And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

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.”

Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

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.”

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.

The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

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.

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.