The genealogy, age, and

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1 Chron.

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Luke 3. 38.

b ch. 1. 26. Eph. 4. 21. Col. 3. 10. ech. 1. 27.

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dch. 4. 25. • 1 Chron. 1. 1, &c..

ch. 1. 28.

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3 Gr. Maleleel.

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CHAPTER V.

1 The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from Adam unto Noah. 24 The godliness and translation of Enoch.

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THIS is the a book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

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4. And the days of Adam after he had begotten 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 five years, and "begat Enos:

7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

9 ¶ And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan :

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

18 ¶ And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat 1Jude 14,15. Enoch:

19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

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death of the patriarchs.

21 And Enoch lived sixty and and begat 2 Methuselah : years, 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

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24 And Enoch walked with God: 128. 1. and he was not; for God took him.

25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat 3 Lamech:

26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

28 T And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat

Mic. 6. 8. Mal. 2. 6.

1 2 Kings 2. 11.

Heb. 11. 5.

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Lemech.

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began to multiply on the face of ND it came to pass, a when men a ch. 1. 28. the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of Deut.7.3,4. all which they chose.

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3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

c Gal. 5. 16,

4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto The Hethe daughters of men, and they bare signifieth children to them, the same became the imagimighty men which were of old, mention, but

of renown.

5 ¶ And GoD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the

brew word not only

also purposes and desires.

e ch. 8. 21.
Prov. 6.

Deut.29.19.
Matt.15.19.

The order, &c. of the ark.

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2 Heb. every day. 2448.

f See Num. 23. 19.

1 Sam. 15. 11, 29.

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6 And fit repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it 5 grieved him at his heart.

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7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from 2Sam.24.16. the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the

Mal. 3. 6. James 1. 17. g Is. 63. 10. Eph. 4. 30.

3 Heb.from man unto beast.

ch. 19. 19. eyes of the LORD.

Ex. 33. 12, 13, 16, 17. Luke 1. 30. Acts 7. 46.

1 ch. 7. 1.

9 These are the generations of

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u ch.7.9,15.

21 And take thou unto thee of all Seech.2.19. food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 22 w Thus did Noah ; according See Ex. 40. to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Ezek. 14.14, Noah

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10 And Noah begat three sons, 1 Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 The earth also was corrupt m before God, and the earth was "filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13 And God said unto Noah, P The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 ¶ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; 6 rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 And this is the fashion which 6 Heb.nests. thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

19 And of every living thing of all tch. 7. 8,9, flesh, t two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every

CHAPTER VII.

1 Noah, with his family, and the living crcatures, enter into the ark. 17 The beginning, increase, and continuance of the flood. ND the LORD said unto Noah, a Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

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3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

w Heb. 11.7.

16.

x ch. 7. 5, 9, 16.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of 3 Heb. the earth.

blot out.

Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, Heb.wing. every bird of every 2 sort.

n ch. 6. 20.

• ver. 2, 3.

p ver. 4, 12.

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15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the a Ps. 104.26. earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exPa. 104. 6. ceedingly upon the earth; r and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Jer. 3.23.

The ark resteth on Ararat.

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

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2 Heb. in going and

e ch. 7. 24.

4 And the ark rested in the returning. seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

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decreasing.

5 And the waters 3 decreased continually until the tenth month: in ingoing and the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which her ch. 6. 16. had made:

7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until 4 Heb. in the waters were dried up from off ang the earth.

8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

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9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and 5 pulled her 6 Heb. in unto him into the ark.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent 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 leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

13 And it came to pass in the six 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 removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,

caused her to come.

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16 Go forth of the ark, & thou, and 8 ch. 7. 13. thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee h every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed

h ch. 7. 15.

Noah buildeth an altar.

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1 ch. 1. 22.

2 Heb. families.

abundantly in the earth, and 1be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

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19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their 2 kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 ¶ And Noah builded an altar k Lev.ch.11. unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled 13 a 2 Cor. 2. 15. sweet savour; and the LORD said Eph. 5. 2. in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the "imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

1 Lev. 1. 9. Ezek. 20.41.

3 Heb. a sa

vour of rest.

m ch. 3. 17. & 6. 17.

4 Or, though.

n ch. 6. 5. Job 14. 4. & 15. 14. Ps. 51. 5.

Jer. 17. 9.

22 P5 While the earth remaineth, Matt. 15.19. seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and a day and night shall not cease.

Rom. 1. 21. & 3. 23. o ch.9.11,15.

p Is. 54. 9.

5 Heb. As yet all the days of the earth.

q Jer. 33.20,

CHAPTER IX.

1 God blesseth Noah. 4 Blood and murder are forbidden. 8 God's covenant, 13 signified by the rainbow. 18 Noah replenisheth the world, 20 planteth a vineyard, 21 is drunken, and mocked of his son, 25 curseth

Canaan, 26 blesseth Shem, 27 prayeth for Japheth, 29 and dieth.

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God's covenant with Noah.

9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

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n ch. 6. 18. • Is. 54. 9.

10 P And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of p Ps. 145. 9. the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

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q Is. 54. 9.

12 And God said, This is the ch. 17. 11. 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 set my bow in the cloud, Rev. 4. 3. and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and flesh; and the waters shall no more you and every living creature of all become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting

6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: ' for in the image of God made he man. 7 And in be you, ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in m ver. 1, 19. the earth, and multiply therein. 8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

1 ch. 1. 27.

ch. 1. 28.

20 And Noah began to be a an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, band was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness 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 saw not their father's nakedness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

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z ch. 10. 32. 1 Chron. 1. 4, &c.

ch.3.19,23. Prov. 12. 11. Prov.20.1.

& 4.2.

1 Cor. 10.12.

Ex. 20. 12. Gal. 6. 1.

d Deut. 27.

25 And he said, a Cursed be Ca- 16.

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27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his ser

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28 ¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years:

and he died.

CHAPTER X.

1 The generations of Noah. 2 The sons of Japheth. 6 The sons of Ham. 8 Nimrod the first monarch. 21 The sons of Shem. OW generations

The sons of Shem.

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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Ca-ch. 13. 12, 15. 18-21. 2-12.

14, 15, 17. &

19 And the border of the naanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto 2 Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

Unto Shem

b1 Chron. 1.5, &c.

4 Or, as some read it, Rodanim.

© Ps. 72. 10.

Jer. 2. 10. & Zeph. 2. 11.

25.22.

d1 Chron. 1. 8, &c.

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. Jer. 16. 16. Mic. 7.2.

f ch. 6. 11.

8 Mic. 5. 6. 6 Gr. Babylon.

6 Or, he went out in

2 b The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles 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 Phut, and Canaan.

7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons 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 said, 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 toria Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and 'the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

Num. 34. Josh.12.7,8. 2 Heb.

Azzah.

25 m And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was 5 Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; 6 That is, and his brother's name was Joktan.

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

1 Chron.

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