Editing Book of Genesis (section)

===Primeval history (chapters 1–11)===
{{See also|Primeval history}}

[[File:Edward Hicks, American - Noah's Ark - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Noah's Ark'' (1846), by the American folk painter [[Edward Hicks]].]]

The [[Genesis creation narrative]] comprises two different stories; the first two chapters roughly correspond to these.{{efn|Speaking of the disunity of the Pentateuch, {{harvtxt|Baden|2019|p=14}} writes: "Two creation-stories of Genesis 1 and 2 provide the opening salvo. It is impossible to read them as a single unified narrative, as they disagree on almost every point, from the nature of the pre-creation world to the order of creation to the length of time creation took."}} In the first, [[Elohim]], the generic Hebrew word for God, creates the heavens and the earth including humankind, in six days, and [[Sabbath#Biblical Sabbath|rests on the seventh]]. In the second, God, now referred to as "[[Yahweh]] Elohim" (rendered as "the {{LORD}} God" in English translations), creates two individuals, [[Adam and Eve]], as the first man and woman, and places them in the [[Garden of Eden]].

In the second chapter, God commanded the man that he is free to eat from any tree, including the tree of life, except from the [[tree of the knowledge of good and evil]]. Later, in chapter 3, a [[Serpent (Bible)|serpent]], portrayed as a deceptive creature or [[trickster]], convinces Eve to eat the fruit. She then convinces Adam to eat it, whereupon God throws them out and punishes them—Adam was punished with getting what he needs only by sweat and work, and Eve to giving birth in pain. This is interpreted by Christians as the "[[fall of man]]" [[original sin|into sin]]. Eve bears two sons, [[Cain and Abel]]. Cain works in the garden, and Abel works with meat; they both offer offerings to God one day, and God does not accept Cain's offering but does accept Abel's. This causes Cain to resent Abel, and Cain ends up murdering him. God then [[Curse and mark of Cain|curses Cain]]. Eve bears another son, [[Seth]], to take Abel's place in accordance to the promises given at 3:15, 20.{{Sfn|Mathews|1996|p=290}}{{sfn|Hamilton|1990|p=242}}

After many [[generations of Adam]] have passed from the lines of Cain and Seth, the world becomes corrupted by human [[sin]] and [[Nephilim]], and God wants to wipe out humanity for their wickedness. However, [[Noah]] is righteous and blameless. So first, he instructs Noah to build an [[Noah's ark|ark]] and put examples of all the animals on it, seven pairs of every clean animal and one pair of every unclean. Then God sends a [[Genesis flood narrative|great flood]] to wipe out the rest of the world. When the waters recede, God promises he will never destroy the world with water again, making a [[Rainbows in mythology|rainbow as a symbol of his promise]]. God sees humankind cooperating to build a great tower city, the [[Tower of Babel]], and divides humanity with many languages and sets them apart with confusion. Then, a generation line from [[Shem]] to [[Abram]] is described.