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Book 01 Genesis
01:001:001 In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth.
01:001:002 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 waters.
01:001:003 And God said, Let there
be light: and there was light.
01:001:004 And God saw the light,
that it was good: and God divided the
light from the
darkness.
01:001:005 And God called the
light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening
and the morning were the first day.
01:001:006 And God said, Let there
be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters.
01:001:007 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
so.
01:001:008 And God called the
firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second
day.
01:001:009 And God said, Let the
waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one
place, and let the dry land appear: and it
was so.
01:001:010 And God called the dry
land Earth; and the gathering together
of the waters called he
Seas: and God saw that it was good.
01:001:011 And God said, Let the
earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the
fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
01:001:012 And the earth brought
forth grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the
tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in
itself, after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
01:001:013 And the evening and the
morning were the third day.
01:001:014 And God said, Let there
be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the
day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons,
and for days, and years:
01:001:015 And let them be for
lights in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the
earth: and it was so.
01:001:016 And God made two great
lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: he made the stars
also.
01:001:017 And God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth,
01:001:018 And to rule over the
day and over the night, and to divide the
light from the
darkness: and God saw that it was good.
01:001:019 And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day.
01:001:020 And God said, Let the
waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath
life, and fowl that may fly above the earth
in the open firmament
of heaven.
01:001:021 And God created great
whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the
waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged
fowl after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.
01:001:022 And God blessed them,
saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
fill the waters in the
seas, and let fowl multiply in the
earth.
01:001:023 And the evening and the
morning were the fifth day.
01:001:024 And God said, Let the
earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle,
and creeping thing, and beast of the
earth after his kind:
and it was so.
01:001:025 And God made the beast
of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and
every thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind: and God
saw that it was good.
01:001:026 And 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 earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
01:001:027 So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male
and female created he them.
01:001:028 And God blessed them,
and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.
01:001:029 And God said, Behold, I
have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the
face of all the earth, and every tree,
in the which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for meat.
01:001:030 And to every beast of
the earth, and to every fowl of the air,
and to every thing that
creepeth upon the earth, wherein there
is life, I have given
every green herb for meat: and it was
so.
01:001:031 And God saw every thing
that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the
evening and the morning were the sixth day.
01:002:001 Thus the heavens and
the earth were finished, and all the host
of them.
01:002:002 And on the seventh day
God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work which he
had made.
01:002:003 And God blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had
rested from all his work which God created
and made.
01:002:004 These are the
generations of the heavens and of the earth when
they were created, in
the day that the LORD God made the earth
and the heavens,
01:002:005 And every plant of the
field before it was in the earth, and
every herb of the field
before it grew: for the LORD God had
not caused it to rain
upon the earth, and there was not a man
to till the ground.
01:002:006 But there went up a
mist from the earth, and watered the whole
face of the ground.
01:002:007 And the LORD God formed
man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul.
01:002:008 And the LORD God
planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there
he put the man whom he
had formed.
01:002:009 And out of the ground
made the LORD God 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
knowledge of good and
evil.
01:002:010 And a river went out of
Eden to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted,
and became into four heads.
01:002:011 The name of the first
is Pison: that is it which compasseth
the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold;
01:002:012 And the gold of that
land is good: there is bdellium and the
onyx stone.
01:002:013 And the name of the
second river is Gihon: the same is it that
compasseth the whole
land of Ethiopia.
01:002:014 And the name of the
third river is Hiddekel: that is it which
goeth toward the east
of Assyria. And the fourth river is
Euphrates.
01:002:015 And the LORD God took
the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to
keep it.
01:002:016 And the LORD God
commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of
the garden thou mayest
freely eat:
01:002:017 But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: for in
the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die.
01:002:018 And the LORD God said,
It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him
an help meet for him.
01:002:019 And out of the ground
the LORD God formed every beast of the
field, and every fowl
of the air; and brought them unto Adam
to see what he would
call them: and whatsoever Adam called
every living creature,
that was the name thereof.
01:002:020 And Adam gave names to
all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
and to every beast of
the field; but for Adam there was not
found an help meet for
him.
01:002:021 And 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 flesh
instead thereof;
01:002:022 And the rib, which the
LORD God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her
unto the man.
01:002:023 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.
01:002:024 Therefore shall a man
leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his
wife: and they shall be one flesh.
01:002:025 And they were both
naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
01:003:001 Now the serpent was
more subtil than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had
made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden?
01:003:002 And the woman said unto
the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the
garden:
01:003:003 But of the fruit of the
tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God hath said,
Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall
ye touch it, lest ye
die.
01:003:004 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
01:003:005 For God doth know that
in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good
and evil.
01:003:006 And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and
that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree to be desired to
make one wise, she took
of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat.
01:003:007 And the eyes of them
both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
01:003:008 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 amongst the trees of the
garden.
01:003:009 And the LORD God called
unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
art thou?
01:003:010 And he said, I heard
thy voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was
naked; and I hid myself.
01:003:011 And he said, Who told
thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou
eaten of the tree,
whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat?
01:003:012 And the man said, The
woman whom thou gavest to be with me,
she gave me of the
tree, and I did eat.
01:003:013 And the LORD God said
unto the woman, What is this that thou
hast done? And the
woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I
did eat.
01:003:014 And the LORD God said
unto the serpent, Because thou hast 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:
01:003:015 And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.
01:003:016 Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and
thy conception; in
sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and
thy desire shall be to
thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee.
01:003:017 And unto Adam he said,
Because thou hast hearkened unto 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;
01:003:018 Thorns also and
thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb
of the field;
01:003:019 In the sweat of 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.
01:003:020 And Adam called his
wife's name Eve; because she was the
mother of all living.
01:003:021 Unto Adam also and to
his wife did the LORD God make coats of
skins, and clothed
them.
01:003:022 And the LORD God said,
Behold, the man is become as 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:
01:003:023 Therefore the LORD God
sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from
whence he was taken.
01:003:024 So he 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.
01:004:001 And Adam knew Eve his
wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
and said, I have gotten
a man from the LORD.
01:004:002 And she again bare his
brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a
tiller of the ground.
01:004:003 And in process of time
it came to pass, that Cain brought of
the fruit of the ground
an offering unto the LORD.
01:004:004 And Abel, he also
brought of the firstlings of his flock and
of the fat thereof. And
the LORD had respect unto Abel and to
his offering:
01:004:005 But unto Cain and to
his offering he had not respect. And Cain
was very wroth, and his
countenance fell.
01:004:006 And the LORD said unto
Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is
thy countenance fallen?
01:004:007 If thou doest well,
shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou
doest not well, sin
lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be
his desire, and thou
shalt rule over him.
01:004:008 And Cain talked with
Abel his brother: and it came to pass,
when they were in the
field, that Cain rose up against Abel
his brother, and slew
him.
01:004:009 And the LORD said unto
Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I
my brother's keeper?
01:004:010 And he said, What hast
thou done? the voice of thy brother's
blood crieth unto me
from the ground.
01:004:011 And now art thou cursed
from the earth, which hath opened her
mouth to receive thy
brother's blood from thy hand;
01:004:012 When thou tillest the
ground, it shall not henceforth yield
unto thee her strength;
a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou
be in the earth.
01:004:013 And Cain said unto the
LORD, My punishment is greater than I
can bear.
01:004:014 Behold, thou hast
driven me out this 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.
01:004:015 And the LORD said unto
him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
vengeance shall be
taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a
mark upon Cain, lest
any finding him should kill him.
01:004:016 And Cain went out from
the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in
the land of Nod, on the
east of Eden.
01:004:017 And Cain knew his 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.
01:004:018 And unto Enoch was born
Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat
Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
01:004:019 And Lamech took unto
him two wives: the name of the one was
Adah, and the name of
the other Zillah.
01:004:020 And Adah bare Jabal: he
was the father of such as dwell in
tents, and of such as
have cattle.
01:004:021 And his brother's name
was Jubal: he was the father of all
such as handle the harp
and organ.
01:004:022 And Zillah, she also
bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every
artificer in brass and
iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was
Naamah.
01:004:023 And Lamech said unto
his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
voice; ye wives of
Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have
slain a man to my
wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
01:004:024 If Cain shall be
avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
sevenfold.
01:004:025 And Adam knew his wife
again; and she bare a son, and called
his name Seth: For God,
said she, hath appointed me another
seed instead of Abel,
whom Cain slew.
01:004:026 And to Seth, 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.
01:005:001 This is the book of the
generations of Adam. In the day that
God created man, in the
likeness of God made he him;
01:005:002 Male and female created
he them; and blessed them, and called
their name Adam, in the
day when they were created.
01:005:003 And Adam lived an
hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in
his own likeness, and
after his image; and called his name
Seth:
01:005:004 And the days of Adam
after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he
begat sons and daughters:
01:005:005 And all the days that
Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years: and he died.
01:005:006 And Seth lived an
hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
01:005:007 And Seth lived after he
begat Enos eight hundred and seven
years, and begat sons
and daughters:
01:005:008 And all the days of
Seth were nine hundred and twelve years:
and he died.
01:005:009 And Enos lived ninety
years, and begat Cainan:
01:005:010 And Enos lived after he
begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen
years, and begat sons
and daughters:
01:005:011 And all the days of
Enos were nine hundred and five years: and
he died.
01:005:012 And Cainan lived
seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
01:005:013 And Cainan lived after
he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and
forty years, and begat
sons and daughters:
01:005:014 And all the days of
Cainan were nine hundred and ten years:
and he died.
01:005:015 And Mahalaleel lived
sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
01:005:016 And Mahalaleel lived
after he begat Jared eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat
sons and daughters:
01:005:017 And all the days of
Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and
five years: and he
died.
01:005:018 And Jared lived an
hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
Enoch:
01:005:019 And Jared lived after
he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and
begat sons and
daughters:
01:005:020 And all the days of
Jared were nine hundred sixty and two
years: and he died.
01:005:021 And Enoch lived sixty
and five years, and begat Methuselah:
01:005:022 And Enoch walked with
God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters:
01:005:023 And all the days of
Enoch were three hundred sixty and five
years:
01:005:024 And Enoch walked with
God: and he was not; for God took him.
01:005:025 And Methuselah lived an
hundred eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech.
01:005:026 And Methuselah lived
after he begat Lamech seven hundred
eighty and two years,
and begat sons and daughters:
01:005:027 And all the days of
Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and
nine years: and he
died.
01:005:028 And Lamech lived an
hundred eighty and two years, and begat a
son:
01:005:029 And he called his name
Noah, saying, This same shall comfort
us concerning our work
and toil of our hands, because of the
ground which the LORD
hath cursed.
01:005:030 And Lamech lived after
he begat Noah five hundred ninety and
five years, and begat
sons and daughters:
01:005:031 And all the days of
Lamech were seven hundred seventy and
seven years: and he
died.
01:005:032 And Noah was five
hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.
01:006:001 And it came to pass,
when men began to multiply on the face of
the earth, and
daughters were born unto them,
01:006:002 That the sons of God
saw the daughters of men that they were
fair; and they took
them wives of all which they chose.
01:006:003 And the LORD said, My
spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred
and twenty years.
01:006:004 There 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.
01:006:005 And God saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
01:006:006 And it repented the
LORD that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at
his heart.
01:006:007 And the LORD said, I
will destroy 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 repenteth me that I
have made them.
01:006:008 But Noah found grace in
the eyes of the LORD.
01:006:009 These are the
generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
perfect in his
generations, and Noah walked with God.
01:006:010 And Noah begat three
sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
01:006:011 The earth also was
corrupt before God, and the earth was
filled with violence.
01:006:012 And God looked upon the
earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth.
01:006:013 And God said unto Noah,
The end of all flesh is come before
me; for the earth is
filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy
them with the earth.
01:006:014 Make thee an ark of
gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it
within and without with pitch.
01:006:015 And this is the fashion
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.
01:006:016 A window 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.
01:006:017 And, 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.
01:006:018 But with 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.
01:006:019 And of every living
thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into
the ark, to keep them alive with thee;
they shall be male and
female.
01:006:020 Of fowls after their
kind, and of cattle 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.
01:006:021 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.
01:006:022 Thus did Noah;
according to all that God commanded him, so did
he.
01:007:001 And the LORD said unto
Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
the ark; for thee have
I seen righteous before me in this
generation.
01:007:002 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.
01:007:003 Of fowls also of the
air by sevens, the male and the female;
to keep seed alive upon
the face of all the earth.
01:007:004 For yet seven days, and
I will cause it to rain upon the earth
forty days and forty
nights; and every living substance that I
have made will I
destroy from off the face of the earth.
01:007:005 And Noah did according
unto all that the LORD commanded him.
01:007:006 And Noah was six
hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth.
01:007:007 And Noah went in, and
his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
wives with him, into
the ark, because of the waters of the
flood.
01:007:008 Of clean beasts, and of
beasts that are not clean, and of
fowls, and of every
thing that creepeth upon the earth,
01:007:009 There went in two and
two unto Noah into the ark, the male and
the female, as God had
commanded Noah.
01:007:010 And it came to pass
after seven days, that the waters of the
flood were upon the
earth.
01:007:011 In the six hundredth
year of 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.
01:007:012 And the rain was upon
the earth forty days and forty nights.
01:007:013 In 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 sons with
them, into the ark;
01:007:014 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 sort.
01:007:015 And they went in unto
Noah into the ark, two and two of all
flesh, wherein is the
breath of life.
01:007:016 And they that went in,
went in male and female of all flesh,
as God had commanded
him: and the LORD shut him in.
01:007:017 And the flood was forty
days upon the earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up
the ark, and it was lift up above the
earth.
01:007:018 And the waters
prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the
earth; and the ark went
upon the face of the waters.
01:007:019 And the waters
prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all
the high hills, that
were under the whole heaven, were
covered.
01:007:020 Fifteen cubits upward
did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
01:007:021 And all flesh died that
moved upon the earth, both of fowl,
and of cattle, and of
beast, and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the
earth, and every man:
01:007:022 All in whose nostrils
was the breath of life, of all that was
in the dry land, died.
01:007:023 And every living
substance was destroyed which was upon the
face of the ground,
both man, 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.
01:007:024 And the waters
prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty
days.
01:008:001 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 asswaged;
01:008:002 The fountains also of
the deep and the windows of heaven were
stopped, and the rain
from heaven was restrained;
01:008:003 And the waters returned
from off the earth continually: and
after the end of the
hundred and fifty days the waters were
abated.
01:008:004 And the ark rested in
the seventh month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, upon
the mountains of Ararat.
01:008:005 And the waters
decreased continually until the tenth month: in
the tenth month, on the
first day of the month, were the tops
of the mountains seen.
01:008:006 And it came to pass at
the end of forty days, that Noah opened
the window of the ark
which he had made:
01:008:007 And he sent forth a
raven, which went forth to and fro, until
the waters were dried
up from off the earth.
01:008:008 Also he sent forth a
dove from him, to see if the waters were
abated from off the
face of the ground;
01:008:009 But the dove found no
rest for the sole of her foot, and she
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.
01:008:010 And he stayed yet other
seven days; and again he sent forth
the dove out of the
ark;
01:008:011 And the dove came in to
him in the evening; and, lo, in her
mouth was an olive leaf
pluckt off: so Noah knew that the
waters were abated from
off the earth.
01:008:012 And he stayed yet other
seven days; and sent forth the dove;
which returned not
again unto him any more.
01:008:013 And it came to pass in
the six hundredth 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.
01:008:014 And in the second
month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
month, was the earth
dried.
01:008:015 And God spake unto
Noah, saying,
01:008:016 Go forth of the ark,
thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
sons' wives with thee.
01:008:017 Bring forth with thee
every living thing that is with thee, of
all flesh, 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 fruitful, and multiply upon
the earth.
01:008:018 And Noah went forth,
and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
wives with him:
01:008:019 Every beast, every
creeping thing, and every fowl, and
whatsoever creepeth
upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out of the ark.
01:008:020 And Noah builded an
altar unto the LORD; and took of every
clean beast, and of
every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.
01:008:021 And the LORD smelled a
sweet savour; and the LORD said in his
heart, I will not again
curse the ground any more for man's
sake; for the
imagination of man's heart is evil from his
youth; neither will I
again smite any more every thing living,
as I have done.
01:008:022 While the earth
remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not
cease.
01:009:001 And God blessed Noah
and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth.
01:009:002 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 moveth upon the
earth, and upon all the fishes of the
sea; into your hand are
they delivered.
01:009:003 Every moving thing that
liveth shall be meat for you; even as
the green herb have I
given you all things.
01:009:004 But flesh with the life
thereof, which is the blood thereof,
shall ye not eat.
01:009:005 And surely your blood
of your lives will I require; at the
hand of every beast
will I require it, and at the hand of man;
at the hand of every
man's brother will I require the life of
man.
01:009:006 Whoso sheddeth man's
blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God
made he man.
01:009:007 And you, be ye
fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly
in the earth, and
multiply therein.
01:009:008 And God spake unto
Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
01:009:009 And I, behold, I
establish my covenant with you, and with your
seed after you;
01:009:010 And with every living
creature that is with you, of the fowl,
of the cattle, and of
every beast of the earth with you; from
all that go out of the
ark, to every beast of the earth.
01:009:011 And I will establish my
covenant with you, neither shall all
flesh be cut off any
more by the waters of a flood; neither
shall there any more be
a flood to destroy the earth.
01:009:012 And God said, This is
the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you and
every living creature that is with you,
for perpetual
generations:
01:009:013 I do set my bow in the
cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between me and
the earth.
01:009:014 And it shall come to
pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow
shall be seen in the cloud:
01:009:015 And I will remember my
covenant, which is between me and you
and every living
creature of all flesh; and the waters shall
no more become a flood
to destroy all flesh.
01:009:016 And the bow shall be in
the cloud; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the
everlasting covenant between God and
every living creature
of all flesh that is upon the earth.
01:009:017 And God said unto Noah,
This is the token of the covenant,
which I have
established between me and all flesh that is upon
the earth.
01:009:018 And the sons of Noah,
that went forth of the ark, were Shem,
and Ham, and Japheth:
and Ham is the father of Canaan.
01:009:019 These are the three
sons of Noah: and of them was the whole
earth overspread.
01:009:020 And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
01:009:021 And he drank of the
wine, and was drunken; and he was
uncovered within his
tent.
01:009:022 And Ham, the father of
Canaan, saw the nakedness of his
father, and told his
two brethren without.
01:009:023 And Shem and Japheth
took a garment, and laid it upon both
their shoulders, and
went backward, and covered the nakedness
of their father; and
their faces were backward, and they saw
not their father's
nakedness.
01:009:024 And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son
had done unto him.
01:009:025 And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he
be unto his brethren.
01:009:026 And he said, Blessed be
the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall
be his servant.
01:009:027 God shall enlarge
Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of
Shem; and Canaan shall
be his servant.
01:009:028 And Noah lived after
the flood three hundred and fifty years.
01:009:029 And all the days of
Noah were nine hundred and fifty years:
and he died.
01:010:001 Now these are the
generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham,
and Japheth: and unto
them were sons born after the flood.
01:010:002 The sons of Japheth;
Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech,
and Tiras.
01:010:003 And the sons of Gomer;
Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
01:010:004 And the sons of Javan;
Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim.
01:010:005 By these were the isles
of the Gentiles divided in their
lands; every one after
his tongue, after their families, in
their nations.
01:010:006 And the sons of Ham;
Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
01:010:007 And the sons of Cush;
Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and
Raamah, and Sabtechah:
and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and
Dedan.
01:010:008 And Cush begat Nimrod:
he began to be a mighty one in the
earth.
01:010:009 He was a mighty hunter
before the LORD: wherefore it is said,
Even as Nimrod the
mighty hunter before the LORD.
01:010:010 And the beginning of
his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in
the land of Shinar.
01:010:011 Out of that land went
forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and
the city Rehoboth, and
Calah,
01:010:012 And Resen between
Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
01:010:013 And Mizraim begat Ludim,
and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
01:010:014 And Pathrusim, and
Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and
Caphtorim.
01:010:015 And Canaan begat Sidon
his first born, and Heth,
01:010:016 And the Jebusite, and
the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
01:010:017 And the Hivite, and the
Arkite, and the Sinite,
01:010:018 And the Arvadite, and
the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and
afterward were the
families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
01:010:019 And the border of the
Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou
comest to Gerar, unto
Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and
Gomorrah, and Admah,
and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
01:010:020 These are the sons of
Ham, after their families, after their
tongues, in their
countries, and in their nations.
01:010:021 Unto Shem also, the
father of all the children of Eber, the
brother of Japheth the
elder, even to him were children born.
01:010:022 The children of Shem;
Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
and Aram.
01:010:023 And the children of
Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
01:010:024 And Arphaxad begat
Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
01:010:025 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.
01:010:026 And Joktan begat
Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and
Jerah,
01:010:027 And Hadoram, and Uzal,
and Diklah,
01:010:028 And Obal, and Abimael,
and Sheba,
01:010:029 And Ophir, and Havilah,
and Jobab: all these were the sons of
Joktan.
01:010:030 And their dwelling was
from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a
mount of the east.
01:010:031 These are the sons of
Shem, after their families, after their
tongues, in their
lands, after their nations.
01:010:032 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.
01:011:001 And the whole earth was
of one language, and of one speech.
01:011:002 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.
01:011:003 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 morter.
01:011:004 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.
01:011:005 And the LORD came down
to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men
builded.
01:011:006 And the LORD said,
Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and
this they begin to do: and now nothing
will be restrained from
them, which they have imagined to do.
01:011:007 Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language, that
they may not understand
one another's speech.
01:011:008 So the LORD scattered
them abroad from thence upon the face of
all the earth: and they
left off to build the city.
01:011:009 Therefore is the name
of it called Babel; because the LORD did
there confound the
language of all the earth: and from thence
did the LORD scatter
them abroad upon the face of all the
earth.
01:011:010 These are the
generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years
old, and begat Arphaxad
two years after the flood:
01:011:011 And Shem lived after he
begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and
begat sons and
daughters.
01:011:012 And Arphaxad lived five
and thirty years, and begat Salah:
01:011:013 And Arphaxad lived
after he begat Salah four hundred and three
years, and begat sons
and daughters.
01:011:014 And Salah lived thirty
years, and begat Eber:
01:011:015 And Salah lived after
he begat Eber four hundred and three
years, and begat sons
and daughters.
01:011:016 And Eber lived four and
thirty years, and begat Peleg:
01:011:017 And Eber lived after he
begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons
and daughters.
01:011:018 And Peleg lived thirty
years, and begat Reu:
01:011:019 And Peleg lived after
he begat Reu two hundred and nine years,
and begat sons and
daughters.
01:011:020 And Reu lived two and
thirty years, and begat Serug:
01:011:021 And Reu lived after he
begat Serug two hundred and seven
years, and begat sons
and daughters.
01:011:022 And Serug lived thirty
years, and begat Nahor:
01:011:023 And Serug lived after
he begat Nahor two hundred years, and
begat sons and
daughters.
01:011:024 And Nahor lived nine
and twenty years, and begat Terah:
01:011:025 And Nahor lived after
he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen
years, and begat sons
and daughters.
01:011:026 And Terah lived seventy
years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
01:011:027 Now these are the
generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and
Haran begat Lot.
01:011:028 And Haran died before
his father Terah in the land of his
nativity, in Ur of the
Chaldees.
01:011:029 And Abram and Nahor
took them wives: 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 the father of Iscah.
01:011:030 But Sarai was barren;
she had no child.
01:011:031 And Terah took Abram
his 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.
01:011:032 And the days of Terah
were two hundred and five years: and
Terah died in Haran.
01:012:001 Now the LORD had said
unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,
and from thy kindred,
and from thy father's house, unto a land
that I will shew thee:
01:012:002 And I will make of thee
a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name
great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
01:012:003 And I will bless them
that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in
thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.
01:012:004 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.
01:012:005 And Abram took Sarai
his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and
all their substance
that they had gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in
Haran; and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan; and
into the land of Canaan they came.
01:012:006 And Abram passed
through the land unto the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh.
And the Canaanite was then in the
land.
01:012:007 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.
01:012:008 And he removed from
thence unto a mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his
tent, having Bethel 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.
01:012:009 And Abram journeyed,
going on still toward the south.
01:012:010 And there was a famine
in the land: and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojourn there;
for the famine was grievous in the
land.
01:012:011 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:
01:012:012 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.
01:012:013 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.
01:012:014 And it came to pass,
that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the
Egyptians beheld the
woman that she was very fair.
01:012:015 The princes also of
Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before
Pharaoh: and the woman
was taken into Pharaoh's house.
01:012:016 And he entreated Abram
well for her sake: and he had sheep,
and oxen, and he asses,
and menservants, and maidservants, and
she asses, and camels.
01:012:017 And the LORD plagued
Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
because of Sarai
Abram's wife.
01:012:018 And Pharaoh called
Abram and said, What is this that thou hast
done unto me? why didst
thou not tell me that she was thy
wife?
01:012:019 Why saidst thou, She is
my sister? so I might have taken her
to me to wife: now
therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go
thy way.
01:012:020 And Pharaoh commanded
his men concerning him: and they sent
him away, and his wife,
and all that he had.
01:013:001 And Abram went up out
of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that
he had, and Lot with
him, into the south.
01:013:002 And Abram was very rich
in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
01:013:003 And he went on his
journeys from the south even to Bethel,
unto the place where
his tent had been at the beginning,
between Bethel and Hai;
01:013:004 Unto the place of the
altar, which he had make there at the
first: and there Abram
called on the name of the LORD.
01:013:005 And Lot also, which
went with Abram, had flocks, and herds,
and tents.
01:013:006 And the land was not
able to bear them, that they might dwell
together: for their
substance was great, so that they could
not dwell together.
01:013:007 And there was a strife
between the herdmen of Abram's cattle
and the herdmen of
Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the
Perizzite dwelled then
in the land.
01:013:008 And Abram said unto
Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee,
and between my herdmen and thy herdmen;
for we be brethren.
01:013:009 Is not the whole land
before thee? separate thyself, I pray
thee, from me: if 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.
01:013:010 And Lot lifted up his
eyes, and beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it was
well watered every where, before the LORD
destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD,
like the land of Egypt,
as thou comest unto Zoar.
01:013:011 Then Lot chose him all
the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed
east: and they
separated themselves the one from the other.
01:013:012 Abram dwelled in the
land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the
cities of the plain,
and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
01:013:013 But the men of Sodom
were wicked and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.
01:013:014 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 southward, and eastward, and
westward:
01:013:015 For all the land which
thou seest, to thee will I give it, and
to thy seed for ever.
01:013:016 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.
01:013:017 Arise, walk through the
land in the length of it and in the
breadth of it; for I
will give it unto thee.
01:013:018 Then Abram removed his
tent, and came and dwelt in the plain
of Mamre, which is in
Hebron, and built there an altar unto
the LORD.
01:014:001 And it came to pass in
the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
Arioch king of Ellasar,
Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
king of nations;
01:014:002 That these made war
with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha
king of Gomorrah,
Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king
of Bela, which is Zoar.
01:014:003 All these were joined
together in the vale of Siddim, which is
the salt sea.
01:014:004 Twelve years they
served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
year they rebelled.
01:014:005 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 Emins in Shaveh
Kiriathaim,
01:014:006 And the Horites in
their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by
the wilderness.
01:014:007 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
Hazezontamar.
01:014:008 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;
01:014:009 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.
01:014:010 And the vale of Siddim
was full of slimepits; and the kings of
Sodom and Gomorrah
fled, and fell there; and they that
remained fled to the
mountain.
01:014:011 And they took all the
goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all
their victuals, and
went their way.
01:014:012 And they took Lot,
Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom,
and his goods, and
departed.
01:014:013 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.
01:014:014 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.
01:014:015 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.
01:014:016 And he brought back all
the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his
goods, and the women also, and the
people.
01:014:017 And the king of Sodom
went out to meet him after his return
from the slaughter of
Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were
with him, at the valley
of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.
01:014:018 And Melchizedek king of
Salem brought forth bread and wine:
and he was the priest
of the most high God.
01:014:019 And he blessed him, and
said, Blessed be Abram of the most
high God, possessor of
heaven and earth:
01:014:020 And blessed be the most
high God, which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand.
And he gave him tithes of all.
01:014:021 And the king of Sodom
said unto Abram, Give me the persons,
and take the goods to
thyself.
01:014:022 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,
01:014:023 That I will not take
from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and
that I will not take
any thing that is thine, lest thou
shouldest say, I have
made Abram rich:
01:014:024 Save only that which
the young men have eaten, and the portion
of the men which went
with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let
them take their
portion.
01:015:001 After these things the
word of the LORD came unto Abram in a
vision, saying, Fear
not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward.
01:015:002 And Abram said, LORD
God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the
steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus?
01:015:003 And Abram said, Behold,
to me thou hast given no seed: and,
lo, one born in my
house is mine heir.
01:015:004 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.
01:015:005 And he brought him
forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the
stars, if thou be able to number them:
and he said unto him,
So shall thy seed be.
01:015:006 And he believed in the
LORD; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
01:015:007 And he said unto him, I
am the LORD that brought thee out of
Ur of the Chaldees, to
give thee this land to inherit it.
01:015:008 And he said, LORD God,
whereby shall I know that I shall
inherit it?
01:015:009 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.
01:015:010 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.
01:015:011 And when the fowls came
down upon the carcases, Abram drove
them away.
01:015:012 And when the sun was
going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
and, lo, an horror of
great darkness fell upon him.
01:015:013 And he said unto Abram,
Know of a surety that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land
that is not their's, and shall serve
them; and they shall
afflict them four hundred years;
01:015:014 And also that nation,
whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they
come out with great substance.
01:015:015 And thou shalt go to
thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old
age.
01:015:016 But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again: for
the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet full.
01:015:017 And it came to pass,
that, when the sun went down, and it was
dark, behold a smoking
furnace, and a burning lamp that passed
between those pieces.
01:015:018 In the same day the
LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
Unto thy seed have I
given this land, from the river of Egypt
unto the great river,
the river Euphrates:
01:015:019 The Kenites, and the
Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
01:015:020 And the Hittites, and
the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
01:015:021 And the Amorites, and
the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and
the Jebusites.
01:016:001 Now Sarai Abram's wife
bare him no children: and she had an
handmaid, an Egyptian,
whose name was Hagar.
01:016:002 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.
01:016:003 And Sarai Abram's wife
took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten
years in the land of Canaan, and gave her
to her husband Abram to
be his wife.
01:016:004 And he went in unto
Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw
that she had conceived,
her mistress was despised in her eyes.
01:016:005 And Sarai said unto
Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given
my maid into thy bosom;
and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was
despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between
me and thee.
01:016:006 But Abram said unto
Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand;
do to her as it
pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly
with her, she fled from
her face.
01:016:007 And the angel of the
LORD found her by a fountain of water in
the wilderness, by the
fountain in the way to Shur.
01:016:008 And he said, Hagar,
Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and
whither wilt thou go?
And she said, I flee from the face of my
mistress Sarai.
01:016:009 And the angel of the
LORD said unto her, Return to thy
mistress, and submit
thyself under her hands.
01:016:010 And the angel of the
LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy
seed exceedingly, that
it shall not be numbered for multitude.
01:016:011 And the angel of the
LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with
child and shalt bear a
son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;
because the LORD hath
heard thy affliction.
01:016:012 And he will be a wild
man; his hand will be against every man,
and every man's hand
against him; and he shall dwell in the
presence of all his
brethren.
01:016:013 And she called the name
of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou
God seest me: for she
said, Have I also here looked after him
that seeth me?
01:016:014 Wherefore the well was
called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is
between Kadesh and
Bered.
01:016:015 And Hagar bare Abram a
son: and Abram called his son's name,
which Hagar bare,
Ishmael.
01:016:016 And Abram was fourscore
and six years old, when Hagar bare
Ishmael to Abram.
01:017:001 And when Abram was
ninety years old and nine, the LORD
appeared to Abram, and
said unto him, I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be
thou perfect.
01:017:002 And I will make my
covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee
exceedingly.
01:017:003 And Abram fell on his
face: and God talked with him, saying,
01:017:004 As for me, behold, my
covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be
a father of many
nations.
01:017:005 Neither shall thy name
any more be called Abram, but thy name
shall be Abraham; for a
father of many nations have I made
thee.
01:017:006 And I will make thee
exceeding fruitful, and I will make
nations of thee, and
kings shall come out of thee.
01:017:007 And I will establish my
covenant between me and thee and thy
seed after thee in
their generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be a God
unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
01:017:008 And I will give unto
thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a
stranger, all the land of Canaan, for
an everlasting
possession; and I will be their God.
01:017:009 And God said unto
Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore, thou, and
thy seed after thee in their generations.
01:017:010 This is my covenant,
which ye shall keep, between me and you
and thy seed after
thee; Every man child among you shall be
circumcised.
01:017:011 And ye shall circumcise
the flesh of your foreskin; and it
shall be a token of the
covenant betwixt me and you.
01:017:012 And he that is eight
days old shall be circumcised among you,
every man child in your
generations, he that is born in the
house, or bought with
money of any stranger, which is not of
thy seed.
01:017:013 He that is born in thy
house, and he that is bought with thy
money, must needs be
circumcised: and my covenant shall be in
your flesh for an
everlasting covenant.
01:017:014 And the uncircumcised
man child whose flesh of his foreskin is
not circumcised, that
soul shall be cut off from his people;
he hath broken my
covenant.
01:017:015 And God said unto
Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt
not call her name Sarai,
but Sarah shall her name be.
01:017:016 And I will bless her,
and give thee a son also of her: yea, I
will bless her, and she
shall be a mother of nations; kings of
people shall be of her.
01:017:017 Then Abraham fell upon
his face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, Shall a child be
born unto him that is an hundred years
old? and shall Sarah,
that is ninety years old, bear?
01:017:018 And Abraham said unto
God, O that Ishmael might live before
thee!
01:017:019 And God said, Sarah thy
wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and
thou shalt call his
name Isaac: and I will establish my
covenant with him for
an everlasting covenant, and with his
seed after him.
01:017:020 And as for Ishmael, I
have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed
him, and will make him
fruitful, and will multiply him
exceedingly; twelve
princes shall he beget, and I will make
him a great nation.
01:017:021 But my covenant will I
establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
bear unto thee at this
set time in the next year.
01:017:022 And he left off talking
with him, and God went up from
Abraham.
01:017:023 And Abraham took
Ishmael his son, and all that were born in
his house, and all that
were bought with his money, every male
among the men of
Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of
their foreskin in the
selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
01:017:024 And Abraham was ninety
years old and nine, when he was
circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin.
01:017:025 And Ishmael his son was
thirteen years old, when he was
circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin.
01:017:026 In the selfsame day was
Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his
son.
01:017:027 And all the men of his
house, born in the house, and bought
with money of the
stranger, were circumcised with him.
01:018:001 And the LORD appeared
unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he
sat in the tent door in
the heat of the day;
01:018:002 And he lift up his eyes
and looked, and, lo, three men stood
by him: and when he saw
them, he ran to meet them from the
tent door, and bowed
himself toward the ground,
01:018:003 And said, My LORD, if
now I have found favour in thy sight,
pass not away, I pray
thee, from thy servant:
01:018:004 Let a little water, I
pray you, be fetched, and wash your
feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree:
01:018:005 And I will fetch a
morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that ye
shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
to your servant. And
they said, So do, as thou hast said.
01:018:006 And Abraham hastened
into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make
ready quickly three
measures of fine meal, knead it, and make
cakes upon the hearth.
01:018:007 And Abraham ran unto
the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
good, and gave it unto
a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
01:018:008 And he took butter, and
milk, and the calf which he had
dressed, and set it
before them; and he stood by them under
the tree, and they did
eat.
01:018:009 And they said unto him,
Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
Behold, in the tent.
01:018:010 And he said, I will
certainly return unto thee according to
the time of life; and,
lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.
And Sarah heard it in
the tent door, which was behind him.
01:018:011 Now Abraham and Sarah
were old and well stricken in age; and
it ceased to be with
Sarah after the manner of women.
01:018:012 Therefore Sarah laughed
within herself, saying, After I am
waxed old shall I have
pleasure, my lord being old also?
01:018:013 And the LORD said unto
Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I of a
surety bear a child, which am old?
01:018:014 Is any thing too hard
for the LORD? At the time appointed I
will return unto thee,
according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son.
01:018:015 Then Sarah denied,
saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.
And he said, Nay; but
thou didst laugh.
01:018:016 And the men rose up
from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and
Abraham went with them
to bring them on the way.
01:018:017 And the LORD said,
Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which
I do;
01:018:018 Seeing that Abraham
shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him?
01:018:019 For I know him, that he
will command his children and his
household after him,
and they shall keep the way of the LORD,
to do justice and
judgment; that the LORD may bring upon
Abraham that which he
hath spoken of him.
01:018:020 And the LORD said,
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
great, and because
their sin is very grievous;
01:018:021 I will go down now, and
see whether they have done altogether
according to the cry of
it, which is come unto me; and if not,
I will know.
01:018:022 And the men turned
their faces from thence, and went toward
Sodom: but Abraham
stood yet before the LORD.
01:018:023 And Abraham drew near,
and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the
wicked?
01:018:024 Peradventure there be
fifty righteous within the city: wilt
thou also destroy and
not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that are
therein?
01:018:025 That be far from thee
to do after this manner, to slay the
righteous with the
wicked: and that the righteous should be as
the wicked, that be far
from thee: Shall not the Judge of all
the earth do right?
01:018:026 And the LORD said, If I
find in Sodom fifty righteous within
the city, then I will
spare all the place for their sakes.
01:018:027 And Abraham answered
and said, Behold now, I have taken upon
me to speak unto the
LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
01:018:028 Peradventure there
shall lack five of the fifty righteous:
wilt thou destroy all
the city for lack of five? And he said,
If I find there forty
and five, I will not destroy it.
01:018:029 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.
01:018:030 And he said unto him,
Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will
speak: Peradventure
there shall thirty be found there. And he
said, I will not do it,
if I find thirty there.
01:018:031 And he said, Behold
now, I have taken upon me to speak unto
the LORD: Peradventure
there shall be twenty found there. And
he said, I will not
destroy it for twenty's sake.
01:018:032 And he said, Oh let not
the LORD be angry, and I will speak
yet but this once:
Peradventure ten shall be found there. And
he said, I will not
destroy it for ten's sake.
01:018:033 And the LORD went his
way, as soon as he had left communing
with Abraham: and
Abraham returned unto his place.
01:019:001 And there came two
angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the
gate of Sodom: and Lot
seeing them rose up to meet them; and
he bowed himself with
his face toward the ground;
01:019:002 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, Nay; but we will
abide in the street all night.
01:019:003 And he pressed upon
them greatly; and they turned in unto him,
and entered into his
house; and he made them a feast, and did
bake unleavened bread,
and they did eat.
01:019:004 But before they lay
down, the men of the city, even the men of
Sodom, compassed the
house round, both old and young, all the
people from every
quarter:
01:019:005 And they called unto
Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men
which came in to thee
this night? bring them out unto us, that
we may know them.
01:019:006 And Lot went out at the
door unto them, and shut the door
after him,
01:019:007 And said, I pray you,
brethren, do not so wickedly.
01:019:008 Behold now, I have two
daughters which have not known man; let
me, I pray you, bring
them out unto you, and do ye to them as
is good in your eyes:
only unto these men do nothing; for
therefore came they
under the shadow of my roof.
01:019:009 And they said, Stand
back. And they said again, This one
fellow came in to
sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now
will we deal worse with
thee, than with them. And they pressed
sore upon the man, even
Lot, and came near to break the door.
01:019:010 But the men put forth
their hand, and pulled Lot into the
house to them, and shut
to the door.
01:019:011 And they smote the men
that were at the door of the house with
blindness, both small
and great: so that they wearied
themselves to find the
door.
01:019:012 And the men said unto
Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in
law, and thy sons, and
thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast
in the city, bring them
out of this place:
01:019:013 For we will destroy
this place, because the cry of them is
waxen great before the
face of the LORD; and the LORD hath
sent us to destroy it.
01:019:014 And Lot went out, and
spake unto his sons in law, which
married his daughters,
and said, Up, get you out of this
place; for the LORD
will destroy this city. But he seemed as
one that mocked unto
his sons in law.
01:019:015 And when the morning
arose, then the angels hastened Lot,
saying, Arise, take thy
wife, and thy two daughters, which are
here; lest thou be
consumed in the iniquity of the city.
01:019:016 And while he lingered,
the men laid hold upon his hand, and
upon the hand of his
wife, and upon the hand of his two
daughters; the LORD
being merciful unto him: and they brought
him forth, and set him
without the city.
01:019:017 And it came to pass,
when they had brought them forth abroad,
that he said, Escape
for thy life; look not behind thee,
neither stay thou in
all the plain; escape to the mountain,
lest thou be consumed.
01:019:018 And Lot said unto them,
Oh, not so, my LORD:
01:019:019 Behold now, thy servant
hath found grace in thy sight, and
thou hast magnified thy
mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me
in saving my life; and
I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
some evil take me, and
I die:
01:019:020 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.
01:019:021 And he said unto him,
See, I have accepted thee concerning
this thing also, that I
will not overthrow this city, for the
which thou hast spoken.
01:019:022 Haste thee, escape
thither; for I cannot do anything till thou
be come thither.
Therefore the name of the city was called
Zoar.
01:019:023 The sun was risen upon
the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
01:019:024 Then the LORD rained
upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone
and fire from the LORD
out of heaven;
01:019:025 And he overthrew those
cities, and all the plain, and all the
inhabitants of the
cities, and that which grew upon the
ground.
01:019:026 But his wife looked
back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.
01:019:027 And Abraham gat up
early in the morning to the place where he
stood before the LORD:
01:019:028 And he looked toward
Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the
land of the plain, and
beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the
smoke of a furnace.
01:019:029 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 overthrow,
when he overthrew the cities in the
which Lot dwelt.
01:019:030 And Lot went up out of
Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and
his two daughters with
him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar:
and he dwelt in a cave,
he and his two daughters.
01:019:031 And the firstborn said
unto the younger, Our father is old,
and there is not a man
in the earth to come in unto us after
the manner of all the
earth:
01:019:032 Come, let us make our
father drink wine, and we will lie with
him, that we may
preserve seed of our father.
01:019:033 And they made their
father drink wine that night: and the
firstborn went in, and
lay with her father; and he perceived
not when she lay down,
nor when she arose.
01:019:034 And it came to pass on
the morrow, that the firstborn said
unto the younger,
Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:
let us make him drink
wine this night also; and go thou in,
and lie with him, that
we may preserve seed of our father.
01:019:035 And they made their
father drink wine that night also: and the
younger arose, and lay
with him; and he perceived not when she
lay down, nor when she
arose.
01:019:036 Thus were both the
daughters of Lot with child by their
father.
01:019:037 And the first born bare
a son, and called his name Moab: the
same is the father of
the Moabites unto this day.
01:019:038 And the younger, she
also bare a son, and called his name
Benammi: the same is
the father of the children of Ammon unto
this day.
01:020:001 And Abraham journeyed
from thence toward the south country,
and dwelled between
Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
01:020:002 And Abraham said of
Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and
Abimelech king of Gerar
sent, and took Sarah.
01:020:003 But God came to
Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to
him, Behold, thou art
but a dead man, for the woman which thou
hast taken; for she is
a man's wife.
01:020:004 But Abimelech had not
come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt
thou slay also a
righteous nation?
01:020:005 Said he not unto me,
She is my sister? and she, even she
herself said, He is my
brother: in the integrity of my heart
and innocency of my
hands have I done this.
01:020:006 And God said unto him
in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst
this in the integrity
of thy heart; for I also withheld thee
from sinning against
me: therefore suffered I thee not to
touch her.
01:020:007 Now therefore restore
the man his wife; for he is a prophet,
and he shall pray for
thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou
restore her not, know
thou that thou shalt surely die, thou,
and all that are thine.
01:020:008 Therefore Abimelech
rose early in the morning, and called all
his servants, and told
all these things in their ears: and the
men were sore afraid.
01:020:009 Then Abimelech called
Abraham, and said unto him, What hast
thou done unto us? and
what have I offended thee, that thou
hast brought on me and
on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast
done deeds unto me that
ought not to be done.
01:020:010 And Abimelech said unto
Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou
hast done this thing?
01:020:011 And Abraham said,
Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is
not in this place; and
they will slay me for my wife's sake.
01:020:012 And yet indeed she is
my sister; she is the daughter of my
father, but not the
daughter of my mother; and she became my
wife.
01:020:013 And it came to pass,
when God caused me to wander from my
father's house, that I
said unto her, This is thy kindness
which thou shalt shew
unto me; at every place whither we shall
come, say of me, He is
my brother.
01:020:014 And Abimelech took
sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
womenservants, and gave
them unto Abraham, and restored him
Sarah his wife.
01:020:015 And Abimelech said,
Behold, my land is before thee: dwell
where it pleaseth thee.
01:020:016 And unto Sarah he said,
Behold, I have given thy brother a
thousand pieces of
silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of
the eyes, unto all that
are with thee, and with all other:
thus she was reproved.
01:020:017 So Abraham prayed unto
God: and God healed Abimelech, and his
wife, and his
maidservants; and they bare children.
01:020:018 For the LORD had fast
closed up all the wombs of the house of
Abimelech, because of
Sarah Abraham's wife.
01:021:001 And the LORD visited
Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did
unto Sarah as he had
spoken.
01:021:002 For Sarah conceived,
and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at
the set time of which
God had spoken to him.
01:021:003 And Abraham called the
name of his son that was born unto him,
whom Sarah bare to him,
Isaac.
01:021:004 And Abraham circumcised
his son Isaac being eight days old, as
God had commanded him.
01:021:005 And Abraham was an
hundred years old, when his son Isaac was
born unto him.
01:021:006 And Sarah said, God
hath made me to laugh, so that all that
hear will laugh with
me.
01:021:007 And she said, Who would
have said unto Abraham, that Sarah
should have given
children suck? for I have born him a son in
his old age.
01:021:008 And the child grew, and
was weaned: and Abraham made a great
feast the same day that
Isaac was weaned.
01:021:009 And Sarah saw the son
of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had
born unto Abraham,
mocking.
01:021:010 Wherefore she said unto
Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and
her son: for the son of
this bondwoman shall not be heir with
my son, even with
Isaac.
01:021:011 And the thing was very
grievous in Abraham's sight because of
his son.
01:021:012 And God said unto
Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight
because of the lad, and
because of thy bondwoman; in all that
Sarah hath said unto
thee, hearken unto her voice; for in
Isaac shall thy seed be
called.
01:021:013 And also of the son of
the bondwoman will I make a nation,
because he is thy seed.
01:021:014 And Abraham rose up
early in the morning, and took bread, and
a bottle of water, and
gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her
shoulder, and the
child, and sent her away: and she departed,
and wandered in the
wilderness of Beersheba.
01:021:015 And the water was spent
in the bottle, and she cast the child
under one of the
shrubs.
01:021:016 And she went, and sat
her down over against him a good way
off, as it were a bow
shot: for she said, Let me not see the
death of the child. And
she sat over against him, and lift up
her voice, and wept.
01:021:017 And God heard the voice
of the lad; and the angel of God
called to Hagar out of
heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
thee, Hagar? fear not;
for God hath heard the voice of the lad
where he is.
01:021:018 Arise, lift up the lad,
and hold him in thine hand; for I will
make him a great
nation.
01:021:019 And God opened her
eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she
went, and filled the
bottle with water, and gave the lad
drink.
01:021:020 And God was with the
lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the
wilderness, and became
an archer.
01:021:021 And he dwelt in the
wilderness of Paran: and his mother took
him a wife out of the
land of Egypt.
01:021:022 And it came to pass at
that time, that Abimelech and Phichol
the chief captain of
his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God
is with thee in all
that thou doest:
01:021:023 Now therefore swear
unto me here by God that thou wilt not
deal falsely with me,
nor with my son, nor with my son's son:
but according to the
kindness that I have done unto thee, thou
shalt do unto me, and
to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
01:021:024 And Abraham said, I
will swear.
01:021:025 And Abraham reproved
Abimelech because of a well of water,
which Abimelech's
servants had violently taken away.
01:021:026 And Abimelech said, I
wot not who hath done this thing;
neither didst thou tell
me, neither yet heard I of it, but to
day.
01:021:027 And Abraham took sheep
and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech;
and both of them made a
covenant.
01:021:028 And Abraham set seven
ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
01:021:029 And Abimelech said unto
Abraham, What mean these seven ewe
lambs which thou hast
set by themselves?
01:021:030 And he said, For these
seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my
hand, that they may be
a witness unto me, that I have digged
this well.
01:021:031 Wherefore he called
that place Beersheba; because there they
sware both of them.
01:021:032 Thus they made a
covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose
up, and Phichol the
chief captain of his host, and they
returned into the land
of the Philistines.
01:021:033 And Abraham planted a
grove in Beersheba, and called there on
the name of the LORD,
the everlasting God.
01:021:034 And Abraham sojourned
in the Philistines' land many days.
01:022:001 And it came to pass
after these things, that God did tempt
Abraham, and said unto
him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here
I am.
01:022:002 And he said, Take now
thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee
into the land of Moriah; and offer him
there for a burnt
offering upon one of the mountains which I
will tell thee of.
01:022:003 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
clave the wood for the
burnt offering, and rose up, and went
unto the place of which
God had told him.
01:022:004 Then on the third day
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the
place afar off.
01:022:005 And Abraham said unto
his young men, Abide ye here with the
ass; and I and the lad
will go yonder and worship, and come
again to you.
01:022:006 And Abraham took the
wood of the burnt offering, and laid it
upon Isaac his son; and
he took the fire in his hand, and a
knife; and they went
both of them together.
01:022:007 And Isaac spake unto
Abraham his father, and said, My father:
and he said, Here am I,
my son. And he said, Behold the fire
and the wood: but where
is the lamb for a burnt offering?
01:022:008 And Abraham said, My
son, God will provide himself a lamb for
a burnt offering: so
they went both of them together.
01:022:009 And they came to the
place which God had told him of; and
Abraham built an altar
there, and laid the wood in order, and
bound Isaac his son,
and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
01:022:010 And Abraham stretched
forth his hand, and took the knife to
slay his son.
01:022:011 And the angel of the
LORD called unto him out of heaven, and
said, Abraham, Abraham:
and he said, Here am I.
01:022:012 And he said, Lay not
thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou
any thing unto him: for
now I know that thou fearest God,
seeing thou hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
01:022:013 And Abraham lifted up
his eyes, and looked, and behold behind
him a ram caught in a
thicket by his horns: and Abraham went
and took the ram, and
offered him up for a burnt offering in
the stead of his son.
01:022:014 And Abraham called the
name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it
is said to this day, In
the mount of the LORD it shall be
seen.
01:022:015 And the angel of the
LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven
the second time,
01:022:016 And said, By myself
have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because
thou hast done this
thing, and hast not withheld thy son,
thine only son:
01:022:017 That in blessing I will
bless thee, and in multiplying I will
multiply thy seed as
the stars of the heaven, and as the sand
which is upon the sea
shore; and thy seed shall possess the
gate of his enemies;
01:022:018 And in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed;
because thou hast
obeyed my voice.
01:022:019 So Abraham returned
unto his young men, and they rose up and
went together to
Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
01:022:020 And it came to pass
after these things, that it was told
Abraham, saying,
Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children
unto thy brother Nahor;
01:022:021 Huz his firstborn, and
Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father
of Aram,
01:022:022 And Chesed, and Hazo,
and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
01:022:023 And Bethuel begat
Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to
Nahor, Abraham's
brother.
01:022:024 And his concubine,
whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah,
and Gaham, and Thahash,
and Maachah.
01:023:001 And Sarah was an
hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
were the years of the
life of Sarah.
01:023:002 And Sarah died in
Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land
of Canaan: and Abraham
came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep
for her.
01:023:003 And Abraham stood up
from before his dead, and spake unto the
sons of Heth, saying,
01:023:004 I am a stranger and a
sojourner with you: give me a possession
of a buryingplace with
you, that I may bury my dead out of my
sight.
01:023:005 And the children of
Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
01:023:006 Hear us, my lord: thou
art a mighty prince among us: in the
choice of our
sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall
withhold from thee his
sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury
thy dead.
01:023:007 And Abraham stood up,
and bowed himself to the people of the
land, even to the
children of Heth.
01:023:008 And he communed with
them, saying, If it be your mind that I
should bury my dead out
of my sight; hear me, and intreat for
me to Ephron the son of
Zohar,
01:023:009 That he may give me the
cave of Machpelah, which he hath,
which is in the end of
his field; for as much money as it is
worth he shall give it
me for a possession of a buryingplace
amongst you.
01:023:010 And Ephron dwelt among
the children of Heth: and Ephron the
Hittite answered
Abraham in the audience of the children of
Heth, even of all that
went in at the gate of his city,
saying,
01:023:011 Nay, my lord, hear me:
the field give I thee, and the cave
that is therein, I give
it thee; in the presence of the sons
of my people give I it
thee: bury thy dead.
01:023:012 And Abraham bowed down
himself before the people of the land.
01:023:013 And he spake unto
Ephron in the audience of the people of the
land, saying, But if
thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me:
I will give thee money
for the field; take it of me, and I
will bury my dead
there.
01:023:014 And Ephron answered
Abraham, saying unto him,
01:023:015 My lord, hearken unto
me: the land is worth four hundred
shekels of silver; what
is that betwixt me and thee? bury
therefore thy dead.
01:023:016 And Abraham hearkened
unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
Ephron the silver,
which he had named in the audience of the
sons of Heth, four
hundred shekels of silver, current money
with the merchant.
01:023:017 And the field of Ephron
which was in Machpelah, which was
before Mamre, the
field, and the cave which was therein, and
all the trees that were
in the field, that were in all the
borders round about,
were made sure
01:023:018 Unto Abraham for a
possession in the presence of the children
of Heth, before all
that went in at the gate of his city.
01:023:019 And after this, Abraham
buried Sarah his wife in the cave of
the field of Machpelah
before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the
land of Canaan.
01:023:020 And the field, and the
cave that is therein, were made sure
unto Abraham for a
possession of a buryingplace by the sons of
Heth.
01:024:001 And Abraham was old,
and well stricken in age: and the LORD
had blessed Abraham in
all things.
01:024:002 And Abraham said unto
his eldest servant of his house, that
ruled over all that he
had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under
my thigh:
01:024:003 And I will make thee
swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and
the God of the earth,
that thou shalt not take a wife unto my
son of the daughters of
the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
01:024:004 But thou shalt go unto
my country, and to my kindred, and take
a wife unto my son
Isaac.
01:024:005 And the servant said
unto him, Peradventure the woman will not
be willing to follow me
unto this land: must I needs bring thy
son again unto the land
from whence thou camest?
01:024:006 And Abraham said unto
him, Beware thou that thou bring not my
son thither again.
01:024:007 The LORD God of heaven,
which took me from my father's house,
and from the land of my
kindred, and which spake unto me, and
that sware unto me,
saying, Unto thy seed will I give this
land; he shall send his
angel before thee, and thou shalt take
a wife unto my son from
thence.
01:024:008 And if the woman will
not be willing to follow thee, then thou
shalt be clear from
this my oath: only bring not my son
thither again.
01:024:009 And the servant put his
hand under the thigh of Abraham his
master, and sware to
him concerning that matter.
01:024:010 And the servant took
ten camels of the camels of his master,
and departed; for all
the goods of his master were in his
hand: and he arose, and
went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of
Nahor.
01:024:011 And he made his camels
to kneel down without the city by a
well of water at the
time of the evening, even the time that
women go out to draw
water.
01:024:012 And he said O LORD God
of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send
me good speed this day,
and shew kindness unto my master
Abraham.
01:024:013 Behold, I stand here by
the well of water; and the daughters
of the men of the city
come out to draw water:
01:024:014 And let it come to
pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say,
Let down thy pitcher, I
pray thee, that I may drink; and she
shall say, Drink, and I
will give thy camels drink also: let
the same be she that
thou hast appointed for thy servant
Isaac; and thereby
shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness
unto my master.
01:024:015 And it came to pass,
before he had done speaking, that,
behold, Rebekah came
out, who was born to Bethuel, son of
Milcah, the wife of
Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher
upon her shoulder.
01:024:016 And the damsel was very
fair to look upon, a virgin, neither
had any man known her:
and she went down to the well, and
filled her pitcher, and
came up.
01:024:017 And the servant ran to
meet her, and said, Let me, I pray
thee, drink a little
water of thy pitcher.
01:024:018 And she said, Drink, my
lord: and she hasted, and let down her
pitcher upon her hand,
and gave him drink.
01:024:019 And when she had done
giving him drink, she said, I will draw
water for thy camels
also, until they have done drinking.
01:024:020 And she hasted, and
emptied her pitcher into the trough, and
ran again unto the well
to draw water, and drew for all his
camels.
01:024:021 And the man wondering
at her held his peace, to wit whether
the LORD had made his
journey prosperous or not.
01:024:022 And it came to pass, as
the camels had done drinking, that the
man took a golden
earring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands
of ten shekels weight of gold;
01:024:023 And said, Whose
daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is
there room in thy
father's house for us to lodge in?
01:024:024 And she said unto him,
I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of
Milcah, which she bare
unto Nahor.
01:024:025 She said moreover unto
him, We have both straw and provender
enough, and room to
lodge in.
01:024:026 And the man bowed down
his head, and worshipped the LORD.
01:024:027 And he said, Blessed be
the LORD God of my master Abraham, who
hath not left destitute
my master of his mercy and his truth:
I being in the way, the
LORD led me to the house of my
master's brethren.
01:024:028 And the damsel ran, and
told them of her mother's house these
things.
01:024:029 And Rebekah had a
brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban
ran out unto the man,
unto the well.
01:024:030 And it came to pass,
when he saw the earring and bracelets
upon his sister's
hands, and when he heard the words of
Rebekah his sister,
saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that
he came unto the man;
and, behold, he stood by the camels at
the well.
01:024:031 And he said, Come in,
thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore
standest thou without?
for I have prepared the house, and room
for the camels.
01:024:032 And the man came into
the house: and he ungirded his camels,
and gave straw and
provender for the camels, and water to wash
his feet, and the men's
feet that were with him.
01:024:033 And there was set meat
before him to eat: but he said, I will
not eat, until I have
told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
01:024:034 And he said, I am
Abraham's servant.
01:024:035 And the LORD hath
blessed my master greatly; and he is become
great: and he hath
given him flocks, and herds, and silver,
and gold, and
menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and
asses.
01:024:036 And Sarah my master's
wife bare a son to my master when she
was old: and unto him
hath he given all that he hath.
01:024:037 And my master made me
swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife to my son of the
daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
land I dwell:
01:024:038 But thou shalt go unto
my father's house, and to my kindred,
and take a wife unto my
son.
01:024:039 And I said unto my
master, Peradventure the woman will not
follow me.
01:024:040 And he said unto me,
The LORD, before whom I walk, will send
his angel with thee,
and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take
a wife for my son of my
kindred, and of my father's house:
01:024:041 Then shalt thou be
clear from this my oath, when thou comest
to my kindred; and if
they give not thee one, thou shalt be
clear from my oath.
01:024:042 And I came this day
unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my
master Abraham, if now
thou do prosper my way which I go:
01:024:043 Behold, I stand by the
well of water; and it shall come to
pass, that when the
virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I
say to her, Give me, I
pray thee, a little water of thy
pitcher to drink;
01:024:044 And she say to me, Both
drink thou, and I will also draw for
thy camels: let the
same be the woman whom the LORD hath
appointed out for my
master's son.
01:024:045 And before I had done
speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah
came forth with her
pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down
unto the well, and drew
water: and I said unto her, Let me
drink, I pray thee.
01:024:046 And she made haste, and
let down her pitcher from her
shoulder, and said,
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
also: so I drank, and
she made the camels drink also.
01:024:047 And I asked her, and
said, Whose daughter art thou? And she
said, the daughter of
Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare
unto him: and I put the
earring upon her face, and the
bracelets upon her
hands.
01:024:048 And I bowed down my
head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed
the LORD God of my
master Abraham, which had led me in the
right way to take my
master's brother's daughter unto his son.
01:024:049 And now if ye will deal
kindly and truly with my master, tell
me: and if not, tell
me; that I may turn to the right hand, or
to the left.
01:024:050 Then Laban and Bethuel
answered and said, The thing proceedeth
from the LORD: we
cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
01:024:051 Behold, Rebekah is
before thee, take her, and go, and let her
be thy master's son's
wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
01:024:052 And it came to pass,
that, when Abraham's servant heard their
words, he worshipped
the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
01:024:053 And the servant brought
forth jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold, and raiment, and
gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to
her brother and to her
mother precious things.
01:024:054 And they did eat and
drink, he and the men that were with him,
and tarried all night;
and they rose up in the morning, and he
said, Send me away unto
my master.
01:024:055 And her brother and her
mother said, Let the damsel abide with
us a few days, at the
least ten; after that she shall go.
01:024:056 And he said unto them,
Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath
prospered my way; send
me away that I may go to my master.
01:024:057 And they said, We will
call the damsel, and enquire at her
mouth.
01:024:058 And they called Rebekah,
and said unto her, Wilt thou go with
this man? And she said,
I will go.
01:024:059 And they sent away
Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
Abraham's servant, and
his men.
01:024:060 And they blessed
Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our
sister, be thou the
mother of thousands of millions, and let
thy seed possess the
gate of those which hate them.
01:024:061 And Rebekah arose, and
her damsels, and they rode upon the
camels, and followed
the man: and the servant took Rebekah,
and went his way.
01:024:062 And Isaac came from the
way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt
in the south country.
01:024:063 And Isaac went out to
meditate in the field at the eventide:
and he lifted up his
eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels
were coming.
01:024:064 And Rebekah lifted up
her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
lighted off the camel.
01:024:065 For she had said unto
the servant, What man is this that
walketh in the field to
meet us? And the servant had said, It
is my master: therefore
she took a vail, and covered herself.
01:024:066 And the servant told
Isaac all things that he had done.
01:024:067 And Isaac brought her
into his mother Sarah's tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became
his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac
was comforted after his
mother's death.
01:025:001 Then again Abraham took
a wife, and her name was Keturah.
01:025:002 And she bare him Zimran,
and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian,
and Ishbak, and Shuah.
01:025:003 And Jokshan begat
Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were
Asshurim, and Letushim,
and Leummim.
01:025:004 And the sons of Midian;
Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and
Abidah, and Eldaah. All
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