CHAP. XI. 1 One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The confusion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem. 27 The generations of Te rah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Ur to Haran. ND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. A 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they 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 burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 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 a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole carth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin 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 language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off' to build the city. The generations of Shem. 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. 10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an 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 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 begat Peleg: 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seyen 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 an hundred and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they 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 burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 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 name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. a 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. AND the whole earth was 13 And Arphaxad lived after of one language, and of he begat Salah four 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. 12 And Arphaxad lived five lah: and thirty years, and begat Sa 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin 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 language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they ft off to build the city. 20 And Reu lived two and 21 And Reu lived after he be thirty years, and begat Serug: gat Serug two hundred and se ven 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, 24 And Nahor lived nine and and begat sons and daughters. twenty years, and begat Terah: begat Terah an hundred and He sojourneth in Egypt. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five out of Haran. years old when he departed 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, had gathered, and the souls that and all their substance that they they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in 31 And Terah took Abram his 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. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. CHAP. XII 1 God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of Christ. 4 He ing on still toward the south. departeth with Lot from Haran. 6 Heyeth through Canaan, promised him in a vision. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt. 11 Fear maketh him feign s wife to be his sister, 14 Pha- grievous in the land. rah, having taken her from him,by plagues is compelled to restore her. he was come near to enter into OW the LORD had said Egypt, that he said unto Sarai 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall 2 And I will make of thee a see thee, that they shall say, and thou shalt be a blessing: alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art bless thee, and curse him that my sister: that it may be well blessed. 14 And it came to pass, that, the land. 7 And the LORD appeared thy seed will I give this land: unto Abram, and said, Unto and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. 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, he builded an altar unto the and Hai on the east: and there LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, go in the land: and Abram went 10 And there was a famine down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. return out of Egypt. to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able 8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one from the other. return out of Egypt. to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. GENESIS. Abram and Lot when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. 8 And Abram said unto Lot, 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded has men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. 12 Abram dwelled in the land the cities of the plain, and pitchof Canaan, and Lot dwelled in ed Sodom. 14 And the LORD said un- 15 For all the land which thou 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that of the earth, then shall thy seed if a man can number the dust also be numbered. Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. 5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able 10 CHAP. XIV. 1 The battle of four kings against fire. 11 Lat is taken prisoner. 14 dra reueth him. 18 Melchizedek blesseth Abram. 20 Abram giv eth him tithe. 22 The rest of the pal, his partners having had their parts, he restoreth to the king of Sodom of Sodom and Gomorrah, and 11 And they took all the goods all their victuals, and went their way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and AND it came to pass in the days of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Bisha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thir- against them, he and his ser departed. 13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in ite, brother of Eshcol, and brothe plain of Mamre the Amorther of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. that his brother was taken cap14 And when Abram heard tive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. 15 And he divided himself them, and pursued them unto roth Karnaim, and the Zuzims the goods, and also brought which is by the wilderness. 7 And they returned, and return from the slaughter of went out to meet him after his came to En-mishpat, which is Chedorlaomer, and of the kings Kadesh, and smote all the coun- that were with him, at the valtry of the Amalekites, and also ley of Shaveh, which is the the Amorites, that dwelt in Ha- king's dale. zezon-tamar. 18 And Melchizedek king of 8 And there went out the king Salem brought forth bread and of Sodom, and the king of Go- wine: and he was the priest of morrah, and the king of Ad- the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and mah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same said, Blessed be Abram of the is Zoar;) and they joined battle most high God, possessor of with them in the vale of Siddim; heaven and earth: 19 teenth year they rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and Snote the Rephaims in Ashte God promiseth 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath deliver ed thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. Abram a son. GENESIS. 6 And he believed in the 7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. CHAP. XV. 1 God encourageth Abram. 2 Abram complaineth for want of an heir. 4 God promiseth him a son, and a multiplying of his seed. 6 Abram is justified by faith. 7 Cannan is promised again, and confirmed by a sign, 12 and a vision." 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed that is not their's, and shall 15 And thou shalt go to thy 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river |