26 Which Jectin begot Elmodad, and | Sleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,

27 And Aduram, and Uzal, and Décla, 28 And Ebal, and Abiinael, Saba, 29 And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Jectan.

30 And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the east.

31 These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in their nations.

14 Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.

15 And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.

16 And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg

17 And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters.

18 Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

32 These are the families of Noe, ac- 196 And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, cording to their peoples and nations. By two hundred and nine years, and begot sons these were the nations divided on the earth and daughters. after the flood,

ND the earth was of one tongue, * and

A the same speech.

2 And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

3 And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar.

4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

20 And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarang.

21 Aud Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years: and begot sons and daughters.

22 And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.

two hundred years: and begot sons and 23 And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, daughters.

24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.

25 || And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years; and begot sons and daughters.

26 And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.

27 And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.

in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees. 28 And Aran died before Thare his fathier, 29 And Abram and Nachor married

6 And he said: Behold, it is one people, wives, the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and all have one tongue: and they have be- and the name of Nachor's wife, Melsha, gun to do this, neither will they leave off the daughter of Aran, father of Melsha, and from their designs, till they accomplish them father of Jescha.

in deed.

9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries,

10 These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood. 11 And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

30 And Sarai was barren, and had no children.

31 ** And Thare todik Abram, his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chalthey came as far as Haran, and dwelt there. dees, to go into the land of Chanaan; and

32 And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran:

CHAP. XII.

1

The call of Abram, and the promise made to him. He sojourneth in Chanaan, and then by occasion of famine, goeth down to Egypt.

AND the Lord said to A brarer ot f Gio farth,

out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

• Ki 10 t A ciniter 1900, aul A. . . 26. Jo 24 2 : Neh. 9. 17 Judith, a. 236–4 1 Parr Jekîm§ 1. Par. 1. 19|| 1 Par. 1. Acts, 7-2-†† Acts, 7. 3. CHAP. XI. Ver. 9, Bibl. That is confusion,

1. And when he was near to enter thtoly Behold Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife! I know that thou art a beautiful Woman: Das 19769 975 9112 And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say. She is his wife, and they will kill me, and keep thee.

2013 Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou
art my sister: that I may be well used for
thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.
14. And when Abram was come into Egypt,
the Egyptians saw the woman that she was
very beautiful,

liv15 And the princes
e princes told Pharao, and
praised her before him and the woman was
taken into the house of Pharao

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asses

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan and Lot abode in the towns that were about 16 And they used Abram well for her the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom, smile to sake And he had sheep and oxell, and he-13 And the men of Sodom were very and men-servants and maid-servants, wicked, and sinners before the face of the and she-asses, and camels, Lord, beyond measure" sd of ball bonis 1-17 But the Lord scourged Pharao did. 17" And the Lord said to Abrams after Lot and 14 his house with most grievous stripes for was separated from him++Lift up thy eyes, Surai, Abram's wife, and look from the place wherein thou now art to the north and to the south, to the east and to the wests mobo now on 015 All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for everd A 19 For what cause didst thou say, she was 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? of the earth: if any man be able to number

a mode vi to. I sad tord aid tods
A. M. 2094 A, C 1920 Infra, 20.
Supra, 12. 7. Infra, 36 ++ Supra,
Intra, 15098.1and 26 419 Deut.34 43

CHAP. XII. Ver. 13. My sister. This was no brews, she might truly be called his sister, as Lot is lie; because she was his niece, being daughter to his called Abram's brother, Gen. xiv. 14. See Gen. xx brother Aran, and therefore, in the style of the He-12.

99 To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of 10 vil am we were done, the

word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. 2 And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me I shall go w without children:

the Lord

sced be. 17101

1, and it was re

• Star Jam Canst. And he said to league with Abram. 189 also Jayb sdted 6 Abram believed God, 14 Which when Abram had heard, to wit, puted to him unto justice. that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered 7. And he said to him: I am the Lord who of the servants born in his house, three hin- brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees,

Infra 19 24 AM 2092. AC. 191218.Romans, 4 3 Gal. 3. 6. James, 2. Heb. 7. 1. A. M. 2092. A. C. 1912. Rom. 23.

CHAP. XIV. Ver. 10. Of slime. Bituminis. in the building of Babel, Gen. xi. 3., and was used This was a kind of pitch, which served for mortar by Noe in pitching the ark.

to give thee this land, and that thou might- ceiving that she was with child, despised est possess it. her mistress.

8 But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it? _ -*༈ །།

9 And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.

10 And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other; but the birds he divided not.

11 And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was setting, a dcep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.

13 And it was said unto him: † Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

"

14 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

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

16 But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.

17 And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.

18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

19 The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,

20 And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,

21 And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.

CHAP. XVI.

5 And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost

unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into
thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be
with child, despiseth me.
The Lord judge
between me and thee.

6 And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.

7 And the Angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

8 He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.

9 And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand.

10 And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.

And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because, the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

12 He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against men, and all men's hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.

13 And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast scen me. For she said: Verily here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.||

14 Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad.

15 And Agar brought forth a son to Abram who called his name Ismael.

16 Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him forth Ismael. CHAP. XVII.

The Covenant of circumcision.

Abrim marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael.
Nbrought forth no children: but having

AND after he began to be ninety and

nine years old, the Lord appeared to OW Sarai the wife of Abram, had him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty

a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

2 She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,

3 She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in. the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife..

God:

walk before me, and be perfect.

2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly,

3 Abram fell flat on his face.

4 And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5 Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram; but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

4 And he went in to her. But she perJer. 34, 18+ Acts, 76- Supra, 12. 7. and1 Kings, 4. 20. and 3 Kings, 4. 21.13. 15. Infra, 26. 4. Deut. 34. 4. 2 Par. 9. 26. C. 1911.- Exod, 33. 20. *nd 23.

A.M.2093. A. Infra, 24. 62.

CHAP. XVI. Ver. 3. To wife. Plurality of marriage to its primitive institution, St. Matthew, wives, though contrary to the primitive institution xix.

of marriage, Gen. ii. 24. was by divine, dispensa- CHAP. XVII. Ver. 5. Abram, in the Hebrew, tion allowed to the patriarchs; which allowance signifies a high father: but Abraham, the father of seems to have continued during the time of the the mu'titude; Sarai signifies my Lady, but Sura y of Moses. But Christ our Lord reduced fabsolutely Lady,

6 And I will make thee increase, exceed-flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same hgly, and I will nake nations of thee, and day, as God had commanded him. kings shall come out of thee.

24 Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ismael his son was full thirteen

7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpe-years old at the time of his circumcision. tual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

• Acts, 7. 8—† Rom. 4. 11. Lev. 12. 3. Luke, Ante C. 1897. 2. 21—† Infra, 18. 10. and 21. 2.—§ A. M. 2107.[fra, 21 1.