Noah warned. destroy them 5 with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopherwood; 6 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. GENESIS, VII. The Deluge. all that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was 5 or. from the upon the earth. earth. 6 • nests. i Ps.93.3,4. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the k ch.7.8,9. ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. 17 And, behold, I, even I, i do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. 7 Heb. 11.7. (CHAP. 7.) a 1 Pet.3.20. 2 Pet.2.5. 18 But with thee will I establish b Lev.XI. my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark; thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 1 seven seven. 19 And of every living thing of all 2 blot out. flesh, two k of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 3 or, on the 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 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 pass, 3 after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11In the sixth hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains c of the great deep broken up, and the 4 windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the selfsame 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, dinto 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 Mat.24.38. kind, and every fowl after his kind, 1 Th.5.3. every bird of every 5 sort. c ch.8.2. 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; laccording to 4 or, floodall that God commanded him, so did he. CHAPTER VII. 1 Noah, with his family, enter into the ark. 17 The beginning, increase, and continuance of the flood. gates. d ch.6.18. 5 wing. 2 Of every b clean beast thou shalt take to thee by 1 sevens, the male fJob 12.15. and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Offowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy 2 from off the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did according unto Ps. 101.6. 2 Pet.3.6. g Jer.3.23. h Job 22.15- the breath of 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 Ged had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. e 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 I 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; fand all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains g were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: h 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were they that were with him in the ark. AND God a remembered Noah e Job 33.37. and every living thing, and all the bcattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind c to pass over the earth, and the wa- 2 The fountains d also of the deep, and the windows e of heaven were 3 And the waters returned from after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. seventh month, on the seventeenth 5 And the waters 2 decreased con-h ch.1.22. i Lev.I.XI. 6 a savour 6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened gk the window of the ark which he had 7 And he sent forth a raven, which 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she re- turned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah re- moved the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy 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 earthi, and h be fruitful, and multiply upon 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatso- 20 T And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of i every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on 21 And the LORD smelled a 6 sweet savour; and the LORD said in his 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the m the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf, pluckt off. were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven 22 While the earth remaineth, o seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. 1 God blesseih Noah. 4 Blood and AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, a Be fruitful, and multiply, and re- 2 And the fear of you, band the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand 3 Every cmoving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the Covenant with Noah. GENESIS, X. d green herb have I given you e all] B. C. 2348. things. 4 But flesh fwith the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, gand at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. e d ch.1.29. Rom. 14.3. f Le. 17. 10-14. 19.26. Deut. 12.23. 1 Sam. 14.34. g Ex.21.12. h Lev.21.17. IK.2.5.6,32. i ch.1.27. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood,k ver.11,17. hby man shall his blood be shed: ch.6.18. i for in the image of God made helch.S.I. man. Ps. 145.9. ch. 17.11. o Eze. 1.28. Rev.4.3. 10.1. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and m 2Pet.3.7. multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And 7 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. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shalls there any more be a m flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, This is the token n 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 o my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And pl 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 qthe 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 T And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and r Ham is the father of 1 Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah and s of them was the whole earth overspread. p Le.26.42,45 Deut.7.9. IKI.8.23. Neh.9.32. Ps. 106.45. Eze. 16.60. Luke 1.72. ch.17.18,19. 2sam.23.5. Is.55.3. Jer.32.40. Heb. 13.20. r ch.10.1,6. Chennan. ch.10.32. 1Chr. 1.4. t Deut.20.6. 28.30. Prov.24.30. Can'. 1.6. 1Cor.9.7. Prov.20.1. u Luke 21.34. 1Cor. 10.12. Tit.2.2. Hab.2.15. Rev.3.18. w Ps.35.20. 40.15. Ob.12,13. x Ex.20.12. Gal.6.1. 1Pet.4.8. y Deut.27.16. Jos.9.23,27. Ju. 1.28.30. 2Chr.8.7,8. or, servant 2 3 to them. or, persuade ≈ Eph.2.13. (CHAP. 10.) or, as some read it, Rodanim. a Jer.2.10. Zeph.2.11. b Ps.72.10. c Mic.5.6. d Mic.7.2. 2 Gr. Babylon The generations of Noah. 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted ta vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, uand was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, wand told his two brethren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, z 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, y 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 2 his servant. 27 God shall 3 enlarge Japheth, z and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naph-e ICh.1.12. tuhim, 14 And e Pathrusim, and Casluhim, 5 Tidon. (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan begat 5 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. fch.15.19.21. 6 Azzah. • Arpachshad 8 Shelah. sion. 19 And the border fof the Ca- 9 i, e. divinaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto 6 Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and 7 Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. Confusion of language. tions, 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 Babel built. 5 Language confounded. ND the whole earth was of 1 one language, and of one 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed 3 from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 2 speech. 3 And 4 they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and 5 buri 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, a whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a b name, lest we be scattered cabroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down d 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 (CHAP. 11.) one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have eimagined to do. lip. 2 words. 3 or, cast- 4 a man said 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound ftheir language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face to his neigh of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. bour. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, s burn them and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. to a burn- 25 And unto Eber g were born two a Deut. 1.28. sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth b Ps.49.11,13. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba. 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. Ps.92.9. Lu. 1.51. d ch.18.21. e Ps.2.1. f Ps.55.9. Acts 2.6. 6 i. e. confu sion. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their g Ac. 17.26. nations. 7 Luke 3.35. Phalec. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their genera 9 Therefore is the name of it called 6 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 g 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 daugh ters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sous and daughters. 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat 7 Peleg: 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty Generations of Terah. GENESIS, XII. years,and begat sons and daughters: B. C. 1918. 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 8 Serug: 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred 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. 21 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat 9 Terah: 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, h Nahor, and Haran. 8 Luke 3.35. Saruch. 9 Luke 3.34. Thara. h Jos.24.2. k ch.17.15. m ch.16.1. Heb. 11.8. 27 Now these are the generations b ch. 17.6. of Terah: Terah begat Abram, 24.35. Nahor, and Haran; and Haran c ch.18.18. begat Lot. 28.4. 28 And Haran died before his d Num.24.9. father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in i Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; kand 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; m she had no child. e Ps.72.17. Ac.3.25. 5 Ju.7.1. i ch. 17.1. 17.8. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's k ch.13.15. son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur nof 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. 1 God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of Christ: his departure from Haran. 7 Canaan is promised. OW the LORD had said unto a 26.3. Gal.3.16. 4.28. ch.13.4.19. 26,25. 33.20. 1 Ai. Jos.7.2. Nam, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and o from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great bnation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; c and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them d that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all fa ch.20.2. 26.7. Abram deceiveth Pharaoh. milies of the earth be blessed. e 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy 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 gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; fand into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, g unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite h was then in the land. 7 And the LORD appeared i unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: kand 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, m and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and 1 Hai on the east; and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called n upon the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, 2 going on still toward the south. 10 T And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the fa mine was grievous in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Be hold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my osister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. 14 And it came to pass, that, 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; pand the woman was q 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. 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 26.10. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, Ex. 32.21. and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? r why didst |