The world drowned.

Before

Or, on the

9 There went in two and two unto Noah into

the ark, the male and the female, as God had

commanded Noah.

10 And it came to pass after feven days, that Seventh day the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

II In the fix hundredth year of Noahs life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the fame day were all the fountains of the Or, flood- great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

gates.

+Heb. wing.

eLuke 17. 27. Wifd. 10.

4..

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the felf-fame day entred Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the fons of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wives of his fons with them, into the ark:

14 They, and every beaft after his kind, and all the cattel 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 flefh, 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 LORD fhut him in.

17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift 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 earth; 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 flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattel, and of beaft, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man. 22 All in whofe noftrils was the breath of the breath life, of all that was in the dry land, died. of the Spirit of life.

+ Heb.

23 And every living fubftance was deftroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattel, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were deftroyed from the ƒwild. 10. earth and fNoah only remained alive, and they 2 Pet. 2. that were with him in the ark. 5.& 3.6.

4.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

CHAP. VIII.

1 The waters affwage. 4 The ark refteth on Ararat. 7 The raven and the dove. 15 Noak, being com

The waters afwage.

manded, 18 goeth forth of the ark. 20 He buil- Before deth an altar, and offereth facrifice, 21 which God Chrift accepteth, and promifeth to curfe the earth no more. 2349.

ANd God remembred Noah, and every living
thing, and all the cattel that was with him
remarcate
in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the
earth, and the waters affwaged.

2 The fountains alfo of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred + Heb. and fifty days the waters were abated. in going and returning. 4 And the ark refted in the feventh month, Chap. 7. on the feventeenth day of the month upon the 24 mountains of Ararat.

8 Alfo he fent forth a dove from him, to see if ing. the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

9 But the dove found no reft for the fole of her foot, and fhe returned unto him into the ark: for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and + pulled her in unto him into the ark. caused her io And he ftayed yet other feven days, and to come 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 was an olive-leaf pluckt 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.

+ Heb.

13 And it came to pass in the fix hundredth 2348. and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the carth: and Noah removed 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 twentieth 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 fons, and thy fons wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattel, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly

Before in the earth, and b be fruitful, and multiply upon Christ the earth.

2348. 18 And Noah went forth, and his fons, and Chap. 1: his wife, and his fons wives with him :

1.

22.89.1.

families.

Heb.

a favour of

Teft.

Or,

19 Every beaft, 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 beaft,and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

21 And the LORD fmelled † afweet favour; and the LORD faid in his heart, I will not again curfe the ground any more for mans fake; for Chap.6.5. the imagination of mans heart is evil from his Matth. 15. youth: neither will I again fmite any more every Heb. thing living as I have done.

though.

19.

the days of

As yet all 22 + While the earth remaineth, feed-time the earth and harvest, and cold and heat, and fummer and Jer. 33. winter, and d day and night shall not cease.

20,25.

God's covenant with him.

of the earth with you, from all that go out of the Before ark, to every beast of the earth.

Chrift

k IL. 54. 9.

11 And I will establish my covenant with 2348. you; neither fhall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood: neither fhall there any more be a flood to deftroy the earth.

12 And God faid, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13 I do fet my bow in the cloud, and it fhall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

1

14 And it fhall come to pafs, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow fhall be feen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant which is between me, and you, and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters fhall no more become a flood to deftroy all flesh.

16 And the bow fhall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlafting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 And God faid unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. 18 And the fons of Noah that went forth of

the

ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth:

cus Ecclus435 II, 12.

2347.

m Chap. 10. 6.

mand Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three fons of Noah: and of + Heb. them was the whole carth overfpread.

20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he 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 faw 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 fhoulders, and went backward, 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 faid, Curfed be Canaan; a fervant of fervants fhall he be unto his brethren.

26 And he faid, Bleffed be the LORD God of

Shem; and Canaan fhall be his fervant.

1 The generation of Noah. 2 The fons of Japheth, 6 The fons of Ham. 8 Nimrod the first monarch. 21 The fons of Shem.

Ow thefe are the generations of the fons of

N Noah, Shen, Ham, and Japheth: and

unto them were fons born after the flood. 2 a The fons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Methech,

and Tiras.

3 And the fons of Gomer; Afhkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 And the fons of Javan; Elifhah, and Tar

Or, as fhifh, Kittim, and Dodanim.

fome read

it, Roda

nim.

1 Chr. L.

5 By these were the ifles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

6bAnd the fons of Ham; Cufh, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

7 And the fons of Cufh; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the fons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Cufh begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth..

circa 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: 2218. wherefore it is faid, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD..

The building of Babel.

23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, 2218. and Gether, and Mash.

ei Chr.

24 And Arphaxad begat + Salah; and Salah 17:

begat

Eber.

† Heb. Arpach

25 8 And unto Eber were born two fons: the had. name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the 2247. earth divided; and his brothers name was Joktan. † Heb. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, fchap.11. and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, 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 east.

3.1 Thefe are the fons of Shem after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

One language in the world. 3 The building of Ba bel. 5 The confufion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terab goeth from Ur to Haran.

Or, He

11 Out of that land || went forth Afhur, and went out in builded Nineveh and I the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

to. Affyria. Or,

the streets of ahe city.

12.

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 1 Chr. 1. whom came Philiftim) d and Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firftborn, and Heth,

+ Heb. Tzidon.

+ Heb. Azzah.

16 And the Jebufite, and the Emorite, and the Girgafite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite and afterward were the families 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 Lafhah.

20 Thefe are the fons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

21 Unto Shem alfo the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born..

Shelah.

12.

g I Chr. &

19.

Nd the whole earth was of one † language, Heb.

+ Heb.

words.

2 And it came to pafs as they journeyed from Or, the eaft, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there..

caft ward as Chap. 13.11. 2 Sam.6.

3 And they faid one to another, Go to, let us with 1 make brick,and burn them throughly. And they Chr.13.6. had brick for ftone, and flime had they for morter. aman faid

+ Heb.

bonr:

4 And they faid, Go to, let us build us a city to his neigh and a tower, whofe top may reach unto heaven, + Heb. and let us make us a name, left we be scattered burn them abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to see 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.

to a burn

ing.

26.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound a Chap. à their language, that they may not understand one. anothers fpeech.

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,b be- That is, confufion. cause the LORD did there confound the language wild.10. of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD 5. fcatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 ¶ These

11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat fons 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.

God's promife to Abram.

dred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. Before СНАР. XII.

1 God calleth Abram, and bleffeth him with a promife of Chrift. 4 He departeth with Lot from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, 7 which is promifed him in a vifion. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt. II Fear maketh him feign his wife to be his fifter. 14 Pharaoh having taken ber from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her.

7.

Chrift 1921.

14

2281. Eber.

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat fons and daughters.

16d And Eber lived four and thirty years,and

1 Chr. 1. begate Peleg.

19.

Called

Phalec. Luke 3. 35.

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat fons and daughters. 2217. 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.

2185. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and fLuke 3. begat Serug.

35: Saruch

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat fons and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat 2155. 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, 2126. and begat & Terah.

34

Luke 3. 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat fons and daughters.

2056. 26 And Terah lived feventy years, and b begat ¿Jom. 24. Abram, Nahor, and Haran;

2.

Chr. 1. 26. 27 Now thefe are the generations of Terah: 1996. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and

20.

Chap.

3,2. & 18. 13, 12.

Haran begat Lot..

28 And Haran died before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

i

29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abrams wife was Sarai; and the name Cap. 22, of Nahors wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Ifcah. 30 But Sarai was barren; fhe had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his fon, and Lot the fon of Haran his fons fon, and Sarai his daughter in law, his fon Abrams wife; and they Judith 5.7. went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, As to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers fon, and all their fubftance that they had 1921. gathered, and the fouls that they had gotten din d Chap.175 Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of 31. 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 Morch, f And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, faid, 8 Unto thy feed will I give this land: there builded he an b altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8 And he removed from thence unto a moun- 4.

tain on the caft of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the weft, and Hai on the eaft : and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and i called upon the name of the LORD..

i Chap. 13. + Heb. in going and 10 And there was a famine in the land and journeying. Chap. 1 Abram went down into Egypt to fojourn there; 3. ¡Pfal. 105for the famine was grievous in the land.

9 And Abram journeyed, tk going on still toward the fouth..