Of every cican beat thou shalt take to thee by levens, the male and his female; and of heats that are not clean by two, the male and his temale. or als alts of the air by fevens, the make and the female; to keep feed alive upon the race of all the earth. For yet feven days, and will cause it to rain upon the earth torty days and forty ights: and every living fubstance that I have made will destroy from of the face of the earth. 5 And Nosh did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 6 Ae! Nosh was fix hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7▼ And Noan went in, and his fons, and his we, and his fons' wives with him, into the ars, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Ur clean beafts, and of beals that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 20 And it came to pats after feven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. #1 in the fix hundredth year of Noah's life, in the fecond month, the leventeenth day of the meath, the fame day were all the tountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and torty nights. 13 In the feltsaine day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the fons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his fans with them, into the ark : 14 They, and every beat after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every towl after his kind, every bird of every fort. 15 And they went in uato Noah into the ark, two and two of all fleth, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in m'e and female of all fleth, as God had com. manded him: and the LORD that him in. 17 And the flood was forty days upor the earth; and the waters increafed, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increated greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that were under he whole heaven were covered. 20 Firteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21. And all fleth died that moved upon the earth, both of towl, and or cattle, and of beaft, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every min: 22 All whofe nottrils as the breath of life, of all that goes in the dryn, died. 23 And every living fablance was deftroy. ed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alte, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. The waters agwage. CIA P. VI. 21 The waters arvage. 18 Stah greth furth of the ark, 20 and buildeth on a tar. Gou's promife to curse the earth us more. living thing, and all the cattle that ND God remembered Noah, and every was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pafs over the earth, and the waters affwaged; 2 The fountains alfo of the deep, and the windows of heaven, were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4And the ark refted in the seventh month, on the feventeenth day of the monta, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreafed continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the mouth, were the tops of the mountains feen. 6 And it came to pafs at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 And he fent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from on the earth. 8 Alfo he fent forth a dove from him, ta fee if the waters were abated arom off the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no reft for the fole of her foot, and the returned unto him. isto the ark: for the waters were on the tace of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. To And he stayed yet other feven days, and again he fent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth was an olive. leat plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other feven days, and fent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13. And it came to pafs, in the fix hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah renoved the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the fecond month, on the fe ven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 15 And God fpake unto Noah, faying, 16 Go forth ct the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy fons, and thy lens wives with thee. 17 Bring torth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of ad fein, both of towl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth apon the earth; that they may breed abandonly in the earth, and be truit. ful, and muluply upon the earth. 18 And Noah weds forth, and his fons, and his wife, and his 50s wives with him: 19 Pyry beat, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out or the ark. 20 And Noah bailled an altar unto the Loxo, and took of every clean beat, d of every clean towl, and fered burn'offerings on the altar. A s And God blefeth Noab! GENESIS. 21 And the LOPD fmelled a fweet favour; and the LORD faid in his heart, I will not again curfe the ground any more for man's fake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again fmite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, feed-time and harveft, and cold and heat, and fummer and winter, and day and night, thall not ceafe, CHAP. IX. 1 God blefeth Noah. 4 Blood and murder are 2 And the fear of you, and the dread of you, fhall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the fea: into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be mcat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things: 4 But neth with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, thall ye not eat. 5 And furely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beat will I require it: and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. 6 Whofo theddeth man's blood, by man fall his blood be thed: for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, te ye fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 8 And God fpake unto Noah, and to his fons with him, faying, 9 And I, behold, I eftablish my covenant with you, and with your feed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beat of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every bea of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither thall all deth be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither thail there any more be a flood to destroy the carth. 12 And God faid, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do fet my bow in the cloud, and it thall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it hall come to pafs, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow fhall be feen in the cloud : 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and every living creature of all fleth; and the waters thall no more become a food to destroy all fieth. 16 And the bow fhall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and ever living creature of all flesh that is upon od faid unto Noah, This is the His covenant wild bim. token of the covenant which I have efta. L blithed between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. 18 And the fons of Noah, that went forth 19 These are the three fons of Noah: and 21 And he drank of the wine, and was 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, faw the nakednefs of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, 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 faid, Curfed be Canaan; a fervant of fervants fhall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he faid, Bleifed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan fhall be his fervant. 27 God thall enlarge Japheth, and he thall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan thall be his fervant. 28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fitty years. 29 And all the days of Noah were nine 1 Noah's generations. 8 Nimrod the firft mo- 2 The fons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Methech, and Tiras. 3 And the fons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the fons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarthith, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 By thefe were the iles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 6 And the fons of Ham; Cuth, and Miz. raim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the fons of Cuih; Seba, and Ha. vilah, and Sabtan, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the fons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is faid, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Brech, and Accad, and Calneh, ia the land of Shinar. 11 Out of tha: land went forth Athur, 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 Ana. mim, and i ehabim, and Naphtutim, 14 And Pathrufim, and Cadahim, (out of whom came Philiitim,) and Caphtorim. 15 And . Chap. xi, xii. The generations of Noab. 15¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Gurgante, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the State, 18 Aad the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites (pread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou coment to Gerar, unto Gaza, as thou goeft unco sodom and Gosorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even to Lahah. a Thele are the fons of Ham, after their families, atter 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 A fur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hui, and Gether, and Math. 24 and Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. ; 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. 25 And Joktan begat Almodad, and SheJeph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimacl, and Sheba, zy And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the fons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mefha, as thou goed unto Sephar, a mount of the eaft. 31 These are the 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, atter their generations, in their na. tions: and by thefe were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. 3 And they faid one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them through ly. And they had brick for ftone, and lime had they for mortar. 4 And they faid, Go to, let us baild us a city and a tower, whofe top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, leit we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Loap came down to fee the city, and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD faid, 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. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's fpeech." 8 So the LORD fcattered them abroad from The building of Babel. thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name o. It called Ba bef; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth and trom thence did the LORD fcatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 Thefe are the generations of Shem: Shem waan hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the food. 11 And Shem lived, after he begat Ar. phaxad, five hundred years, and begat fons 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 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 Peleg lived thirty years, and be. gat 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 hegat Nahor. 23 And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 24 And Nahorlived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah. 25 And Nahor lived, after he begat Terab, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat fons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived feventy years, and be. gat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now thefe are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Ha. ran; 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 Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wite Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Ifcah. 30 But Sarai was barren; the bad no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his fon, and Lot the fou e Haran his fon's fon, and Saral his daughter-in-law, his on Abram's wine; 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. 32 And the days of Terah were two hun dred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. CHAP. XII. 1 God calleth Abram, and blefeth him with A famine in Canaan. GENESIS. God's promife renewed to Abrama a promile of Chrift: his departure from Haran. ཏ man is promifea. 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men con cerming him and they fent him away, NOW the FORD had faid unto Abram, his wife, and all that he had. Get thee out of thy country, and trom thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will thew thee: 2 And i will make of thee a great nation, and I will blefs thee, and make thy name great; and thou firalt be a blefling: 3 And I will bleis them that blefs thee, and curfe him that curfeth thee; and in thee thall all families of the earth be bleifed. 4 50 Abram departed, as the LORD had fpoken unto him; and lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and ot his brother's ton, and all their fubitance 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. 6And Abram patied through the land into the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moren. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, ana iaid, 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 can of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bech-el on the wett, and Hai on the caft; and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, going on ftill to ward the fouth. 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to fo ourn there; for the tamine was grievous in the land. 11. And it came to pafs, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he faid unto Sarai his wise, Benold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: 12 Therefore it thall come to pafs, when the Egypuans thall fee thee, that they thall fay, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will fave thee alive. 13 say, I pray thee, thou art my sitter; that it may be well with me for thy fake and my foul thall live becaufe of thee. 14 And it came to pais, that when Abrain was come into i gypt, the gyptians beheld the woman, that the was very fair. 15 The princes alfo or Pharaon faw her, and commended her before Pharaoh : and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's houfe. 16 And he entreated Abram well for ner fake: and he had theep, and oxen, and he ales, and men-fervants, and maid-fervants, and the lies, and cameis. 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, becnie of Sarai, Abram's wite. > And Pharaoh called Abram, and iaid, What is this that thou natt done unto me? why didit thou not tell me that he was thy whe? 19 Why faidit thou, she is my mater? fo I might have taken her to me to wite: row, there:ore, behold thy wite, take ber and go thy way. CHAP. XII. au 1 Abram and Lot return out of Egypt: 9 y aifagreement they part ajunger. 14 Go's promife renewed to abram. ND Abram went up out of Egypt, he, A and his wite, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the fouth. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, Gilver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the fouth, even to Beth-ul, 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 firft: and there Abrain called on the name of the LORD. 5 And Lotalfo, 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: tor their fubftance was great, fo that they could noɛ dwell together. 7 And there was a ftrite between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the nerdmen of Lou's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 8 And Abram laid unto Lot, Let there be no true, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen i or we be brethren. 9 is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, trom me; it roze soilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 10 And Lot litted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it so well watered every where, before the LORD deit royed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comeft unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chofe him all the plain of Jor dan; and Lot journeyed ear: and they teparated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelted in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitened his tent toward sodom. 13 But the men of S dom were wicked, and finners berore the Lox exceedingly. 14¶ And the LORD faid unto Abram, anter that ot was feparated from him, i sit up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and fouthward, and eastward, and wedward: 15 For all que land which thou feeft, to thee will i give it, and to thy feed for ever. 16 And will make thy feed as the duft of the earth, fo that in a man can number the dutt of the earth, the hall thy feed alfo be numbered. 17 Arne, walk through the land, in the length of it, and in the breadth of it: for I will give it unto thee. 18 Thea Abram removed bis tent, and came aud dwelt in the plain of Mamre, waich is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. The battle of the kings. A Canaan is again fromised. Abrani, Give me the perfons, and take the goods to thyself. Chap. xiv, xv. ND came to país, in the days of Amrathel king or Shinar, Anoch king or Ellust, Chevroner king of Elam, and Tidal king of malandis ; a feat teele made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birba king of Gomorrah, Shaoxing of Admah, and shemeber king of Zatim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. ; ad there were joiced together in the vale eladdin, which is the fall sea. 4. Twelve years they ferved Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebeiled. ; And in the fourteenth year came Che. derisomer, and the kings that were with bm, and imote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Xmum, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the kmias in shaveh Kiriacim, & sad the herites in their mount Seir, Uniki-paran, which is by the wildernets. 7. And they returned and came to Enrutpat, which it Kadeth, and fmote all the cory of the Amalekites, and also the Amories that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar. 8 And there went out the king or Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admih, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, the fame is Zoar,) and they joined barde with them in the vale of sid. dim: With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amra phel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Elfalar: tour kings with sve. 10 And the vale or Siddim was full of flime-pus; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorran Red, and sell there: and they that temaaed died to the mountain. 11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and west their way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother'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 Fihool, and brother of Aner: and thefe tere contederate with Abram, 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained ervants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. 15 And he divided himself against them, he and his fervants by night, and fmote them, and purfued them unto Hobah, which i: on the kit hand of Damafcus. 16 And be brought back all the goods, and allo brought again his brother Lot, and his good, and the women alfo, and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the flaughter or Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. 18 And Melchifedek king of Salem brought for a bread and wine: and he was the priest of the mon high God. 19 And he bleed him, and faid, Elefed be Abram of the most bigh God, poetor of heaven and earth: 20 Aad bletied be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. at And the king of Sodom faid unto 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the poffetor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a thoc-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lett thou thoulder say, I have made Abram rich: 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the mea which went with me, Aner, Efhcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. CHAP. XV. 1 Abram is encouraged. 4 A fon promised : 6 he is juftifea by faith. 7 Canaan is again promijed. After thefe things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, faying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 2 And Abram faid, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, feeing I go childless, and the teward of my houfe is this Eliezer of Da. mafcus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hait given no ieed: and, lo, one born in my houfe is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD C unto him, faying, This thall not be thine heir; but he that fhall come forth out of thine own bowels thall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and faid, Look now toward heaven, and tell the fars, it thou be able to number them. And he faid unto him, so thall thy feed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteoufncfs. 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 Gon, whereby fhall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he faid unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she-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 thefe, and divided them in the midt, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds di vided he not. And when the towls came down upon the carcafes, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the fee was going down, a deep fleep fell upon Abram: and, lo, an hor ror of great darknefs tell upon him. 13 And he faid unto Abram, Know of a furety, that thy feed thall be a ranger in a land that is not their's, and thall ferve chem; and they thail anflict them tour hundred years: 14 And also that nation, whom they shall ferve, will judge: and afterward thail they come out with great fubitance. 15 And thou thait go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they fhall come hither again: for the aiquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pafs, that when the fun went down, and it was dark, beaold a mok ing furnace, and a burning lamp, that paffed between thote pieces. 18 In that fame day the LORD made a Covenant |