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1 ¶ GOD created the heavens and the earth in the very beginning. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water.""
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.""
6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament from the waters that were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.""
9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters that are under the sky be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas; and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth vegetation, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, wherein is their seed, upon the earth; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth vegetation, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree hearing fruit, wherein is its seed, after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.""
14 ¶ Then God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth; and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the smaller light to rule the night; and the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.""
20 ¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of the heaven. 21 And God created great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth. 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.""
24 ¶ Then God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the earth after its kind; and God saw that it was good.""
26 ¶ Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild beasts of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild beasts that move upon the earth.""
29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree which bears fruit yielding seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food; and it was so.""
31 ¶ And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.""
2:1 ¶ THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the sixth day God, finished his works which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his works which he had made. 3 So God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because in it he had rested from all his works which God created and made.""
4 ¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the heavens and the earth. 5 And all the trees of the field were not yet in the ground, and every herb of the field had not yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. 6 But a powerful spring gushed out of the earth, and watered all the face of the ground. 7 And the LORD God formed Adam out of the soil of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.""
8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it divided and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good; there is also beryllium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon, the one which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Deklat (Tigris); it is the one which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and to keep it.""
16 ¶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.""
18 ¶ Then the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper who is like him. 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to all fowl of the air, and to all wild beasts; but for Adam there was not found a helper who was equal to him.""
21 ¶ So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh in its stead; 22 And of the rib which the LORD God had taken from Adam he made a woman, and brought her to Adam. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.""
3:1 ¶ NOW the serpent was more subtle than all the wild beasts that the LORD God had made. And the serpent said to the woman, Truly has God said that you shall not eat of any tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of all the trees of the garden; 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die; 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like gods, knowing good and evil.""
6 ¶ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and that the tree was delightful to look at, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and she also gave to her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.""
9 ¶ And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you, Adam? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and when I saw that I was naked, I hid myself.""
11 ¶ And the LORD God said to him, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? 12 And Adam said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the fruit of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.""
14 ¶ And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this thing, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all beasts of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life; 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your posterity and her posterity; her posterity shall tread your head under foot, and you shall strike him in his heel.""
16 ¶ To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pain and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children, and you shall be dependent on your husband, and he shall rule over you.""
17 ¶ And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat the fruits of it all the days of your life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the ground; out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust shall you return.""
20 ¶ So Adam called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living.""
21 ¶ And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skin, and clothed them.""
22 ¶ Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So the LORD God drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the path to the tree of life.""
4:1 ¶ AND Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man for the LORD. 2 And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.""
3 ¶ And in the course of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD. 4 And Abel also brought of the first-born of his flock and of the fatlings thereof. And the LORD was pleased with Abel and with his offering; 5 But with Cain and with his offering he was not pleased. So Cain was exceedingly displeased, and his countenance was sad.""
6 ¶ And the LORD said to Cain, Why are you displeased? and why is your countenance sad? 7 Behold, if you do well, shall you not be accepted? and if you do not well, sin lies at the door. You should return to your brother, and he shall be subject to you.""
8 ¶ And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go to the plain; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.""
9 ¶ And the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper? 10 And the LORD said, What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground. 11 And from henceforth, you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand; 12 When you till the ground, it shall no more yield to you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shall you be on the earth.""
13 ¶ And Cain said to the LORD, My transgression is too great to be forgiven. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from thy face shall I be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth; and it shall come to pass, that whoever finds me shall slay me. 15 And the LORD said to him, It shall not be so; whoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, so that anyone who may find him may not kill him.""
16 ¶ And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he started to build a village, and named the village after the name of his son, Enoch. 18 And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methusael: and Methusael begot Lamech.""
19 ¶ And Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20 And Adah bore Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents, and are owners of cattle. 21 And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the guitar and harp. 22 And Zillah also bore Tubal-cain, a craftsman in every work of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.""
23 ¶ And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech; for I have killed a man by wounding him, and a boy by beating him. 24 For if Cain is to be avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy and sevenfold.""
25 ¶ And Adam knew his wife Eve again; and she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Seth; For God, she said, has given me another offspring instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. 26 And to Seth also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.""
5:1 ¶ THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God created he him; 2 Male and female he created them; and God blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth; 4 And Adam lived after he had begotten Seth eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. 5 Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.""
6 ¶ And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh; 7 And Seth lived after he begot Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters; 8 And all the days of Seth were pine hundred and twelve years, and he died. 9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan; 10 And Enosh lived after he begot Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters; 11 And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died. 12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahlalael; 13 And Cainan lived after he begot Mahlalael eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters; 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. 15 And Mahlalael lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared; 16 And Mahlalael lived after he begot Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. 17 And all the days of Mahlalael were eight hundred ninety and five years, and he died. 18 And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begot Enoch: 19 And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters; 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years, and he died.""
21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah; 22 And Enoch found favor in the presence of God three hundred years after he begot Methuselah, and begot sons and daughters; 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years; 24 And Enoch found favor in the presence of God, and disappeared; for God took him away.""
25 ¶ And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech; 26 And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters; 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died.""
28 ¶ And Lamech lived a hundred eighty-two years, and begot a son; 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed. 30 And Lamech lived after he begot Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters. 31 Thus all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, and he died. 32 And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.""
6:1 ¶ AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 That the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; so they took them wives of all whom they chose.""
3 ¶ Then the LORD said, My spirit shall not dwell in man forever, because he is flesh; let his days be a hundred and twenty years.""
4 ¶ There were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that, for the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, and they became giants who in the olden days were mighty men of renown. 5 And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was evil continually.""
6 ¶ And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. 7 So the LORD said, I will destroy men whom I have created from the face of the earth; both men and animals, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air; I am sorry that I have made them.""
8 ¶ But Noah found mercy in the eyes of the LORD. 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and innocent in his days, and God was pleased with Noah. 10 And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.""
11 ¶ The earth was corrupt in the presence of God, and the earth was filled with wickedness. 12 And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.""
13 ¶ So God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is full of wickedness through men; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and daub it without and within with pitch. 15 And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 And you shall make a window in the ark, and to the width of a cubit shall you finish it above; and the door of the ark you shall make in its side; with lower, second, and third decks you shall make it. 17 And, behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh that has the breath of life in it from under heaven; and everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall enter into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every kind bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind shall enter with you, that they may live. 21 And you must take a supply of all food that is eaten, and you shall store it by you; and it shall be for food for you and for them.""
22 ¶ Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.""
7:1 ¶ THEN God said to Noah, Enter into the ark; you and all your household, for you alone have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of all clean animals you shall take with you seven pairs, both males and females; and of the beasts that are not clean two pairs, males and females. 3 Likewise, of the fowls of the air that are clean seven pairs, both males and the females; to keep their posterity alive upon the face of the earth. 4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.""
5 ¶ And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of unclean animals, and of fowls, and of everything that creeps upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two with Noah into the ark, the males and the females, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood came upon the earth.""
11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that very day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.""
13 ¶ On that 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 him, into the ark; 14 They and every beast after its kind and all the cattle after their kind and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which there is the breath of life. 16 And they that entered, males and females of every living thing went in, as God had commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.""
17 ¶ And the flood lasted forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and bore up the ark so that it was lifted up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed and rose higher upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; so that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits above the mountains 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 wild beast and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man: 22 Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. 23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man and animals and the creeping things and the fowl of the air; they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.""
8:1 ¶ AND God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the animals and all the fowls that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to blow over the earth, and the waters became calm; 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; 3 And the waters receded from the earth gradually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty clays the waters abated.""
4 ¶ And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Kardo. 5 And the waters decreased gradually until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains were seen.""
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 sent forth a raven which went to and fro, but did not return until the waters were dried up from the face of the earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from the ark, to see if the waters had abated from the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no resting place for her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her into the ark with him. 10 And he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from off the earth. 12 And he waited yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; but the dove did not return again to him any more.""
13 ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.""
15 ¶ And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 Go forth out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring forth with you every beast of every kind that is with you, both fowl and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the face of the earth. 18 So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him; 19 Every beast, every domestic animal, and every fowl, and whatever creeps upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.""
20 ¶ Then Noah built an altar to the LORD; and took of every clean animal and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again destroy any more every living thing, as I have done. 22 From henceforth, while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.""
9:1 ¶ AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 Only flesh with the life thereof, that is, the blood thereof, you shall not eat. 5 And surely your lifeblood will I f avenge; of every beast will I avenge it, and at the hand of man; and at the hand of a man and his brother will I avenge the life of man. 6 Whoever sheds the blood of men, by men shall his blood be shed; for man was made in the image of God. 7 As for you, be fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.""
8 ¶ And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 As for me, behold, I will establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every wild beast of the earth with you; with all that come out of the ark, and with every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; so that never again shall all flesh perish by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.""
12 ¶ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the clouds; 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature that is with you of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the clouds; and I will look upon it as a remembrance of the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all the flesh that is upon the earth,""
18 ¶ The sons of Noah who went forth out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These three were the sons of Noah; and from them the people spread throughout the earth. 20 And Noah began to till the ground; and he planted a vineyard; 21 And he drank of its wine, and became drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a mantle and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward and they did not see their father’s nakedness.""
24 ¶ When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him, 25 He said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers. 26 Then he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant. 27 God shall enrich Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem: and Canaan shall be their servant.""
28 ¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.""
10:1 ¶ NOW these are the descendants of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Mongolia, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphar, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, China, and Doranim. 5 It was from these that the people were divided into the Islands of the Gentiles and their main lands; every one after his language, after their families, in their nations.""
6 ¶ And the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush: Sheba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Daran. 8 And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, Erech, Akhar, and Caliah, in the land of Sinar. 11 Out of Sinar went forth the Assyrian and built Nineveh, and the city of Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 And Resen which lies between Nineveh and Calah; the same is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begot Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim 14 And Pathrusim and Casluhim (out of whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.""
15 ¶ And Canaan begot Sidon, his first-born, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgasite, 17 And the Havite, the Arkite, the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanites extended from Sidon, which is at the entrance of Gadar, as far as Gaza; which is at the entrance of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, as far as Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families and their languages, in their lands and in their nations.""
21 ¶ To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, even to him were children born. 22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphakhashar, Lud and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphakhashar begot Shalah; and Shalah begot Eber. 25 And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, and Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were sons of Joktan. 30 The lands which they inhabited extended from Mesha, which is at the entrance of Sepharvim, a mount in the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, their languages, in their lands, after their nations. 32 These are the descendants of the sons of Noah, according to their families, in their nations: and from these the people spread abroad on the earth after the flood.""
11:1 ¶ NOW the whole earth spoke one language and with one manner of speech. 2 And it came to pass, as men journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sinar; and they settled there. 3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them with fire. And they had bricks for stone, and slime for mortar. 4 Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make a name for ourselves, 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 men were building. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and they have reasoned to do this thing; and now nothing will prevent them from doing that which they have imagined to do. 7 Come, let us go down, and there divide their language so that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth; and they ceased from building the city. 9 Therefore they called the name of it Babel; because it was there that the LORD confounded the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them upon the face of all the earth.""
10 ¶ These are the descendants of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphakhashar, two years after the flood; 11 And Shem lived after he begot Arphakhashar five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. 12 And Arphakhashar lived thirty-five years, and begot Shalah; 13 And Arphakhashar lived after he begot Shalah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. 14 And Shalah lived thirty years, and begot Eber; 15 And Shalah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters. 16 And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg: 17 And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Rau; 19 And Peleg lived after he begot Rau two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. 20 And Rau lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug; 21 And Rau lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor; 23 And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. 24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah; 25 And Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy-five years, and begot Abram, manor, and Haran.""
27 ¶ Now these are the descendants of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves; 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 Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan: and they came as far as Haran, and they settled there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.""
12:1 ¶ NOW the LORD said to Abram, Depart from your country, and from the place of your nativity, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you; 2 And I will make of you a great people, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you: and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.""
4 ¶ So Abram did as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son and all their possessions which they had gained and the persons that they had gotten in Haran, and they went on their way to the land of Canaan, and to the land of Canaan they came.""
6 ¶ And Abram passed through the land as far as the country of Shechem, and as far as the oak of Mamre. And the Canaanites were settled then in the land. 7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, To your descendants will I give this land; and Abram built there an altar to the LORD, for he had appeared to him. 8 And from thence he removed to a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD, 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.""
10 ¶ Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was severe in the land. 11 And it came to pass when he was about to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a woman beautiful to look upon; 12 And it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will spare you. 13 Say, therefore, that you are my sister because I will be treated well for your sake; and my life shall be spared because of you.""
14 ¶ And it came to pass when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that his wife was very beautiful. 15 The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and praised her before Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 And Abram was well treated for her sake; and he became the owner of sheep, oxen, he asses, menservants, maidservants, she asses, and camels. 17 And the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his household with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 So Pharaoh called Abram, and said to him, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her for my wife? Now, therefore, here is your wife, take her, and leave the country. 20 And Pharaoh charged his men concerning him; and sent him away together with his wife, and all that he had.""
13:1 ¶ AND Abram went up from Egypt, e 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 journey from the south as far as Beth-el, to the place where he had pitched his tent at first, between Beth-el and Ai; 4 To the place of the altar which he had built there at the first; and there Abram had called upon the name of the LORD.""
5 ¶ And Lot also, who went with Abram, had large flocks, herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together; for their herds were so large that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle; and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelt then in the land. 8 And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds; for we are brethren. 9 Behold the whole land is before you, separate yourself from me; if you choose the left hand, then I will choose the right hand; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.""
10 ¶ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the land of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of God, like the land of Egypt at the entrance of Zoan. 11 Then Lot chose for himself all the land of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; thus they separated one brother from the other. 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the villages of the plain, thus possessing the land as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners in the presence of the LORD exceedingly.""
14 ¶ And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; 15 For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your descendants forever. 16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth; so that if you can number the dust of the earth, then shall your descendants 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 to you. 18 Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt by the oak of Mamre which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD""
14:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the days of Amarphel king of Sinar, Arioch king of Dalasar, Cardlaamar king of Elam, and Tarael king of Gelites 2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemer king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, that is, Zoar. 3 All of these joined together in the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea. 4 Twelve years they served Cardlaamar, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Cardlaamar, and the kings that were with him, and smote the mighty men who were in Ashteroth Karnaim and the valiant men who were in the city, and the Emins in Shaveh Koriathaim, 6 And the Horites in the mountains of Seir, as far as the oak of Paran, which is in the wilderness. 7 And they returned, and came to En-dina, which is Rakim (Kadesh) and they smote all the princes of the Amalekites and also the Amorites who dwelt in En-gad. 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar); all of these made war in the valley of Siddim, 9 With Cardlaamar, the king of Elam, Tarael the king of Gelites, Amarphel king of Sinar, and Arioch king of Dalasar; four kings against five. 10 And the valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and those who survived fled to the mountain. 11 And the raiders took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way. 12 And they carried away Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.""
13 ¶ And there came one who escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt by the oak of Mature, which belonged to the Amorite, brother of Aner and brother of Eshcol, who were allies of Abram. 14 And when Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he armed his young men, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued the raiders as far as Dan. 15 And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back Lot, his nephew, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.""
17 ¶ And the king of Sodom went out to greet him, after his return from the destruction of the forces of Cardlaamar, and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, that is, the king’s valley. 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of the Most High God. 19 And he blessed him, saying, Blessed be Abram to God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be the Most High God, who has delivered your enemies into your hands. And Abram gave him tithes of everything.""
21 ¶ And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hands to the God Most High, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take of anything that belongs to you, from a thread to a shoestring, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich; 24 Save that which the young men have eaten and the portions of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portions.""
15:1 ¶ AFTER these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward is exceedingly great.""
2 ¶ And Abram said, O LORD God, what will thou give me, for I will die childless, and Eliezer of Damascus, one of my household, will be my heir? 3 And Abram said, Behold, thou hast given me no son; and, behold, one of the members of my household will be my heir. 4 Then the LORD said to him, This man shall not be your heir; but your own son that shall come out of your own loins shall be your heir. 5 And he brought him outside, and said to him, Look now toward heaven and number the stars, if you are able to number them; and he said to him, So shall your descendants be. 6 And Abram believed in the LORD; and it was counted to him for righteousness.""
7 ¶ And he said to him, I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it. 8 And Abram said, O LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said to him, Take for yourself a heifer, three years old, a three year old ram, a three year old she-goat, a pigeon, and a young dove. 10 And he took to himself all these, and cut them in two, and laid each piece against another; but the birds he did not divide. 11 And when the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.""
12 ¶ And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and, lo, fear and a great darkness fell upon him. 13 And the LORD said to Abram, Know of a surety that your descendants shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall be in servitude: and they shall afflict them for four hundred years; 14 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve; and afterward they shall come out with great wealth. 15 And you shall depart from this life and go to your fathers in peace; and you shall be buried at a good old age. 16 And after four centuries, they shall return here; for the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet full.""
17 ¶ And it came to pass that when the sun had set and it was dark, behold there appeared a smoking furnace and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 The Hittites, the Perizzites, the Giants, 21 The Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.""
16:1 ¶ NOW Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian handmaid, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children; therefore go in unto my maid; it may be that I may be consoled by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her Egyptian maid, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. This happened after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.""
4 ¶ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon you; I gave my maid into your bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes; may the LORD judge between me and you. 6 But Abram said to Sarai his wife, Behold your maid is at your disposal; do to her as it pleases you. And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her.""
7 ¶ And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the road to Gadar. 8 And he said to her, Hagar, maid of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going? And she said, I flee from the presence of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the LORD said to her, Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.""
10 ¶ And again the angel of the LORD said to her, I will greatly multiply your descendants, that they can not be numbered because of their multitude. 11 And the angel of the LORD said to her, Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Ishmael; because the LORD has heard of your afflictions. 12 And he will be like a wild ass among men; with his hand against every man, and every man’s hand against him, and he shall dwell on the borders of all his brethren. 13 And she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, and said, Thou art God whom I saw; for she said, Behold, I have also seen a vision after he had seen me. 14 Therefore she called the well, Beer-di-khaya-khizan (which means, the well of the Living One who saw me). Behold, it is between Rakim and Gadar.""
15 ¶ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called his son’s name, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.""
17:1 ¶ WHEN Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, I am the Almighty God; walk well before me, and be faultless. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and you and will multiply you exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,""
4 ¶ As for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you, and you shall be a father of many peoples. 5 Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many peoples. 6 And I will make you fruitful, and multiply you exceedingly; and I will make you father of many nations, and kings shall come out of your loins.""
7 ¶ And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, and I will be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you, and your descendants after you, the land in which you sojourn, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting inheritance; and I will be their God. 9 And God said to Abraham, You shall keep my covenant, you, and your descendants after you throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant between me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, who is not of your descendants. 13 He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with your money, shall be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; for he has broken my covenant.""
15 ¶ Then God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name. 16 And I will bless her, and also I will give you a son by her; yea, I will bless him and make nations of him; and the kings of the people shall come from him. 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, Shall a son be born to him who is a hundred years old? Or shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child? 18 And Abraham said to God, O that Ishmael might live in thy presence! 19 And God said to Abraham, Truly, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son; and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him, and will multiply him, and will make him exceedingly great; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year. 22 And when God was through talking with him, he went up from Abraham.""
23 ¶ And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all of those that were born in his house and all of those that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in that very day, as God had said unto him. 24 And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In that very day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael his son 27 And all the men of his household, both born in the house and bought with money. He also circumcised some of the strangers with him.""
18:1 ¶ AND the LORD revealed himself to him by the oak of Mamre, as he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day; 2 And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, three men stood at a distance from him; and when he saw them, he ran from the door of the tent to meet them and bowed himself to the ground, 3 And said, O LORD, if now I have found mercy in thy sight, do not pass away from thy servant; 4 Let me bring a little water and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree; 5 And take a morsel of bread and sustain your hearts; after that you shall go on your way, since you have come to your servant. And they said, So do as you have said. 6 So Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make cakes on a griddle. 7 And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf fat and good, and gave it to a servant, and he hastened to prepare it. 8 And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set them before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.""
9 ¶ And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, Behold, she is in the tent. 10 And the LORD said, I will certainly return to you at this time next year, and 1o, Sarah your wife shall be with child, and shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind her. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well advanced in years; and Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am grown old, shall I renew my youth, my lord being old also? 13 And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I truly bear a child, when I am so old? 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return to you at this season, and Sarah your wife shall be with child, and shall have a son. 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; because she was afraid. And he said, No; but you did laugh.""
16 ¶ And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to see them off. 17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from my servant Abraham the thing which I am going to do, 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed through him? 19 For I know him well, and that he will command his children and his household after him, to keep the ways of the LORD, to do justice and righteousness; for the LORD shall fulfil for Abraham the thing that he has spoken concerning him. 20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has come before me and their sins are very grievous, 21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to their cry which has come before me; and if not, I will know. 22 So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.""
23 ¶ And Abraham drew near and said, Wilt thou in thine anger destroy the righteous with the sinners? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou in thine anger destroy it, and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are in it? 25 Far be it from thee to do such a thing as this, to slay the innocent with the guilty, far be it from thee, O thou Judge of the whole earth! Such a judgment should never be carried out. 26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole country for their sake. 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold, I have ventured to speak before the LORD, and yet I am but dust and ashes; 28 Suppose there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt thou destroy the whole city for the lack of five men? And he said, If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it. 29 And Abraham spoke to him and said, Suppose there shall be forty found there? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty. 30 Then Abraham said, Oh let not the LORD be displeased and I will speak: Suppose there shall thirty be found there? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find thirty there. 31 And he said, Behold, I have ventured to speak before the LORD; suppose there shall be twenty found there? And he said, I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty. 32 And he said, Oh, let not the LORD be displeased, and I will speak only once more; suppose ten shall be found there? And he said, I will not destroy it for the sake of ten. 33 And the LORD went his way when he had finished communing with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.""
19:1 ¶ AND there came two angels to Sodom in the evening; and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom; and Lot saw them and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2 And he said, My lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet; then rise up early in the morning and go on your way. And they said, No, we will spend the night in the street. 3 But Lot urged them greatly; and they turned in to him and entered into his house; and he made them a feast and baked unleavened cakes and they ate.""
4 ¶ But before they lay down, the men of the city, that is, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people of the town; 5 And they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them. 6 And Lot went out at the door to them; and he shut the door after him. 7 And Lot said to them, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters who have, not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you please; only to these men do nothing; for they have come under the protection of my roof. 9 And they said, Get away. And they said again, This fellow came to sojourn among us, and now he tries to judge us; and they said to Lot, Now we will deal worse with you than with them. Then Lot fought desperately with them, and they drew near to break the door. 10 But the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house to them and locked the door. 11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, from the least to the greatest, so that they became tired trying in vain to find the door.""
12 ¶ And the men said to Lot, What are you doing in this place? Now, your sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whatsoever you have in this city, take them out of this place; 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of the oppressed has come before the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it. 14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who married his daughters, and said, Arise, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy it. But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.""
15 ¶ And when the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are not given in marriage, lest you be engulfed in the sins of the city. 16 But Lot lingered; then the angels held his hand, the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because the LORD pitied him; and they took him out and set him outside the city. 17 And it came to pass when they had brought them out of the city, they said to Lot: Now escape for your life; do not look back nor stop anywhere in the plain, but flee to the mountain lest you be consumed. 18 And Lot said to them, I beseech you, my lords, 19 Behold now, your servant has found mercy in your sight, and great is the favor which you have shown to me in saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me and I die; 20 Behold now, this town is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh, let me escape there, and behold, because it is a little one my life will be spared. 21 And he said to him, See, I have granted you this thing also that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22 Make haste and escape there; for I cannot do anything till you enter into it. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.""
24 ¶ Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the presence of the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the region and that which grew on the ground.""
26 ¶ But his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt.""
27 ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD; 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the region of the plain, and beheld, 1o, the smoke of the country went up like the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the devastated region, when he overthrew the cities wherein Lot dwelt.""
30 ¶ And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, both he and his two daughters. 31 And the first-born said to the younger, Behold our father is old and there is not a man in the land to take us for wives after the manner of all the earth: 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him so that we may raise an offspring from our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 And it came to pass on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, Behold. I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also: and then you go in and lie with him so that we may raise offspring from our father. 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger went in and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37 And the first-born bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 And the younger also bore a son and called his name Bar-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.""
20:1 ¶ AND Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and settled between Rakim and Gadar, and Abraham sojourned in Gadar. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister; and Abimeleck king of Gadar sent and took Sarah.""
3 ¶ But God came to Abimeleck in a dream by night and said to him, Behold, you will die on account of the woman whom you have taken; for she is another man’s wife. 4 But Abimeleck had not touched her; and he said, O LORD, wilt thou slay an innocent people? 5 Behold, he said, She is my sister; and she herself also said, He is my brother; in the innocence of my heart and purity of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said to him in a dream, Yea, I know that you have done this in the innocence of your heart; for I also restrained you from sinning against me; therefore I did not permit you to touch her. 7 Now therefore restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live; but if you do not restore her, then know that you will surely die, you, and all your family.""
8 ¶ Therefore Abimeleck rose early in the morning and called all of his servants and told them all these words; and the men were exceedingly afraid. 9 Then Abimeleck called Abraham and said to him, What have I done to you? and what crime have I committed against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom such a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done. 10 And Abimeleck said to Abraham, What induced you to do this thing? 11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, perhaps there is no fear of God in this country; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake. 12 And yet truly she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 13 And it came to pass when God brought me forth out of my father’s house, I said to her, This is the favor which you shall do to me; at every place whither we shall go, say of me, He is my brother.""
14 ¶ And Abimeleck took sheep and oxen and male and female servants and gave them to Abraham and restored to him Sarah his wife. 15 Then Abimeleck said to Abraham, Behold, my land is before you; dwell wherever you please. 16 And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother; behold, it is given for you, because you have been humbled in the eyes of my people, and because of the other things for which I have reproved you. 17 So Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimeleck and his wife and his maidservants, and they bore children. 18 For the LORD had fast closed up the wombs of all women in the household of Abimeleck because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.""
21:1 ¶ AND the LORD remembered Sarah, as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 And Sarah said, God has made me to rejoice today exceedingly; everyone that hears the news will rejoice with me. 7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would give suck to children? For I have borne him a son in his old age. 8 And the child grew and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.""
9 ¶ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, Expel this maidservant and her son; for the son of this maidservant shall not be heir with my son Isaac. 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son. 12 And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the boy and because of your maidservant; whatever Sarah tells you, hearken to her voice; for your descendants shall come through Isaac. 13 And also of the son of the maidservant will I make a great nation because he is your offspring.""
14 ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin containing water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the boy; and sent her away. And she departed, and lost her way in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 15 And the water in the skin was spent, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went and sat down opposite him about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat down opposite him and lifted up her voice and wept. 17 And the LORD heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 18 Arise, take up the boy, and hold him fast in your arms; for I will make him a great nation. 19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. 20 And God was with the boy; and he grew up and dwelt in the wilderness of Paran and learned to become an archer in the wilderness of Paran. 21 And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.""
22 ¶ And it came to pass at that time that Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of his army, said to Abraham, God is with you in all that you do; 23 Now therefore swear to me by God in this place that you will never deal falsely with me, nor with my family, nor with my descendants; but according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me and to the land wherein you have sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abimeleck because of a well which Abraham’s servants had dug and which Abimeleck’s servants had seized. 26 And Abimeleck said, I do not know who has done this thing; neither did you tell me, nor have I heard of it until today. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimeleck; and both of them made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimeleck said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs of the flock which you have set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take of my hands that they may be a witness for me that I have digged this well. 31 Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they swore both of them. 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; then Abimeleck and Phichol, the general of the army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.""
33 ¶ And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba and called there on the name of the LORD Everlasting. 34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for a long time.""
22:1 ¶ AND it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of the Amorites; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I will tell you.""
3 ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son, and cut wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. 5 And he said to his young men, You stay here with the ass, and I and the boy will go yonder to worship and return to you. 6 And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son, and he took the fire in a container and a knife in his hand, and they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father. And he answered. Here I am, my son. And Isaac said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they went both