Noah emreth the Ark. 20 Of fowls after their kind,and of cattel after their kind, of every creeping thing of earth after his kind: two of every fort fhall come unto thee, to keep them alive, 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou fhalt gather it to thee, and it fhall be for food for thee, and for them. 22 Thus did Noah: according to all that God commanded him, fo did he CHAP. VII. The world drownrd. bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increafed 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 f whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered. 21 And all Heil died that moved upon the earth, both of fowland of attel, and of beaft, and ofevery creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man. 22 All in whofe noftrils was the breath 1 Noab entreth the ark. 7 The beginning, 2 Ofevery clean beaft thou fhalt take to thee by fevens, the male and his female: and of beafts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls alfaofthe air by levens, the male and the female: to keep feed alive upon the face ofall the earth. 4 For yet feven days, and I will caule it to rain upon the earth forty days, and forty nights: and every living (ubftance that I have made, will I destroy from off the face of the earth. life,of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living fubftance was deftroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattel, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the hea ven and they were deft uyed from the earth; and Noah onely remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. CHAP. VIII. The waters afwage. 18 Noab goeth for th of the ark buildetb an altar, and offereth Sacrifice. 21 Gods, promise to curse the earth no more. Nd remembred Noah, and every And Noah did according unto all that Aliving, thing, and all the cartel that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah was x hundred years old, when floud of waters was upon the earth,, 7 And Noah went in,and his lons,and his wife, and his fons wives with him,into the ark because of the waters of the floud. 8 Of clean beafts, and of beafts 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 conimanded Noah, to Andit came to pals after feven days, that the waters ofthe floud were upon the earth. In the fix hundredth year of Noahs lite, in the fecond moneth,iny leventeenth day of the moneth, the lame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days, and forty nights. 13 In the felf-fame day entred Noah and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the fons of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wives of his fons with them, into the ark. was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pals over the earth, and the wa ters all waged. 2 The fountains allo ofthe deep, and the windows of heaven were ftopped, and the rain from heaven was refrained. 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4 And theark rested in the feventh moneth, on the feventeenth day of the moneth, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 Andthe waters decreafed continually untill the tenth moneth: in the tenth maneth on the first day of the inoneth, were the tops of the mountains leen. 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 off the earth. 8 Allo he fent forth a dove from him, to fee if the waters were abated from of the face of the ground. 14 They, and every beaft after his kind, 9 But the dove found no reft for the fole and all the cattel after their kind, and of her foot, and the returned unto him inthe each ping thing that creepen Howl face walls were unh his kind, and every fowl face of the whole earth. Then he put forth after his kind, every bird of every fort. his hand, and took her, and pulled her in 15 And they went in unto Noah into unto him into the ark. the ark, two and two of all flefh, wherein is the breath of life. 19 And he ftayed yet other feven days, and again he fent forth the dove out ofthe ark. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female ufall flesh, as God had com-- 11 And the dove came in to him in the manded him: and the LORD fhut him in. evening,and lo,in her mouthwas an olive. 17 And the floud was forty days upon leaf pluckt off; So Noah knew that the the earth; and the waters increafed and waters were abated from off the carth. A 4 12 And Noah gorth out of the ark Genefis. Gods covenant. 12 And he flayed yet other feven days, 8 And Godipake unto Noah, and to and fent forth the dove, which returned his fons with him, faying, not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pafs in the fix hun dredth and firft year, in the first monetb, the firfday of the moneth, the waters were dried up from off the earth and Noah rehoved covering of the ark, and looked: and behold, the face of ground was dry. 14 And in the fecond moneth, on the feven and twentieth day of the moneth, was the earth dried. 15 And God fpake untoNoah, faying, 16Go forth ofthe ark, thou and thy wife, thy fons, and thy fons wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all felh both of fowl, and of cattell, and of everv creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth: that they may breed abundantly in the earth, & be fruitfull, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his fons, and his wife, and his fons wives with him: 19 Every beaft, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and what foever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto he LORD, and took of every clean beaft, and of every clean fowl and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. 21 Andthe LORD fmelled afweet favour, and the LORD faid in his heart, I will not again curle the ground any more for mans fake: for the imagination of mans heart is evit from his youth: neither will I again fmite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, feedrine and harvelt, and cold and heat, and fummer and winter, and day and night fhall not ceafc. CHAP. IX. 9And 1, behold, I eftablish my covenant with you, and with your feed after you; To And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattel, and of every beaft of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I willeftablish my covenant with you, neither fhall all fleth be cut off any more by the waters ofa floud, neither shal there any more be a floud to deftroy earth 12 And God faid, This is the token o the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that with you, for perpetuall generatious: 12 I do fet my bow in the cloud, and fhall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. it 14 And it fhall 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 flesh, and the waters fhall no more become a floud to destroy all flefh. 16 And the bow fhall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the ever lafting covenant between God and every living creature ofall feth that is upon the earth. 17 And God faid unto Noah, This the token of the covenant, which I have eftablifhed between me, and all fleth that is upon the earth. 18 And the fons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Hanı, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19. Thefe are the three fons ofNoah,and of them was the whole earth overfpread. 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. 1 God blefeth Noab. 4 Bloud and murder are forbidden. 8 Guds covenant, 13 by 21 And he drank of wine, & was drunktherain-bow.21 Noab is drunken, 25 curfen, and he was uncovered within his tent. eth Canaan. 29 and dieth. Nd God bleed Noah and his fons, and Alaid unto them, Be fruitfull and nultiply, and replenish theearth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you fhall be upon every bealt of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fifhes of the fea, into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth hall be nicat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things: 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blond thereof, fhall you not eat. 5 And furely your bloud of your lives will I require at the hand of every beat will I require it, and at the hand ofman. at the hand of every mans brother will I require the life of man. 6 Who fo fheckleth mans bloud, by man fhall his bloud be fhed: for in the image of God made he man. And you, be ye fruitfull, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiplytherein. 22 And Ham the father of Canaan faw the nakednis of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a gar ment, and laid it upon both their fhoutders, and went backward, and covered the nakednels oftheir father; and their faces were backward: and they law not their fathers nakedness. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger fon had don unto him. 25 And he faid, Curfed be Canaan: a fervant of fervants fhall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he faid, Bleffed bey LORD God of Shem; and Canaan fhall be his fervant. 27 Gud fhall enlarge Japheth, and he fhall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan fhall be his fervant. 28 And Noah lived after the floud three hundred and fifty years. 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. CHAP. Noah's generations. CHAP. X Chap.x. xỉ. The Sons of Shem 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal,and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir,and Havilah, and Jubab: all thele were the fons of Joktan. 30And their dwelling was fromMesha, as thou goeft unto Sephar, amount of east. 1 Noah's generations. 2 Tbefons of Fatbeth, 6 of Ham. 8 Nimrod the first Monarch. 21 The Sons of Stem. TOW Now there are generations of the fons of Noah, Shen, Ham, and Japheth: & unto them were fons born aftery floud. 2 The fons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,andTubal, and Methech, and Tiras. 3 And the fons of Gomer; Afhkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the fons of Javan; Elifhah, and Tarthith, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5. By thefe were the illes ofthe Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their ation And the fons of Ham; Cufh, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7And the fons of Cuth; Seba, & Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah; and Sabtecha: and the fons of Raamiah; Sheba, & Dedan.. 8 And Cuth begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the I ORD, wherefore it isfaid, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And 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 Afhur, 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 Lethabim,and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrufim, and Cafluhim (out of whoin came Philiftim)and Caphtorim. 15¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn and Heth, 16 And the Jebufite, and the Emorite, and the Girgafite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarito, and the Hamathite: and afterward were families of the Canaanites fpread 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 Zeboin,even unto Lafhah. 20 Thefe are the fons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues in their countreys, and in their nations. 21 Unto Shem alfo the father of all children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem, Elam, and Allur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram, Uz, and Hub, and Gether, and Math. 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 brothers name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazannaveth, and Jerah, 31 Thele are the ions of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32 Thefe are the families of the fons of Noah, after their generations, in their na tions and by thele were the nations divided in the earth after the floud. СНАР. XI 1One language in the world.3 Babel is buils. 4 Languages confounded. 10 The genera tions of Shem, and of Terab. Aguage, and ofone (peech. Nd the whole earth was of one lan 2 And it came to pals as they journeyed from the ealt, 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, & burn them throughly. And they had brick for tone, and flime had they for morter. a 4 And they faid, Goto, let us build us city and a tower, whole top may reach. unto heaven, and let us make us a nanie, left we be fcattered abroad upon the face. of the whole earth. And the LORD 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 lans guage:and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be reftrained from them which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there.comfound their language, that they my not understand one anothers fpeech. 8 So the LORD fcattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD fcatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 Thefe are the generations of Shem Shem was an hundred years old, and be gat Arphaxad two years after the floud. 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 Arphaxed lived after he begac 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 begate fons and daughters. 16 And Eber lived four and thirtys years, and begat Peleg., 17 And Eber lived after he begat Pe leg four hundred and thirty years, and begat fons and daughters.. 48 ANS AS The generations of Terab Genelis. Abram called by God. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and be- 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, gat Reu, and faid, Unto thy feed will I give this 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu land: and there builded he an altar unto two hundred and nine years, and begat the LORD, who appeared unto him. 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. 22 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, 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 leventy 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 Abrams wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahors wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of leah. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, baving Beth-el on the weft, and Hai on the eaft: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the Nameofthe LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the fouth. 19 And there was a famin in the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to fojourn there: for famin was grievous in land. 1 And it came to pafs when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he faid unto Sarai his wife, Behold, now I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon. 12 Therefore it fhall come to pals, when the Egyptians fhall fee thee,that they fhall fay, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will fave theealive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my after: that it may be well with me for thy fake: and my foul thall live becaule of thee. 14 And it came to pafs, that when A, bram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that the was very fair.. 15 The princes allo of Pharaoh faw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and & woman was taken into Pharaohs houfe. 16 And heentreated Abram well for her 30 But Sarai was barren: the bad no child, fake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he31 And Terah took Abram his fon, and alles, and men-fervants, and maid-ferLot the fon of Haran his fons fon, and Sa- vants, and the-affes, and camels. rai his daughter in law, his fon Abrams 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and wife: and they went forth with them from his houfe with great plagues, because of Urofthe Chaldees, to go into the land of Sarai Abrams wife. Canaan: and they came unto Harap, and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hunded & five years: & Terah died in Haran. CHAR. XII. 1 God calling Abram, bleffètb bim with a promise of Chrift. 4 His departure from Haran. 7 Canaan is promised. NOW Ow the LORD had faid unto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from chy kindred, and from thy father's houfe, unto a land that I will fhew thee. 2 And I will make ofthee a great nation, and I will bleflethee, and make thy name great: and thou shalt be a blefling. And I will blefsthem that bless thee, and curle him that curfeththee; & in thee fhall all families of the earth be bleffed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had fpoken unto him, and Lot went with him; and Abram was eventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast dor unto me? why didit thou not tell me that he was thy. wife? 19 Why faidft thou, She is my fifter? fa I might have taken her to me to wife; now therefore, behold thy wife, take bers and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded bis men concerning him: and they lent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. CHAP. XIII. Abram and Lot return out of Egypt. 7 BJ disagreement they part asunder, 14 Gods. promife renewed to Abram. A and his wife, and all that he had, and Nd Abram went up out of Egypt, he, Lot with him into the fouth. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattel, in filver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the fouth, even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai: And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers fon, and all their fubftance that they had gathered, & the fouls 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he that they had gotten in Haran: and they had made there at the firft; and there Awent forth to go into the land of Ganaan, bram called on the Name of the LORD. and into the land of Canaan they came. 5 And Lot allo which went with A. 6 And Abram paffed through the land bram, had Hocks, and herds, and tents. into the place of Sichem unto the plain 6 And the land was not able to bear them, e Moreh. And the Canaanite was then that they might dwell together: for their fubftance was great, fo that they could not dwen together. ·7 And in Let goeth to Sodom Chap:xiv Tereplied by Abram 7 And there was a ftrife between the mishpat, which is Kartelh, & fmote all the herdmen of Abrams cattel, and the herd countrey of the Amalekites, and alfo thes men of Lots cattel: and the Canaanite & Amorites, that dweltin Hazezon-Tamar. the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 8 And these went out the king of Su 8 And Abram laid unto Lot, Let theredom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the be noftrife, I pray thee, between me and king of Admah,and the king of Zeboiim, thee, and between my herdinen and thy and the king of Bela (the fame is Zoar) herdmen: for we be urethren. and they joyned battel with them in the 9 Is not the whole land before thee?Se-vale of Siddím, Patate thy felt, I pray thee, from me: if 9 With Chedo laomer the king of Elam, thou wilt take the left hand, then I will and with Tidal king of nations, and Am go to the right: or it thou depart to the raphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king Fight hand, then I will go to the left. S of Ellalar: four kings with five. 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and be- to And the vale of Siddim was full of held all the plain of Jordan, that it was lime-pits: and the kings of Sodom and well watered every where, before the Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they LORD deftroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, that remained led to the mountain. even as the garden ofthe LORD, lise the 1 And they took all the goods of Sodom land of Egypt, as thou coneft unto Zoar. and Gomorrah, andall their victuals, and Then Lot chofe him all the plain of went their way. Jordan: and Lot journeyed eatt; and they 12 And they took Lot Abrams brothers Teparated themfelvs one from the other, fon (who dwelt in Sudon) and his goods, 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and departed. and Luc dwelled in the cities of the plain, 13 And there came one that had efcapand pitched bis tent toward Sudom. ed, and told Abram the Hebrew: for he 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, dwelt in the plain of Mamte the Amorites and inners beforethe LORD,exceedingly, brother of Efhcol, and brother of Aner: 14 And the LORD faidunto Abram, af- and there were confederate with Abram. ter that Lot was feparated from him, Lift 14 And when Abram heard that his broup now thine eyes, and look from the ther was taken captive,he armed his trainplace where thou art, northward, and ed fervants, born in his own houfe, three fouthward, and eastward, and weftward. hundred and eighteen, and purlued them 15 For all the land which thou feeft, to unto Dan. thee will I give it,and to thy feed for ever. 15 And he divided himself against them, 16 And I will make thy feed as the duft he and his fervants by night, and fmote of the earth: fo that ifa man can number then,and purfued them unto Hoba, which the duit of the earth, then fhall thy feed is on the left hand of Da nafcus. allo be nuntbred. 17 Arife, 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 bis tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there anal tar unto the LORD. 16 And he brought back all the goods, & allo brought again his brother Lot,and his goods, and the women alto, & the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him (after his return from the flaughter of Chedorlaumer, and of the kings that were with him) at the valley of Shaveh, which is the kings dale. 18 And Melchifedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine and he was the Priest of the moft high God. CHAP. XIV. 1.The battel of the kings. 12 Lot taken, 14 is refsued by Abram. 18 Melchizedek. blaffeth Abram, 20 who giveth tithes. 19 And he blefied him,and faid, Bleffed And it came to pals in the days of An--be Abram of the most high God, poffeffor raphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of of heaven and earth: Ellafar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and 20 And bleed bathe moft high God, Tidalking of nations: which hath delivered thine enemies into That thefe made war with Bera king thy hand. And he gave him tithes ofall. of Sodom, and with Birtha king of Goat And the king of Sodom faid unto Amorrah, Shinabking of Admah, and She bram. Give me the perfons, and take the meber king of Zebojim, and the king of goods to thy felf. Bela which is Zuar.. 3 All thele were joy ned together in the vale of Siddim, which is the falt-fea. 4. Twelve years they ferved Chedorlamer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 22 And Abram faid to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the pofleffor ofheaven and earth: 23 That I will not take from a threed, even to a fhoe-latchet, and that I will not And in the fourteenth year came Che take any thing that is thine, dealt thou durlaumers and the kings that were with thouldeft fay, I have made Abram rich: him, and fmote the Rephaims in Afhte- 24 Save onely that which the young men darh Karpaim and the Zuzims in Ham, have eaten, and the portion of the men and the Eninis in Shaveh Kiriatham which went with me, Aaer, Efhcol, and Manice let then take their portion. 6 And the Horites in their mount Seit, unto El-paran, which is by the wildernefs. And they retuned, and came to En CHAP. |