The waters assuaged. CHAP. VIII. GENESIS. AND God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven, were stopped, and the rain from heaven was estramed; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. God's covenant with Noah. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and of fered burnt-offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not agam curse the ground any more for inan's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 22 While the earth remaineth, seed5 And the waters decreased conti-time and harvest, and cold and heat, nually until the tenth month: in the and summer and winter, and day and tenth month, on the first day of the night, shall not cease. month, were the tops of the mountains seen. And it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from aim, to see if the waters were abated from of the face of the ground: 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then ne put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark: 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth was an olive-leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven rays, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more. 13¶ And it came to pass, in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the onth, was the earth dried. CHAP. IX. AND God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon al! that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things: 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold 1, establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut 15 And God spake unto Noah, say-off any more by the waters of a flood neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons aud thy sons' wives with thee. 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between 17 Bring forth with thee every living me and you, and every living creature thing that is with thee, of all flesh, that is with you, for perpetual general both of fowl, and of cattle, and of eve-tions: ry creeping thing that creepeth upon 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and the earth; that they may breed abun- it shall be for a token of a covenan dantly in the earth, and be fruitful, between me and the earth. and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. J 14 And it shall come to pass, when bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : Neal's prophecy. The generations of Noah. 8. And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty oue in the earth: CHAP. X. 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I ay remember the everlasting cove nant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I bave, established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. 18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and be planted a vineyard. 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; end their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; servant of servants shall he be unto is brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed by the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shail be his servant. 28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. CHAP. X. NOW these are the generations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 2 The sous of Japheth; Gomer, and nagog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanım. 5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtab, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba and Dedan. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the nighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah the same is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamım, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. is And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite. 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite. 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamatbite and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 21 Unto Shen also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were chidren born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Amm; Uz. and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat ber. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan begat Alinodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerab, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, ami Jobab all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, their nations: and by these were th nations divided in the earth after the flocd. The building of Babel. CHAP. XI. GENESIS. God calleth Abram. Nahor two hundred years, and begat ND the whole earth was of one tan-sons and daughters. guage, and of one speech. ΑΝ 24 And Nalior lived nine and twenty 2 And it came to pass, as they jour-years, and begat Teran. neyed from the east, that they found at 25 And Nahor lived after he begat plain in the land of Shinar; and they Terah an hundred and nineteen years, dwelt there. and begat sons and daughters. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a towe: whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make as a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the woole earth. 46 And Terah lived seventy years. and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the chil-Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the dren of men builded. father of Milcah, and the father of Is 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the cah. people is one, and they have all one 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no Janguage; and this they begin to do:child. and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 9 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 These are the generations of Shem: Shein was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years siter the flood: 11 And Shem lived after he begat 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Baran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. CHAP. XII. NOW the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that i will shew thee: 2 And 1 will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: Arphaxad five hundred years, and be-and in thee shall all families of the earth gat sous and daughters." 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah. 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Cher: is And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 16 And Eber lived four and years, and begat Peleg: thirty begat 17 And Eber lived after he Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lived tunity years, and begat Reu: 19 And Peleg lived arter he begat Heu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug, two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 29 And Serug lived thirty years, and beat Nabor: 25 And Serug lived after he begat be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him and Abiam was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abrain passed through the land ato the place of Sichen, unto the plain of Moleh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, rating Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east and there he builded an altar unto the LORD and called upon the name of LI# LORD. Abram goth into Egypt. 9 And Abram journeyed, still toward the south. CHAP. XIV. God renemeth Ms promise to Mon going on there be no strife, I pray thee, he tween me and thee, and between my 10 And there was a famine in the herdmen and thy herdinen: for we be land; and Abram went down into brethren. Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shail say, This is his wife; and they will kill ire, but they will save thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake: and my soul stall live because of thee. 14 And it came to pass, that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended Ler before Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he entreated Abram weli for her sake: and be bad sheep, and oxer, and he-asses, and mea-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels. 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with gicat plagues, be cause of Sarai, Abram's wife. 19 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said. What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 9 Is not the whole land before thee Separate thyself, I pray thee, fron me: If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if the depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was weli watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gos norrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comèst unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed, est: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent to ward Sodoin. 13 But the men of Sodom were wick ed, and sinners before the LORD, ex ceedingly. 14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separate! from kim, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou not, northward, and soethward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy sed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man cats number the dust of the earth, thes 19 Why suist thou, She is my sis-shall thy seed also be numbered. ter? so I might have taken her to me to wife; now, therefore, behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that bead. CHAP. XIII. ND Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 17 Arise, walk through the land, m the length of it, and in the breadth of it: for I will give it unto thee. 18 Then Abram removed his tent. and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. CHAP. XIV. AND it came to pass, in the days of Amraphe! king of Shinar, Artoci 2 And Abrams very rich in cat-king of tilaar, Chedorcmer Ling si tle, in silver, and in rold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the south, even to Betiel, unto the blare where his tent had beca at the beging, between Beth-e! and Hai 4 Unto the phce of the altar, which he had made there at the fist and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. 5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and 6 and the land was not able to bear tem, that they might dwell together: for the substance was great, so that they could not dweil together. Elam, and Tidal king of nations; 2 That these made war with Per king of Sodom, and with Birsba kh of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admel and Shemeher king of Zebolim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3 All these were joined together the vale of Siddim, which is the saf sea. 4 Twelve years they served Che dorlaouer, and in the thirteenth yea they rebelled. 3 And in the fourteenth year cam Chedorlaomer, and the kings that w with him, and smote the Rephain. in Ashteroth-Karntun, and the 7 And there was a strife betweenzims in flam, and the Emins in Sh the terdiana of Abram's catile, ad veh-Kiiarain, the herdaien of Lot's candle. And the 6 And the Horites m their mote Canvanite and the Petizzite dwelled Seir, unto El-paran, which is by th ten in the land. wilderness. And Ab said to tot, Let Abu And they returned and came Melchizedek bleseth Abram. GENESIS. Abram justified by fath En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take. smote all the country of the Amale-their portion. kites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar. CHAP. XV. And there went out the king of ATOR sehings the word of the vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Sodorn, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; 9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tida! king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; tour kings with five. 10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. 11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, (who dwelt in Sodom,) and his goods, and departed. 13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. 15 And he divided himself against them, he and his seryants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, (after his return from the laughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the Kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth. 2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give ine, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, So shail thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righte ousness. 7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a shegoat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another; but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, fo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they 20 And blessed be the most high shall serve, will I judge; and after God, which hath delivered thine ene-ward shall they come out with great nies into thy hand. And he gave him substance. ithes of all. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers 21 And the king of Sodom said un-in peace; thou shalt be buried in a o Abram, Give me the persons, and good old age. ake the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto he LORD, the most high God, the posessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread ven to a shoe-latchet, and that I will ot take any thing that is thine, lest ou shouldest say, I have made bram rich: 24 Save only that which the young en have eaten, and the portion of le men which went with ine, Aner, 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the miquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark behold, a smoking furnace, and á burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 in that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, froma the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. |