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on the seventeenth day of the month, 5 upon the mountains of Ararat.

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the 6 tops of the mountains seen. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the 7 ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried 8 up from off the earth. And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face 9 of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought! 10 her in unto him into the ark. °Änd he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the (11 ark; and the dove came in to him 'at eventidel; and, lo, in her mouth 1an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off 12 the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; land she returned not again unto him 13 any more. "And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was 'dried'. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth 'dry'.

15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' (17 wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons,

and his wife, and his sons' wives with (19 him every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever Imoveth upon the earth, after their 'families', went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered

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21 burnt offerings on the altar. the LORD smelled 'the' sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have 22 done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day 91 and night shall not cease. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, (2 and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air; with all 'wherewith the 'ground teemeth', and all the fishes of the sea, into_your (3 hand are they delivered. °Every moving thing that liveth shall be 'food' for you; as the green herb have 4 I given you all. But flesh with the

life thereof, which is the blood there5 of, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it and at the hand of man, leven' at the hand of every man's brother, will I require 6 the life of man. "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God 7 made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

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And God spake unto Noah, and to 9 his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; (10 and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, leven' 11 every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a 12 flood to destroy the earth. And God said, 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 : 13 041 do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant 14 between me and the earth. And it

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shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow 15 shall be seen in the cloud, and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to 16 destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon 17 the earth. And God said unto Noah,

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This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth and Ham is the father 19) of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah: and of 'these was the whole earth overspread.

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And Noah began to be 'an' husbandman, and planted a vineyard: 21 and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered 22 within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren 23 without. 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 saw not their father's 24 nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his "youngest 25 son had done unto him. And he said,

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And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca: and the sons of Raa8 mah; Sheba, and Dedan. °And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a 9 mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, 'Like' Nimrod la 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 he went forth

linto Assyria', and builded Nineveh, 12 and Rehoboth-Ir', and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah 13 (the same is the great city).

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Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, 14 and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines'), and Caphtorim.

15 Ând Caanan begat 'Zidonꞌ his first16 born, and Heth; and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite; 17 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and 18 the Sinite; and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite and afterward were the families of the 19 Canaanite spread abroad. And the border of the Canaanite was from 'Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah 20 and Zeboiim', unto Lasha. These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands', in their nations.

(21) And' unto Shem, the father of all

the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him 'also were 22 children born. The Isons of Shem;

Elam, and Asshur, and 'Arpachshad', 23 and Lud, and Aram. And the 'sons! of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether,

5 In 1 Chr. i. 7, Rodanim.
6 Or, Icoastlands

Or, went forth Asshur

Heb. Pelishtim.

Or, the brother of Japheth the elder

VERSION OF 1611.-19 are.. them; 20 a.. (he); 24 younger; 26 shall; 27 (shall).. he shall.. shall. X. 5 By.. Gentiles; 6 Phut; 9 Even as.. the; 11 Asshur.. the city; 12 à; 14 out of whom came Philistim; 15 Sidon; 18 Canaanites; 19 Canaanites.. Sidon..comest to..unto.. Zeboim, even; 20 countries, and; 21 also.. (the)..even; 22 children.. Arphaxad; 23 children. = [42]

24 and Mash. And 'Arpachshad' 1begat 'Shelah; and 'Shelah' begat Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons : the name of the one was 2Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and JeZi rah; and Hadoram, and Uzal, and 28 Diklah; and Obal, and Abimael, 29 and Sheba; and Ophir, and Havilah,

and Jobab: all these were the sons 30 of Joktan. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and 'of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

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And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them 'throughly'. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole 5 earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the 6) children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be 'withholden from them, which they pur7 posel to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one 8 another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and 9 they left off to build the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there 'confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

10 These are the generations of Shem.

Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after 11 the flood: and Shem lived after he begat'Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12 And Arpachshad lived five and 13 thirty years, and begat 'Shelah': and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and 15 begat Eber: and 'Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 16 And Eber lived four and thirty 17 years, and begat Peleg: and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

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And Peleg lived thirty years, and 19 begat Reu: and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

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And Reu lived two and thirty years, 21 and begat Serug: and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

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And Serug lived thirty years, and 23 begat Nahor: and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty 25 years, and begat Terah: and Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

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And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died in the presence of

his father Terah in the land of his na29 tivity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And

Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30 And Sarai was barren; she had no 31 child. And Terah took Abram his

son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son 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, 32 and dwelt there. And the days of

1 The Sept. reads, begat Cainan, and Cainan begat Shelah.

2 That is, Division.

3 In 1 Chr. i. 22, Ebal.
4 Or, thill country
5 Heb. lip.

• Heb. words.

7 Or, in the east 8 That is, bitumen. Heb. balal, to confound.

VERSION OF 1611.—24 Arphaxad.. Salah..Salah; 30 unto.. a mount; 32 by.

XI. 2 (from

the); 3 thoroughly; 6 the .. is.. restrained have imagined; 9 is; 10 Arphaxad; 11 Arphaxad; 12 Arphaxad.. Salah; 13 Arphaxad.. Salah; 14 Salah; 15 Salah; 28 before; 30 But. = [26]

Terah were two hundred and five years and Terah died in Haran.

12(1 Now the LORD said unto Abram,

Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will shew (2) thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a 3) blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee 'will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 4 °So Abram Iwent', as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out 5 of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls 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 passed through the land unto the place of 'Shechem1, unto the loak of Moreh. And the Canaanite 7 was then in the land. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the 8 LORD, who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of 9 the LORD. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the 2South.

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And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was 11 sore in the land. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon : 12 and it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee 13 alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my

sister that it may be well with me for thy sake, and 'that my soul "may" 14 live because of thee. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the

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15 woman that she was very fair. 'And1 the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and 'praised' her 'to1 Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. *16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she-asses, and cam17 els. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues be18 cause of Sarai Abram's wife. And

Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she 19 was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so that I took her to 'be my wife now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh gave men 'charge' concerning him: and they brought him 'on the way', and his wife, and all that he had.

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And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. 2 °And Abram was very rich in cattle, 3 in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, be4 tween Beth-el and Ai; unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram 5 called on the name of the LORD. And Lot also, which went with Abram, had 6 flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that 7 they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the 8 land. "And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for 9 we are brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou 'take the right hand, 10 then I will go to the left. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the

Plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, 'like' the garden of the LORD, like the land

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of Egypt, as thou 'goest' unto Zoar. 11 Sol Lot chose him all the Plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselyes the one 12 from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the Plain, and 'moved' 13 his tent as far as Sodom. "Now! the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the LORD exceed14 ingly. And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and east15 ward and westward: °for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give 16 it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy 17) seed also be numbered. Arise, walk

through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I 18 give it. And Abram 'moved' his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaksi of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. 141 And it came to pass in the days

of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of "Goiim', 2 that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela ('the same' is Zoar). (3 All these joined together in the vale of Siddim ('the same is the Salt 4 Sea). °Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth 5 year they rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim' in Ashterothkarnaim, and the 'Zuzim' in Ham, and the Emim in 4Shaveh-kiriathaim, 6 and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilder1 ness. And they returned, and came to En-mishpat ('the same is Kadesh), and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, 8 that dwelt in 'Hazazon-tamar. And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king

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of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar); and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Sid(9 dim; against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of 'Goiim', and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against 10 the five. Now! the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that re11 mained fled to the mountain. And

they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, 12 and went their way. And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and de13 parted. And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew: 'now he dwelt 'by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were confederate with Abram. (14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained 'men', born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, 15) and pursued as far as Dan. And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damas

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goods, and also brought again his Brother Lot, and his goods, and the (17 women also, and the people. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh (18) (the same is the King's 'Vale1). And

Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was (19) priest of God Most High. And he

blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, 'possessor (20) of heaven and earth and blessed be

God Most High, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he 21 gave him a tenth of all. And the

king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods (22) to thyself. And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, God Most High,

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VERSION OF 1611.- comest; 11 Then; 12 pitched .. toward; 13 But.. before; 18 Then removed.. in.. plain .. is. -XIV. 1 nations; 2 these .. which; 3 (were). . which; 5 Rephaims. Zuzims.. Emims; 7 which .. Hazezon; 8 joined.. with; 9 with.. (the) .. (with) .. nations.. with; 10 And; 13 for.. in.. plain; 14 armed..servants.. (own).. unto; 17 (of)..which dale; 18 (the).. (the); 19 (the); 20 (the).. tithes; 22 (the).. (the). = [46]

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