Man's teieifdneft. Chap, after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 15 And all the days ot' Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 14 ^J And Enoch walked with God: and he tvas not; for God took him. 15 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lantech: zi And Methuselah lived aster hebega: Lamech seven hundred eighty and two /ears, and begat sons and daughters: 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. xS And Lantech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a ion: »9 And he called his name Noah, faying, This/ami shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Loud hath cursed. jo And Lamech lived after he begat Noah sive hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven yeais: and be died. •51 And Noah was five hundred years «iij: and Koah begat Sheni, Ham, and Japhctii. CHAP. VI. 1 The 'veieiidnefs of the 'world cavfeth the flisd. 8 Noah findetk grace. 1+ The order, farm, and end of the ark. AND it came to pal's, when n.ea began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were b**n unto them, 2 That the sons of God law the daughter; of men that they were fair; and they tc*k them wives of all which they chose. j And the Lor D said, My spirit shall sot always, strive with man, for that he ■lib if ncsli: yet his days lhall be an butdred and twenty years. L There were giants in the earth in those r!?.ys; and also after that, when the (mcvfGoD came in unto the daughters cf men, and they bare children to them; t»t feme Uecame mighty men which vert of old, men of renown. 5 And God law that the wickedness 6f man mo great in the earth, and that tsery imagination of the thoughts of bis-hrsrt iuat only evil continually. I And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the tilth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy œan whom I have created from the tee of the esrth; both man, and beast, and tht creeping thing, and the fowls of the air j for it repenteth me that I have m:;de them. 8 fl But Noah found grace in the eye» of Lhe Lo K D . 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man end perseef in hi* generations, find Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ji The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. n And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupts for all field had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all rielh is come before me; for the earth i. filled with violence t!vout h Uiem j and, behold,! will destroy them with the earth. 14. fl Make thee an ark of gopher wood; roomsslialt thou make in the ark.and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this it the fajhion which thou (halt make it of; The length of the ark Jh.allbe three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, aud the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window (halt thou make to the ark, and in a-cubit (halt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark flia! t thou set in the tide then sf; with lower, iecond, ami tliird/o; ,:j (halt thou make it. 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein it the breath of lite, from under heaven; attdevery thing that is in the earth (hall die. 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou (halt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy (bus' wives with thee. 19 And of every living thingof al! flesh, two of every fort (halt thou bring into the ark, to keen them alive with thtc; they (hall be male and female. io Of fowls_ after their kind, r.nd of cattle after (heir kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after .his kind, two of every fort (hail come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou (halt gather it to thee; and it mall be for food for thee, and for them. iz Thus did Noah; tiecordine to all that God commanded him, so did he. CHAP. VII. 1 Noah ivith hit family entereth into the ark. 17 The bee inning, increaje and continuance of the stood. AN D the Lo R D (aid unt« Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the The tuorld droiuned. the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2. Of every clean b-all thou (halt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep feed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days anil forty nights; ,and every living substance that I have made will I deitroy from olf the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did according unto .ill that the Lord commanded him. 6 And Noah ivas lix hundred years eld when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 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 arc not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of t!ie month, the same day were all the fountains ofthe great deep brokenup, and the windows of heaven were opened. ix And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shcm, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, aud Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14/rhey, and every beastafterhis 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, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesti, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as Cod hid commanded him: and theLoRDihuthimin. 17 »J Aud the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 1X And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon five face of the waters. 1 g And the waters prevailed exceed GENESIS The tvaterj ajswr.ged. ingly upon the earth; and all the bigli hills, that ivere under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail: and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, anefc of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man j 22 All in whose nostrils nvus the breath of life, of all that luat in the dry land, died. 33 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: a»d Noah only remained alive, and they that ivcre with him in the ark. 2+ And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty c:ays. CHAP. VIII. 1 The ivattrs ajjnvage. 18 Noah goeth forth of the ark, 20 buil.leth on altar, anU offereth sacrifice. 21 God's promise to curse the earth no more. AN D God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and ull the cattle that ivas with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters alswaged; 7. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from oft" the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred aud fifty days the waters were abated: 4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the wafers decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day os the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 6 And it came lo pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a taven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to lee if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and (he returned unto him into the ark, for the waters ivere on the face of the whole earth : then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pull, ed her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days.; and and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; Ii 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 oft" the earth. 11 And he stayed yet other seven day*; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the fix hundredth and first year, in the first month, thebrftJayof 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, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy ions' wive« with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee 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 abundantly in the rath, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 f And Noah went forth, and his sons, andhiswife,aiid his sons'wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. to IJ And Noah builded an altar unto the Lo 1 a; and took of every clean bealt, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 f And the Lord smelled a sweet tvour; and the Lo K D said in his heart, 1 will not again curse the ground any more for man's fake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from hi3 youth; neither will I again smite any aore even- thing living, as I have done. »1 While the earth remaineth, feedfcssand harvest, and cold and heat, and J'-amer and winter, and day and night, Hall not cease. CHAP. IX. 1 Osdblejtth Noah. 4 Blood and murder on forbidden. 8 God's eo-venant 13 sis'. 'iJUJ by the rainbow. 21 Noah is drunk<*i 15 curfeth Canaan, 10 and dieth. AND God blessed Noah and his sons, aud said unto them, Be fruitful, ^multiply, and replenish the earth. 1 And the fear of you and the dread Q> you (hall be upou every bealt 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. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat tor you; even as the green herb have 1 given you all things. 4 f B ut flesh with the I ife thereof, 'which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require j at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother wilj I require the life ot man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blocd be sheds for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 8 A And; God (pake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 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; 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. 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 (hall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. u And God laid, 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 f| I do set my bow in the cloud, aud 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 you and every living creature of all fiefli; and the waters (hall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And tlie bow (hall 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 flelh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upou the earth. iS And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father ot Canaan. 19 These Nimrod the first monarch. The generations of Noah. GENESIS 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 fl And he drank of'the wine, and 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 Slieraand Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their f.ces ivcre backward, and they law not their father's nakedness. 2+AudNoah awokefrom his wine, and knew what his younger Ion had done unto him. 25 ^f And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And be said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 28 And Noah lived after tlie flood three hundred and fifty years. 29 ^| And all the clays of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. CHAP. X. j Noah's generations. 2 The sons of "Japheth, 6 and Ham. 8 Nitnrod the first monarch, it The fins of Shem. NOW these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 2 fl The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Mefhech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarfhish, 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. fc <y Ard the sons of Ham; Cufh, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cufh; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabrechnh: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba and Dedsn. 3 fl And Cufh begat Nimrod: he began to be ?. mighty one in the earth. 9 sir Bu' a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, Even as Nim-rod the mighty hunter before the Lo R D . 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 Asslmr, and builded Nineveh, and the city Keheboth, and Calah, 12 And Rcsen between Nineveh and Calah: the lame is a great cijy. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, andNaphtuhim , 14 And Pathrufun, and Cafluhim, (out of whom came Philistim, )andCaphtorim. 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 1 (5 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arradite, 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 Cornell to Gejar, unlo 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'm their nations. 21 f Unto Shem also, the father of at] the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22ThechildrenofShem;Elam,andAssliur, andArphax ad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gcther, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons! the name of one tuas Peleg; for in his days was th'e earth divided; and his brother's name <was Joktan, 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmavcth, and Jerah, 27And 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 Meflia, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. 31 These art 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 Nor<h, after their generations, in their nation';: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. CHAP. Tie building of Babel. CHAP. XI. X Out language in the world. 3 Babel built. 5 !.az?uages csnfounded. 10 The generation: sfShem, 27 of TerahAbram* s father. AN D the whole earth was of one language, anil of one speech. 2 And itcume to pass, as they journeyed from the call, that they found a plain in t";;elandof 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 stime had they for morter. 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 tie face of the whole earth. 5 «J And the Lord came down to fee the city arid the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord 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 tisem, 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. i So the Lo R D scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confoand the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. tots These ar* the generations of Shem: Shcai •was an hundred years old, aud begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: 1% And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah soar hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and wgat 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 Peltg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. iS And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: 19 And Peleg lived aster he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sens and daughters. Chap. xii. Cod calleth Abram. Jo And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 11 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundied and seven* years, and begat Ions and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, aud begat Nahor: 23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, aud bc^at Ions and daughters: 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terahs 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat Ions and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 (ft Now these are the generations of Terah; Terah be;pit Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran bcj'at Lot. 28 And Haran died before hi* father Terah, in the land of hit nativity, in Ur of the Chaldtes. 29 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 If'cah. 30 But Sarai was barren; (lie had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the lbn os Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his ton Abram's wife; and they went fortli with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go iHto the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 31 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: aud Terah died in Haran. CHAP. XII. 1 Cod calleth Abram, and blejfeth him ivhh a promise of Christ. 4 His departure from Haran. 7 Canaan is premised. NOWthe Lord had said untoAbram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will Ihew thec: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou (halt be a blefling: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and irf thee (hall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 fl[ So Abram departed as the Lo R i> hadspoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram •was seventy and five yearsold when he departed outof Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls |