The confusion of tongues. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 2247. 2 Heb. a man said to his neighbour. them to a burning. GENESIS, XII. found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and 3 burn them throughly. And they had brick for 3 Heb. burn stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, a 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. a Deut. 1.28. God calleth Abram. 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of ch. 17. 15. Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. t & 20. 12. t ch. 22. 20. & 18. 11, 12. 30 But "Sarai was barren; she had ch. 16.1, 2. no child. 31 And Terah w took Abram his ch. 12. 1. 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. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. CHAPTER XII. 1 God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of Christ. 4 He departeth with Lot from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, 7 which is promised him in a vision. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt. 11 Fear maketh him feign his wife to be his sister. 14 Pharaoh, having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her. the LORD had said 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: NOW с 2 b And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; d and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all fami lies of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went Neh. 9.7. Acts 7. 4. y ch. 10. 19. cir. 1923. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had ga- thered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went the land unto the place of Sichem, 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east and there he builded an altar 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live 14 T And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh and the woman was taken 16 And he a entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and Abram and Lot return out of Egypt. 7 By ND Abram went up out of cir. 1918. A Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, a intoch. 12.9. 2 b And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had 4 Unto the place of the altar, a ch. 12.7,8. which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on 6 And the land was not able torch. 36. 7. 7 And there was a strife between 8 ch. 26. 20. the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite 8 And Abram said unto Lot, 1 Let 11 Cor. 6. 7. there be no strife, I pray thee, be- tween me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we 9k Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and The battle of the kings. BEFORE cir. 1918. east: and they separated themselves lekites, and also the Amorites, that 12 Abram dwelled in the land of 4 ch. 19. 29. Canaan, and Lot a dwelled in the 13 But the men of Sodom were Abram, after that Lot " was separated 16 And I will make thy seed as 17 Arise, 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 a dwelt in the 2 plain 1 The battle of four kings against five. 12 Lot is taken prisoner. 14 Abram rescueth him. 18 Melchizedek blesseth Abram. 20 Abram giveth him tithe. 22 The rest of the ND it came to pass in the days Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer 14 And when Abram heard that 16 And he brought back all the dch. 19. 22. and the king of Bela, which is a Zoar.a went out to meet him after his AFTER these things the word of a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: 2 And Abram said, Lord GoD, house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 4 And, behold, the word of the broad, and said, Look now toward 6 And he believed in the LORD; 7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur 8 And he said, Lord Gon, where- by shall I know that I shall inherit it? down, a deep sleep fell upon A- 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety " that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and Ex. 6. 6. fathers in peace; b thou shalt be Acts 13.36. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and & made a covenant with Abram, say-8 19 The Kenites, and the Keniz- 20 And the Hittites, and the 9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. said unto her, I will multiply thy said unto her, Behold, thou art with ch. 17. 19. child, and shalt bear a son, and 12 t And he will be a wild man; t ch. 21. 20. his hand will be against every man, 1898. the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that 14 Wherefore the well was called 5 Neither shall thy name any 2 Heb. mul many nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make *nations of 7 And I will establish my cove- nant between me and thee and thy &c. seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a 8 And PI will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land 49 wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlast-of ing possession; and I will be their ham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and s Acts 7. 8. 11 And ye shall circumcise the 12 And he that is eight days old 15 And a Hagar bare Abram a 13 He that is born in thy house, 14 And the uncircumcised man 15 And God said unto Abra- 16 And I will bless her, and give |