Generations of Noah. GENESIS The generations of ed Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, scatter them abroad upon the face of a 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: earth. the same is a great city. 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 10 These are the generations of Shem: was a hundred years old, and begat Arpl two years after the flood: 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxa hundred years, and begat sons and daught 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty and begat Salah. 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat four hundred and three years, and begat and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat 15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber hundred and three years, and begat sons daughters. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as begat Peleg: thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Ad mah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg hundred and thirty years, and begat sons daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu hundred and nine years, and begat sons 21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and 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. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. A CHAP. XI. The confusion of languages. ND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, begat Serug. 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug hundred and seven years, and begat sons daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and b Nahor: 23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor hundred years, and begat sons and daughte 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, begat Terah. 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Tera hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and b Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 271 Now these are the generations of Ter Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran : Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Tera the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chalde 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the na of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Han the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his dau ter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they w 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to the east, that they found a plain in the land of into the land of Canaan; and they came u Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Haran, and dwelt there. N CHAP. XII. God calleth Abram. OW the LORD had said unto Abram, C thee out of thy country, and from thy k dred, and from thy father's house, unto a la 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and that I will shew thee: the tower, which the children of men builded. 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, a 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, I will bless thee, and make thy name great; a and they have all one language; and this they thou shalt be a blessing: begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, a from them, which they have imagined to do. curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound families of the earth be blessed. their language, that they may not understand 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spok one another's speech. unto him, and Lot went with him: and Abra 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from was seventy and five years old when he depart thence upon the face of all the earth and they out of Haran. left off to build the city. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot 1 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, be-brother's son, and all their substance that the cause the LORD did there confound the language had gathered, and the souls that they had gott CHAP. XIII, XIV. Lot gocth to Sodom d of Canaan thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if and unto the thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to Moreh. And the left. 1. 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the am, and said, plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every d and there where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and who appear-Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zear. o a mountain 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jorhis tent, hav-dan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separaon the east: ted themselves the one from the other. the LORD, 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, ant Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitch ORD. still toward ed his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and The land: and sinners before the LORD, exceedingly. journ there; 14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that land. Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine as come near eyes, and look from the place where thou art, to Sarai his northward, and southward, and eastward, and ou art a fair westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee ss, when the will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. ey shall say, 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the me, but they earth: so that if a man can number the dust ot the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. ister: that it 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length and my soul of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it when Abram 18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came ns beheld the and dwelt in the plain of Mare, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. aw her, and d the woman for her sake: GENESIS. and brother of Aner: and these were confederatesthat thy seed shall be a stranger in a land with Abrain. Inot theirs, and shall serve them; and the 14 And when Abram heard that his brother afflict them four hundred years; 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, he and his servants by night, and smote 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. 14 And also that nation whom they shal 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in 17 And it came to pass, that when the sur down, and it was dark, behold a smokin 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet nace, and a burning lamp that passed be him (after his return from the slaughter of Che- those pieces. doriaomer, and of the kings that were with him,) 18 In that same day the LORD made a at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. nant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought given this land, from the river of Egypt forth bread and wine. and he was the priest of the great river, the river Euphrates: the most high God. 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, an 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, ar 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites Sarai giveth Hagar to Abram. NOW Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no dren: and she had a handmaid, an E 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, the most tian, whose name was Hagar. high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing thee go in unto my maid; it may be that I that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have obtain children by her. And Abram heark made Abram rich: 24 Save only that which the young men have 3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwel years in the land of Canaan, and gave he her husband Abrain to be his wife. 41 And he went in unto Hagar, and she c ceived: and when she saw that she had c ceived, her mistress was despised in her eye 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong upon thee: I have given my maid into thy som; and when she saw that she had conce ed, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD ju 6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy m 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth th given no seed: and lo, one born in my house is And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she f mine heir. 4 And behold, the word of the LORD came unto 7 And the angel of the LORD found her by him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fou he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels tain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, when camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And s said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Retu to thymistress, and submit thyself under her hand 10 And the angel of the LORD said unto he I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it sha 7 And he said unto him, I am the Lord that not be numbered for multitude. brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give 11 And the angel of the LORD said unto he thee this land to inherit it. Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear 8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; becaus that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand wi three years old, and a she-goat of three years be against every man, and every man's han old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-against him; and he shall dwell in the presenc dove, 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. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And she called the name of the LORD tha spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said Have I also here looked after him that seeth me 14 Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abran called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years TI ed. Destruction of Sodom revealed. the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin, in the self-same day, years old and as God had said unto him. zo Abram, and 24 And Abraham was ninety years old and aty God; walk nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of at between me 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, exceedingly. when he was circumcised in the flesh of his nd God talked foreskin. at is with thee, ay nations. 26 In the self-same day was Abraham circamcised, and Ishmael his son; 27 And all the men of his house, born in the more be called house, and bought with money of the stranger, braham; for a were circumcised with him. de thee. g fruitful, and ad kings shall Abraham entertains three angels. ND the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent nt between me door in the heat of the day; in their gene- 2 And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and nant; to be a lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw er thee. them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, d to thy seed and bowed himself toward the ground, art a stranger, 3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found faerlasting pos- vour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, m, Thou shalt 4 Let a little water, I pray yon, be fetched, and and thy seed wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the ye shall keep, 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and com ed after thee; fort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: ecircumcised. for therefore are ye come to your servant. And flesh of your they said, So do, as thou hast said. - of the cove- 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three shall be cir-measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes child in your upon the hearth. the house, or 7 And Avraham ran unto the herd, and fetched ger, which is a caif tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. and he that is 8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf ds be circum- which he had dressed, and set it before them; in your flesh and he stood by them under the tree, and they -child, whose 911 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah ised, that soul thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. e hath broken 10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah m, As for Sa- thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard er name Sarai, it in the tent-door, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well e thee a son stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Saralı and she shall after the manner of women. eople shall be 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleas nis face, and ure, my lord being old also ? all a child be 13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Where. ears old? and fore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety ld, bear? bear a child, which am old? 1, O that Ish- 14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, accordife shall bear ing to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. call his name 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; ovenant with for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou and with his didst laugh. 16 And the men rose up from thence, and eard thee: Be-looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with will make him them to bring thein on the way. exceedingly: 17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from d I will make Abraham that thing which I do; 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a sh with Isaac, great and mighty nation, and all the nations of Lee at this set the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I know him, that he will command his him, and God children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice el his son, and and judgment; that the LORD Inay bring upon , and all that Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. ry male among 20 And the Lorp said Bosnug the cry of f Sodom and Gomorrah desti om and Gomorrah is great, and because their 9 And they said, Stand back. And they again, This one fellow came in to sojourn he will needs be a judge: Now will we worse with thee than with them. And pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and near to break the door. 10 But the men put forth their hand, and p Lot into the house to them, and shut to the 11 And they smote the men that were at door of the house with blindness, both small great: so that they wearied themselves to 231 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt place for the fifty righteous that are therein ? 12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou 25 That be far from thee to do after this man- any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and ner, to slay the righteous with the wicked; and daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the that the righteous should be as the wicked, that bring them out of this place: be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the 13 For we will destroy this place, because cry of them is waxen great before the face of LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destro 14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his so in-law, which married his daughters, and s Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD destroy this city: but he seemed as one t mocked unto his sons-in-law. 23 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty 15 And when the morning arose, then righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and tive, I will not destroy it. 29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. 30 And he said unto him, Oh, let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take wife, and thy two daughters which are here, thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid h upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wi and upon the hand of his two daughters; 1 LORD being merciful unto him; and they broug him forth, and set him without the city. shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will 17 And it came to pass, when they had broug them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for t 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest the shall be twenty found there. And he said, I be consumed. 18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lor 19 Behold now, thy servant hath found gra in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy merc which thou hast shewed unto me in saving n life: and I cannot escape to the mountain, le some evil take me, and I die: 20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepte ND there came two angels to Sodom at even; thee concerning this thing also, that I will no and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom; and Lot, overthrow this city, for the which thou has seeing them, rose up to meet them; and he bowed spoken. himself with his face toward the ground; 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, 22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot de any thing till thou be come thither: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. Nay: but we will abide in the street all night. 24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and 231 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and 5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, to the place where he stood before the LORD: Where are the men which came in to thee this 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomornght? bring them out unto us, that we may rah, and toward all the land of the plain, and know them. beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country went 6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, up as the smoke of a furnace. and shut the door after him, 29 1 And it came to pass, when God destroyed 7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so the cities of the plain, that God remembered wickedly. Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the 8 Behold now, I have two daughters which overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring which Lot dwelt. them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good 30 1 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; in the mountain, and his two daughters with for therefore came they under the shadow of my him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he, and his two daughters rost |