Noah's prophecy. CHAP. X. The generations of Noah. 15 And I will remember my cove-18 And Cush begat Nimrod: he want, which is between me and you, began to be a mighty one in the and every living creature of all flesh; earth. and the waters shall no more become a flood to deftroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting cove. mant between God and every living creatitre of all flesh that is upon the carto 17 And God faid unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I kave eftablished between me and all filem that is upon the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is faid, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. IOAnd 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 Ashur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Refen between Nineveh and Calah: the fame is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and 18 And the fons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Elam, and Japheth: and Ham is the Naphtuhim, father of Canaan. 14 And Pathrufim, and Cafluhim, 19 There are the three fons of No-out of whom came Philiftim, and ah, and of them was the whole earth overípread. 20 And Noah began to be an hufbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered wrhin his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, faw the nakedness of his father, and teid his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a gament, and laid it upon both their Rouiders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were backward, and they faw not their father's nakedness. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger fon had done unto him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a fervant of fervants shall he be unto has brethren. 26 And he faid, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his fervant. 17 God fhall enlarge Japheth, and he thall 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 CHAP. X. TOW these are the generations of Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firft-born, and Heth, 16 And the Jebufite, and the Amorite, and the Girgafite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite and af terward were the families of the Canaanites spread 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 Lasha. 20 These 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. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Ashur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mafh. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two fons the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and and Hazarmaveth, and Now there of the generation and Japheth: and unto them were fars torn after the flood. 2 The fons of Japheth; Gomer, ant Magog, and Madai, and Javan, Ied, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the fons of Gomer; AshkeRaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the fons of Javan; Elifshah, Tariah, Kittim, and Dodanim. By thefe were the ifles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every austr lia tongue, after their fami le their nations. And the fons of Ham; Cush, and Mzam, and Phut, and Canaan. And the fons of Cush; Seba, and hatilah and Sabtah, and Raamah, and wah: and the fons of Raamah; Stela, and Dedan. Jerah, Diklah, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the fons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Metha, as thou goeft unto Sephar, a mount of the eaft. 21 These arethe fons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32 There are the families of the fons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. The building of Babel. A CHAP. XI. GENESIS. God calletb Abram. Nahor two hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. ND the whole earth was of one language, and of one specch. 2 And it came to pafs, as they jour-ty neyed from the eaft, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they faid one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and flime had they for mortar. 4 And they faid, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whosetop may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, left we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenyears, and begat Terah: 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat fons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now thefe 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 them wives: the name of Abram's wife was 5 And the LORD came down to fee Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, the city and the tower, which the Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the children of men builded. father of Milcah, and the father of 30 But Sarai was barren; she bad no 6 And the LORD faid, Behold, the Ifcah. people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: child. and now nothing will be reftrained 31 And Terah took Abram his fon, 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 another's Speech. and Lot the fon of Haran his fon's fon, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his fon Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 8 So the LORD scattered them 32 And the days of Terah were two abroad from thence upon the face of hundred and five years: and Terah all the earth and they left off to died in Haran. build the city. CHAP. XII. LORD 9 Therefore is the name of it called Northe hdaid unto Babel; becaufe the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: country, and from thy kindred, and and from thence did the LORD scatter from thy father's house, unto a land them abroad upon the face of all the that I will shew thee: earth. 10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years af ter the flood: II 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: And A 13 Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat fons 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 fons 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 fons and daughters. 18 And Peleglived thirty years, and begat Reu: 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat fons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and feven years, and begat fons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 23 And Serug lived after he begat 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 bleffing: 3 And I will blefs them that blefs thee, and curfe him that cur feth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had fpoken unto him; and Lot went with him and Abram feventy and five years old when he departed Tout of Haran. tras 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's fon, and all their fubftance that they had gathered, and the fouls 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 paffed 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 faid, Unto thy feed 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 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 called upon the name o the LORD. Abram goeth into Egypt, CHAP. XIV. God reneweth his promise to bim. And Abram journeyed, going on fill toward the fouth. 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to fojourn there: for the famine a grievous in the land. there be no ftrife, 1 pray thee, be... tween me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? feparate thyself, I pray thee, from 11 And it came to pass, when he me if thou wilt take the left hand, was come near to enter into Egypt, then I will go to the right; or if thou that he faid unto Sarai his wife, Be-depart to the right hand, then I will bold now, I know that thou art a fair go to the left. woman to look upon: 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and 12 Therefore it shall come to pafs, beheld all the plain of jordan, that it when the Egyptians shall fee thee, that they shall fay, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will fave thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my fifter: that it may be well with me for thy fake; and my foul shall live because of thee. 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that he was very fair. 15 The princes alfo of Pharaoh faw ber, and commended her before Pharaon; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's houfé. was well watered every where, before the LORD deftroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comeft unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed eaft: and they separated fep themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, and finners before the LORD, exceedingly. 16 And he entreated Abram well for 14 And the LORD faid unto her fake: and he had theep, and Abram, after that Lot was separated ozen, and he affes, and men fervants, from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and and maid fervants, and she affes, and camels. 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues becufe of Sarai Abram's wife. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and faid, What is this that thou haft done unto me? why didft thou not tell me that the was thy wife? 19 Why faidit thou, She is my fif ter? fo 1 might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take ber, and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded bis men concerning him and they fent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. 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 fubftance was great, fo that they could not dwell together. look from the place where thou art, northward, and fouthward, and eaftward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou feeft, to thee will I give it, and to thy feed for ever. 16 And I will make thy feed as the duft of the earth: fo that if a man can number the duft of the earth, then shall thy feed also be numbered. 17 Arife, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it for 1 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. 4 Twelve years they ferved Che dorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelied. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him; and smote the Rephaims in Achteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 7 And there was a ftrife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle and the 6 And the Horites in their mount Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness. And Abram Faid unto Lot, Let 7 And they returned, and came to B Melchizedek bleffseth Abram. GENESIS. Abram justified by faith. En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take smote all the country of the Amale- their portion. kites, and also the Amorites, that CHAP. XV. welt in Hazezon-tamar the king of Aother things the word of LORD Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I and the king of Admah, and the king am thy shield, and thy exceeding of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, (the great reward. fame 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 Ellafar; four kings with five. 2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, feeing 1 go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damafcus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou haft given no feed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 10 And the vale of Siddim was full of 4 And, behold, the word of the flime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. II And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 12 Andthey took Lot, Abram's brother's fon, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. 13 And there came one that had efcaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eihcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained fervants, 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 fmote them, and purfued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damafcus. 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 faid, Look now toward heaven. and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them and he faid unto him, So shall thy feed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righte oufnefs. 7 And he faid unto 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 faid, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he faid unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a the goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these and divided them in the midft, and laid each piece one againft another: but the birds divided he not. 16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the II And when the fowls came down women alfo, and the people. upon the carcasses, Abram drove them 17 And the king of Sodom went out away. to meet him after his return from the 12 And when the fun was going flaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the down, a deep fleep fell upon Abram. kingsthat were with him, at the valley and, lo, an horror of great darknefs of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. fell upon him. 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he qwas the priest of the most high God. 19 And he bleffed him, and faid, Bleffed be Abram of the most high God, poffeffor of heaven and earth: 20 And bleffed the the most high God, which hath delivered thine ene mies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 13 And he faid unto Abram, Know of a furety that thy feed shall be a ftranger in a land that is not theirs, and fhall ferve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And alfo that nation, whom they shail serve, will 1 judge: and afterward fhall they come out with great fubftance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers 21 And the king of Sodom faidun-in peace; thou shalt be buried in a to Abram, Give me the perfons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram faid to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the poffeffor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a fhoe latchet, and that I will not take any t thing that is thine, left thou shouldeft say, I have made Abram rich: good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the ini quity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the fun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that paffed between those pieces. 18 In that fame day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, faying, Unto 24 Save only that which the young thy feed have I given this land, from men have eaten, and the portion of the river of Egypt unto the great river the men which went with me, Aner, the river Euphrates: Ragar fleeth from Sarai. CHAP. XVII. Circumcision appointed. 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 Camaanites, and the Girgasmites, and the Jebufites. CHAP. XVI. NOW Sarai Abram's wife bare him nochildren: and the had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai faid unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath reftrained CHAP. XVII. A 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, faying, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. me from bearing: I pray thee, go in 5 Neither shall thy name any more sato my maid; it may be that I may be called Abram, but thy name shall in children by her. And Abram be Abraham; hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Cahaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. 4 And he went in unto Hagar, and The conceived: and when the faw that the had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai faid unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bofom; and when the faw that the had conceived, I was defpised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee. 6 But Abram faid unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, the fled from her face. for a father of many nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy feed after thee, in their generations, for an everlafting covenant; to be a God unto thee, and to thy feed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy feed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlafting poffeffion; and I will be their God. 9 And God faid unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy feed after thee in their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy feed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcifed. 7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of waterin the wildermeis, by the fountain in the way to Shur.. 11 And ye shall circumcife the flesh 8 And he faid, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence cameft thou? and whither wilt thou go? and the faid, I flee from the face of my miftrefs Sarai. 9 And the angel of the LORD faid mato her, Return to thy mistress, and Submit thy felf under her hands. 10 And the angel of the LORD faid unto her, I will multiply thy feed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. II And the angel of the LORD faid untoher, Behold, thou art with child, and fhalt bear a fon, and shalt call his hane Khmael; because the LORD hath beard thy afiliction. 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; fhall dwell in the prefence of all his brethren. and he 13 And the called the name of the Lows that spake unto her, Thou God feut me: for the faid, Have I alfo here! looked after him that feeth me? of your forefkin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any ftranger, which is not of thy feed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, muft needs be circumcifed: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcifed man child whofe flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that foul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. 15 And God faid unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a fon alfo of her yea, I will 14 Wherefore the well was called bless her, and she shall be a mother Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between of nations; kings of people shall be of Kade hand Bered. her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and faid in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him 15 And Hagar bare Abram a fon: and Abram called his fon's name, whuh Hagar bare, Ifhmael. 16 And Abram was fourfcore and that is an hundred years old? and fr years old, when Hagar bare lih- fhall Sarah, that is ninety years old, maei to Abrams. bear? |