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The generations of Noah.

Before CHRIST 2347.

d Dent. 27.

16.

Josh. 9. 23. 1 Kings 9.

20, 21. f Pe. 144. 15. Hebr. 11. 18. | Or, servant to them. [Or, per swade.

Eph. 213,

14. & 3.6.

1998.

GENESIS.

their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto

his brethren.

26 And he said,' Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be || his servant. 27 God shall || enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his 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. CHAP. X.

1 The generations of Noah. 2 The sons of Japheth. 6 The sons of Ham. 8 Nimrod the first monarch. 21 The sons of Shem. OW

Now these are the generations of the

sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Jaach. 9. 1,7, pheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

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CHRIST

18 And the Arvadite, and the Zema-Before rite, and the Hamathite: and afterward 2218. were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

14, 15, 17. & Numb. 34.

19 And the border of the Canaanites i ch. 13. 12, was from Sidon, as thou comest to Ge- 18-21. rar, unto † Gaza; as thou goest, unto 2-12. Josh. Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Ådmah, and 12.7.8. Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber,the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and †Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

+ Heb.

Azzah.

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1. 17, &c.

pachshad.

23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat +Salah; Heb. She and Salah begat Eber.

lah. 1 ch. 11. 12.

1. 19. 2247.

25 And unto Eber were born two miChron. sons: the name of one was | Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and That is, his brother's name was Joktan.

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest, unto Sephar a mount of the east.

31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

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32 These are the families of the sons n ver. 1. of Noah, after their generations, in their nations and by these were the nations ch. 9. 19. divided in the earth after the flood. CHAP. XI.

1 One language in the world. 3 The building of Babel. 6 The confusion of tongues. 10 The generations of Shem." 27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Ur to Haran.

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ND the whole earth was of one +language, and of one † speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed || from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3¶ And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and †burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

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4 And they said, Go to, let us build us + Heb. bu a city and a tower, whose top may reach burning. unto heaven; and let us make us a name, a Deut. 1. lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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5 And the LORD came down to see b ch. 18.

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the city and the tower, which the child-| Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur CHRIST cir. 22. ren of men builded. of the Chaldees.

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6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all done language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have "imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there As confound their language, that they may "not understand one another's speech.

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8 So the LORD scattered them abroad Cer. 142, from thence upon the face of all the b Luke 1-51. earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called [Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: 1 Cor. 14-23 and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

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11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

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30 But "Sarai was barren; she had uch. 16. 1, 1. & 18. 11, 12. no child. 31 ¶ And Terah took Abram his weh. 12. 1. son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with
a promise of Christ. 4 He departeth with
Lot from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through
Canaan, 7 which is promised him in a
vision. 10 He is driven by a famine into
Egypt. 11 Fear maketh him feign his wife
to be his sister. 14 Pharaoh, having taken
her from him, by plagues is compelled to
restore her.
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12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, "and begat Salah:

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, begat daughters.

Neh. 9. 7. Acto 7.4

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gat sons and dared thirty years, and N Abram, Get thee out of thy country, Nab. q

begat Eber:

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty Lake 3-35 years, and begat "Serug:

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21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty Lake 334 years, and begat "Terah:

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and Chron. 1 begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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2 b And I will make of thee a great na- bch. 17.6. tion, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse, him that curseth thee: fand in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

41 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Deut. 26. 5. ech. 24. 35d ch. 28.4. Gal. 3. 14. ch. 27. 29. Exod. 23. 22. Numb. 24.9.

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5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the 6 ch. 14. 14. souls that they had gotten in Haran; h ch. 11. 31. and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

6 And Abram 'passed through the iHebr. 11.9. land unto the place of Sichem, unto the Deut. 11. plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite 30. Judg. 7. was then in the land.

7 "And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, "Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

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11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art "a fair woman to look upon:

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12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

14¶ And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egypych. 39.7. tians beheld the woman that she was Matt. 5. 28. very fair.

15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: ch. 20. 2. and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

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7 And there was a strife between gch. 26. 20. the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: "and the Ca- h ch. 12. 6. naanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

brethren:

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27, 31. Exod.

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1 Rom. 12.18. Hebr. 12. 14.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, 'Let i Cor. 6. 7. there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: 'it thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all "the plain of Jordan, that it m ch. 19. 17was well watered every where, before the P. 107. 34LORD 'destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, ch. 19. 24, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto P Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and 'pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom wicked and sinners before the exceedingly.

Jam. 3. 17.

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14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot "was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art "northward, and ch. 28. 14southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to & 18. & thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

17 Arise, walk through the land in length of it and in the breadth of it; I will give it unto thee.

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18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the Mamre, which is in Hebron,

there an altar unto the LORD.

CHAP. XIV.

plain of and built

4. & 28. 14.
& 32. 12.
Exod. 32. 13.

Numb. 23.

10. Deut. 1.

10. 1 Kings cr

1 Chron. 27. 23. Isai. 48. 19. Jer. 33. 22. Rom. 4. 16, 17, 18. Hebr. 11. 12.

12 a ch. 14. 13.

b ch. 35. 27.

The battle of four kings against five. Lot is taken prisoner. 14 Abram rescueth Heb. him. 18 Melchizedek blesseth Abram. 20 plains. Abram giveth him tithe. 22 The rest of & 37. 14. the spoil, his partners having had their portions, he restoreth to the king of Sodom.

AND it came to pass in the days of a ch. 10. 10.

king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and

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The battle of the kings.

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Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king | Blessed be Abram of the most high God, cit. 1917. of Bela, which is "Zoar. * possessor of heaven and earth:

CHRIST

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3 All these were joined together in the e Deut 17 vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 4 Twelve years they served Chedorfch. sa laomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Josh. 2 15.
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cir. 1913

Deut. 3. 11.

15 Josh 124

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5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in ||Shaveh Kiriathaim,

6' And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto || El-paran, which is by the wilderness. 7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt "in Hazezon-tamar. 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.

10 And the vale of Siddim was full of ach. 11.3 "slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

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Before CHRIST cir. 1913.

b cb. 24. 27.

20 And blessed be the most high God, & ver. 22. which hath delivered thine enemies into Matt. 11. 95. thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all, i Hebr. 7.421 ¶ And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the † persons, and take † Heb. souls. the goods to thyself.

22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, 'the possessor of heaven and earth,

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AFTER these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vi- a Dan. 10. 1. sion, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, 11 And they took all the goods of and the steward of my house is this ElieSodom and Gomorrah, and all their vic-zer of Damascus ? tuals, and went their way.

12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for 'he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: * and these were confederate with Abram. 14¶ And when Abram heard that "his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

15 And he divided himself against them, Jutz 13. 29. he and his servants, by night, and 'smote 42,3 them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

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3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, fone born in my house is mine heir.

bch. 26. 24. Luke i. 13, P. 3.3.& 512, & 84

30.

11. & 91. 4. & 119. 114. d Ps. 16. 5.

58 11. Prov. 11.18.

e Acts 7.5fch. 14. 14.

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4¶ And, behold, the word of the LORD
came unto him, saying, This shall not be
thine heir; but he that shall come forth
out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
5 And he brought him forth abroad,
and said, Look now toward heaven, and
tell the 'stars, if thou be able to numb
ber them: and he said unto him, *So
shall thy seed be.

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6¶ And he believed in the LORD; and
he counted it to him for righteousness.
7¶ And he said unto him, I am the LORD
that "brought thee out of Ur of the Chal-
dees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby
shall I know that I shall inherit it?

9 And he said unto him, Take me an
heifer of three years old, and a she goat of
three years old, and a ram of three years
old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 And he took unto him all these,
and divided them in the midst, and laid
each piece one against another: but "the
birds divided he not.

2 Sam. 7. Chron. 32.

12. & 16. 11.

21.

Ps. 147. 4. Jer. 33.22.

k ch. 22. 17. Exod. 32. 13. Deut. 1. 10.

& 10. 22.

1 Chron. 27.23. Rom.

418. Hebr. ch. 13. 16.

11. 12. See

1 Rom. 4. 3, 9, 22. Gal. 3.

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23. Acts 7.6. w Exod. 1. 11. Ps. 105. 25

* Exod. 6.6. y Exod. 12.

Deut. 6. 22.

36. Ps. 105. 37.

2 Job 5. 26. a Acts 13.36

b ch. 25. 8. e Exod. 12. 40.

d1 Kings 21.

26.

e Dan. 8. 23.

Matt. 23. 32.

1 Thes. 2. 16. + Heb. a lamp of fire.

19.

GENESIS.

Ishmael is born.

Before CHRIST

an horror of great darkness fell upon him. | her by a fountain of water in the wilder-
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of ness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. cir. 1911.
a surety "that thy seed shall be a stranger 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, och. 25. 18.
in a land that is not their's, and shall whence camest thou? and whither wilt p Exod. 15.
serve them; and they shall afflict them thou go? And she said, I flee from the
four hundred years;
face of my mistress Sarai.

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14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and ta burning f Jer. 34.18, lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "Unto 26.4. thy seed have I given this land, from the 23.31. river of Egypt unto the great river, the Deut. 1.7.& river Euphrates:

g ch. 24.7. h ch. 12. 7. & 13. 15. &

Numb. 34.3.

11. 24. & 34

4. Josh. 1.4.

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites,

Kings 4.21. and the Kadmonites,

2 Chron. 9.

26. Neh. 9.

8. Ps. 105. 11.

20 And the Hittites, and the Periz

Isai. 27. 12. zites, and the Rephaims,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

CHAP. XVI.

1 Sarai, being barren, giveth Hagar to A-
bram. 6 Hagar, being afflicted for despis-
ing her mistress, runneth away. 7 An an-
gel sendeth her back to submit herself, 11 and
telleth her of her child. 15 Ishmael is born.
TOW no

a ch. 15.2,3.

b ch. 21. 9. e Gal. 4. 24. d ch. 30. 3.

e ch. 20. 18.

& 30. 2.

1 Sam. 1. 5,6.

f So ch. 30.

3, 9.
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builded by

her.

ch. 3. 17. 1911.

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Pan Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray 'thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram & hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram "had h ch. 12. 5. dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

4¶ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that

i 2 Sam. 6. she had conceived, her mistress was 'despised in her eyes.

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26.

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1898.

a ch. 12. 1. bch. 28. 3.

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thou || perfect.

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2 And I will make my covenant be- 3 tween me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

4 As for me, behold, my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father many nations.

d ch. 6. 9.

Deut. 18. 13.

Job 1. 1.
Matt. 5. 48.

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13. 16. & 22.

ech. 12. 2. &

of

17.

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g Rom. 4. 11,

3.29.

5¶ Neither shall thy name any more 12, 16. Gal. be called Abram, but thy name shall be + Heb. || Abraham; for a father of many na- tions. tions have I made thee.

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6 And I will make thee exceeding Father fruitful, and I will make *nations of great multithee, and 'kings shall come out of thee. i Rom.4. 17. 7 And I will " establish my covenant k ch. 35. 11. between me and thee and thy seed after 35.11. Matt. thee in their generations for an everlast

1 ver. 16. ch.
1. 6, &c.
m Gal. 3. 17.

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