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13 And the Lord God | the field. faid unto the woman, What is this that thou haft done? and the woman faid, The ferpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 And the Lord God faid unto the serpent, Because thou haft done this, thou art curfed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly fhalt thou go, and duft fhalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy feed and her feed it fhall bruife thy head, and thou fhalt bruife his heel.

16 ¶ Unto the woman he faid, I will greatly multiply thy forrow and thy conception: in forrow thou fhalt bring forth children; and thy defire fhall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he faid, Because thou hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and haft eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, faying, Thou shalt not eat of it curfed is the ground for thy fake in forrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

18 Thorns alfo and thistles

fhall it bring forth to thee: and thou shalt eat the herb of

19 in the fweat of thy face fhalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it waft thou taken: for duft thou art, and unto dust fhalt thou return.

20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because fhe was the mother of all living.

21 Unto Adam alfo and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

22 And the Lord God faid, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now left he put forth his hand and take alfo of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever;

23 Therefore the Lord God fent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was

taken.

24 So he drove out the man: and he placed at the eaft of the garden of Eden, Cherubims, and a flaming fword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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5 ND Godfaw that the wickednefs of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the

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thoughts of his heart was t 14 Make thee an ark of

only evil continually.

6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the Lord faid, I will deftroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth both man and beaft, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

9 These are the generations of Noah; Noah was a juft man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

10 And Noah begat three fons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

II The earth alfo was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all fleth had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13 And God faid unto Noah, The end of all fleth is come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold, I will deftroy them with the earth.

gopher-wood: rooms fhalt thou make in the ark, and fhalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 And this is the fashion which thou fhalt 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.

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16 A window fhalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit fhalt thou finish above; and the door of the ark fhalt thou fet in the fide thereof: with lower, fecond, and third ftories fhalt thou make it.

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17 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 fhall die.

18 But with thee will I establish my covenant: and thou fhalt come into the ark; thou, and thy fons, and thy wife, and thy fons wives with thee.

19 And of every living thing of all fleih, two of every fort fhalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee: they shall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their

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dred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7 And Noah went in, and his fons, and his wife, and his fons wives with him into the ark, because of the wa ters of the flood.

8 Of clean beafts, and of beafts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth.

9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pafs

all thy houfe into the ark; after feven days, that the wafor thee have I feen righteousters of the flood were upon before me in this generation. the earth. 2 Of every clean beaft thou shalt take to thee by fevens, the male and his female and of beafts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

II In the fix hundredth year of Noah's life, in the fecond month, the feventeenth day of the month, the fame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of hea

3 Of fowls alfo of the air by fevens, the male and theven were opened. female to keep feed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet feven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and every living fubftance that I have made, will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days, and forty nights.

13 In the felf-fame day entered Ncah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the fons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his fons with them, into the

5 And Noah did accord-ark; ing to all that the Lord commanded him.

14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the

6 And Noah was fix hun-cattle after their kind, and

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every creeping thing that that was in the dry land, creepeth upon the earth after died.

his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every fort.

15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark: two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord fhut him in.

17 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.

23 And every living substance was deftroyed 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 deftroyed from the earth and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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CHAP. VIII.

ND God remembered Noah and every living

18 And the waters pre-thing, and all the cattle that vailed, and were increafed was with him in the ark: greatly upon the earth and and God made a wind to the ark went upon the face pafs over the earth, and the of the waters. waters affwaged.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beaft, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.

2 The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was reftrained,

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

4 And the ark rested in the feventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ara 22 All in whofe noftrils rat. was the breath of life, of all

5 And the waters decreased

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continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains feen:

6 And it came to pafs at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 And he fent forth a raven: which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

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8 Alfo he fent forth a dove from him, to fee if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

9 But the dove found no reft for the fole 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.

10 And he stayed yet other feven days: and again he fent forth the dove out of the ark.

II And the dove came in to him in the evening; and lo, in her mouth was an olive-leaf pluckt off: fo Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other feven days, and fent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

13 And it came to pass in

the fix hundredth and first year, in the first month, the firft 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.

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14 And in the fecond month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

15 And God fpake unto Noah, faying,

16 Go forth of the ark; thou, and thy wife, and thy fons, and thy fons wives with thee.

17 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.

18 And Noah went forth, and his fons, and his wife, and his fons wives with him.

19 Every beaft, every creeping thing, and, every fowl, and whatfoever creepeth upon the earth after their kinds, went forth out of the ark...

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