6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood,' by man shall his blood be shed: for " in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful and multiply, bring forth Num. 35, abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Rom. 13, 4. 8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons a ch. 1, 27. with him, saying, 23. Đ ch. 1, 2. 9 And I, behold I, establish my covenant with h. 6, 17. you, and with your seed after you; Isa. 54, 9. r 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the Rom.1, 3. earth with you: from all that go out of the ark, to ev8s. 145, 9. cry beast of the earth. Ech. 22, 17. Ich. 8, 21. NOW The generation of Noah and his sons. CHAPTER X. a Before CHRIST 2347. 1 The generations of Noah....8 Nimrod the first monarch. 2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and s 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. b 1 Chr. 1, c Jer. 25, 22. 5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba and Havilah, and 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. 13 I do set my " bow in the cloud, and it shall be 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: 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. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. 15 I 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 h Nah. 3, 2. a servant 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. Job 1, 1. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew d 26 And he said, 'Blessed be the LORD God of Heb. 11, 16. Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Or, per suade, 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in Hosea 2, 14. the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 28 1 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred g Eph. 3,6, 73. Rom. 11. 12. and fifty years. Ieb. 11, 10. 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundreds 2,12 and fifty years: and he died, 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 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, P 35. that is, Division. p 2 Chr. 9. 10, 13. Job. 22, 24 q ch. 25, 18. 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all 1 Sam. 5, 7. these were the sons of Joktan. The building of Babel. Before CHAPTER XI....XII. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou CHRIST goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. 2247. God calleth Abram. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Before Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, Num 23 after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.rah 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. CHAPTER XI. a ch. 6, 11. ↑ Heb. lip. b ch. 10, 10. 1 One language in the world....3 The building of Babel....5 The confusion of tongues. a CHRIST 2247 q Josh. 24 27 1 Now these are the generations of Terah: Te- AND the whole earth was of one † language, and ther of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. of 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 Heb. 10,24 they dwelt there. e Prov. 1,11. d Rev. 21, 19. 1 Pet. 2, 5. e Deut. 1, 28. f Prov. 18, 10. g Job. 15, 20. u ch. 18, 21. c 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had d brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. e 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 earth. h 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. k And the LORD said, * Behold, the people is one, 6 i Psal. 14,2 and they have all one language; and this they begin keb. 5, 22 to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 1 God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of Heb. 11, 2. x Acts 7,4 ch. 24, 19. & 29, 4. a Acts 7, 2 OW the LORD had said unto Abram. Get thee 2 cor. Now thethy country, and from thy kindred, and Rev. 18, 4 thee: e d c Heb. 11,4 d Rom. 4, 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and 1 11. 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. 10 1 These are the generations of Shem: Shem 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 Phand 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 beLuke 3, 35. gat Peles: I Called 1 Chr. 1, 19. Or, Saruch, 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 Luke 3, 35. Serug. Gal. 3, 7. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seven- g Heb. 11ty and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gather-h ch. 14, 14 {ed, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran: and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan they came. 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. o Rom. 9, 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain 8. on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having p ch. 13, 18. Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east; and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon g Like ↳ the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to 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.Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: look upon: 23 And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and z Prov. 29, commended her before Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's a house. 12. a Esth. 2, 9. a Ps. 105, 14. 1 Chr. 21, Jab 34, 19. Heb. 13,4 e Ex. 18, 27. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels. 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. c 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning Prov. 21, him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. The battle of the kings. 15 For all the land which thou seest, to P thee will Before I give it, and to thy seed for ever. q 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 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 dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there "an altar unto the LORD. CHAPTER XIV. CHRIST cir. 1926. 1 The battle of the kings....12 Lot is taken prisoner....18 Mel- t Heb. 11, chisedek blesseth Abram....20 Abram giveth him tithe. 16. a ch. 10, 10. b ch. 10, 22. AND it came to pass in the days of Amraphel uch. 12, 7. king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; 2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king ech. 19, 20. cf Bela, which is Zoar. c 3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. e 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 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 fph. 4,28. name of the LORD. #1 Tim. 6, e f 5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks. and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, hcb. 21, 25. So that they could not dwell together. 3. i Neh. a 9. h 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 8 An Abram said unto Lot,* Let there be no strife, 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. f Deut 29, 23. Josh. 12, 23. d Josh. 3, 16. Ps. 107, 24 e ch. 9, 26. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, fEzek. 17, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh-Kiriathaim, h k m g Deut. 2, h Josh. 13, Deut. 1, 4 i Deut. 2 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto " El- e paran, which is by the wilderness. 20. 7 And they returned and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Deut. 2, Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar. 10. 1 Deut. 2, 22. m Hab. 3, 3. 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the ch. 21, 21. king of Zebolim, and the king of Bela, (the same is n ch.36, 12 Zoar ;) and they joined battle with them in the vale 2 Chr. 20 of Siddim ; o 2. 9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Song 1, 14 Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Eilasar; four kings with five. 10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. p Josh. 8,24 11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, 51, 33, 51." (who dwelt in Sodom,) and his goods, and departed. s ch. 13, 11. 13 I And there came one that had escaped, and Rev. 13, 4. told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of t Jonah 1, Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother 15. of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was u ch. 11, 27. taken captive, he armed his trained servants, "born in w ch. 15, S. his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pur- & 17, 12, sued them unto Dan. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 16 And hey brought back all the goods, and also 13. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, and sin-brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the ners before the LORD exceedingly. CHAPTER XV....XVI. 18 And Melchisedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine; and he was the "priest of the most high God. C e 19 And he blessed him, and said, 'Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven John 6, 35 and earth: c Heb. 7, 1 Gal. €, 10. 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath a Heb. 7, S. h delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. e Num. 6, 23. f Eph. 1, 3, 6. g ch. 9, 26. b Ps. 44, 3. i Dan. 12, 7. Rev. 10, 5, 6. 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up my 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 shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is k2 Kings 5, thine, 'lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, CHRIST cir. 1913. a Mat. 23, ! Thes. 2, Hagar fleeth from Sarai. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hith-Before er 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 32. έa † burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the born. 1 Sarai being barren giveth Hagar to Abram....15 Ishmael is a and the portion of the men which went with me, NOW Sarai, Abramandmaid, an Egyptian, whose Esther 9, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre ; let them take their portion. 1911. a ch. 25,21 b ch. 12,18. c ch. 20, 18 † Heb. be AFTER these things the word of the LORD came children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice builded by C d unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding " great b Dan. 10, reward. 12 e Ps. 5, 12. 2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my d Prov. 11, house is this Eliezer of Damascus ? 18. e Ps. 127, 3. (Eccl. 2, 7. e 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be? Rom. 9,7, able to number them." And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. e her. 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, d ch 3, & the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband e ch. 12, & Abram to be his wife. 4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: (Gal. 4, 2 and, when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. g g Prov. 30, i 1 Sam. 24, 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, "My wrong be upon 1,23 thee: I have given my maid into thy boson; and h Prov. 14, when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised 29. in her eyes: the LORD 'judge between me and thee. 6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is is. in thy hand: do to her as it pleaseth thee. And keh. 24, 10 when Sarai 'dealt hardly with her, she fled from P27 her face. 7 And the angel of the LORD " found her by a foun- 19. tain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the m Eccl. 10 way to Shur. 4. n 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence Prov. 15, camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she Isaid, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. S 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him : and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. t Ex. 3, 7. Ps. 63, 90. 13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I 913 also here looked after him that seeth me? u Ps 9. 14 Wherefore the well was called || Beer-laha-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15 And Hagar bare Abram a son; and Abram handth called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. 17 ine. Circumcision is instituted. Before CHRIST cir. 1898. CHAPTER XVII. GENESIS. Abraham entertaineth three angels. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, 1 God reneweth the covenant....10 Circumcision is instituted. § whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in 16 Isaac is promised....23 Abraham and Ishmael are cir- the next year. cumcised. ↑ Heb. a son of eight days. 28. r 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. e h Before CHRIST 231 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all Gal. 3, 29. that were born in his house, and all that were bought d ch. 35, 13. with his money, every male among the men of Abra- e Mat. 16, ham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the self-same day, as God had said unto him. Rom. 4,11. 24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, Ps. 119, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, Prov. 10,7 when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the self-same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son; 50. 27 And all the men of his house, born in the house,and bought with money of the stranger, were circum- ich. 18, 19 cised with him. CHAPTER XVIII. 1 Abraham entertaineth three angels....17 The destruction of a AND the LORD appeared unto him in the plains : c a James 2 22. 2. c Rom. 13 2 And he lift up his eyes, and looked, and, lo, "three bleb. 13, men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and a bowed himself is." toward the ground, e d ch. 25, 7. 3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour ech. 32, 5. in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: g Mat. 6, 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and fch. 19, 2 'wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree : 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and " com- 11. fort ye your hearts; after that you shall pass on: for h Isa. 40, i therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, i ch. 19, & 12 And he that is † eight days old shall be circum-So do as thou hast said. 33. 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of1 fine Mat. 12, meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a Rom. 2, bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young m Mal. 1, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an ever-man; and he hasted to dress it. lasting covenant. 8 And he took butter and milk, and the calf which n Neh. 12, he had dressed, and set it before them; and he " stood 44. by them under the tree, and they did eat. |