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from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the 10 garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast 11 thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou 12 gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou 13 hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast 14 done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life and I will put enmity between 15 thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow 16 and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto 17 the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to 18 thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 'in the sweat of 19 thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

AND Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was 20 the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did 21 the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

AND the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as 22 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 for ever: therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden 23 of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he 24 drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

AND Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and 4 bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel.

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And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain 3 brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of 4 the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. 5 And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the 6 LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy coun

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tenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? 7 and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to 8
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel
his brother, and slew him. And the LORD said unto Cain, 9
Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my
brother's keeper? And he said, Wha' hast thou done? the 10
voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened 1
her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto 12
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in
the earth. And Cain said unto the LORD, my punishment is 13
greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this 14
day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid;
and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it
shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
And the LORD said unto him. Therefore whosoever slayeth 15
Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the
LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt 16
in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his 17
wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city,
and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and 18
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

AND Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one 19
was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. And Adah bare 20
Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such
as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the 21
father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, 22
she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass
and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. And Lamech 23
said unto his wives,

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and 25 called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, 26 to him also there was born a son: and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that 5 God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and 2 And Adam lived 3 female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: and the days of Adam 4 after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: and all the days that Adam lived were

nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

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lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: and Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Seth were nine 8 hundred and twelve years: and he died. And Enos lived 9 ninety years, and begat Cainan: and Enos lived after he begat 10 Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five 11 years: and he died. And Cainan lived seventy years, and be- 12 gat Mahalaleel: and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel 13 eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: 14 and he died. And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, 15 and begat Jared: and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared 16 eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety 17 and five years: and he died. And Jared lived an hundred 18 sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: and Jared lived after 19 he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty 20 and two years: and he died. And Enoch lived sixty and 21 five years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God 22 after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enoch were three hundred 23 sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with God; and he was 24 not; for God took him. And Methuselah lived an hundred 25 eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: and Methuselah 26 lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Methu- 27 selah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat 28 a son: and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall 29 comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. And Lamech 30 lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Lamech were 31 seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. And 32 Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face 6 of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons 2 of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, 3 My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There 4 were giants in the earth in those days: and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was 5 great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the 6

LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I 7 have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes 8 of the LORD.

THESE are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man 9 and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And 10 Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth 11 also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was cor- 12 rupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

AND God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; 13 for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher 14 wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt 15 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. A win- 16 dow shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And, 17 behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with 18 thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort 19 shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of 20 castle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and 21 thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Thus did Noah; according to all that God com- 22 manded him, so did he.

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AND the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house 7 into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female; and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the 3 male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the 4 earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. And 5 Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him. And 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, 7 and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, 8 and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male 9 and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

AND it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the 10 flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of 11 Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And 12 the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In 13 the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sous with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after 14 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 sort. And they went in 15 unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female 16 of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the 17 waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly 18 upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all 19 the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fif een cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains 20 were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both 21 of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils 22 was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And 23 every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, bothman and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred 24 and fifty days.

AND God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; the fountains 2 also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; and the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

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AND the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth 4 day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters 5 decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. AND it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened 6 the window of the ark which he had made. And he sent for.h 7 a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see 8 if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the 9 dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto