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CHRIST

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h leb. 6, 7

CHAPTER VIII, IX:

Before

Noah goeth out of the ark. 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into 6 I And it came to pass at the end of forty days, the ark, the male and the female, as God had com-that Noah opened the window of the ark which he manded Noah. had made:

10 And it came to pass, after seven days, that the Zee. 14,5,6 waters of the flood were upon the earth.

111 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the 11b 28, 4. 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.

Ps. 106, 9.

chap. 1,7 78, 28.

Isa 11, 6.

13 In the self-same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark:

14 They, and every beast 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 sort.

15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, 'two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him and the n2 Klugs m Lord shut him in.

4, 4, 5.

n Ps. 63, 15.

P. 104, Ex. 14, 28,

26.

29.

17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 And the waters" prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth: and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the p Jer. 3, 28 earth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail: P 104, and the mountains were covered.

21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creepLuke 17, ingthing that creepeth upon the earth, and 'every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

27.

a Hab. 3, 1,

2.

ch. 19, 29.

b Ts. 36, 6.

CHAPTER VIII.

1 The waters assuage....4 The ark resteth on Ararat....18 Noah
goeth forth of the ark....20 He buildeth an altar, and offereth
sacrifice.

ND God remembered Noah, and every living

7 And he sent forth a 'raven, which went forth fto and Dan. 8, 10. fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Kin. 7, 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the † Heb. go waters were abated from off the face of the ground; ing forth 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her ing foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the ver. 10,11. waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he & Ezek. 7, put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in Mat. 11.28. unto him into the ark.

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 mcb. 11, twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 15 1 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16" Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and Pe thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and Heb. a sa the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the Eph. 5, 2 ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of 2 Cor. 2, 16. man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 2 Pet. 5,7. 22 While the earth remaineth, seed-time and Job 22, 20. harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, all the days and day and night, shall not cease.

CHAPTER

A thing, and all the cattle that was with him in God blesseth Noah... Hood and murder are forbidden...8. God's

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 win-
dows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from

Job 38,37. heaven was restrained;

Mat. 8, 9,

3 And the waters returned from off the earth He got continually and after the end of the hundred and Jarning. fifty days the waters were abated.

mg and re

d ch 7, 11.

! Heb. going and abuting.

†lleb.as yet

of the earth

A ND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said a ch. 2,5 unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and re- bch. 1. 28 plenish the earth.

Ps. 128, 3

Lev. 2. 3

2 And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall echo be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl Job 41 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, the seventeenth day of the month, upon the moun-and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are tains of Ararat.

5 And the waters + decreased continually, until the teath month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

they delivered.

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3 Every moving thing that "liveth shall be meat d Lev. 22 for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

e Lev. 11,5 f ch. 1. 29.

GENESIS.

5 And surely your blood of your lives will I re- NOW these are the generations of the sons of Nonh; Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

quire at the hand of every beast will I require it,

h P. 9, 12. and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's Ex. 21, 28. brother will I require the life of man.

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, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. CHAPTER XI.

1 One language in the world....3 The building of Babel....5 The con

fusion of tongues.

AND the whole earth was of one † language, and

of one speech.

Before

God calleth Abram Abram, Naher, and Haran. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat CHRIS

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27 1 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Ha-2 ran begat Lot.

4.

Neh. 9.
Dan. 2, 4.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah n the Acts 7, 2, 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 Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the

father of Milcah, and the father of Ischa.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

u

some read out of the Chaldee;

fire of the for Ur sig nifies a val ley, light,vr fire.

17. 15

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the sa. 24,15 the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shi-son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-20, 12 nar; and they dwelt there." in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth teh. 22, 20 with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the sch. 12, land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

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3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they 21, had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and De, a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let Pror. 18 us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

PL. 2, 5.

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5 And the LORD came down to see the city and 12 the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, * Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: 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 2, another's speech.

8 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.

101 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and Lake 3, P begat + Salah.

4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. g Heb 11,8 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 Ha-hch. 14, 14 ran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

13 And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four 7 And the LORD " appeared unto Abram, and said, hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there build14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:ed he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. " 15 And Salah lived after he begat Eher four hun- 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain pch. 13. 18 dred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and be- Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there gat | Peleg: he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hun-the name of the LORD. 10- 1,19. dred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hun-to dred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. begat Terah. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it 25 And Nahor lived after he be Terah a hun-may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall dred and nineteen years,and begat sons and daughters. live because of thee.

Song 1, 14.

'Mun's wickedness causeth the flood.

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GENESIS.

Before CHRIST

The order and form of the ark. 16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and Noah walked with God. daughters:

10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hun-Japheth. dred ninety and five years; and he died.

18 1 And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died.

211 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah :

22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

h

23 And all the days of Enoch were three hun1 Kings 14, dred sixty and five years:

13.

i ch. 9, 6.

i

k

24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was Micah 6, 8 not: for God took him.

Heb. 11, 5,

6.

251 And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and Eph. & 15. Seven years, and begat Lamech:

Pa. 11.9.

Col 4, 5.

k Heb. 11,7.

26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech 2 Kin. 2,11. seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

Luke 23, 49.

1 Heb. 11, 7.

27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine -dred sixty and nine years and he died.

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Heb. 11 7. n ch. 5, 22. 2 Pet. 2, 5. Acts 50 o ch. 10, 3

11 The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and behold, och 10, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Ezek. 7,5,6

13 And God said unto Noah, P The end of all Amos 8,2 flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with Jer. 51, 1 violence through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 I Make thee an ark of gopher-wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt 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 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof: with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

gr.h. 49,5.

17 And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of P. 20, 1e r 10 hun-waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein cap. 9, 9. is the breath of life, from under heaven: and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

1

29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This m ch. 8 21. same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the ath. 8, 17. LORD hath" cursed.

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30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and peh. 11, 28. Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. CHAPTER VI.

ch. 1, 28.

b Deut. 14,

J.

1 The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's wrath, and
caused the flood....14 The order and form of the ark.

A

ND it came to pass, when men began tr⚫ multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

b

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of e2 Pet. 2 men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

14.

d Mal. 2, 11.

e Deut. 7, 2.4.

(1 Pet.3,13. g Gal 5, 16, h 1 Pet.

3,19.

11 Sam. 15, 29.

bial. 5, 6.

k Tsa. 63.10.

Eph. 4, 30.

↑ Heb. from

man,
Rom. 8, 20.

1 Heb. 4. 16.

f

3 And the LORD said, ' My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

h

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.

51 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by ch. 17, 10, sevens, the male and his female; and of beasts Ps. 35, 18 that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Prov. 10, 9 30f fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the 2 Pet 2, 5 female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and every living substance that I have made will It destroy from off the face of the earth.

5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I 2 Tim. 1.18. have created from the face of the earth; both man Rom. 4,4. and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the F1.93, 12, air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah' found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9 I These are the generations of Noah: Noahl the earth.

chap. 19,19.

2: 11.6.

13.

Acis 7, 46.
Luke 1,3.

Heb

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, from the and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon Prov. 22, 5

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