h ch. 2, 19. manded Noah. 10 And it came to pass, after seven days, that the Heb. waters of the flood were upon the earth. 6,7. 11 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the 1 Job 28, 4. same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Ps. 106, 9. k chap. 1, 7. Ps. 78, 23. 1 Isa. 11, 8. m 2 Kings 4,5. ■ Pt. 63, 15. • Ps. 104, 26. Εχ. 14, 28, 29. p Jer. 3, 25. q Ps. 104,6. 13 In the self-same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his 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 ark1 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 increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift 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 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 cattle, and of beast, and of every creep• ing thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of Job 22, 16. all that was in the dry land, died. Mat. 8, 9, 25. 2 The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; Noah goeth out of the ark. 61 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days, Before that Noah opened the window of the ark which he CHRIST had made : e ch. Dan. 6, 10 ing forth of her and return 7 And he sent forth a 'raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. f1 Kin. 17, 8 Also he sent forth & a dove from him, to see if the 6. waters were abated from off the face of the ground: Heb. go9 But the dove found no rest for the sole foot, and she returned unto him into the ark: for the ve waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he Mat. 10, 6. put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in un- b. Ezek. 7, to him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark: 16 Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, and Ps. 91, 1. thy sons, and thy sons' wives 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 earth, and be fruitful, and inultiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: 21 And the LORD smelled + a sweet savour: and the 2 Cor. 2,14 LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the Lev. 6, 19. ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of 9 2 Pet.3.2. man's heart is evil from his youth : neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 † While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. 3 And the waters returned from off the earthplenish the earth. Heb go- continually: and after the end of the hundred and ing and returning. 4 ch. 7, 11. fifty days the waters were abated. Job 22.20 of the earth † Heb. as yst all the dogs a ch. 2, 3. b ch. 1, 23 Ps. 128, 3. 2 And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall Job 5, 23. be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all that moveth upon the earth, 41 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the moun-and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are tains of Ararat. 5 And the waters † decreased continually, until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Heb. gring and abating. c ch. 35, 5. Lev. 20, 22 they delivered. d Lev. 22, 8. e Lev. 11, B. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even 'as the green herb have I given you all (ch. 1, 2 {things. 9 And I, behold I, establish my covenant with h. 6, 17. you, and with your 'seed after you ; Isa. 54, 9. The generation of Noah and his sons. CHAPTER X. 1 The generations of Noah....8 Nimrod the first monarch. a NOW these are the generations of the sons of Before CHRIST 2347. Noah; Shem, Ham and Japheth: and unto & chap. 5,1 them were sons born after the flood. b 1 Chr. 1, 2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and 5. Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 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. c Jer. 25, 22. 61 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, d 1 Chr. 4, 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 ev-and Phut, and Canaan. Ps. 145, 9. ery beast of the earth. ch. 22, 17. Rom. 1, 3. ch. 8, 21. u. Rev. 4, 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha; and the sons of 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the wa-Raamah, Sheba and Dedan. ters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, 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. 8 And Cush begat || Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth : 40. Ps. 105, 27. That is, a rebel. Rev. 17, 6. 9 He was a mighty hunterbefore the LORD: e Jer. 16,16. wherefore it is said, Even&as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 13 I do set my " bow in the cloud, and it shall be 3. 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:ed 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy ali 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. 18 I And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken: and he was uncovered within his tent. 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 Asshur, and buildNineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. 15 1 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 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 comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboiim, even unto Lasha. Ezek. 13,18. f chap. 6, 4. g 2 Chr. 28, 22 Or, he wens out into Assyria, verse 22. h Nah. 3, 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant John 8,34. of servants shall he be unto his brethren. (Ps. 114,15. 26 And he said, 'Blessed be the Lord God of Heb. 11, 16. Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Or, per Lade, 27 God shall || enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in Hosea 2,14. the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 28 11 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred 13. Eph. 3,6, Rom. 11.12. and fifty years. Heb. 11, 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred 2 10. Mal. 2, 12. and fifty years: and he died. † Heb. great, 22 The children of Shem; 'Elam, and Asshur, chap. 5, 32, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; "Uz, and Hull, and Gether, and Mash. 1 Acts 2, 9. m 2 Kings 15, 19. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Job 1, 1. Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth di- Luke 3, vided; and his brother's name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan 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 that is, Division. p 2 Chr. 9. 10, 13. Job. 22, 24. q ch. 25, 18, these were the sons of Joktan. 1 Sam. 5, 7. The building of Babel. Before CHRIST 7. 2247. CHAPTER XI....XII. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a' mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, God calleth Abram. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat for Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Before 2247 q Josh. 24 27 11 Now these are the generations of Terah: TeNum. 2 after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.rah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran 2 a ch. 6, 11. 1 Heb. lip. 6 ch. 10, 10. e Prov. 1,11. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, af-begat Lot. ter their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. CHAPTER XI. 1 One language in the world....3 The building of Babel..... The confusion of tongues. a AND the whole earth was of one one speech. † language, and 2 And it came to pass, as they journeved from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and Heb. 10, 24. they dwelt there. 3 And 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. 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 fa name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. k 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, i Psal. 14,2 and they have all one language; and this they begin k ch. 3, 22 to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, 'let us go down, and there confound their 1 ch. 1, 26. language, that they may not understand one anothm Job 12, er's speech. 20. 8 So the LORD 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 confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them ⚫ abroad upon the face of all the earth. brought in between Ar Salak. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in' Ur of the Chaldees. 2. r Acts 7, 2, 2. Some read, 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the Nch. 9. name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Bam Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the fa-ut of the ther of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. fire Caaldeer for Ur significe avallcy, 31 And "Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the light, or, son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter- Isa. 24, là in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth 5 ch. 17, 13 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. & 20, 12. u ch. 12, L. Neh. 9, 2 t ch. 22, 20. Heb. 11, 2. Acts 7,2 x Acts 7, & 29, promise of 24.10. 1 God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a a a Acts 7,2. NOW the LORD had said unto Abram. Get thee 2 Cor. from thy father's house, unto a land that I will thee: 17. 2 And I will make of theed a great nation, and 11. will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: e Gal. 3, 14. f Gal. 3, 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families Rom. 1. of the earth be blessed. 8. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seven- & Heb. 11ty and five years old when he & departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his broth 10 1 These are the generations of Shem: Shemer's son, and all their substance that they had gather-h ch. 14, 14 was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad twoed, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran: ich. 10, 12. 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. 13 And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four Pharad and hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat 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 be 21 And Reu lived, after he begat Serug, two hun-enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Song 1, 14. dred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 23 And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah. 25 And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, a hun Rom. 3,6 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife 1 Sam. 27, and they will " kill me, but they will save thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art * my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake: and my soul shall dred and nineteen vears, and begat sons and daughters. { live because of thee. 15 x Prov. 24 ch. 20, 12. 9 And I, behold I, establish my covenant with h. 6, 17. you, and with your seed after you; Isa. 54, 9. NOW The generation of Noah and his sons. CHAPTER X. a Before CHRIST 2347. 1 The generations of Noah....8 Nimrod the first monarch. b 1 Chr. 1, 2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and 5. Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 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. c Jer. 25, 22. 61 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, d 1 Chr. 4, 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 ev-and Phut, and Canaan. 25. 145, 9. cry beast of the earth. Ech. 22, 17. Rom. 1, 3. Ech. 8, 21. 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba and Havilah, and 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant 8 And Cush begat || Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth : 9 He was a mighty hunterbefore the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even&as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 40. Ps. 105, 27. That is, a rebel. e Jer. 16,16. Ezek. 13,13. Rev. 17, 6. f chap. 6, 4. g 2 Chr. 28, 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 22 13 I do set my " bow in the cloud, and it shall be u. Rev. 4, 3. 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:ed 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh, 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. 18 11 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken: and he was uncovered within his tent. 11 Out of that land || went forth Asshur, and build- or, he wend Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. 15 1 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 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 comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboiim, even unto Lasha. out into Assyria, verse 22. h Nah. 3, 2 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the naked-their nations. ness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it 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. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him: 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant John 2,34. of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 19. which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may " not understand one anoth m Job 12, er's speech. 20. n Deut. 28, 40. verse 4. Luke 3, PL 36. 8 So the LORD 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 confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them • abroad upon the face of all the earth. Kainan is brought in between Ar Salak. 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 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. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. Before 2247 q Josh. 24 r Acts 7, 2, 4. 2. Nch. 9. 1 Some read, fire of the Caaldee; for Ur signifies a valley, 31 And "Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the light, or, son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter- Isa. 24, là in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth 5 ch. 17, 13. with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan: and they came unto Haran, and tch. 22, 20. dwelt there. & 20, 12 u ch. 12, L Neh. 9, 2 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and Acts 7, 2 five years: and Terah died in Haran. CHAPTER XII. Heb. 11, 2 Josh. 242 x Acts 7, ch. 24, 10. 1 God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of & 29, 4. a NOW the LORD had said unto Abram. Get thee thee: c a Acts 7,2 b 2 Cor. 6, d Rom. 4, Gal. 3, 7. 2 And I will make of theed a great nation, and 11. will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: e Gal. 3, 14. Gal. S, 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thec shall all families Rom. 411. of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seven-Heb. 11ty and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his broth 10 1 These are the generations of Shem: Shemer's son, and all their substance that they had gather- h ch. 14, 14 was a hundred years old, and 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. 13 And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four Pharad and hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat 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 be 7 And the LORD" appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there build{ed he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain 8. on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having p ch. 13, là Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east; and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon a Lake the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. 25. Ps. 33, 13. r Deut. 8, 7, 8. 10 11 And there was a famine' in the land: and Ps. 107, 34. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to Mat. 2, 13, 14. t verse 11. 21 And Reu lived, after he begat Serug, two hun-enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Song 1, 14. dred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: 23 And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah. 25 And Nahor lived, after he 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife 1 Sam. 27, and they will " kill me, but they will save thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art * my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake : and my soul shall 20, 12. begat Terah, a hun- 15 Rom. 3, 6 x Prov. 24 25. : : |