The Deluge.

CHAP. VIII.

The waters arruage

male and female of all flesh, as God dow of the ark which he had made i

had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters in-8 Also he sent fortà a dove from tem, creased, and bare up the ark, and it to see if the waters were abated from was lifted up above the earth. off the face of the ground: 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and sue returned tvto him into the ark; for the waters more on the face of the whole earth. Thing he put forth his hand, and took hei and pulled her in unto him into the

19 And the waters prevailed exceed ingly upon the earth; and all the high bills that were under the whole heaven ark. were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the wates prevail; and the mountains were covered.

21 T And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing 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.

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 var an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other sever days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more, 13 And it came to pass, in the six 23 And every living substance was hundredth and first year, in the first destroyed which was upon the face month, the first day of the month, the of the ground, both man, and cattle, waters were dried up from off the and the creeping things, and the fowl earth; and Noah removed the cover of the heaven; and they were destroying of the ark, and looked, and, be ed from the earth: and Noah only re- hold, the face of the ground was dry. mained alive, and they that were with 14 And in the second month, of the him in the ark. seven and twentieth day of the month was the earth dried.

24 Aud the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

CHAP. VILL

ND God remembered Noah, and AN 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 restrained;

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 rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continual ly until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 6 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the win

15 And God spake unto Noah, say

15 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all thesh, 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 sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

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 offered burnt offerings on the altam 21 Aud the LORD smelled a s

God bleseth Noah.

GENESIS.

Noah dieth. Bavour; and the LORD said in his heart, it shall be for a token of a covenant beI will not again curse the ground any tween me and the earth. more for man's sake; for the imagina 14 And it shall come to pass, when I tion of man's heart is evil from his bring a cloud over the earth, that the youth: neither will I again smite any bow shall be seen in the cloud: more every thing living, as I have 15 And I will remember my cove done. nant which is between me and you, 22 While the earth remaineth, seed-and every living creature of all flesh; time and harvest, and cold and heat, and the waters shall r. more become and summer and winter, and day and a flood to destroy all flesh.

night, shall not cease. CHAP. IX.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may re

ANDGod blessed Noah and his sons, member the everlasting covenant be

and said unto them, Be fruitful, tween God and every living creature and multiply, and replenish the earth. of all flesh that is upon the earth. 2 And the fear of you, and the dread 17 And God said unto Noah, This is of you, shall be upon every beast of the the token of the covenant, which I earth, and upon every fowl of the air, have established between me and all upon all that moveth upon the earth, flesh that is 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.

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 a husbanduan, and he plaited a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by saw the nakedness of his father, and man shall his blood be shed: for in told his two brethren without. the image of God made he man. 21 And Shex and Japheth took a gar 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and inulti-meat, and laid it upon both their ply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

8

And God spake unto Noah, and to his sous with him, saying,

9 And 1, behold, I establish my cove nant with you, amd 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 ever, beast of the earth.

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

12 And God said, 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:

I do get my bow in the cloud, and

shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father: and 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; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26 And he said, Blessed be 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 shall 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.

TOW these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham

Generations

CHAP. XI.

of Noak

and Japheth; and unto them were Japheth the elder, even to him were Bons born after the flood. children born.

2 T The sous of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Mada, and Javan, and Tubal, and Mesnech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Ripbath, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodnim. 5 By these were the isles of the Gen tiles 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 Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Ran mah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Custi begat Nimrod; he begaa to be a mighty oue in the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said, 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 Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Re hoboth, and Calah,

22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Assur, aud Arphaxad, and Lu, and Aram.

23 And the children of Aram, Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat hoer.

25 And unto her were born two sons: the name of one towa Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name sear Joktan. 2 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and H«zarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 And Haderam, and Uzal, and Diklat,

28 Aud Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and 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, in their nations, and by these were the 12 And Resen between Nineveh and nations divided in the earth after the Calah: the samne is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and namim, and Lehabim, and Naph 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Capitori.

15 T And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amo rite, and the Girgasite,

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

flood.

CHAP. XL.

AND the whole earth was of one

language, and of one speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they jour neyed from the east, that they found a plan in the land of Sainar; and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zeus a city, and a tower, whose top may marite, and the Hamathite: and after-reach to heaven; and let us make us wards were the families of the Ca-ja name, lest we be scattered abroad naanites spread abroad. upon the face of the whole earth. 19 And the border of the Canaanites 5 And the LORD came down to see was from Sidon, as thou comest to the city and the tower, which the chil Gerar, unto Gaza; asthou goest unto dren of men builded. Sodom, aud Gomorrah, and Admah, 6 And the Loup said, Behold, the and Zebolim, even unto Lasha. people is one, and they have all one 20 These are the sons of Ham, after language; and this they begin to do: their families, after their tongues, in and now nothing will be restrained their countries, and in their nations. from them, which they have imagin21 Unto Shem also, the father of all ed to do. the children of Eber, the brother of

7 Go to, let us go down, and there 11

Babel built.

GENESIS.

confound their language, that they may not understand one 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.

10 These are the generations of Shem: Shein teas a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.

Abram called. 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 Abrain's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31 ¶ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran 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

11 And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years, and became unto Haran, and dwelt there. gat sous and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah.

13 And Arphaxad lived, after he be gat Salah, four hundred and three years, and begat sous 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 sons 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 sons 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 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 sous and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nalor.

23 And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

CHAP. XII.

JOW the LORD had said unto

NAbram, Get thee out of thy coun

try, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:

2 And I 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: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4 T 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.

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 Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

25 And Nalior lived, after he begat 7 And the LOND appeared unto Terah, a hundred and nineteen years, Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will and begat sous and daughters. I give this land: and there builded he 26 And Terah lived seventy years, an altar unto the LORD, who appearand begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran, ed unto him.

27 Now these are the generations 8 And he removed from thence unto of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, a mountain on the east of Bethel, and ad Haran; and Harau begat Lot. pitched his teat, having Beth clothe

Famine in Canaan

CHAP. XIII.

Abram and Lot. west, and Hai on the east; and there place where his tent had been at the be builded an altar unto the LORD, beginning, between Beth-el and Har; and called upon the name of the LORD. 4 Unto the place of the altar, which 9 And Abrun journeyed, going on he had in dle there at the first: and still toward the south. there Abrain called on the tune of the LORD.

10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into 5 And Lot also, which went with AEgypt to sojourn there: for the famine bram, bad flocks, and bends, and tents. toas grievous in the land. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, the berdinen of Lot's cattle: and the when the Egyptians shall see thee, Cananuite and the Perrazite dwell then that they shall say, This is his wife in the land.

11 And it came to pass, when he was come uear to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

and they will kill me, but they wills And Abram said unto Lot, Let save thee alive. there be no strife, I pray thee, between 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my me and thee, and between my herdsister: that it may be well with me men and thy herdmen; for we be for thy sake; and my soul shall 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.

brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou to li take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the

15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw left. her, and commended her before Pha- 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and raol: and the woman was taken into beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it Pharaoh's house. as well watered every where, be 16 And he entreated Abram well for fore the LORD destroyed Sodom and her sake: and he bad sheep, and oxen, Gomorrah, even as the garden of the and he asses, and men-servants, and LORD, like the hand of Egypt, as thou maid servants, and she-asses, and comest unto Zoar.

camels.

17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

18 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?

19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom were wick ed, and sinners before the LoRD ex ceedingly.

14 And the LORD said unto Abram, 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men after that Lot was separated from him, concerning him: and they sent him Lift up now thine eyes, and look from away, and his wife, and all that he the place where thou art, northward, jand southward, and eastward, and westward:

had.

CHAP. XIII.

AND Abram were up out of Egypt, 15 For all the land which thou seest be, and his wife, and all that he to thee will I give it, and to thy seed bad, and Lot with him, into the south. for ever. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the

16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 13