20 And Adamt gave names to all cattel, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beaft of the field, but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

21 And the LORD God caufed a deep fleep to fall upon Adam, and he flept, and he took one of his ribs,and clofed up the Hefn in ftead thereof.

22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, t made he a woman, and builded. brought her unto the man.

Chap.iv.v.

from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

24 So he drove out the man: and he placed at the eaft of the garden of Eden, cherubims, and ta flaming fword, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life.

CHAP. IV.

The birth, trade, and religion of Cain and Abel.
8 The murder of Abel. 11 The curfe of Cain.
17 Enoch the first city. 19 Lamech and his two
wives 25 The birth of Seth. 26 and Enos.

The wives of Lamech.

↑ Heb. whetter. 17, 1

22 And Zillah fhe alfo bare Tubal-Cain, an + inftructer of every artificer in brafs and iron and the fifter of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. 23 And Lamech laid unto his wives, Adah, and would lay Zilah,Hear my voiceye wives of Lamech hear-an in my wound ken unto my speech: for I have flain a man to &c. my wounding, and † a young man to my hurt, Heb. a 24 If Cain fhall be avenged fevenfold truly Lamech feventy and feven fold.

childe.

Or, in

my hurt.

25 And Adam knew his wife again, and fhet Heb.. bare a fon, and called his name + Seth: for God, Sheth.

ceived and bare Cain, and faid, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

of Abel, whom Cain flew. knew Eve his wife; me another feed inftead. Enoth.

2 And the again bare his brother † Abel: and Abel was a keeper of fheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3 And in procefs of time it came to pass. thar Cair brought of the fruit of the ground, an offering unto the LORD.

4. And Abel, he also brought of the firflings of histlock, and of the fat thereof: and the LORD had refpect unto Abel, and to his offering.

5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not refpect: and Cain was very wroth and his 136 countenance fell.

4

*3.

22. 6 And the LORD faid unto Cain, Why art thou
wroth: and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doeft well, fhalt thou not be accept-
ed? and if thou doeft not well, fin lieth at the
door: and unto thee bail be his defire, and
thou fhalt rule over him.

8 And Cain † talked with Abel his brother: ve and it came to pafs, when they were in the field. that Cain rofe up against Abel his brother, and *flew him.

9 And the LORD faid unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he faid. I know not; am I my brothers keeper?

to And he faid, What haft thou done? The voice of thy brothers + blood crieth unto me from the ground.

II And now art thou curfed from the earth I which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brothers blood from thy hand.

12 When thou tilleft the ground it fhall not henceforth yeeld unto thee her ftrength: a fugitive and vagabond fhalt thou be in the earth. 13 And Cain faid unto the LORD, My pu ity nifhment is greater then I can bear.

15 And the LORD faid unto him, Therefore whofoever flayeth Cain vengeance fhal be taken on him feven fold.And the LORD fet a mark upon Cain, left any finding him fhould kill him.

16 And Cain went out from the prefence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the eaft of Eden.

17 And Cain knew his wife, and fhe conceived and bare +Enoch, and he built a city, and hcalled the name of the city after the name of his fon. Enoch.

18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael, and Mehujael begat Methufael, and Methu fael begat † Lamech.

19 And Lamech took unto him two wives, the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of fuch as dwell in tents, and of fuch as bave cattel. 21 And his brothers name was Jubal:he was the father of all fuch as handle the harp and organ.

4 And the days of Adam, after he had be- 1 Chro. gotten Seth, were eight hundred years: and he 11, &c. begat fons and daughters.

5 And all the days that Adam lived, were
nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years,
and begat Enos.

7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos, eight
hundred and feven years, and begat fons and
daughters.

8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat + Cainan. + Heb, to And Enos lived after he begat Cainan,eight Kenan' hundred and fifteen years, and begat fons and daughters?

II And all the days of Enos were nine hun dred and five years, and he died.

12 And Cainan lived feventy years, and +Gr.Ma begat Mahalaleel.

13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel, eight hundred and forty years and begat fons and daughters.

14 And all the days of Cainan, were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

15 And Mahalaleel lived fixty and five years, and begatt Jared.

leleel.

+ Heb.

16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared erca. eight hundred and thirty years, and begat fons and daughters.

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel, were eight hundred ninety and five years, and he died.

18 And Jared lived an hundred fixty and two years, and he begat Enoch.

19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch,eight hundred years and begat fons and daughters.

20 And all the days of Jared were nine handred fixty and two years, and he died.

21 And Enoch lived fixty and five years, and begat + Methuselah.

22 And Enoch walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat fons and daughters.

23 And all the days of Enoch were three dred fixty and five years.

24 And Enoch walked with God

The caufe of the flood.

Heb.

Lemech.

Gr.Noe

Or, of

man.

+ Heb. Name.

he was not, for God took him.

25 And Me hulelah lived an hundred ty and leven years, and begat Lamech.

the door of the ark halt thou fet in the fide eigh-thereof, with lower, fecond and third stories fhalt thou make it.

26 And Methuselah lived after he begat La-
mech, feven hundred eighty and two years, and
begat fons and daughters.

27 And all the days of Methufelah, were nine
hundred fixty and nine years, and he died.
18 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty
and two years, and begat a fon.

29 And he called his name + Noah.faying, This
Jame fhall comfort us concerning our work and
toil of our hands, because of the ground which
the LORD hath curfed.

30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah,
five hundred ninety and five years, and begat!!
fons and daughters.

31 And all the days of Lamech were feven
hundred feventy and feven years, and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and
Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

CHAP VI

The wickedness of the world which provoked Gods
wrath, and caused the food. 8 Noab findeth
grace. 14 The order, form, and end of the ark.

And it came to pals when men began to my

tiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them:

2 That the fons of God faw the daughters" of that they were fair, and they took then wives of all which they chofe.

men,

3 And the LORD faid,My Spirit fhall not always ftrive with man, for that he alfo is flefh: yet his days fhall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in thofe days: and alfo 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 frenown.

5¶And God faw that the wickedness of man Or, the was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely evil continually.

whole imagination.

The He- 6 And it repented the LORD that he had
brew word made man on the earth, and it grieved him at
fignifieth
uot onely his heart.
the ima-

7 And the LORD faid, I will deftroy man, gination whom I have created, from the face of the earth: But alfo both man and beat, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have made them,

the parpofes and defires.

Chap. 8.21. Matth. 15.19. Heb.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

9 Thefe are the generations of Noah: Noah was a juft man, and perfect in his generations, very day and Noah walked with God.

Heb.

10 And Noah begat three fons, Shem, Ham, to bean and Japheth.

from man

2 Pet.

2.5.

nor,

The earth alfo was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and be upright. hold, it was corrupt: for all fiefh had corrupted kis way upon the earth.

13 And God laid unto Noah, The end of all Alefh is come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them: and behold, I will Or,from deftrov them with the earth. the earth + Heb. mcats.

14 Make thee an ark of Gopher-wood: trooms fhalt thou make in the ark, and halt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 And this is the fabion which thou fhalt make it of: the length of the ark fhall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16 A window fhalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit fhalt thou finish it above: and

17 And behold, I, even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to deftroy all fiefh whereinis the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth fhall die.

thou

18 But with thee will I eftablish my cove nant: and thou fhalt come into the ark, and thy funs, and thy wife, and thy fons wives with thee.

of every fort fhalt thou bring into the ark, to 19 And of every living thing of all flesh twe keep them alive with thee: they fhall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kinde, 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 fhalt 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

the flood of waters, was upon the earth.
6 And Noah was fix hundred years old, when t
of
wife, and his fons wives with him into the ark,
7 And Noah went in, and his fons, and his
becaufe of the waters of the flood.

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 female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And it came to pafs " after feven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

12 And the rain was upon the carth forty Est days and forty nights.

13 In the felf fame day entred Noah and Jo Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the fons of 22 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 al the catrel 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 + fort.

The univerfal deluge,

Chap. viii.ix.

16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all tiefh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD fhut him in.

17 And the Hood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increafed, 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 upwards did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

21 And all fiefh died that moved upon the
earth, both of fowl, and of cattel, and of beatt,
and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth, and every man,

Heb. 22 All in whofe noftrils was the breath of
breath life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
the fpi-
of life.
Sim

416.

Pet-2.

Heb.

cat

re

ing

rein

23 And every living fubftance was deftroyed,
which was upon the face of the ground, both
man and cattel, and the creeping things, and
the fowl of the heaven, and they were deftroy-
ed from the earth, and Noah onely remained
alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth
an hundred and fifty days.

CAAP VILL

The waters all wage.4The ark refteth on Ararat.
7 The raven and the dove. 15 Noah being com-
manded. 18 goeth forth of the ark. 20 He builds
eth an altar, and offereth facrifice. 21 which
God accepteth, and promiseth to curse the earth

Nd God remembred Noah, and every † li

Aving thing, and all the catel that was with

him in the ark: and God made a wind to pafs
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 moneth, on the feventeenth day of the moneth,upon the mountains of Ararat."

5 And the waters decreafed continually until the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, Big and on the first day of the moneth, were the tops of taling the mountains feen.

6 And it came to pass 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 Heb. t to and fro, until the waters were dried up going from off the earth.

nth and

& Allo he lent forth a dove from him to fee gif the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

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 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. held her! To And he stayed yet other feven days, and me again he fent forth the dove out of the ark.

Noah facrificeth.

and one year, in the firit moneth, the first day of
the moneth the waters were dried up from off
the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the
the earth: and Noah removed the covering of
ground was dry.

twentieth day of the moneth was the earth dried
14 And in the fecond moneth,on the feven and
15 And God fpake unto Noah, faying,
and thy fons, and thy fons wives with thee;
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife,

17 Bring forth with thee every living thing of cattel, and of every creeping thing that that is with thee, of all flefh, both of fowl, and abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed multiply upon the earth.

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

19 Every beaft, every creeping thing, and
earth after their † kindes, went forth out of
every fowl, and whatfoever creepeth upon the
the ark.

LORD, and took of every clean beaft, and of
20 And Noah built an
every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings
altar unto the
on the altar.

t Heb.

families

+ Heb.

a favong

21 And the LORD fmelled at fweet favour, of reft. and the LORD faid in his heart, I will not again Chap. the imagination of mans heart is evil from his Matth. curfe the ground any more for mans fake, for 6.5. youth: neither will I again finite any more H. every thing living as I have done.

and harvest, and cold, and heat, and fummer, and
22 + While the earth remaineth, feed-time,
winter, and day and night thall not ceale.
CHAP. IX.

1 God blefleth Noab.4Blood and murder are forbid
den.8 Gods covenant, 13 fignified by the rain-bow.
18 Noah replenisheth the world, 20 plante ba
vineyard, 21 15 drunken, and mocked of his fon,
25 curseth Canaan, 26 blefleth Shem, 27 prayeth
for Farbeth, 29 and dieth.

15. 19.

the days as yet all

of the

earth.

TI And the dove came in to him in the even-you, and with your feed after you. 9 And I, behold, Teftablish my covenant with ing, and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: fo Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other feven days, and fent forth the dove, which returned not again anto him any more.

13 And it came to pafs in the fix hundredth

man in

mn.

* Chap. I. 27.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: 12 And God faid, This is the token of the cowherefore it is laid, Even as Nimrod the mighvenant which I make between me and you, andty hunter before the LORD. every living creature that is with you, for perpetuall generations.

Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and un- there were divided in the earth at