of th THE OLD TESTAMENT. The First Book of MOSES, called GENESIS. CHAP. I. The creation of heaven and earth, 26 of man in the image of God. 29 The ap pointment of food. the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 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 race of the waters. And God faid, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God law the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. from And God called the light Day, and the f Chr darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 39 43 52 52 56 36 57 63 And God aid, Let there be a firma. gent 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 which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was fo. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the Lecond day. 21 And God created great whales, and eve. ry living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl atter his kind: and God aw that it was good. 22 And God bleed them, laying, Be fruit. ful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the feas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God faid, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and teaft of the earth after his kind: and it was fo. 25 And God made the beart of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his Kind: and God faw that if was good. 9And God faid, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, 62 and let the dry land appear: and it was fo. to And God called the dry land Farth, and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God faw that it was good. 11 And God faid, Let the earth bring forth grafs, the herb yielding feed, and the fruit. tree yielding fruit after his kind, whofe feed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was fo. 12 And the earth brought forth grafs, and herb yielding feed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whofe feed was in itfelf, after his kind: and God faw that it was good. 95 66 the third day. 26 And God faid, Let us make man in our image, after our likenets; and let them have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the towl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them. 28 And God bleffed them; and God faid dominion over the fish of the fea, and over 29 And God faid, Behold I have given 30 And to every beaft of the earth, and 14 And God faid, Let there be lights in and for feafons, and for days, and years. 15 And let them be for lights in the firma- day. ment of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was fo. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the leffer Light to me the night: be made the stars alfo. CHA P. II. 1 The first fabbath. 8 The garden of Eden. 17 And God fet them in the firmament of finished, and all the host of them. HUS the heavens and the earth were the heaven, to give light upon the earth, night, and to divide the light from the dark. work which he had made: and he reited on the feventh day from all his work which he 2 And on the feventh day God ended his meis: and God faw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were had made. The fourth day. forth abundantly the moving creature that from all his work which God created and 20 And God faid, Let the waters bring fanctified it; because that in it he had refted 3 And God bleed the feventh day, and hath life, and fowl that may fiy above the made. earth in the open firmament of heaven. 4 These are the generations of the hea The garden of Eden. GENESIS. vens and of the earth when they were created; in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, s And every plant of the field hetore it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caufed it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. : Man's fe ameful fall. 25 And they were both naked, the maj and his wife, and were not athamed. CHA P. III. The ferpent deceiveth Eve. 6 Man's fall 9 God arraigneth them. 14 The Serpent curfed. 15 The promised feed. 16 Man', Funishment, 22 and lofs of paradife. 6 But there went up a mift from the Now the ferpent was more fubtil than earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man of the duit of the ground, and breathed into his noitrils the breath of life: and man became a living foul. 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 made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the fight, and good for food: the tree of life Blfo in the midff of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pifon: that is it which compareth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good: there sbdellium and the onyx-itone. 13 And the name of the fecond river is Gihon: the fame is it that compaffeth the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the cast of Affyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to drefs it, and to keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, faying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayeit freely eat; 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eateft thereof thou shalt furely die. 18 And the LORD God faid, It is not good that the man fhould be alone: I will make him an help meet for him. 19 And out of the ground the LOR God formed every beat of the field, and every owl of the air, and brought them unto Adam, to fee what he would call them and whatfoever Adam called every living crca. ture, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beat of the field: but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. 21 And the LORD God caufed a deep fleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and clofed up the flesh instead thereof. 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from mau, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam faid, This is now bone of my bones, and fleth of my flesh; the thall be called Woman; because the was taken out of man. 24 Therefore fhall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. any beat of the field which the LORD God had made. And he faid unto the wo. man, Yea, hath God faid, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman faid unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden : 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath faid, Ye fhall not eat of it, neither thall ye touch it, left ye die." 4 And the ferpent faid unto the woman, Ye fhall not furely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes fhall be opened; and ye thall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleafant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wife, fhe took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and gave alfo unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were open ed, and they knew that they were naked: and they fewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of the Lor God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid them felves from the prefence of the LORD Go amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the LORD God called unto Adem and faid unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he faid, I heard thy voice in th garden, and I was afraid, becaufe I wa naked; and I hid myself. II And he faid, Who told thee that the wat naked? Haft thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou fhould eft not eat? 12 And the man faid, The woman, whon thou gavest to be with me, the gave me d the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God faid unto the wo man, What is this that thou haft done? And the woman faid, The ferpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 14 And the LORD God faid unto the fet pent, Because thou haft done this, thou art curfed above all cattle, and above every beaft of the field: upon thy belly fhalt thou life. and duft halt thou eat all the days of thy 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy feed and her feed it shall bruife thy head, and thou thalt bruife his heel. 16 Unto the woman he faid, I will great ly multiply thy forrow and thy conception in forrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy defire ball he to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And unto Adam he faid, Becaufe thou hatt hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and haft eaten of the tree of which I com. manded thee, faying, Thou shalt not eat fal Helical out of paradise. Chap. Iv, v. of it; curfed is the ground for thy fake: In forrow halt thou eat of it all the days of thy lie. 18 Thorns alfo and thiftles fhall it bring Jeg forth to thee: and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. 19 In the fweat of thy face fhalt thou eat the bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it waft thou taken: for dull thou art, and unto dat shalt thou return. 20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because he was the mother of all living. 21 Unto Adam alfo, and to his wife, did the Loep God make coats of kins, and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God faid, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lett he put forth his hand, and take alfo of the tree of life, and cat, and live for ever; 23 Therefore the LORD God fent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man: and he placed, at the eat of the garden of Eden, cherubims, and a flaming fword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. CHAP. IV. The birth of Cain and Abel. 8 The murder of Ale. si The curfe of Cain. 19 Lamech and his two wives. ND Adam knew Eve wife: A conceived, and bare his wind and, have gotten a man from the LORD. 2 And the again bare his brother Abel. And abel was a keeper of theep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in procels of time it came to pafs, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground aa offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he alfo brought of the first. lings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had refpect unto Abel, and to his offering: Lamech and bis wives. thy face fhall I be hid; and I fhall be a fugi tive and a vagabond in the earth: and it thall come to pass, that every one that findeth me thall fay me. 5 Bet unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 15 And the LORD faid unto him, There fore whofoever flayeth Cain, vengeance hall be taken on him feven-fold. And the LORD fet a mark upon Cain, left any finding him fhould kill him. 16 Ard 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 the conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his fon, Enoch. 6 And the LORD faid unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7 If thou doeft well, fhalt thou not be acched and if thou doet not well, fin tiet. at the door. And unto thee fall be his defire, and thou thalt rule over him. 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pafs, when they were in the feld, that Cain rofe up against Abel his bro. ther, and few him. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Trad begat Mchujael and Mehujael begat Methufael: and Methufael begat Lamech. 19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. And the LORD faid unto Cain, Where Abel thy brother! And he faid, I know not: my brother's keeper? 20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the fa. ther of fuch as dwell in tents, and of fuch as buve cattle. 21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all fuch as handle the harp and organ. 22 And Zillah, the alfo bare Tubal-cain, an inftructer of every artificer in brafs and iron: and the fifter of Tubal-cain was Naamah. anzilla, Heat had into his Ala mech, hearken unto my speech: for 1 have flain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 23 And Lamech faid unto his wives, Adah 10 Aad he faid, What haft thou done! the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. 24 If Cain thall be avenged feven-fold, truly Lamech feventy and feven-told. 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and the bare a fon, and called his name Seth: For God, faid he, hath appointed me ano. ther feed instead of Abel, whom Cain flew. 26 And to Seth, to him alfo there was born a fon; and he called his name Enos! then began men to call upon the name of the LORD. CHAP. V. 24 The 1 The genealogy, age, and death, of the pa triarchs, from Adam unto Noab. godliness and tranflation of Enech. THIS is the book of the generations of maa, in the likeness of God made he him: Adam. In the day that God created blefed them, and called their name Adam, 2 Male and female created he them, and in the day when they were created. 3¶And Adam lived an hundred and thirty after his image; and called his name Seth. years, and begat a fon in his own likeness, 4 And the days of Adam, after he had be he begat fons and daughters. gotten Seth, were eight hundred years; and 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he 11 And now art thou curfed from the earth, died. which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. 6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos. 12 When theu tilleft the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her ftrength; eight hundred and feven years, and begat 7 And Seth lived, after he begat Pros, Afugitive and a vagabond thalt thou be in fous and daughters. the earth. 13 And Cain faid unto the LORD, My pun- dred and twelve years: and he died. 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hun ithment is greater than I can bear. 9 And Enos lived ninety years, and be. 14 Behold, thou haft driven me out this gat Cainan. day from the face of the earth; and from Jo And Enos lived, after he begat Calnan, Adam's penealogy unts Noah. GENESIS. eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat fans and daughters. II And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. 12 And Cainan lived feventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. 13 And Cainan lived, after he begat Ma. halaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begat fons and daughters. 14 And all the days of Cainan were mine hundred and ten years and he died. 15 And Mahalaleel lived fixty and five years, and begat Jared. 16 And Mahalaleel lived, after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and Begat fons and daughters. 17 And all the days of Mahakaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. 18 And Jared lived an hundred fixty and two years, and he begat Enoch. 19 And Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred fixty and two years: and he died. 21 And Enoch lived fixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. 22 And Enoch walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred fixty and five years. 24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was not for God took him. 25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and feven years, and begat La mech. 26 And Methuselah lived, after he begat 1 amech, seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat fons and daughters. 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred fixty and nine years: and he died. 28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a fon; 29 And he called his name Noah, faying, This fame thall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, becaufe of the ground which the LORD hath curfed. 30 And Lamech lived, after he begat Noah, five hundred ninety and five years, and begat fons and daughters. 31 Ard all the days of 1.amech were feven hundred feventy and feven years; and he died. 32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. CHAP. VI. The wickedness of the world causeth the food. 8 Noah findeth grace. 14 The order, form, and end of the ark. ND it came to pafs, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the fons of God faw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chofe. 3 And the LORD faid, My ipirit thall not always ftrive with man, for that he alfo is fleth: yet his days fhall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those Noah findeth grace. days: and alfo after that, when the fons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the fame became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5 And God faw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD faid, I will deftroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air: for it re penteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9 Thefe are the generations of Noah: Noah was a juft man, and perfect in his ger. erations, and Noah walked with God. Jo And Noah begat three fon Shem, Ham, and Japheth." 11 The earth alfo was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 And God faid unto Noah, The end of all Heth is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them: and, be hold, I will deftroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher-wond: rooms fhalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch, 15 And this is the fabion 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. 16 A window fhalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark fhalt thou fet in the fide thereof; with lower, fecond, and third fi ries fhalt thou make it. 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to deftroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven: and every thing that is in the earth hall die. 18 But with thee will I establish my cove. nant: and thou shalt come into the ark; thou, and thy fons, and thy wife, and thy fons wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all fleth, two of every fort thalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they thall 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 furt fhail come unto thee, to keep them alive. 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; according to all that God commanded him, fo did he. CHAP. VII. 1 Neah, with his family, enter into the ark. 17 The beginning, increase, and continuance of the food. AND the LORD faid unto Noah, Come thou, and all thy houfe, into the ark: for thee have I feen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beaft thou shalt take to thee by fevens, the male and his female; and of beats that are not clean by two, the male and his temale. The waters awagi. CHAP. VIII. The waters afwage. 18 Noah goeth forth 3 Of fowls alle of the air by fevens, the AND God remembered Noah, and every 4 For yet fven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty Eights and every living fubftance that I have made will I deftroy from off the face of the earth. And Noah did according unto all that the Loup commanded him. 6 And Noah was fix hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 1 And Noah went in, and his fons, and his wife, and his fons' wives with hin, into the ark, becaufe of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beats, and of beafts that are not cican, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There weat in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pafs after feven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the fix hundredth year of Noah's life, la the fecond month, the feventeenth day of the month, the fame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the felisame day entered Noah, and shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the fons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his fans with them, into 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 kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every fort. living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pafs over the earth, and the waters afwaged; 2 The fountains alfo of the deep, and the windows of heaven, were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and atter the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Is And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all fleth, wherein is the breath of life. 4¶And the ark refted in the feventh month, on the feventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreafed continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains feen. 6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all feth, as God had commanded him: and the LORD thut him in. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increafed, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were in. created greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 7 And he fent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Alfo he fent forth a dove from him, to fee if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no reft for the fole of her foot, and the returned unto him into the ark: for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other feven days, and again he fent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth was an oliveleaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he ftayed yet other feven days, and fent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pafs, in the fix hun first day of the month, the waters were dried dredth and first year, in the first month, the up from off the earth; and Noah removed behold, the face of the ground was dry. the covering of the ark, and looked, and, 14 And in the fecond month, on the fe ven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 19 And the waters prevailed exceeding upon the earth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all feth died that moved upon the earth, both of towl, and of cattle, and of beat, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man; 21 Allia whofe noftrils was the breath of ful, and multiply upon the earth. life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 15 And God fpake unto Noah. faying, and thy fons, and thy fons wives with thee. 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all tleh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruit. 18 And Noah went forth, and his fons, and And every living fubitance was deftroy. his wife, and his fons wives with him: ed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and eattle, and the creeping things, every fowl, and whatfoever creepeth upon derfowl of the heaven; and they were the earth, after their kinds, went forth out 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and destroyed from the earth: and Noah only of the ark. remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of and the waters prevailed upon the earth Ever, clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings in hundred and fifty days. on the altar. |