(1) This is the record of Adam’s line.—When God created humankind, it was made in the likeness of God; (2) male and female were they created. And when they were created, [God] blessed them and called them Humankind. — (3) When Adam had lived 130 years, he begot a son in his likeness after his image, and he named him Seth. (4) After the birth of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and begot sons and daughters. (5) All the days that Adam lived came to 930 years; then he died.

(6) When Seth had lived 105 years, he begot Enosh. (7) After the birth of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and begot sons and daughters. (8) All the days of Seth came to 912 years; then he died.

(9) When Enosh had lived 90 years, he begot Kenan. (10) After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and begot sons and daughters. (11) All the days of Enosh came to 905 years; then he died. (12) When Kenan had lived 70 years, he begot Mahalalel. (13) After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and begot sons and daughters. (14) All the days of Kenan came to 910 years; then he died.

(15) When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he begot Jared. (16) After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and begot sons and daughters. (17) All the days of Mahalalel came to 895 years; then he died. (18) When Jared had lived 162 years, he begot Enoch. (19) After the birth of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and begot sons and daughters. (20) All the days of Jared came to 962 years; then he died.

(21) When Enoch had lived 65 years, he begot Methuselah. (22) After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years; and he begot sons and daughters. (23) All the days of Enoch came to 365 years. (24) Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, for God took him.

(25) When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he begot Lamech. (26) After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and begot sons and daughters. (27) All the days of Methuselah came to 969 years; then he died. (28) When Lamech had lived 182 years, he begot a son. (29) And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will provide us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands, out of the very soil which יהוה placed under a curse.” (30) After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and begot sons and daughters. (31) All the days of Lamech came to 777 years; then he died.

(32) When Noah had lived 500 years, Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (1) When humankind began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them, (2) the [males among the] divine beings saw how pleasing the human women were and took wives from among those who delighted them.— (3) יהוה said, “My breath shall not abide in humankind forever, since it too is flesh; let the days allowed them be one hundred and twenty years.”— (4) It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth—when divine beings cohabited with the human women, who bore them offspring. Such were the heroes of old, the men of renown. (5) יהוה saw how great was human wickedness on earth—how every plan devised by the human mind was nothing but evil all the time. (6) And יהוה regretted having made humankind on earth. With a sorrowful heart, (7) יהוה said, “I will blot out from the earth humankind whom I created—humans together with beasts, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I regret that I made them.” (8) But Noah found favor with יהוה.

(5) יהוה saw how great was human wickedness on earth—how every plan devised by the human mind was nothing but evil all the time. (6) And יהוה regretted having made humankind on earth. With a sorrowful heart, (7) יהוה said, “I will blot out from the earth humankind whom I created—humans together with beasts, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I regret that I made them.” (8) But Noah found favor with יהוה.

(5) Thus said the ETERNAL God, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and what it brings forth, Who gave breath to the people upon it And life to those who walk thereon: (6) I GOD, in My grace, have summoned you, And I have grasped you by the hand. I created you, and appointed you A covenant people, a light of nations— (7) Opening eyes deprived of light, Rescuing prisoners from confinement, From the dungeon those who sit in darkness. (8) I am GOD, that is My name; I will not yield My glory to another, Nor My renown to idols. (9) See, the things once predicted have come, And now I foretell new things, Announce to you ere they sprout up. (10) Sing to GOD a new song, Praise from the ends of the earth— You who sail the sea and you creatures in it, You coastlands and their inhabitants! (11) Let the desert and its towns cry aloud, The villages where Kedar dwells; Let Sela’s inhabitants shout, Call out from the peaks of the mountains. (12) Let them do honor to GOD, And tell God’s glory in the coastlands. (13) GOD goes forth like a warrior, Whipping up rage like a fighter— Yelling, roaring aloud, Then charging upon the enemy. (14) “I have kept silent far too long, Kept still and restrained Myself; Now I will scream like a woman in labor, I will pant and I will gasp. (15) Hills and heights will I scorch, Cause all their green to wither; I will turn rivers into isles, And dry the marshes up. (16) I will lead the blind By a road they did not know, And I will make them walk By paths they never knew. I will turn darkness before them to light, Rough places into level ground. These are the promises— I will keep them without fail. (17) Driven back and utterly shamed Shall be those who trust in an image, Those who say to idols, ‘You are our gods!’” (18) Listen, you who are deaf; You blind ones, look up and see! (19) Who is so blind as My servant, So deaf as the messenger I send? Who is so blind as the chosen one, So blind as GOD’s servant? (20) Seeing many things, he gives no heed; With ears open, he hears nothing. (21) GOD desires his vindication, That he may magnify and glorify the Teaching. (22) Yet it is a people plundered and despoiled: All of them are trapped in holes, Imprisoned in dungeons. They are given over to plunder, with none to rescue them; To despoilment, with none to say “Give back!” (23) If only you would listen to this, Attend and give heed from now on! (24) Who was it gave Jacob over to despoilment And Israel to plunderers? Surely, GOD—against whom they sinned, In whose ways they would not walk, And whose Teaching they would not obey— (25) Who poured out wrath, Anger, and the fury of war upon them. It blazed upon them all about, but they heeded not; It burned among them, but they gave it no thought. (1) But now thus said GOD— Who created you, O Jacob, Who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I will redeem you; I have singled you out by name, You are Mine. (2) When you pass through water, I will be with you; Through streams, They shall not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, You shall not be scorched; Through flame, It shall not burn you. (3) For I the ETERNAL am your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as a ransom for you, Cush and Saba in exchange for you. (4) Because you are precious to Me, And honored, and I love you, I give people in exchange for you And nations in your stead. (5) Fear not, for I am with you: I will bring your folk from the East, Will gather you out of the West; (6) I will say to the North, “Give back!” And to the South, “Do not withhold! Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the end of the earth— (7) All who are linked to My name, Whom I have created, Formed, and made for My glory— (8) Setting free that people, Blind though it has eyes And deaf though it has ears.” (9) All the nations assemble as one, The peoples gather. Who among them declared this, Foretold to us the things that have happened? Let them produce their witnesses and be vindicated, That people, hearing them, may say, “It is true!” (10) My witnesses are you —declares GOD— My servant, whom I have chosen. To the end that you may take thought, And believe in Me, And understand that I am the One: Before Me no god was formed, And after Me none shall exist—

(5) Thus said the ETERNAL God, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and what it brings forth, Who gave breath to the people upon it And life to those who walk thereon: (6) I GOD, in My grace, have summoned you, And I have grasped you by the hand. I created you, and appointed you A covenant people, a light of nations— (7) Opening eyes deprived of light, Rescuing prisoners from confinement, From the dungeon those who sit in darkness. (8) I am GOD, that is My name; I will not yield My glory to another, Nor My renown to idols. (9) See, the things once predicted have come, And now I foretell new things, Announce to you ere they sprout up. (10) Sing to GOD a new song, Praise from the ends of the earth— You who sail the sea and you creatures in it, You coastlands and their inhabitants! (11) Let the desert and its towns cry aloud, The villages where Kedar dwells; Let Sela’s inhabitants shout, Call out from the peaks of the mountains. (12) Let them do honor to GOD, And tell God’s glory in the coastlands. (13) GOD goes forth like a warrior, Whipping up rage like a fighter— Yelling, roaring aloud, Then charging upon the enemy. (14) “I have kept silent far too long, Kept still and restrained Myself; Now I will scream like a woman in labor, I will pant and I will gasp. (15) Hills and heights will I scorch, Cause all their green to wither; I will turn rivers into isles, And dry the marshes up. (16) I will lead the blind By a road they did not know, And I will make them walk By paths they never knew. I will turn darkness before them to light, Rough places into level ground. These are the promises— I will keep them without fail. (17) Driven back and utterly shamed Shall be those who trust in an image, Those who say to idols, ‘You are our gods!’” (18) Listen, you who are deaf; You blind ones, look up and see! (19) Who is so blind as My servant, So deaf as the messenger I send? Who is so blind as the chosen one, So blind as GOD’s servant? (20) Seeing many things, he gives no heed; With ears open, he hears nothing. (21) GOD desires his vindication, That he may magnify and glorify the Teaching.

(1) When GOD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha had set out from Gilgal. (2) Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for GOD has sent me on to Bethel.” “As GOD lives and as you live,” said Elisha, “I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. (3) Disciples of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that GOD will take your master away from you today?” He replied, “I know it, too; be silent.” (4) Then Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for GOD has sent me on to Jericho.” “As GOD lives and as you live,” said Elisha, “I will not leave you.” So they went on to Jericho. (5) The disciples of the prophets who were at Jericho came over to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that GOD will take your master away from you today?” He replied, “I know it, too; be silent.” (6) Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for GOD has sent me on to the Jordan.” “As GOD lives and as you live, I will not leave you,” he said, and the two of them went on. (7) Fifty of the disciples of the prophets followed and stood by at a distance as the two of them stopped at the Jordan. (8) Thereupon Elijah took his mantle and, rolling it up, he struck the water; it divided to the right and left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry land. (9) As they were crossing, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” Elisha answered, “Let a double portion of your spirit pass on to me.” (10) “You have asked a difficult thing,” he said. “If you see me as I am being taken from you, this will be granted to you; if not, it will not.” (11) As they kept on walking and talking, a fiery chariot with fiery horses suddenly appeared and separated one from the other; and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. (12) Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “Oh, father, father! Israel’s chariots and riders!” When he could no longer see him, he grasped his garments and rent them in two. (13) He picked up Elijah’s mantle, which had dropped from him; and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.