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GENESIS.

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CHAP. I.

20 [ And God said, Let the waters bring “N the beginning God created the heaven forth abundantly the moving creature mai and the earth.

hath life, and fowl thut may Ay above the 2 And the earth was without form, and earth in the open firmament of heaven. void; and darkness was upon the face of the 21 And God created great whales, and cv deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon every living creature that inoveth, which the the face of the waters.

waters brought forth abundantly, afier their 31 And God said, let there be light: and kind, and every winged fowl alter his kind: There was light.

and God saw that it was good. 4 Aud God saw the lighe, that it was good; 22 Avd God blessed them, saying, De fruit. and God divided the light from the darkness. ful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the

5 And God called the light Day, and the seas, and let lowl multiply in the earth. darkness he called Night. And the evening 23 And the cvening and the morning were and the inoruing were the first day. the tirih day.

6 11 And God said, Let there be a firma- 24 | And God said, Let the eartlı bring mere in the midst of the waters, and let it forth the living creature after his kind, callie divide the waters from the waters.

and creeping thing, and beast of the carth 7 And God made the firmament, anu di- alier his kind: and it was so. vided ihe waters which were under the fir- 25 And God made the beast of the earth mament from the waters which were above afier his kind, and catile after their kind, and the firmament: and it was so.

every thing that creepeuh upon the earth alier 8. And God calicd the firmament Heaven. bis kind : and God saw that it wus good. And the evening aud the inorning were the 26 11 And God said, Let us make man in second day.

cur image, after our likeness; and let them 911 And God said, Let the walers under liave dominion over the fish or the sea, and the heaven be gathered together unto one over t'ie fowl of the air, and over the cattie, place, and let the dry land appear: and it and over all the earth, and over every creep

ing thing that creepeth upon the earth. 10 And God called the dry lunil Earth; and 27 S, God created man in his own jinage: tie gathering together of the waters called in the image of God created lie him; male be seas: andriod saw tiat it was good. and female created he thiem.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth And God blessed them, and God s.id grass, the hero yielling seedl, arvi the fruit. 'unto them, Ee fruitful, and multiply, and re. iree yielding fruit aster his kind, whose seed plenish lie cart!, and subdue ii; and have is in itsell, upon the earth: and it was so. dominion over the fish of the sea, and over

12 And the earth brouglit forth grass, anıl the fowl of the air, and over every living herb yielding seed after his kind, and the thing that inovath upon the earth. trce yiekling fruit, whose seed roas in itsell, 29 1 And Gord said, Behold, I have given aller his kind : and God saw that it was good. you every fierb beaumg seed, wirich is upon

13 And the evening and the morning were the face of all the earıh, and every tree, in the third day.

Wie which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; 14 I And God said, Let there be lights in to you it sdali be for ineat. the firmament of the heaven, to divide the 30 And w every heas of the earth, and 10 day from the niglit; and let them be för signs, every fowl of the air, and !o every thing that and for seasons, and for days, and years : creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is lite,

15 Aud leithein be for lights in the firina- 1 haie giver every green lierl fur ineul: and rent of the leaven, to give light upon the it was so. carth: and it was so.

31 And Gud saw every thing that lie bud 16 And God made two great liglils; the made, and, behold, it was very good. And greater liglit to rule the day, and the lesser the evening and the morning were die sixth light to rule the right: he maile the stars also. day. 17 And God set thein in the firmament or

CHAP. II. the heaven, lo give lig lit upon the earth,

T'I 18 Ànd to rule over the day and over the

THUS the heavens and the earth were

finisiied, and all the host of them. nigbe, and to divide the light from the drrk- 2 And on the seventh day God ended his Bess: and God saw that it was good. work which he had made ; and he rested on

:9 And the evening and the niorning were ibe seventh day from all his work which le the fourth day,

Mhad made

13 But there went up a mist from the cart... Nawy beast cor the field which the LORD

3 And GW blessed the seventh day, and 29 And the ro, which the LORD God bad AX-tified it; because that in it be liad rese-itaken from man, made ne a woman, ana ed from all his work which God createalurought her into the man. and made.

3 And Adam said, This is now bcne of + These are the generations of the hea- my bones, and Resh of my flesh : she shall vens and of the earth when they were crea-jbe called Woman, because she was taken ted, in the day that the LokD had made the out of inan. earth and the heavens,

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father 5 And every plant of the field before it and liis mother, and shall cleave unto bis was in the earth, and every hierb of the field wile; and they shall be one fesio. before it grew: for the Lord God liad roll 25 And they were both naked, the man caused it to rain upon the earth, and there and bis wife, and were not ashamed. wus not a man to till the ground.

CIIAP. III.

serpent was more than and watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the LORD God forned man of the God had made. And he said unto the wodust of the ground, and breathed into his man, Tea, liath God said, Ye shall not eat nosti ils the breath of life ; and inau became of every tree of the garden? a living soul.

2 And the wounau said unto the serpent, 8 f And the LORD God planted a gar- We inay eat of the fruit of the trees of the den eastware in Eden ; and there he put the garden: man whom lie had formed.

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in 9 and out of the ground made the Lord the inidst of the garden, Goul hatlı said, Yc Cod to grow every tree that is pleasant to shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, the siglie, and good for food: the tree of life lest ye die. also in the midst of the garden, and the tree 1 And the serpent said unto the woman, ri' knowledge of good and evil.

Ye shall not surely die : 10! And a river went out of Eden to wa. 5 For God doth know, that in the day ye ver the garden ; and from thence it was part-cat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened ; od and becaine into four heads.

and

ye shall be as gods, knowing good and 11 The name of the first is Pison. that is evil. it which compasserh the whole land of He- 6 1 And when the woman saw that the wilah, where there is gold;

tree was good for food, and that it was plea12 And the gold of that land is good: there sant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired 10 is bdellium and the onyx-stone.

make one wise, she look of the fruit thereof, 13 And the name of the second river is and did cat ; and gave also unto hier husGihon : the same is it that compassetli the band with her, and le did eat. whole land of Ethiopia.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, 14 And the name of the third river is Hid- and they h new that they were naked; and !ekel: that is it which goeth toward the east they sewed fig-leaves together, and muje * Asyria. And the fourth riveris Euphrates. theirselves aprons.

151 Ami the LORD (iod took the inan, 8 And they heard zlıe voice of the Lord and put liiin into the garden of Eden, to God walking in the garden in the cool of the Jress it, and to keep it.

day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves 10 And the LORD God commanded the from the presence of the LORD God amongst man, sayir;,Of every tree of the garden the tees of the garden. thou mayest freely eat ;

9 S And the LORD God called unto Adam, 17 Bat of the tree of the knowledge of and said unto liim, Where art thou? good and evil, thou shall not eat of it : for 10 And lie said, I heard thy voice in the in the day that thou eatest diereof thou shall garden, and I was afraid, because I was Burely die.

naked ; and I hid niyself. 13! And the LORD God said, Il is not 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou gol that the man should be alone; I will wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, mike him an help meet for him.

whereof I coinmanded thee that thou should 19 And out of the ground the Lord God est not eat? formed every beast of the field, and every 12 And the man said, The woman, whom fowl of the air, and brought them unto thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of Adam, to see what lie would call thein: and the tree, and I did cat. whatsoever Adam called every living crea

13 And ibe LORD God said unto the wo. Lure, that was the name thereof.

man, What is this thal thou hast dune? And 20 And Adam gave naines to all cattle, the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and to the fowl of the air, and :o every beast and I did eal. of the field: but for Adain there was not 14 | And the LORD God said unto the serfound an belp meel for liim.

pent, Because thou hast done this, thoa art 21 ! Add Die Lorn God caused a deep cursed above all cattle, and above every sleep to fall upon Adam, and lie slept : and beast of the field: upoa thy belly shalt thou he took one of his rils, and closed up the go, and dust slialt thou eat all the days of thy

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16 And I will put enmity between thee 9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Illiera and the woman, and between thy seed and is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know her seed: it shall bruise thy nead, and thoa uo: Am I my brother's keeper? shalt bruise bis heel.

10 And lie said, What liast thou done: the 16 91 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me multiply thy sorrow and thy conception: in from the ground: sorrow thou shall bring forth children, and 11 And nowart thou cursed from the earth, thy desire shall be to thy husband, and be wlich hath opened her mouth to receive thy shall rule over thee.

brother's blood from thy band. 17 And unto Adaid he said, Because thou 12 When tion tillesi the ground, it shal! bast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, not henceforth yield unto thee her streagth: and last paten of the tree, of which I com- a fugitive und á vagabond shalt thou be in manded thee, saying, Thou shalt nul eat of the earth. it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in 13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My pusorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy nishment is greater than I can bear. üle.

14 Behold, uiou hast driven me oui this !! Thorns also and thistles shall it bring day from the face of the earth; and froire forth lo tliee; and thou shall eat the herb of thy face shall I he liid; and I slali be a lis. the field:

gitive and a vagabond in the eartu : and it 19 In the sweat of alıy fure shalt thou eat shall come to pass, that every one that finde bread, till thcu return unto the ground; for eth me sha!! slay me. out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, 15 And the Lord said unto him, There. and unto dust shalt thou return.

fore whosoever slayetli Cain, vengeance shall 20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; be taken on him seven-fold. And the LORD because she was the mother of ail living. set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding liin

21 1 Unto Adam also, and to his wife, should kill hiin. did the LORD God make coats of skins, and 16 And Cain went out from the presence clothed them.

or ilie Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, 22 1 And the LORD God said, Beliold, the on the east of Eden. man is become as one of us, to know good 17 ! And Cain knew his wife; and she and evil: and now, lest be put forth his land, conceived, and bare Enoch: and lie buikhe-J and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and a cily, and called the name of the city, astes live for ever;

the naine of his son, Froch. 23 Therefore the LORD God sent bin forth 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: ana from the garden of Eden, lo till the ground trad begat Mehujeel: and Mehujael begat from whence lie was taken.

Methusacl: and Methusael beyai Lamech. 24 So he drove out the man: and he placed 19 | And Lamech took uuto liin two at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, wives: the naine of the one was Adah, and apda flaming sword which turned every way, the name of the utlicr 2illahı. to keep the way of the tree of life.

20 And Adalı bare Jabal: he was the father CHAP. IV.

of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have

caule. conceived, and bare Cain, and said, 2 And his brother's name was Jubal: lie I have gotten a man froin the LOR). was the father of all such as handle the harp

2 And she again bare his brolher Abel. and organ. And Abe! was a keeper of sheep, but Caia 22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an was a tiller of the ground.

instructor of every artificer in brass and iron : 3 And in process of time it came to pass, and the sister of Tubal-cuin vos Naunah. Ibat Cain brought of the fruit of tie ground 3 And Lamech said unto his wives, Arial an offering unto the Lord.

and Zillah, bear my voice; ye wives of La. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the first- meclı, hearken unto my speech: for I lave Jings of bis flock, and of the fal thereof. slain a man to my wounding, and a you:

And the LORD had respect unlo Abel, and to man to my suit: - tis offering :

21 If Čain shall be avenged seven-fold, 5 But unto Cain, and to his offering, he truly Lamech seventy aud sevea-fold. ho had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, 25: And Adam kuew his wife again, and and bis countenance fell.

she bare a son, and called bis name Seth: 6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art For God, said she, luth appointed me another

chou wroth? and why is thy countenance sced instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. A fallen?

26 And 10 Seth, to him also there was 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be ac- born a son; and he called his name Enos; wpted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth then began nuen to call upon the naine of

at the door. And unto thee shall be his de- tbe Lonu. 1.6 sire, and thou shalt rule over bim.

CHAP. V. 81 And Cain talked with Abel lis bro. Tills is the book of the generations of ile ther: and it came to pass, wlien they were Adam. In the day that God created

in the field, that Cain rose up again.si Abel man, in the likeness of God made he him. tis brother, utic slew bim.

2 Male and female created he them; and

7 And Set lived, after he begat Enos, cight ANO milioane to pass, when men began

blessed them, and called their name Adam, work and toil of our hands, because of ih in the day when they were created

ground which the Lord bath cursed. S | And Adam lived an hundred and thirty 30 And Lamecho lived, after lie begat Noah verrs, and begat a son in his own likeness, five hundred ninety and five years, and begat after his image; and called his name Seth. sons and daugliters.

4 Anche days of Adam, after he had be- 31 And all the days of Lamech were se. gotten Seia, were eightl:undred years; and ven hundred seventy and seven years : and he legal sons and daughters.

be died. 5 Ånd ail the days that Adam lived were 32 | And Noah was five hundred years nine hundred and thirty years: and he old: and Nuali begat Shem, Ham, and died

Japheth. 6.1 And Seth lived an buadred and five

CHAP. VI. yenrs, and begat Enou.

to multiply on the of hundred and seven years, and begat sous and daughters were born unlo them, daughters.

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters 6 And all the days of Seth were nine hun- of men that they were fair; and they look dred and twelve years: and he died. them wives of all which they chose.

99 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat 3 And the Lord said, My Spirit shall no Cainan.

always strive with man, for that he also is 10 And Enos lived, after he begat Cainan, fleshız yet liis days shall be an hundred and eigl hundred and fifteen years, and begaliwenty years. Bons and daughters.

4 There were giants in the earth in those I! And all the days of Enos were nine days; and also after that, when the sons of hundred and five years: and he died. God came in unto the daughters of men,

12 11 And Cainan lived seventy years, and and tirey bare children to them, the same hegal Mahalaleel.

became miglily men which were of old, men 13 And Cainau lived, aster lıe begat Mahaluf renown. Laleel, eight hundred and forty years, and 5 And Gon saw that the wickedness of horgal solls and daugiters.

man was great in the earth, and that every 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine imagination of the thouglıls of his heart was hundred and ten years: and he died. only evil continually.

15 | And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five 6 And it repented the LORD that lie had vears, and begat Jared.

mnade man on ile earthi, and it grieved liim 1o And Nahalaleel lived, after he begat at his heart. Jared, oight hund:ed and thirty years, and 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man, negui sonland daughters.

whom I have created. from the face of the 17 And all the days of Malalaleel were eartlı; both men and beast, and the creeping right hundred winely and five years: and thing, and the fowls of the air: for it rehe dird.

penieth me that I have made them. 18 | And Jared lived an hundred sixty and 8 But Noa! found grace in the eyes of the two years, and he begat Enoch.

LORD. 19 And Jared livel, after he begat Enoch, 9 | These are the generations of Noah eight hundred years, and begat sons and Noah wis a just man, and perfect in his daughters.

generations, and Noah walked with God. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, hundred sixty and two years: and lie died. Ham, and Japbeth.

21 [ And Enoch lived sixty and live years, 11 The carth also was corrupt before God and begat Methriselah.

and the earth was filled with violence. 242 And Enoch walked with God, after he 12 And God looked upon the earth, and begat Methuselalı, three hundred years, and behold, it was corrupt; for all Nesh had corbegat sons and daughters.

rupted his way upon the earth. 23 And sil the days of Enoch were three 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of indred sixty and five years,

Wall flesh is come before me; for the earth 24 And noch walked with God, and is filled with violence through them; and, was not; for God look luim.

20 l And Methuselah lived an hundred 14 | Make thee an ark of gopher-wood: eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech. rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shak

26 And Methuselah lived, after he begat pitch it within and without with pitch. Lamech, seven birindred eiglity and iwo 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt years, and begat sons and daughters. make it of: The length of the ark shall be

07 And all the days of Meihuselah were three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fisiy nine hundred sixty and nine years: and be cubils, and the height of it thirty cubits. died.

16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, 28 | And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and and iwo years, and begat a son;

the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, thereof: with lower, second, and third stories

17 And, beholl, I, even I, do bring a flood after liis kind, wd every fuwl after his kind, of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, every bird of every sor!. wherein is the breath of life, from under 15 And they went in unto Noah into the 'heaven; and every thing that is in the earth ark, two and iwo of all fieshi, wherein is the shall die.

breath of life. 18 But with thee will I establish my cose- 16 And they that went in, went in male pant; and thou shall come into the ark, and se:nale of all flesh, as Goul bad comth, and thy, sons, and tlıy wife, and thy manded him: and the Lord shut hi:n in. &as' wives with thee.

17 | And the food was forty days upon 19 And of every living thing of all Nesh, the earth; anıl the waters increased, and [wo of erery sort shalt thou bring into the bare up the ark, and it was lified up above ark, to keep them alive with thee; they the earih. suall be male and female.

18 And the walers prevailed, and were 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle increased greatly u; on the earth; and the afier their kind, of every creeping thing of ark went upon the face of the waters. tle earth after his kind, two of every sort 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly eball come unto thee, lo keep them alive. upon the earth; and all the high hills that

21 And take thou unto thee of all food that were under the whole heaven were covered. is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters is shall be for food for th:ee, and for them. prevail; and the mountains were covered.

22 Tuns did Noah; according to all that 21 [ And all flesh died that moved upon God commanded him, so did ke.

the carth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and CHAP. VII.

of beast, and of every creeping thing that ND the Lord said unto Noah, Come creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

thou, and all thy house, into the ark: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of for thee have I seen righteous before me in life, of all that was in die dry land, died. ibis generation.

23 And every living substance was destrov2 Or every clean beast thou shall take to ed which was upon the face of the ground, thee by sevens, the male and his semale; and both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and the fowl of the heaven; and they were and bis female.

destroved from the earth : and Noah only re3 or fowls also of the air by sevens, the mair: "d alive, and they that were with hiin in male and the female; to keep seed alive the ark. upon the face of all the earth.

24 1 And he waters prevailed upon the 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to earth an hundred and bly days. rain upon the earth forly days and forty

CHAP. VII. nights, and every living substance that I have made will I destroy trom off the face of AND God remembered Noah, and every

living thing, and all the cattle that ras the earth.

with him in the ark: and God made a wind 5 And Noah did according urto all that to pass orti the earth, and the waters asthe Lord commanded him.

suaged; 6 And Noaliwas six hundred years old when The fountains also of the deep, and the the flood of walers was upon the earthi. windows of heaven, were stopped, and the

71 And Noalı went in, and his sons, and rain from heaven was restrained; his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into 3 And the waters returned from off the the ark, because of the waters of une flood. earth continually: and after the end of the

80s clean beasts, and of beasts that are not hundred, and fifty days the waters were clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that abater. creepeth upon the earth,

4 | And the ark rested in the seventh 9 There went in two and two unto Noalijionih, on the seventeenth day of the inonth, into the ark, the male and the female, as Gud upon the mountains of Ararai. tad commanded Noah.

5 And the waters decreased continually 10% Anditcame to pass,asterseven days,that until the tenth month: in the tenth month, the waters of the flood were upon the earth. on the first day of the montli, were the cops

11 In the six hundredth year of Noali's life, of zhe mountains seen. in the second month, ilin sevenleerth day of 61 And it came to pass, at the end of forty the month, the same aay were all the foun- days, that Noah opened the window of the tains of the great deep broken up, and the ark which lie had made windows of licaven were opened.

7 And he sent forth a raven, wlich went 12 And the rain was upon the earth furly forth to and fro, notil the waters were dried days and forty nights.

up from ofrihe earth. 1:3 In the self-same day entered Noah, and 8 Also he sent forth a dove from hin, to Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of see if the waters were abated from offthe face Nuah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of the ground: of his sous with them, into the ark:

9 Biit the dove found no rest for the sole 14 They, and every beast alier his kind, of her foot, and she returned unto him into and all the cattle after their kind, and everythe ark ; for the waters zoere on the face of fc pirig thing that creepeth upon the earth the whole earth then he put forth his hand.

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