28 And 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 to 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 nations divided in the earth after the flood. CHAP. XI. Before CHRIST, 1998. 1 Heb. lip. 2 Heb. 3 Heb. a to his 1 One language in the world. 3 The building neighbor. 4 Heb. burn AND the whole earth was of one ilan-thing. guage, and of one 2 speech. 2 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 And зthey said one to another, come, let us make brick, and 4 burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. That is, confusion. 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 Reu lived two and thirty years, and Serug. 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred 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. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat & Terah. 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 ¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, 1 Ch. 1. 17. and Haran: and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died 6 before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur 4 And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach 1 Chr. 1.19. of the Chaldees. to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered 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 were building. 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. c called, Luke 3. 35. Phalec. 7 Come, let us go down, and there d Luke 3.35. 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 5 Babel, because the LORD there confounded the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Saruch. Luke 3. 34. Josh. 24. 2. 1 Chr. 1. 26. 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 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 came to Haram, 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 blesseth him with a promise of Christ. 4 He departeth with Lot from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, 7 Which is promised him in a vision. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt. 11 Fear maketh him feign his wife to be his sister. 14 Pharaoh having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her. NOW the LORD had said to Abram, Depart from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to 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: band in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed from 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 to go forth into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To thy seed will I give this land: and there he erected an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him. Before CHRIST, 1921. cc. 13. 15. 8 And he removed from thence to a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he erected an altar to the LORD, and called dc. 13. 4. upon the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, 1 going on still towards the south. 10 ¶ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there; for the famine was grievous in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: 12 Therefore it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, 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 shall live because of thee. 14 And it came to pass, that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyp tians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 1 Heb. in go ing and 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh and the woman was taken into a c. 12. 7. Pharaoh's house. 16 And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and cam els. 17 And the Lord afflicted 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 to me? why didst thou not tell me that she thy wife? 19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me for a 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 he had. CHAP. XIII. 1 Abram and Lot return out of Egypt: 7 By disagreement they part asunder. 10 Lot goeth to wicked Sodom. 14 God reneweth the promise to Abram: 18 He removeth to Hebron, and there raiseth an altar. ND Abram returned from Egypt, 1 Heb. men brethren. b c. 12. 7. & 26.4. Deut. 34. 4. Abe, and his wife, and all that he had, 2 Heb. and Lot with him, into the south. 2 plains. 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, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; a 4 To the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. 5 And Lot also, who 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 substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 8 And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are 1 brethren, 9 Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou wilt 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 well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest to Zoar. 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 towards Sod om. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, and sinners before the LORD, exceedingly. 14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 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. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee. 18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the 2 plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD. CHAP. XIV. 1 The battle of four kings against five. 12 Lot is taken prisoner: 14 Abram rescueth him. 18 Melchisedek blesseth Abram. 20 Abram giveth him tithe: 22 The rest of the spoil, his partners having had their portions, he restoreth to the king of Sodom. AND it came to pass in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; 2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. Before CHRIST, 1926. 1 or, the 3 All these were joined together in the plain of vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. Kiriathaim. 2 or, the 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in 1 Shaveh Kiria-3or, led thaim, forth. 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, to 2 El-paran, which is by the wilderness. 7 And they returned, and came to En-4or, inmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon tamar. structed. a 2 Sam. 18. 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, (the same is Zoar;) Heb. 7. 1. and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; 9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four 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 Sod-Heb. 7. 4. om and Gomorrah, and all their provis ions, and went their way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram's broth er'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 3 armed his 4 trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them to Dan. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the most high God, who hath delivered thy enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the 5 persons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted my hand to the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. CHAP. XV. 1 God encourageth Abram. 2 Abram complaineth for want of an heir. 4 God promi seth him a son and a multiplying of his seed. 6 Abram is justified by faith. Ca naan is promised again, and confirmed by a sign, 12 and a vision. AFTER these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding a great reward. 2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, 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 my heir. 4 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, This shall not be thy heir; but he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thy heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, 5 Heb. souls. and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, & So shall thy seed be. a Ps. 16. 5. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 7 And he said to 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, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said to him, Take me a 15 And he divided himself against Rom. 4. 18. heifer of three years old, and a she-goat them, he and his servants by night, and smote them, and pursued them to 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 slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. a 18 And Melchisedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. e Rom. 4. 3. Jam. 2. 23. d Acts 7. 6. of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds he did not divide. 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 lò, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said to Abram, Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger CHAP. XVI. XVII. 1 Sarai being barren giveth Hagar to Abram. 6 Hogar being afflicted for despising her mistress, runneth away. 9 An angel sendeth her back to submit herself, 11 and telleth her of her child. 15 Ishmael is born. Now children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. TOW Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him 2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold, now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee go in to my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptain, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. 4. builded by Heb. that which is good in 10 And the angel of the LORD said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the LORD said to her, Behold, thou a with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name + Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 13 And she called the name of the LORD that spoke to her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? 14 Wherefore the well was called b Beer-la-hai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15 And Hagar bore Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was eighty six years thine eyes.old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. 3 Heb. af- 4 That is, c. 25. 18. & c. 24. 62. 5 That is, the well of seeth me. 4¶ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she a c. 5. 22. had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, my wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes the LORD judge between me and thee. 1 or, up right, or, Heb. mul titude of nations. CHAP. XVII. 15 5 Abram's 1 God reneweth the covenant. name is changed in token of a greater blessing. 10 Circumcision is instituted. Sarai's name is changed, and she blessed. 16 Isaac is promised. 23 Abraham and Ishmael are circumcised. ND when Abram was ninety and A nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God; a walk before me, and be thou perfect. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of 2 many nations. 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee; and kings shall proceed from thee. 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee. be their God. 9 ¶ And God said to Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee, in their genera 8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land 3 in which thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, 6 But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her 2 as Rom. 4. 17. for an everlasting possession; and I will it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai 3 dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. 7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt Acts 7. 6. thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 3 Heb. of thy 9 And the angel of the LORD said to d Acts 7. 8. her, Return to thy mistress, and submit Rom. 4. 11. thyself under her hands. tions. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee; Every male-child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 14 And the uncircumcised male-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circum 2 a And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant : 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree : 5 And I will bring a morsel of bread, and 1 comfort ye your hearts; after that cised, that soul shall be cut off from his Lev. 12. 3. you shall pass on: for therefore 2 are ye people; he hath broken my covenant. 15 And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. Luke 2. 21. John 7. 22. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also by her: yea, I will bless her, 5 Heb. she and 5 she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall proceed from her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham said to God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! 19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him: 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year. 22 And he ceased talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. shall become nations. f c. 18. 10. & 21. 2. c. 25. 16 a Heb. 13. 2. come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, 3 Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. 7 And Abraham ran to the herd, and brought a calf tender and good, and gave it to a young man; and he hasted to dress it. 8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they ate. 9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 10 And he said, I will certainly return to thee according to the time of life; and lo, & Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and far advanced in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of wo 13 And the LORD said to Abraham, 1 Heb. stay. Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall Í certainly bear a child, who am old? 23 T And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's 2 Heb. you house; and circumcised the flesh of their have passforeskin, in the same day, as God had said to him. 24 And Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his fore-skin. ed. 14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return to thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. 16 And the men rose up from thence, 3 Heb. Has and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen ten. years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his fore-skin. 26 In the same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. b c. 17. 19. & 27 And all the men of his house, born 21.2. in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. CHAP. XVIII. 1 Abraham entertaineth three angels. 9 Sa. rah is reproved for laughing at the strunge promise. 17 The destruction of Sodom is revealed to Abraham; 23 Abraham maketh intercession for the inhabitants. 17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be a blessed in him? 19 For I know him, that he will com1 Pet. 3. 6. mand his children and his household after him, and they will keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. dc. 12. 3. & ND the LORD appeared to him in Acts 3. 25. A the plains of Mamre, and he sat in Gal. 3. 8. the tent door in the heat of the day; 20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; |