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fhem and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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

15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

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

6 And Noah was six hundred years old 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 are not clean, and of fowls, and of eve16 A window shalt thou make to the ry thing that creepeth upon the earth, ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it 9 There went in two and two unto above; and the door of the ark shalt Noah into the ark, the male and the fethou set in the side thereof: with low-male, as God had commanded Noah. er, second, and third stories shalt thou 10 And it came to pass, after seven days, that the waters of the flood

make it.

17 And behold, I, even I do bring were upon the earth. a flood of waters upon the earth, to de- 11 In the six hundredth year of stroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of Noah's life, in the second month, the life, from under heaven: and every seventeenth day of the month, the same thing that is in the earth shall die. day were all the fountains of the great 18 But with thee will I establish my deep broken up, and -the windows of covenant: and thou shalt come into heaven were opened. the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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

19 And of every living thing of all 13 In the self-same day entered fresh, two of every sort shalt thou bring Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Jainto the ark, to keep them alive with pheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's thee: they shall be male and female. wife, and the three wives of his sons 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of with them, into the ark: cattle after their kind, of every creep- 14 They, and every beast after his ing thing of the earth after his kind; kind, and all the cattle after their kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, and every creeping thing that creepeth to keep them alive. upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

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

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

Noah with his family entereth into the ark. 17 The beginning, increase, and continuance of the flood.

15 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 shut him in.

17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters in

Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt fake 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 seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

was lifted up above the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth: and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceed. ingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the 4 For yet seven days, and I will waters prevail: and the mountains cause it to rain upon the earth forty were covered. days and forty nights: and every liv

21 And all flesh died that moved ing substance that I have made will 1 upon the earth, both of fowl, and of destroy from off the face of the earth. cattle, and of beast, and of every

creeping thing that creepeth upon the that the waters were abated from off earth, and every man : the earth.

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 23 And every living substance was 13 And it came to pass in the six destroyed which was upon the face of hundredth and first year, in the first the ground, both man, and cattle, and month, the first day of the month, the the creeping things, and the fowl of the waters were dried up from off the heaven; and they were destroyed from earth: and Noah removed the coverthe earth and Noah only remained ing of the ark, and looked, and bealive, and they that were with him in hold, the face of the ground was dry. the ark. 14 And in the second month, on the 24 And the waters prevailed upon seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth a hundred and fifty days. was the earth dried.

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15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying

16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy song' wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every livevery living thing, and all the cat-ing thing that is with thee, of all flesh, tle that was with him in the ark: and both of fowl, and of cattle, and of eveGod made a wind to pass over the ry creeping thing that creepeth upon earth, and the waters assuaged; the earth; that they may breed abun2 The fountains also of the deep, dantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and and the windows of heaven were stop-multiply upon the earth. ped, and the rain from heaven was re- 18 And Noah went forth, and his strained; sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

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

19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day 20 And Noah builded an altar unof the month, upon the mountains of to the LORD, and took of every clean Ararat. beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

5 And the waters decreased continually, until the tenth month: in the tenth 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet month, on the first day of the month, savour; and the LORD said in his heart, were the tops of the mountains seen. I will not again curse the ground any 6 And it came to pass at the end more for man's sake; for the imaginaof forty days, that Noah opened the tion of man's heart is evil from his window of the ark which he had made: youth: neither will I again smite any 7 And he sent forth a raven, which more every thing living, as I have done. went forth to and fro, until the waters 22 While the earth remaineth, seedwere dried up from off the earth. time and harvest, and cold and heat. and summer and winter, and day and night,shall not cease.

8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see 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 she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark: A

ND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the

10 And he stayed yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove earth. out of the ark;

2 And the fear of you and the dread 11 And the dove came in to him in of you shall be upon every beast of the evening, and lo, in her mouth was the earth, and upon every fowl of the an olive-leaf pluckt off: So Noah knew air, upon all that moveth upon the

carth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; | Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the into your hand are they delivered. father of Canaan.

3 Every moving thing that liveth 19 These are the three sons of Noah: shall be meat for you; even as the and of them was the whole earth overgreen herb have I given you all things: spread. 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not

eat.

20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard; 21 And he drank of the wine, and

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

5 And surely your blood of your lives was drunken; and he was uncovered will I require: at the hand of every within his tent. 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. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by 23 And Shem and Japheth took a man shall his blood be shed: for in the garment, and laid it upon both their image of God made he man. shoulders, and went backward, and 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and mul-covered the nakedness of their father: tiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

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

9 And I, behold, I establish my venant 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.

25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan ; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and 11 And I will establish my covenant he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; with you; neither shall all flesh be cut and Canaan shall be his servant. off any more by the waters of a flood; 28 And Noah lived after the flood neither shall there any more be a flood three hundred and fifty years. to destroy the earth." 29 And all the days of Noah were 12 And God said, This is the token nine hundred and fifty years: and he of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.

13 1 do set my bow in the cloud, and At shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

died.

CHAP. X.

1 Noah's generations. 2 The sons of Japheth, 6 and Ham. 8 Nimrod the first monarch, 21 The sons of Shem.

14 And it shall come to pass, when NOW these are the generations of

! bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

15 And I will remember my cove- 2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, nant, which is between me and you and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and every living creature of all flesh; and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And the bow shall 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 flesh 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 upon the earth.

3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, 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.

6 And the soOLS of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, 18 1 And the sons of Noah that and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raa; went forth of the ark, were Shem, and]mah, Sheba, and Dedan.

CHAP. XI.

30 And their dwelling was from. sha, as thou goest unto Sephar,

8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 31 These are the sons of Shem, af9 He was a mighty hunter before mount of the east. the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even in their lands, after their nations. as Nimrod the mighty hunter before ter their families, after their tongues, the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his king- 32 These are the families of the sons dom was Babel, and Erech, and Ac-of Noah, after their generations, in cad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. their nations: and by these were the 11 Out of that land went forth nations divided in the earth after the Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

10 T These are the generations of old, and begat Arphaxad two years Shem: Shem was a hundred years after the flood:

11 And Shem lived after he begat gat sons and daughters. Arphaxad five hundred years, and be

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

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, try, and from thy kindred, and from and begat sons and daughters. thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he 27 Now these are the generations an altar unto the LORD, who appeared of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Na- unto him. hor, and Haran: and Haran begat 8 And he removed from thence unto Lot. a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and 28 And Haran died before his fa-pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the ther Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

11 And it came to pass, when he 31 And Terah took Abram his son, was come near to enter into Egypt, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Beand Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son hold now, I know that thou art a fair Abram's wife; and they went forth woman to look upon: with them from Ur of the Chaldees, 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, to go into the land of Canaan; and when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they came unto Haran, and dwelt they shall say, This is his wife and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.