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Table 1.M Literary Sources of Genesis 1-11

Story Yahwist (J) Priestly (P) Editor (R)
Creation 2:4b-25 1:1-2:3
Generations 2:4a
Garden of Eden 3:1-24
Cain and Abel 4:1-16
Cain genealogy 4:17-26
Adam genealogy 5:29 5:1b-28, 30-32 5:1a
Sons of God 6:1-4
Flood 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 7, 10, 12, 16b-20, 22-23; 8:2b-3a, 6, 8-12, 13b, 20-22 7:8-9, 11,13-16a, 21, 24; 8:1-2a, 3b-5, 7, 13a, 14-19; 9:1-17
Noah's insobreity 9:18-27
Noah's age 7:6; 9:28-29
Sons of Noah genealogy 10:8-19, 21, 24-30 10:1b-7, 20, 22-23, 31, 32 10:1a
Tower of Babel 11:1-9
Shem genealogy 11:10b-26 11:10a
Terah genealogy 11:27b-32 11:27a

For the literary sources of the Ancestral Story see Table 2.D Literary Sources of Genesis 12-50.

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