And all the days that Adam lived Te nine hundred and thirty years: and 1 Je died. 6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Fnos. 7 And Seth lived, after he begat Enos, eight hundred and feven years, and begat sons and daughters. 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. 91 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan. 10 And Enos lived, after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 1 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. 12 And Cainan lived feventy years, and begar Mahalaleel. 13 And Cainan I'ved, after he begat Mahalaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begat ions and danghters. 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. 15 And Malalaleel lived fixty and five years, and begat Jared. 16 And Mahalaleel lived, after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begat fons and daughters. 17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight bundred ninety and five years: and he 18 And Jared lived an hundred fixty and two years, and he begat Enoch. 19 And Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred fixty and two years: and he died. CHAP. VI. The wickedness of the world caufeth the food. 9 Noah findeth grace. 14 The order, form, and end of the ark. A multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, ND it came to pafs, when men began to 2 That the fons of God faw the daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chofe. 3 And the LORD faid, My Spirit fhall not always strive with man, for that he alfo i flesh yet his days thall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days: and alfo after that, when the fons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the fame became mighty men, which zeere of old men of renown. 5 And God faw that the wickedness of man goes great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved hin at his heart. 7 And the LORD faid, I will deftroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beat and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air: for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9 These are the generations of Noah; Noal was a jutt man, and perfect in his ge nerations, and Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begat three fons, Shem,Ham, and Japheth. The earth alfe was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt: for all fleth had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 ind God faid unto Noah, The end of all feth ts come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them: and, be hold, I will deftroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher-wood: rooms fhalt thou make in the ark, and thalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou fhalt make it of: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 Awindow fhalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit halt thou find it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou fet in the fide thereof: with lower, fecond, and third florier thalt thou make it. 17 And, behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven: and every thing that is in the earth thail die. 18 But with thee will I eftablish my cove nant: and thou shalt come into the ark; thou, and thy fons, and thy wife, and thy fons wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all Bleth, two of every fort ihalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they thall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind: two of every fort fhall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it thall be for food for thec, and for them. 22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, fo did he. CHAP. VII. 1 Noah, ruith his family, &c. entere:hinto the ark. 17 The beginning, increafe, and continuance of the flood. ND the LORD faid unto Noah, Come thou, A and all thy houfe, into the ark: for thee have I feen righteous before me in this generation. 1 Of every clean beat thou shalt take to thee by fevens, the male and his female; and of beats that are not clean by two, the male and hisfemale, 3 Of fowls alfo of the air by fevens, the male and the female; to keep feed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet feven days, and I will caufe it 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingis upon the carth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all fleth died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beat, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whofe nottrils at the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living fubftance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the carth an hundred and fifty days. CHAP. VIII. 1 The waters afwage. 18 Noah goeth forth o the ark, 20 builleth an altar, and offereth facrifice. 21 Geds promife to curfe the earth no more. to rain upon the earth forty days ce fatty AND God remembered Noah, and every nights: and every living fubitance have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah zoas fix mindred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his fons, and his wife, and his fons wives with him, into the ark, becaufe of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beats that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. to And it came to pafs, after feven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the fix hundredth year of Noals life, in the fecond month, the feventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the felf-fame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and japheth, the fons of Noab, and Noahs wife, and the three wives of his fons with them, into the ark: 14 They, and every beat after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every fort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all fieth, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had comDanded him: and the LORD fhut him in. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increafed, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.@ 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increafed greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark and God made a wind to pafs over the earth. and the waters affwaged. 2 The fountains alfo of the deep, and the windows of heaven, were flopped, and the rain from heaven was reftrained. 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4 And the ark retted in the feventh month, on the feventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreafed continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains feen. 6 And it came to pafs, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 And he fent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Alfo he fent forth a dove from him, to fee if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground: 9 But the dove found no rcft for the fole of her foot, and the returned unto him into the ark: for the waters terre on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his band, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he ttayed yet other feven days, and again he fent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth seas an oliveleaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other feven days, and fent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pafs, in the six ondredth and ärit year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah renove A S the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the fecond month, on the feven and twenties day of the month, was the earth dried. 15 And God fpake unto Noah, faying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy tons, and thy fous wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that with thee, of all fieth. both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his fons, and his wife, and his fons wives with him: 19 Every beatt, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatfoever 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 beatt, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD fmelled a fweet favour; and the LORD faid in his heart, I will not again curfe the ground any more for mans fake; for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again fmite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, feed-time and harvelt, and cold and heat, and fummer and winter, and day and night, fhall not cease. CHAP. Ix.' God blesseth Noah. 4 Blood and murder are forbidden. 8 Gods covenant, 13 kgnified by the rainbow. 21 Noah is drunken, 25 curf eth Canaan, 26 bleffeth Shem, 29 and dieth. A Nd God bleffed Noah and his fons, and faid unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you, and the dread of you, thall be upon every beaft of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the fea: into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth fhall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things: 4 But fleth with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, thall ye not eat. 5 And furely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beatt will I require it; and at the hand of man, at the hand of every mans brother, will I require the life of man. 6 Whofo heddeth mans blood, by man fhall 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 fpake unto Noah, and to his fons with him, faying, 9 And I, behold 1, eftablith my covenant with you, and with your feed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beat of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beat of the rth. covenant which I make between me and you, fhall be for a token of a covenant between 14 And it thall come to pafs, when I bring feen in the cloud : a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be which is between me and you, and every I will look upon it, that I may remember the token of the covenant which I have eftablish- 18 And the fons of Noah, that went forth pheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Ja 19 Thefe are the three fons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overfpread. and he planted a vineyard: 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, faw the nakednefs of his father, and told his two brethren without. and laid it upon both their shoulders, and 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, wentbackward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they faw not their fathers nakedness. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger fon had done unto him. 25 And he said, Curfed be Canaan; a fervant of servants fhall he be unto his brethren, 26 And he faid, Bleffed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan fhall be his fervant. 27 God fhall enlarge Japheth, and he thall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan fhall be his fervant. 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. Noahs generations. 2 The fons of Japheth, 6 and Ham. 8 Nimrod the first monarch. 21 The fons of Shem. Now thefe are the generations of the pheth and unto them were sons born after fons of Noal; Shem, Ham, and Jathe flood. gog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and The fons of Japheth; Gomer, and MaMethech, and Tiras. 3And the fons of Gomer; Afhkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the fons of Javan; Elitha, and Tarthith, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 By thefe were the ifles of the Gentiles divised in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. and the tons of Ham, Culh, and Miz raim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the fons of Cuth; Seba, and Havilali, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabte cha: and the fons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And Cuth begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is faid, Even as Nimrod the mighty 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 Asfhur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Refen, between Nineveh and Calah: the fame is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrufim, and Cafluhim, (out of whom came Philiftim,) and Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firftborn, and Heth, 16 And the Jebufite, and the Amorite, and the Girgafite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the familics of the Canaanites fpread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comeft to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goeft unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. 20 Thefe are the fons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 21 Unto Shem allo, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Affhur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Áram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Math. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two fons; the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brothers name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and She leph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimacl, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all thefe were the fons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mefha, as thou goeft unto Sephar, a mount of the eaft. 31 Thefe are the fons of Shem, after their ilies, after their tongues, in their lands, their nations. Noahere are the families of the fens of ter their generations, in their nations: there. 3 And they faid one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thorough ly. And they had brick for ftone, and flime had they for mortar. 4 And they faid, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whofe top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, leit we be feattered abroad upon the face of the whole carth. 5 And the LORD came down to fee the city, and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD faid, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be reftrained 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 anothers speech 8 So the LORD fcattered 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; becaufe the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD fcatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 Thefe are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood. it And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begat sons 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 fons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber. 15 And Salah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat fors and daughters. 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg. 17 And Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat fons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu. 19 And Peleg lived, after he begat Reu. two hundred and nine years, and begat fons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug. 21 And Ren I cd, after he begat Serug, two hundred and feven years, and Legat fons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor. 23 And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah. 25 And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived feventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now thefe are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before his fatherTerah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abrams wife teas Sarai; and the name of Nalors wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of lfcah. 30 But Sarai was barren; he had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his fon, and Lot the fon of Haran his fon's fon, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his fon Abrams 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. 1 God calleth Abram, and bleffeth him with a promife of Chrift: 4 his departure from Haran. 7 Canaan is promifed." the LORD had said unto and Abram went down into Egypt to fojourn near to enter into Egypt, that he faid unto 12 Therefore it thall come to pafs, when fay, This is his wife: and they will kill me, the Egyptians fhall fee thee, that they thall but they will fave thee alive. that it may be well with me for thy fake: 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my fifter; and my foul thall live because of thee. Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyp 14 And it came to pafs, that, when tians beheld the woman, that he was very fair. 15 The princes alfo of Pharaoh faw her, and commended her before Pharaoh : and the woman was taken into Pharaohs house. fake: and he had theep, and oxen, and he16 And he entreated Abram well for her affes, and men-fervants, and maid-servants, and the-affes, and camels. houfe with great plagues, because of Sarai, 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his Abrams wife. What is this that thou haft done unto me? 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, why didit thou not tell me that the was thy wife? might have taken her to me to wife: now, 19 Why faidit thou, She is my fitter? fo therefore, behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharoah commanded his men con Nthee out of thy country, and from thy cerning him; and they lent him away, and Kindred, and from thy father's houfe, unto a land that I will thew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and 1 will blefs thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will blefs them that bless thee, his wife, and all that he had. CHAP. XIII I Abram and Lot return out of Egypt: 7 by their and curic him that curfeth thee; and in thee A and his wife, and all that he had,' and shall all families of the earth be bleffed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had fpoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was feventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai hus wife, and Lot his brother's fon, and all their fubftance that they had gathered, and the fouls 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 Abram paffed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and faid, Unto thy feed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the catt of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-cl on the weit, and Hai on the caft; and there he builded an altar into the LORD, and called upon the name of the Load. 9 And Abram journeyed, going on fill to wards the fouth. Lot with him, into the fouth. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in filver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the fouth, even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the firft: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. 5 And Lot alfo, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their fubftance was great, fo that they could not dwell together." 7 And there was a ftrife between the herdmen of Abrams cattle, and the herdmen of Lots cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 8 And Abram faid unto Lot, Let there be no trife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen for we be brethren. parate thyfell, I pray thee, from me to the |