¹⁷ And he said to the man, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, “Do not eat from it”:

²⁹ And he named him Noah,^[a] saying, ‘This one will bring us relief from the agonising labour of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.’^(A)

⁷ Then the Lord said, ‘I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky – for I regret that I made them.’