Second sin and its punishment
Later, Eve gave birth to Cain, a tiller of the ground, and Abel, a keeper of sheep. The Lord had regard for (prefer) Abel and his offering. Cain was so angry that he killed Abel. The Lord punished him and he became a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.
Adam's descendants to Noah
With more and more people came into the world, the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth as well. So the Lord said, "I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created —people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.
The great flood and Noah's Ark
Jehovah came to Noah and told him to build a ship. The vessel was to be four hundred and fifty feet wide and it was to have a depth of forty-three feet.
Then Noah and his household, his three sons and their wives, made ready for the voyage. They went into the fields and into the mountains and gathered all the animals they could find that they might have beasts for food and for sacrifices when they should return to dry land. On the evening of the seventh day, Noah and his family went on board. Late that nigh, it began to rain. It rained for 40 nights and 40days. However, Jehovah had mercy, and the sun appeared again. After about 200 days, the Ark landed on top of Mount Ararat in the country, which is now called Armenia.
The Tower of Babel
Noah's descendants formed many nations. And from these, the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. And the Lord said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another' speech." So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

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