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LIST OF THE MAPS AND PLATES IN THE FAMILY BIBLE,

With Directions to the Binder for placing them.

MAPS.

I. The World as known to the ancients, shewing the dispersion and settling of} At the beginning of Genesis.

nations by the descendants of Noah.......

II. Mesopotamia, &c. adapted to the histories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ......At Gen. xii. 1.
III. The journeyings and encampments of the Israelites in the wilderness.......... ...To face Exod. xiii. 1.
IV. Canaan, illustrating the books of Joshua and Judges
V. The dominions of David and Solomon

VI. The kingdoms of Judah and Israel

VII. Palestine, illustrating the New Testament........

.At Joshua i.
.....To face 1 Kings iv. 21-24.
.................................At 1 Kings xii. 1.

At the beginning of the New
Testament.

VIII. The places mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, illustrating St. Paul's} At the beginning of the Acts.

travels.........

IX. Jerusalem, with the neighbouring country .....

{Testament.

At the beginning of the New

PLATES.

1. The tabernacle of the wilderness, altar of burnt offerings, &c.

2. The table of shewbread, the altar of incense, &c

3. The high priest in his robes

4. The plan of the Temple.

xxviii. 4.

1 Kings vi.

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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES,

CALLED

GENESIS.

INTRODUCTION.

THE first five Books of the Bible, commonly called the Pentateuch, were composed by Moses, as the concurrent testimonies of all ages declare ; and as hath ever been firmly believed by the Jews, with whom the fact continues to this day to be one of the thirteen articles of their creed. The word "Pentateuch" is of Greek original; being compounded of two words, signifying five, and book, or volume. It was probably first prefixed to the Greek version of the "Septuagint," or seventy translators; to denote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy: all of which had been written by the hand of Moses in Hebrew, probably in the order in which they now stand, though not distributed by their author into Books, but forming one continued work.

The first book is usually entitled Genesis, from a Greek word, which signifies generation; and is so called, because it contains the history of the Creation of the World, and the genealogy of the Patriarchs.

Moses was assisted by the Holy Spirit in the composition of this important work, which forms a proper introduction to the laws and judgments delivered in the subsequent books. The description, which he gives in it, of the Creation, as relating to circumstances before the existence of mankind, could be derived only from immediate revelation. As to subsequent events, the Israelites must have been able to judge by tradition how far the account of Moses was consistent with truth. For that tradition was conveyed from Adam to Moses through seven intermediate persons; namely, Methuselah, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, and Amram, the father of Moses. The sacred character of the book is established by the internal evidence of its inspiration; by the revealed history of the Creation of the World; by the several predictions, afterwards fully accomplished; and lastly by the testimony of our Saviour and his Apostles, who have cited from it, in the New Testament, at least twenty-seven passages, word for word, and thirty-eight according to the sense.

This book comprehends a period of 2369 years, or thereabouts. It begins with the history of the Creation of the world in six days, and contains also an account of the disobedience and punishment of Adam and Eve; the increase of mankind; the progress of wickedness; the general destruction of the human race by the deluge, except Noah and his family, who were miraculously preserved in the ark; the promise of God, that the world should no more be destroyed by a flood; the confusion of tongues, and the dispersion of the descendants of Noah; the call of Abraham, and the covenant of God with him; the repetition of that covenant with Isaac and Jacob; the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; the history of Joseph; and the settlement of the Israelites in Egypt. This is the oldest book in the world. And it is remarkable, that the books which come nearest to it in age are those which make either the most distinct mention of, or the most evident allusion to, the facts related in Genesis, concerning the formation of the world from a chaotick mass, the primeval innocence and subsequent fall of man, the longevity of mankind in the first ages of the world, the depravity of the antediluvians, and the destruction of the world by a deluge. Dr. Gray, Bp. Tomline, Gisborne, Bp. Watson.

Before CHRIST 4004.

CHAP. I.

1 The creation of heaven and earth, 3 of the
light, 6 of the firmament, 9 of the earth se-
parated from the wuters, 11 and made fruit-
ful, 14 of the sun, moon, and stars, 20 of
fish and fowl, 24 of beasts and cattle, 26 of

Chap. I. ver. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. In the beginning of time, God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, made, of nothing, the whole great and goodly frame of the world; both the VOL. I.

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