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Chap. vij.

Noah entreth the ark. alíos flesh : yet his days shall be an hun- thee: they fhall be male and female dred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in thofe days, and allo after that, when the fons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the fame became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.

And GoD faw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Fe 6 And it repented the LORD that he

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattel after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind: two of every fort fhall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee, and it fhall be for food for thee, and for them.

22 Thus did Noah, according to all that God commanded him, fo did he. CHAP. VII.

had made man on the earth, and it grie- ANd the LORD faid unto Noah, Come

Er ved him at his heart.

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and all thy houfe into the

7 And the LORD faid, I will deftroy ark: for thee have I feen righteous beman, whom I have created, from the face fore me in this generation.

ors of the earth, both man and beaft, and the 2 Of every clean beat thou shalt take creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; to thee by fevens, the male and his fefor it repenteth me that I have made them. male; and of beafts that are not clean by 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of two, the male and his female.

Eve the LORD.

Thefe are the generations of Noah: fre Noah was a juft man and perfect in his hgenerations, and Noah walked with God. To And Noah begat three fons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The earth alfo was corrupt 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 faid unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold, I will deftroy them with the earth.

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14 Make thee an ark of Gopherwood: rooms fhalt thou make in the ark, and fhalt pitch it within and without with Her pitch.

15. And this is the fashion which thou halt make it of the length of the ark fba be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it pathirty cubits.

16 A window fhalt thou make to the at, and in a cubit fhalt thou finish it aere tove, and the door of the ark fhalt thou ft in the fide thereof: with lower, fecond, and third ftories fhalt thou make it. 17 And behold, I, even I do bring a Bad of waters upon the earth, to deftroy all fich, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven: and every thing that in the earth fhall die.

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18 But with thee will. I eftablish my Covenant: and thou fhalt come into the k thou, and thy fons, and thy wife, and thy fons wives with thee.

19 And of every living thing of all Beth, two of every fort halt thou bring at the ark,, to keep them alive with

3 Of fowls alfo of the air by fevens, the male and the female, to keep feed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 For yet feven days, and I will caufe it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and every living fubftance that I have made, will I deftroy from off the face of the earth.

s And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

6 And Noah was fix hundred years old when the floud of waters was upon the earth.

7 And Noah went in,and his fons, and his wife, and his fons wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the floud..

8 Of clean beafts, and of beafts that are 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 fe male, as God had commanded Noah.

Io And it came to pass after feven days, that the waters of the floud were upon the earth.

II In the fix hundredth year of Noahs life, in the fecond month, the feven-teenth day of the month, the fame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heavenwere opened.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the felf-fame day entred Noah,and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the fons of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wives of his fons with them into the ark ::

14 They, and every beaft after his kind, and all the cattel after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every for after his kind, every bird of every

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The waters prevail.

Genefis. Is 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 fhut him in. 17 And the floud 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 increafed greatly upon the earth: and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that were 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 cattel, and of beaft, and of every creeping thing that 'creepeth upon the earth, and every man. 22 All in whofe noftrils was the breath of life,of all that was in the dry land,died. 23 And every living fubftance was defroyed, which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattel, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven 3 and they were destroyed from the earth and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

CHAP. VIII.

The ark refteth.

9 But the dove found no reft for the fole of her foot, and the returned unto him into the ark: for the waters were or the face of the whole earth. Then he pu forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

10 And he ftayed yet other feven day! and again he fent forth the dove out o the ark.

II And the dove came in to him in th evening, and lo, in her mouth was a olive-leaf pluckt off: So Noah kney that the waters were abated from off th earth.

12 And he ftayed yet other feven day and fent forth the dove, which returne not again unto him any more.

13 And it came to pafs in the fix hur dredth and firft year, in the firft month, th firft day of the month, the waters wer dried up from off the earth: and Noa removed the covering of the ark, an looked, and behold the face of the groun was dry.

14 And in the fecond month, on the f ven and twentieth day of the month, wi the earth dried.

15 And God spake unto Noah, fay ing,

16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and th wife, and thy fons, and thy fons wive with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every livin thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both fowl, and of cattel, and of every creepin

And God remembred Noah, and that

ry living thing, and all the cattel that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters affwaged.

2 The fountains alfo of the deep, and the windows of heaven were ftopped, and the rain from heaven was reftrained.

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

4 And the ark refted in the feventh month, on the feventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

s And the waters decreafed continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains feen.

6. And it came to pafs at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

7 And he fent forth a raven which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8. Alfo he fent forth a dove from him,.

they may breed abundantly in the eart! and be fruitful,and multiplyupon the eart

18 And Noah went forth, and his fon and his wife, and his fons wives with him

19 Every beaft, every creeping thing and every fowl, and whatfoever creeper upon the earth, after their kinds wer forth out of the ark.

20 And Noah builded an altar unt the LORD, and took of every clean beaf and of every clean fowl, and offere burnt-offerings on the altar.

21 And the LORD fmelled a fweet fa vour and the LORD faid in his heart, will not again curfe the ground any mor for mans lake, for the imagination o mans heart is evil from his youth: nei ther will I again (mite any more ever thing living as I have done.

22 While the earth remaineth, feed tim and harvest, and cold and heat, and fum mer and winter, and day and night that not cease.

CHAP. IX:

to fee if the waters were abated from off And God blefied Noah and his fond

face of the ground.

faid unto them, Be fruitful an

multiply, and replenish the earth.

Geds covenant with men.

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2 And the fear of you, and the dread of you thall be upon every beaft 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.

Every moving thing that liveth fhall be meat for you, even as the green herb have I given you all things:

4 But flesh with the life thereof, which the blood thereof, fhall you not eat. 5 And furely your blood of your lives will require at the hand of every beaft will I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every mans brother will I require the life of man.

Whofo heddeth mans blood, by man fhall his blood be fhed; 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.

And God fpake unto Noah, and to his fons with him, faying,

And I, behold Ieftablish my covenant with you, and with your feed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattel, and of every beaft of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beaft of the earth.

And I will eftablish my covenant with you, neither fhall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a floud: neither hall there any more be a floud to deftroy 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 with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do fet my bow in the cloud, and it fhall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it fhall come to pafs, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow fall be feen in the cloud:

The generations of Noah:

19 Thefe 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 gar ment, and laid it upon both their fhoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father, and their faces were backward, and they faw not their fathers nakedness.

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

25 And he faid, Curfed be Canaan ; fervant of fervants fhall he be unto his brethren.

26 And he faid, Bleffed be the LORD' God of Shem, and Canaan fhall be his fervant.

27 God fhall enlarge Japheth, and he fhall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan fhall be his fervant.

28 And Noah lived after the floud, three hundred and fifty years.

29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

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Ow thefe are the generations of the fons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were fons born after the floud.

2 The fons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Methech, and Tiras.

And the fons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 And the fons of Javan; Elifhah, and Tarfhish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 By thefe were the ifles of the Gen5. And I will remember my covenant tiles divided in their lands; every one af which is between me and you, and every ter his tongue, after their families, in living creature of all flesh; and the wa- their nations. ters fhall no more become a floud to-de- 6 And the fons of Ham, Cush, and ftroy all Aefh. Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

16 And the bow fhall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlofting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

7 And the fons of Cufh; Seba; and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the fons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began 17 And God faid unto Noah, This is to be a mighty one in the earth. the token of the covenant, which I have 9 He was a mighty hunter before the eftablished between me, and all flesh that LORD: wherefore it is faid, Even as Nim#upon the earth. rod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 18 And the fons of Noah that went 10 And the beginning of his kingdon forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, was Babel, and Erech, and Accad and Japheth and Ham is the father Calneb, in the land of Shinar. Canaan

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The generation of Noah. 3 And they faid one to another, Go to,

II Out of that land went forth Asher, and builded Nineveh, and the city Re- let us make brick, and burn them throughhoboth, and Calah, ly. And they had brick for ftone, and flime had they for morter.

12 And Refen between Nineveh and Calah: the fame is a great city.

13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrufim, and Cafluhim (out of whom came Philiftim) and Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his

firft born, and Heth,

16 And the Jebufite, and the Emorite, 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 Lafhah.

20 Thefe are the fons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

21 Unto Shem alfo the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were chil. dren born.

22 The children of Shem, Elam, and Afhur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Áram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Math.

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 brothers name was Joktan.

26 And Jokten 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 thefe were the fons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goeft unto Sephar a mount of the eaft

31 Thefe are the fons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

32 Thefe 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 floud.

CHAP. XI.

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4 And they faid, Go to, let us build us city and a tower, whofe top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, left we be fcattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

S 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 peo ple is one, and they have all one language! and this they begin to do: and now no thing will be reftrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there con found their language, that they may no understand one anothers fpeech.

8 So the LORD fcattered 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 Ba bel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence did the LORD fcatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

10 Thefe are the generations of Shem Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the floud.

II And Shem lived after he begat Ar phaxad five hundred years, and begat fon and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirt years, and begat Salah.

13 And Arphaxad lived after he bega Salah four hundred and three years, an begat fons and daughters.

14 And Salah lived thirty years, an begat Eber.

Is And Salah lived after he begat Ebe four hundred and three years, and bega fons and daughters.

16 And Eber lived four and thirty year and begat Peleg.

17 And Eber lived after he begat Pele four hundred and thirty years, and beg fons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and be gat Reu.

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Re two hundred and nine years, and beg fons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty year and begat Serug,

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serv

And the whole earth was of one lan- two hundred and feven years, and beg

guage, and of one speech.

2 And it came to pafs as they journeyed, om the east, that they found a plain inthe of Shiner, and they dwelt there.

fons and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, a begat Nahor.

23 And Serug lived after he begat N

Chap. Xij, xiij.

Covenanteth with him. her two hundred years, and begat fons mountain on the eaft of Beth-el and pitchand daughters. ed 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.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty year, 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.

7 Now thefe are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abrams wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahors wife, Milcah the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Ifcah.

30 But Sarai was barren, the had no child.

31 And Terah took Abram his fon, and Lot the fon of Haran his fons fon, and Sarai his daughter in law, his fon Abrams 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.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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CHA P. XII.

Ow the LORD had faid unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers houfe, unto a land that I will fhew 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.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curfe him that curfeth thee: and in thee fhall all families of the earth be ble fled. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had fpoken unto him, and Lot went with him: And Abram was feventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Sarai wife, and fence 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

9 And Abram journeyed, going on ftill, 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 grievous in the land.

II And it came to pafs, 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 hall come to pass, when the Egyptians fhall fee thee, that they fhall fay, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will fave thee alive.

13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my fifter: that it may be well with me for thy fake, and my foul fhall live because of thee.

14 And it came to pafs, 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 Pharaohs houfe.

16 And he entreated Abram well for her fake: and he had theep, and oxen, and he-affes, and men-fervants, and maid- fervants, and the-affes, and camels.

17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh, and his houfe with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wife.

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and faid, What is this that thou hoft done unto me? Why didft thou not tell me that he was thy wife?

19 Why faidft thou, She is my fifter? 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. Nd Abram went up

Lot his brobem took and his their fub- A and his wife, sun out of Egypt, he

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.

And be removed from thence unto a

and Lot with him, into the fouth.

2 And Abram was very rich in cattel, in filver, and in gold.

3 And he went on his journeys from the fouth, even to Beth el, un:o the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el, and Hei,

4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the firft: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

s And Lot alfo which went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6 And the land was not able to b them, that they might dwell togeth