
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These are the Sons of Shem according to their clans, according to their tongues, by their lands, according to their nations.
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These are the clan-groupings of the Sons of Noah, according to their begettings, by their nations. From these the nations were divided on earth after the Deluge.
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Now all the earth was of one language * language: Lit. "lip." and one set-of-words.
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And it was when they migrated to the east that they found a valley in the land of Shin'ar and settled there.
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They said, each one to his neighbor: Come-now! Let us bake bricks and let us burn them well-burnt! —;For them brick-stone * so … brick-stone … : An explanation of Mesopotamian building techniques for the Hebrew audience. The text plays on sound ( levena … le-aven , hemer … la-homer ). was like building-stone, and raw-bitumen * raw-bitumen: Asphalt, used for making cement. was for them like red-mortar.
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And 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, * make … a name: That is, make sure that we and our works will endure. lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth!
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But Y HWH came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.
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Y HWH 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!
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Come-now! Let us go down and there let us baffle their language, so that no one will understand the language of his neighbor.
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So Y HWH scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they had to stop building the city.
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Therefore its name was called Bavel/Babble, for there Y HWH baffled the language of all the earth-folk, and from there, Y HWH scattered them over the face of all the earth.
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These are the begettings of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and then he begot Arpakhshad, two years after the Deluge. * two years after the Deluge: Possibly a typical popular way of telling time (see Amos 1:1, "two years after the earthquake").
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And Shem lived after he begot Arpakhshad five hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
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Arpakhshad lived thirty-five years, and then he begot Shelah.
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And Arpakhshad lived after he begot Shelah three years and four hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
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Shelah lived thirty years, and then he begot Ever.
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And Shelah lived after he begot Ever three years and four hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
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Ever lived thirty-four years, and then he begot Peleg.
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And Ever lived after he begot Peleg thirty years and four hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
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Peleg lived thirty years, and then he begot Re'u.
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And Peleg lived after he begot Re'u nine years and two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
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Re'u lived thirty-two years, and then he begot Serug.
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And Re'u lived after he begot Serug seven years and two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
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Serug lived thirty years, and then he begot Nahor.
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And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
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Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and then he begot Terah.
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And Nahor lived after he begot Terah nineteen years and a hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
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Terah lived seventy years, and then he begot Avram, * Avram: Trad. English "Abram." Nahor, and Haran.
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