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8 And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against 9 Abel his brother, and slew him. ° And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done?

the voice of thy brother's blood crieth 11) unto me from the ground. And now cursed art thou from the ground', which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy 12 hand; when thou tillest the ground,

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it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a Iwanderer shalt thou be in the earth. 13 And Cain said unto the LORD, 2My punishment is greater than I can 14 bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer' in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that 'whosoever findeth 15 me shall slay me. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should 'smite

him.

16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, 18 Enoch. And unto Enoch was born

Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methushael1 and 19 Methushael begat Lamech. And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the (20 name of the other Zillah. And Adah

bare Jabal he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle. 21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle 22 the harp and pipe.And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron and the sister of Tubal-cain 23 was Naamah. And Lamech said unto his wives:

1 Heb. said unto. Many ancient authorities have, said unto Abel his brother, Let us go into the field.

2 Or, Mine iniquity

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Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto
my speech:

For I have slain a man 91for
wounding me!,

And a young man 'for bruising me! :
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
Truly Lamech seventy and seven-
fold.

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name 10Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of 26 Abel; for Cain slew him. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name 'Enosh': then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

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This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made 2 he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name 12Adam, in the day when 3 they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 and the days of Adam after he 'begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters. 5 °And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

6 And Seth lived an hundred and 7 five years, and begat Enosh: and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and 8 begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

9 And Enosh lived ninety years, 10 and begat 'Kenan': 'and 'Enosh lived after he begat 'Kenan' eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons 11 and daughters: and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

12 And Kenan lived seventy years, 13 and begat Mahalalel' and 'Kenan'

lived after he begat 'Mahalalel' eight hundred and forty years, and begat 14 sons and daughters: and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

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3 Or, than can be forgiven

4 That is, Wandering.

5 Or, in front of

And

6 Or, an instructor of every artificer
Or, Icopper and so elsewhere."

Mahalalel lived sixty and

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VERSION OF 1611.-8 talked with; 11 earth; 12 vagabond; 14 earth. . vagabond.. every one that; 15 set..mark upon.. kill; 18 Methusael.. Methusael; 20 (of such as); 21 organ; 22 an instructor.. artificer in; 23 to my wounding. . to my hurt; 25 whom: 26 Enos. V. 4 had begotten; 6 Enos; 7 Enos; 9 Enos. . Cainan; 10 Enos.. Cainan; 11 Enos; 12 Cainan. . Mahalaleel; 13 Cainan.. M laleel; 14 Cainan; 15 Mahalaleel. = [46]

Maha

16 five years, and begat Jared: and 'Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and 17 begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

(18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch: 19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch

eight hundred years, and begat sons 20 and daughters: and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

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And Enoch lived sixty and five 22 years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, 23 and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enoch were three hun24 dred sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat 26 Lamech and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons 27 and daughters: and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. 28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a 29 son: and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall 1comfort us for our work and for the toil of our hands, because of the ground 30 which the LORD hath cursed. And

Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, 31 and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

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And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground', and daughters were born 2 unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all 3) that they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man 'for ever', for that he also is flesh yet shall his days be an hun

1 Heb. nahem, to comfort.

2 Or, which cometh from the ground

a Or, Irule in Or, according to many ancient versions, labide in

4 dred and twenty years. The "Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men which were of old, the men of renown. 5 And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil 6 continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (7 And the LORD said, I will 'destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground'; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and 'fowl of the air; for it repenteth me that I 8 have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

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These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a 'righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked 10 with God. And Noah begat three 11 sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And

the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

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And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy 14 them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. (15 And this is how thou shalt make it:

the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, 16 and the height of it thirty cubits. A 10 light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it 11upward'; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories (17) shalt thou make it. And I, behold,

I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that is in the 18) earth shall die. But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and

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VERSION OF 1611.-16 Mahalaleel; 17 Mahalaleel; 18 (he); 29 concerning.

VI. 1 earth;

2 which; 3 always; 4 There.. giants.. became; 5 GOD; 7 earth.. (the).. the fowls; 9 just.. (and); 11 also; 12 looked upon; 15 the fashion which..of.. (shall be); 16 window.. in.. above; 17 (even) . (and). = [32]

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thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' 19 wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be 20 male and female. "Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground' after its' kind, two of every sort shall come unto (21 thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for 22 them. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

71 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous (2 before me in this generation. Of

every clean beast thou shalt take to thee 'seven and seven', the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his (3 female; of the fowl also of the air, iseven and seven', male and female: to keep seed alive upon the face of 4 all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I 'destroy from off the face 5 of the ground. And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was 7 upon the earth. "And Noah went

in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 °Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the (9 ground', there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. 10 °And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood 11 were upon the earth. "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, 'on' the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of 12 heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and

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13 forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of 14 his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird 15 of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of (16 life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and the LORD shut 17 him in. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and (18 it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceed

ingly upon the earth; and all the high Imountains that were under the whole 20 heaven were covered. Fifteen cubits

upward did the waters prevail; and (21 the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every 3creeping thing that creep-. eth upon the earth, and every man: 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath

of the spirit of life, of all that was (23 in the dry land, died. 04 And every living thing was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping 'thing', and fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth and Noah only was left', and they that 24 were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; 2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was 3 strained; and the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of 'an' hundred and fifty 4 days the waters decreased'. And the ark rested in the seventh month,

4 Or, And he destroyed every liv ing thing

5 Heb. blotted out.

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VERSION OF 1611.-20 fowls. . earth. . his; 21 (thou shalt). VII. 2 by sevens. . (by); 3 fowls by sevens, the.. (the); 4 substance.. earth; 8 earth; 9 (the) . . (the) . . (had); 14 his.. his.. his ; 16 (had); 18 (were): 19 hills; 21 (of).. (of). . (of).. (of); 23 substance.. (the).. things.. (the) .. remained alive. VIII. 1 was; 3 the.. were abated. = [39]

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. And 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 lan 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 1Or, la fresh olive leaf

And

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 Ifood 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, even 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, leven1 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, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. 18 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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The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 °And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, 4 and Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tar5 shish, Kittim, and 5Dodanim. Of these were the isles of the 'nations! divided in their lands, every one after his tongue; after their families, in their nations.

6 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).

And

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

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And Caanan begat 'Zidon1 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 'sons' of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and 'Arpachshad', 23 and Lud, and Aram. And the 'sons! of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether,

In 1 Chr. i. Rodanim.
Or, Icoastlands
Or, went forth Asshur

8 Heb. Pelishtim.

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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]

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