B. C. 2348. CHAP. IX. him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole AND it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the 13 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. And 14 in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying, 15 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' 16 wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is 17 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 abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and 18 his sons' wives with him: every beast, every creeping thing, and 19 every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. AND Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every 20 clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the 21 LORD said 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 L's youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and 22 harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease, AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be 9 fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear 2 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 sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat 3 for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, 4 shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I 5 require; at the hand of every beast 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. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his 6 blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. And 7 you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. AND God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 8 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your 9 seed after you; and with every living creature that is with you, 10 of the fowl, of 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. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all 11i flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This 12 is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token 13 of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to 14 pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant, which is 15 between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that 16 I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And 17 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. AND the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, 18 and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These 19 ure the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he 20 planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; 21 and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of 22 Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it 23 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. And Noah awoke from 24 his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; 25 26 27 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 28 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: 29 and he died. 2 3 NOW these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, 10 Jam, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan; Elisha, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. By 5 these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 4 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and 6 Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba. and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. B. C. 2348-1921. CHAP. XI. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 8 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and 10 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and 13 'And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth, ' and the 15 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the 21 brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and 22 Lud, and Aram. And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and 23 Gether, and Mash. And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat 24 Eber. And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was 25 Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, 26 and Hazarmareth, and Jerah, 'and Hadoram, and Uzal, and 27 Diklah,' and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,' and Ophir, and 28 Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. And their 30 dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after 31 their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. These are the 32 families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.3.1. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they 2 found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And 3 they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and 4 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 earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the 5 tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD 6 said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go 7 down, and there confound their language, that they may not un History of GENESIS. derstand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them 8 THESE are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred 10 years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: and 11 Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Arphaxad lived five and thirty 12 years, and begat Salah: and Arphaxad lived after he begat 13 Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 'And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 'and Salah 14 lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Eber lived four and thirty years, 16 and begat Peleg: and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hun- 17 dred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And Peleg 18 lived thirty years, and begat Reu: and Peleg lived after he 19 begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Se- 20 rug and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and 21 seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And Serug lived 22 thirty years, and begat Nahor: and Serug lived after he begat 23 Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And 24 Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: and Na- 25 hor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And Terah lived seventy years, 26 and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, 27 Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot, And Haran died 28 before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees, And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name 29 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. But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 'And 30 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, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five 32 years and Terah died in Haran. NOW the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy12 country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: and I will make of thee a grent 2 nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, 3 and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had 4 spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And 5 Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their 20 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. AND Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, 6 unto the plain of Morch. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto 7 thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. AND he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of 8 Beth-el, and pitched his tent, hering Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there be builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. And Abram journeyed, 9 going on still toward the south. AND there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down 10 into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter 11 into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife. Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: therefore it shall come 12 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 alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well 13 with me for thy sake: and my soul shall live because of thee. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, 14 the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. The 15 princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, 16 and oxen, and he asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she asses, and camels. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh 17 and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast 18 done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her 19 to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, 20 and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. AND Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all13 that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was 2 very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his 3 journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; un'o the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: 4 and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. AND Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, 5 and ten's. And the land was not able to bear them, that they 6 might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a s rife between 7 the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, 8 between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd |