8:6 At the end of forty days, ¹  Noah opened the window he had made in the ark ²  8:7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying ³  back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

8:8 Then Noah ⁴  sent out a dove ⁵  to see if the waters had receded ⁶  from the surface of the ground. 8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered ⁷  the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah ⁸  in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, ⁹  and brought it back into the ark. ¹⁰  8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. 8:11 When ¹¹  the dove returned to him in the evening, there was ¹²  a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 8:12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, ¹³  but it did not return to him this time. ¹⁴ 

8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, ¹⁵  in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that ¹⁶  the surface of the ground was dry.

9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 9:2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. ¹  Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. ²  9:3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. ³  As I gave you ⁴  the green plants, I now give ⁵  you everything.

9:4 But ⁶  you must not eat meat ⁷  with its life (that is, ⁸  its blood) in it. ⁹  9:5 For your lifeblood ¹⁰  I will surely exact punishment, ¹¹  from ¹²  every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person ¹³  I will exact punishment for the life of the individual ¹⁴  since the man was his relative. ¹⁵ 

9:6 “Whoever sheds human blood, ¹⁶ 

by other humans ¹⁷ 

must his blood be shed;

for in God’s image ¹⁸ 

God ¹⁹  has made humankind.”

9:7 But as for you, ²⁰  be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

9:8 God said to Noah and his sons, ²¹  9:9 “Look! I now confirm ²²  my covenant with you and your descendants after you ²³  9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of the earth. ²⁴  9:11 I confirm ²⁵  my covenant with you: Never again will all living things ²⁶  be wiped out ²⁷  by the waters of a flood; ²⁸  never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

9:12 And God said, “This is the guarantee ²⁹  of the covenant I am making ³⁰  with you ³¹  and every living creature with you, a covenant ³²  for all subsequent ³³  generations: 9:13 I will place ³⁴  my rainbow ³⁵  in the clouds, and it will become ³⁶  a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth. 9:14 Whenever ³⁷  I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 9:15 then I will remember my covenant with you ³⁸  and with all living creatures of all kinds. ³⁹  Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy ⁴⁰  all living things. ⁴¹  9:16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember ⁴²  the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

9:17 So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things ⁴³  that are on the earth.”

9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.) ⁴⁴  9:19 These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. ⁴⁵ 

9:20 Noah, a man of the soil, ⁴⁶  began to plant a vineyard. ⁴⁷ 

10:21 And sons were also born ¹⁴  to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), ¹⁵  the father of all the sons of Eber.

10:22 The sons of Shem were Elam, ¹⁶  Asshur, ¹⁷  Arphaxad, ¹⁸  Lud, ¹⁹  and Aram. ²⁰  10:23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. ²¹  10:24 Arphaxad was the father of ²²  Shelah, ²³  and Shelah was the father of Eber. ²⁴  10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, ²⁵  and his brother’s name was Joktan. 10:26 Joktan was the father of ²⁶  Almodad, ²⁷  Sheleph, ²⁸  Hazarmaveth, ²⁹  Jerah, ³⁰  10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, ³¹  Diklah, ³²  10:28 Obal, ³³  Abimael, ³⁴  Sheba, ³⁵  10:29 Ophir, ³⁶  Havilah, ³⁷  and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. ¹  He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot. ²