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: 'Shem was an 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 begat Salah: 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: B. C. 2247. CHAP. 11. 1 Chr. 1, 17- m Luke 3, 36. 1 Chr. 1, 19. Or. Phalec, Luke 3, 35. 9 Or, Ragau, Luke 3, 35. 10Or Saruch, 11 Or, Thara, • chap. 12, 1. 1 Chr. 1, 26. 15 And Salah lived after he begat P chap. 12, 4. 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 10 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. chap. 13, 10. 2 Pet. 2, 7. chap. 17, 15. chap. 22, 20. chap. 16, 1. t Neh. 9, 7. Heb. 11, 8. ❝ chap. 10,19. CHAP. 12. Abram departs from Haran. wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 3 And I will bless them that 12 Or, Charan bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and din thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 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. a chap. 15, 7. b chap. 17, 6. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat "Terah: 25 And Nahor lived after he be-a gat Terah an 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, and Haran; and Haran begat » Lot. 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 chap. 24, 35. Ex. 23, 22. chap. 26, 4. chap. 28, 14. Ps. 72. 17. Acts 3, 25. Gal. 3, 8. chap. 11, 31. Heb. 11, & John 4, 5. 9 Deut. 11,30. Judg. 7, 1. chap. 17, 1. i Deut. 34, 4. 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. h 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. 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, 'Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an 'altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of them wives: the name of Abram's chap. 13, 4. | Beth-el, and pitched his tent, hav Abram denieth his wife. GENESIS, XIII. ing Beth-el on the west, and Hai on B. C. 1921. CHAP. 12. 2 Or, Ai, or, 3 in going chap. 26, 1. 10 And there was 'a famine in the land: and Abram "went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the chap. 13, 3. famine was "grievous in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon : 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall 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 T And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that she was very fair. 8 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and sheasses, and 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 Ps. 105, 13. "chap. 43, 1. • chap. 26, 7. P chap. 20, 11. Ps. 25, 21. Eph. 4, 25. chap. 20, 5, 13. Esther 2,16. t chap. 20, 18. " chap. 20. 9. Prov. 21, 1. CHAP. 13. a chap. 24, 35. Abram and Lot separate. all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 2 And Abram was a 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 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 first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. 5 And Lot also, 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 substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 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 unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be 1brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, chap. 12,7,8. from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, d chap. 26, 20. then I will go to the left. chap. 36, 7. 18. • Phil. 2, 14, 1 men breth ren. Ex. 2, 13. chap. 20, 15. Rom. 12, 18. to me to wife: now therefore behold Num. 32, 1. plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed The battle of the kings. GENESIS, XIV. rated 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 unto thee. 18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. CHAPTER XIV. 1 The battle of four kings against five. 12 Lot taken prisoner, 14 is rescued by Abram. 18 Melchizedek blesseth Abram: 20 Abram giveth him tithes. ND it came to pass in the days AND A of Amraphel king of "Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of 'Elam, and Tidal king of nations; B. C. 1918. CHAP. 13. • Isa. 49, 18. P chap. 28, 14. 12 Chr. 20, 7. chap. 26, 4. Num. 23,10. Deut. 1, 10. 1 Chr. 27,23. Jer. 33, 22. Rom. 4, 16. Heb. 11, 12. plains. CHAP. 14. chap. 10, 10. Isa. 11, 11. © Jas. 4, 1. d Deut. 29,23. chap. 19, 22. Deut. 3, 17. 1 Or, the plain of Kiriathaim. the plain of Paran 2 That these made war with BeraOr, 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. 3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 92 Chr. 20, 2. chap. 11, 3. chap. 19, 17, 30. chap. 11, 31. * chap. 13, 12. Jer. 2, 17, 19. ver. 24. m chap. 13, 8. forth. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that Or, led were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in 'Shaveh Kiriathaim, 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto 2 El-paran, which is by the wilderness. 7 And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar. 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, 4 Or, instructed. * chap. 17, 27. chap. 15, 3. Eccles. 2, 7. Deut. 34. 1. Judg. 18, 29. Isa. 41, 2. P1 Sam. 30, 8, 18, 19. 12 Sam. 18,18. Heb. 7, 1, 2. Ps. 110, 4. Melchizedek blesseth Abram. and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, (the same is Zoar;) 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 "slimepits; 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 Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 4 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born "in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them "unto Dan. 15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto 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. 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 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 Heb. 7,10-22. God, which hath delivered thine Acts. 16, 17. Abram justified by faith. enemies into thy hand. gave him 'tithes of all. GENESIS, XV., XVI. And he 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the "persons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, "the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, 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 which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion, CHAPTER XV. 1 God encourageth Abram: 4 promiseth him a son and a numerous seed: 6 he is justified by faith. 7 Canaan is again promised, and confirmed by a sign and a vision. AFT B. C. 1913. CHAP. 14. 'Heb. 7. 4. 5 souls. "Dan. 12, 7. Rev. 10, 5. Ps 24, 1. w Esth. 9. 15. 2 Cor.11,9-12. СНАР. 16. a chap. 46, 2. Isa. 41. 10. • Ps. 58, 11. Ps. 84, 9, 11. Heb. 11, 6. d chap. 17, 16. 2 Sam. 7, 12. Ps. 147, 4. Ex. 32, 13. Heb. 11, 12. Rom. 4, 3-6, 20-25. Gal. 3, 6. FTER these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in Ps. 106, 31. "a vision, saying, "Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding Acts 7, 2. '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 mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, 'So shall thy seed be. j Judg. 6, 36-40. Canaan again promised. she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 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, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that 'thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall mafflict them "four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 0 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not 1 Sam. 14,9, yet full. 10. 2 Ki. 20, 8. * chap. 2, 21. ¡Ex. 1, 1. Ex. 1, 11. • Ex. 6, 6. P chap. 25, 8. Matt. 23, 32. 1 Thess. 2, 2 Pet. 3, 8, 9. chap. 17, 8. Deut. 1. 7. Num. 34, 3. 2 Chr. 9, 26. Neh. 9, 8. Ps. 105, 11. CHAP. 16. a Judg. 13, 2. Luke 1, 7. 1 Or, Agar. Gal. 4. 24. chap. 30. 2. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and 1a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed "have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. CHAPTER XVI. 1 Sarai being barren, giveth Hagar to Abram. 6 Hagar fleeth from her mistress, 9 is sent back by an angel to submit to her. 15 Ishmael is born. OW him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was 1Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. B. C. 1911. CHAP. 16. 2 be builded < Prov. 30. 23. 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her dEx. 5, 21. husband Abram to be his wife. 4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said unto 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. 6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai 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 thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will "multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name 'Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. his 12 And he will be a wild man; 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 spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? 14 Wherefore the well was called 3 that which 4 afflicted chap 25, 18. Eph. 6, 5-9. 18. Mal. 3, 1. chap. 25, 12. That is. God shall hear. Ex. %, 23, 24. chap. 25, 18. 6 That is, The and seeth me. Abram's name changed. "Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is be- 15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. CHAPTER XVII. 1 The covenant is renewed. 5 Abram's name ND when Abram was ninety AND years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; "walk before me, and be thou 'perfect. upright 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 5 Neither shall thy name any more 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everRom. 9,7-9. lasting possession; and I will be their God. chap. 26, 24. 4 of thy so- / Ex. 6, 7. Ps. 25, 10. Rom. 4, 11. 5 a son of 9 ¶ And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every manchild 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. 12 And he that is eight days old |