Noah goeth out of the ark. 17 Bring forth with thee every living is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both and of every beast of the earth with of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creep-you; from all that go out of the ark, to ing thing that creepeth upon the earth; every beast of the earth. that they may breed ab abundantly in the II And I will establish my covenant earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon with you; neither shall all fiesh be cut 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 whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beaft, and of everyclean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 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 shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 4 And it shall come to pass, when I 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet bring a cloud over the earth, that the favour; and the LORD faid in his heart, bow shall be feen in the cloud: I will not again curse the ground ound any 15 And I will remember my covenant, more for man's fake; for the imagina- agina- which is between me and you and every tion of man's heart is evil from his youth; living creature of all flesh; and the waneither will I again smite any more every ters shall no more become a flood to dething living, as I have done. stroy all flesh. 22 While the earth remaineth, feed- 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; time and harvest, and cold and heat, and fummer and winter, and day and night fhall not ceafe. CHAP. IX. I God bleffeth Noah. 4 Blood and murder are forbidden. 8 God's covenant, 13 fignified by the rainbow. 21 Noah is drunken, 25 curseth Canaan, 29 and dieth. A ND God blessed Noah and his fons, and faid unto them, Befruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 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, 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 meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And furely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beaft 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. 1 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man. 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 the earth. 17 And God faid 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 fons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three fons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard : 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, faw 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 quere backward, and they faw not their father's nakednefs. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger fon had done 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multi-unto him. ply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his fons with him, faying, 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your feed after you; 10 And with every living creature that 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a fervant of fervants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he faid, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall The generations of Noah. GENESIS. shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his fervant. 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. CHAP. X. 1 Noah's generations. 2 The fons of Japheth, 6 and Ham. 8 Nimrod the first monarch. 21 The fons of Shem. The building of Babel. 20 These are the fons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 21 Unto Shem also, 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 Ashur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, Now thefe are the generations of the and Hul, and Gether, and Math. fons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were fons born after the flood. 2 The fons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Mefhech, and Tiras. 3 And the fons of Gomer; Afhkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the fons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarhish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 By these were the ifles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 6 And the fons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the fons of Cufh; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah 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 Nim-1 rod 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 Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Refen between Nineveh and Calah: the fame is a great city. 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 brother's name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklalı, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these awere the fons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mefha, as thou goest, 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 These are the families of the fons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by thefe were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. CHAP. XI. One language in the world. 3 Babel built. 5 Languages confounded. 10 The generations of Shem, 27 of Terah Abram's father. A ND the whole earth was of one language, and of one fpeech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, 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, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for ftone, and flime had they for morter. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrufim, and Cafluhim, (out of whom came Philiftim,) and Caphtorim. 4 And they faid, Go to, let us build 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-us a city and a tower, whose top may born, and Heth, 16 And the Jebufite, and the Amorite, and the Girgafite, 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. 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 Zeboim, even unto Lafha. reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, left we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 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 language; 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 confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. The generations of Shem, &c. Chap. xii. God calleth Abram. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad | 31 And Terah took Abram his fon, from thence upon the face of all the and Lot the fon of Haran his fon's fon, earth: and they left off to build the city. and Sarai his daughter in law, his fon 9 Therefore is the name of it called Abram's wife; and they went forth with Babel; because the LORD did there con- them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into found the language of all the earth: and the land of Canaan; and they came unto from thence did the LORD scatter them Haran, and dwelt there. abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 1 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: II And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. CHAP. XII. I God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of Christ. 4 His departure from Haran. 7 Canaan is promised. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty N 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 sons 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 begat 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 begat Nahor: 23 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 feventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. OW the LORD had faid unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a bleffing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram quas seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's fon, and all their fubstance 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. 6 And Abram paffed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and faid, 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 east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the weft, and Hai on the eaft: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the fouth. 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to fojourn there; for the famine was griev 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Urous in the land. of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife quas Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Ifcah. 30 But Sarai was barren; the had no child. 11 And it came to pass, 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 shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall fee thee, that they shall say, This is his wife and they will Abram and Lot disagree. GENESIS. God's promise renewed to Abram. will kill me, but they will save thee alive. go to the right; or if thou depart to the 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my fister: that it may be well with me for thy fake; and my foul shall live because of thee. 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that the was very fair. 15 The princes alfo of Pharaoh faw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's houfe. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her fake and he had fheep, and oxen, and he affes, and menfervants, and maidfervants, and the affes, and camels. 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues becaufe of Sarai Abram's wife. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and faid, What is this that thou haft done unto me? why didit thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19 Why faidft thou, She is my fister? fo I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they fent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. CHAP. XIII. right hand, then I will go to the left. 10 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, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. II Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they feparated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and finners before the LORD exceedingly. 14 And the LORD faid unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and fouthward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou feeft, to thee will I give it, and to thy feed for ever. 16 And I will make thy feed as the, duft of the earth: fo that if a man can number the duft of the earth, then shall thy feed alfo be numbered. 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 his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. CHAP. XIV. I The battle of the kings. 12 Lot taken, 14 is rescued by Abram. 18 Melchizedek bleffeth Abram, 20 who giveth him tithes. ND it came to pafs in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellafar, Chedorlaomer king of A 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the firft: and there | Elam, and Tidal king of nations; Abram called on the name of the LORD. 5 And Lot alfo, 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: for their fubftance was great, fo that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a ftrife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 8 And Abram faid unto Lot, Let there be no ftrife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyfelf, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will 8 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birfha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the falt fea. 4 Twelve years they ferved Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that avere with him, and fmote the Rephaims in Afhteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wildernefs. 7 And they returned, and came to Enmifbpat, 1 Melchizedek bleffeth Abram : Chap. xv. mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and alfo the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar. 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the fame is Zoar ;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; 9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellafar; four kings with five. 10 And the vale of Siddim quas full of flimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. 11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's fon, 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 Efhcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained fervants, 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 smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damafcus. 16 And he brought back all the goods, and alfo brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the flaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that quere with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he bleffed him, and faid, Blefsed be Abram of the most high God, poffeffor of heaven and earth: A fon promised to him. even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, left thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. CHAP. XV. I Abram is encouraged. 4 A fon is promised. 6 He is justified by faith. 7 Canaan is promised again. AFTER thefe things the word of the came unto Abram in a vifion, 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 fteward of my house is this Eliezer of Damafcus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou haft given no feed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forthabroad, and faid, Look now toward heaven, and tell the ftars, if thou be able to number them: and he faid unto him, So shall thy feed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteoufnefs. 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 said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he faid unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a the 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 these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one againft another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcafes, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the fun was going down, a deep fleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darknefs fell upon him. 13 And he faid unto Abram, Know of 20 And bleffed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into a furety that thy feed shall be a stranger thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom faid unto Abram, Give me the perfons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram faid to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the poffeffor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread in a land that is not their's, and shall ferve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And alfo that nation, whom they shall ferve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great fubftance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. |