Man's fhameful fall.

Before Chrift 4004. + Heb.

a defire. > Ecclus 25.24.

1 Tim. 2. 14.

6 And when the woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was + pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wife; the took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did

⚫eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they fewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves Or, things aprons. to gird about. + Heb. wind.

8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the + cool of the day: Adam and his wife hid themselves from

Cain flayeth Abel. 23 Therefore the LORD God fent him forth Before 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 east of the garden of Eden, cherubins,
and a flaming fword which turned every way, to
keep the of the tree of life.
way
CHAP. IV.

1 The birth, trade, and religion of Cain and Abel.
8 The murder of Abel. The curfe of Cain.
11
17 Enoch the firft city. 19 Lamech and his two
wives. 25 The birth of Seth, 26 and Enos.
ND knew Eve his and

the garden.

LORD

9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and faid unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he faid, I heard thy voice in the garden: and I was afraid, because I was naked: and I hid myself.

II And he faid, Who told thee that thou waft naked? Haft thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man faid, The woman, whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the LORD God 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 ferpent, Because thou haft done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beaft 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 bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he faid, I will greatly multiply thy forrow and thy conception; in forrow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy Or, fubje& defire shall be || to thy husband, and he shall rule to thy buf- over thee. band.

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17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou haft 1 Cor. 14. 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.

+ Heb. caufe to bud.

+ Heb.

Chavab.

18 Thorns alfo and thiftles fhall it + bring forth to thee; and thou fhalt eat the herb of the field.

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 dust thou art, and unto duft shalt thou return.

zo And Adam called his wife's name + Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

21 Unto Adam alfo and to his wife did the LORD God made coats of fkins, 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 also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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gotten a man from the LORD.

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2 And the again bare his brother + Abel. And t Heb. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3 And + in procefs of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

4 And Abel, he alfo brought of the firstlings of his + flock, and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had a respect unto Abel, and to his offering:

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Hebel. † Heb. a feeder. +Heb. at the end of days.

tHebbeep, or, goats. a Heb. 11.4.

the excellency.

6 And the LORD faid unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen ? 7 If thou doeft well, fhalt thou not be ac- Or, have cepted? and if thou doeft not well, fin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his defire, and thou shalt rule over him. 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: cir. 3875. and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and b flew him.

Or, fubject unto thee.

12 When thou tilleft the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond fhalt thou be in the earth. 13 And Cain faid unto the LORD, My punifhment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou haft driven me out this day that it may from the face of the earth: and from thy face be forgiven. fhall I be hid, and I fhall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me fhall flay me.

15 And the LORD faid unto him, Therefore. whofoever flayeth Cain, vengeance fhall be taken on him seven-fold. And the LORD fet a mark upon Cain, left any finding him fhould kill him..

16 And Cain went out from the prefence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare + Enoch; and he builded a city, and + Heb. called Chanoch,

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The genealogy of
Before
Chrift

cir. 3875.

+ Heb. Lemech.

+ Heb. aubetter. [ Or, I would fay

called the name of the city, after the name of his fon, Enoch.

18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methufael: and Methufael begat + Lamech.

19¶ And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of fuch as dwell in tents, and of fuch as have cattle.

21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all fuch as handle the harp and organ.

22 And Zillah, the alfo bare Tubal-cain, an + inftructer of every artificer in brafs and iron: and the fister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

a man in my wound, &c || Or, in my burt. † Heb. Sheth. + Heb. Enofh. 25 ¶ And Adam knew his wife again, and the 3874. bare a fon, and called his name + Seth: For God, Or, to call themfelves faid he, hath appointed me another feed instead by the name of Abel, whom Cain flew.

23 And Lamech faid unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my fpeach: for I have flain a man to my wounding, and a young man || to my hurt.

24 If Cain thall be avenged feven-fold, truly Lamech seventy and feven-fold.

of the LORD.

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26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a fon; and he called his name + Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD. СНАР. V.

1 The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from Adam unto Noah. 24 The godliness and tranflation of Enoch.

THI

HIS is the book of the generations of Adam: In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.

b

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a fon in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.

4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat fons and daughters.

5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

6¶ And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat + Enos.

7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and feven years, and begat fons and daughters.

8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat + Cainan.

10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat fons and daughters.

11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

12 And Cainan lived feventy years, and begat + Mahalaleel.

13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel

the patriarchs. eight hundred and forty years, and begat fons Before and daughters. Christ

14 And all the days of Cainan were nine 3609. hundred and ten years: and he died.

15¶ And Mahalaleel lived fixty and five years, and begatt Jared.

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16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared Jered. eight hundred and thirty years, and begat fons and daughters.

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

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18 And Jared lived an hundred fixty and 3382. two years, and he begat Enoch.

19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat fons and daughters. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred fixty and two years: and he died.

21 And Enoch lived fixty and five years, and begat + Methuselah.

3317+ Gr. Ma22 And Enoch walked with God after he be- tbufala. gat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat fons and daughters.

23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred fixty and five.

d

24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was not for God took him.

d Ecclus 44. 16. Hebr. 11.

25 ¶ And Methufelah lived an hundred eighty 3130.

+ Heb.

and seven years, and begat + Lamech. 26 And Methuselah lived after he begat La- Lemech. mech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat fons and daughters.

27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred fixty and nine years: and he died.

28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a fon.

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29 And he called his name + Noah, faying, † Gr. Noe. This fame fhall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath curfed.

30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat fons and daughters.

31 And all the days of Lamech were feven hundred feventy and feven years: and he died 32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

CHAP. VI.

1 The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's wrath, and caufed the flood. 8 Noab findeth grace. 14 The order, form, and end of the ark.

A multiply on the face of the earth, and Multiply on top face of time cans,

daughters were born unto them,

2 That the fons of God faw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

3 And the LORD faid, My fpirit fhall not always strive with man, for that he alfo is flesh : yet his days fhall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and alfo after that, when the fons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the fame became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.

5 ¶ And

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Before 5 And Gop faw that the wickedness of man Christ was great in the earth, and that || every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil + continually.

2349 Or, the autole ima6 And it repented the LORD that he had made gination. man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. The He7 And the LORD faid, I will deftroy man, brew word fignifieth whom I have created, from the face of the earth, not only the + both man and beaft, and the creeping thing, imagination, and the fowls of the air: for it repenteth me but also the that I have made them. purposes and depres. ⚫ Chap. 8.

21.

19.

Matth. 15. f Heb. every day. + Heb.

from man anto beaf.

Ecclus 44

17.

2 Pet. 2. 5. | Or, upright.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

94 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.

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

Iz And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

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

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the earth.

14 Make thee an ark of gopher-wood: Heb.nefls. + rooms fhalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 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.

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

17 And behold, I, even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flefh 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 eftablish my covenant: and thou shalt 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 flesh, two of every fort halt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee: they fhall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind: two of every fort fhall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou fhalt gather it to thee; and it fhall be for food for thee, and for them.

22

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, fo did he.

CHAP. VII. Noah with his family and the living creatures enter into the ark. 17 The beginning, increafe, and continuance of the flood.

ND the LORD faid unto Noah, Come

A thou, and all thy houfe into the ark: for

J

The world is drowned. thee have I feen righteous before me in this ge- Before neration.

Chrift

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee 2349. by + fevens, the male and his female: and of t Heb. beafts that are not clean by two, the male and feven seven. his female.

3 Of fowls alfo of the air by sevens, the male and the 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 It deftroy from off the face of the earth.

+ Heb. blot

5 And Noah did according unto all that the out. LORD commanded him.

6 And Noah was fix hundred 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 waters 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.

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11 ¶ In the fix hundredth year of Noah's life, in the fecond month, the seventeenth day of the month, the fame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the || windows of || Or, ho dheaven were opened. gates.

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

13 In the felf-fame day entered Noah, 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 ark:

14 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 + fort.

+ Heb 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, wingtwo 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.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were increafed greatly upon the earth: and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

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

20 Fifteen cubits upwards did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

21 b And all fleth died that moved upon the Wild. 10. earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beaft, 4 and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.

22 All

The waters affuage.

Before Chrift 2349.

22 All in whofe noftrils was † the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23 And every living fubftance was destroyed, + Heb. the which was upon the face of the ground, both breath of the man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and jpirit of life. the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyc Wifd. 10. ed 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.

4.

Pet. 2. 5.

Heb. in going and returning.

+ Heb.

were in going and decreafing.

CHAP. VIII.

1 The waters affuage. 4 The ark refteth on Ararat. 7 The raven and the dove. 15 Noah, being commanded, 18 goeth forth of the ark: 20 He buildeth an altar, and offereth facrifice, 21 which God accepteth, and promifeth to curfe the earth

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ND God remembered Noah, and every

A 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 affuaged.

2 The fountains alfo of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

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 feventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

5 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.

6¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty

Noah goeth out of the ark:

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 fleth, bath 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 :

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

20 ¶ 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.

+ Heb. a

21 And the LORD fmelled † a fweet favour; favour of and the LORD faid in his heart, I will not again reft. curfe the ground any more for man's fake; for Chap. 6. the imagination of man's heart is evil from his Matth. 15. youth: neither will I again fmite any more every 19. thing living, as I have done.

+ Heb. As 22 + While the earth remaineth, feed-time yet all the and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and days of the winter, and day and night fhall not cease. CHAP. IX.

1 God bleffeth Noah. 4 Blood and murder are forbidden. 8 God's covenant, 13 fignified by the rainbow. 18 Noah replenisheth the world, 20 planteth a vineyard, 21 is drunken, and mocked of his fon, 25 curfeth Canaan, 26 bleffeth Shem, 27 prayeth for Japheth, 29 and dieth.

ND God blessed Noah and his fons, and

earth. Jer. 33. 20, 25.

which he had made.

7 And he fent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from going forth off the earth.

+ Heb. in

and return

ing.

+ Heb. caused her

to come.

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8 Also he sent 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 the 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 sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11 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.

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 pafs in the fix 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.

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

9.

Before beaft of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beaft of the earth.

Chrift 2348. Ifai. 54.

Ecclus 43.

11, 12.

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+ Heb. Chenaan.

11 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.

12 And God faid, 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:

13 I do let my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it fhall come to pafs, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me, and you, and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters fhall no more become a flood to deftroy all fleth.

16 And the bow fhall 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.

17 And God faid unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

18 ¶ And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of + Canaan.

19 Thefe are the three fons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overfpread.

20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent.

22 And Ham the father of Canaan faw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their fhoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were backward, and they faw not their father's nakedness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger fon had done unto him.

25 And he faid, Curfed be Canaan; a fervant of fervants fhall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Bleffed be the LORD God of Or, fer Shem; and Canaan fhall be || his fervant.

vant 10 abem. | Or, per

juade.

27 God fhall | enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his fervant.

28¶And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. CHAP. X.

1 The generations of Noah. 2 The fons of Japheth. 6 The Jons of Ham. 8 Nimrod the first monarch. 21 The fons of Shem.

N

OW these are the generations of the fons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were fons born after the flood. 2 The fons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog,

The generations of Neah. and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Me- Before shech, and Tiras. Chrift

3 And the fons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 And the fons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarfhith, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 By thefe were the ifles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

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6 And the fons of Ham; Cufh, and Miz- 1 Chron. raim, and Phut, and Canaan.

7 And the fons of Cufh; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the fons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Cuth begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is faid, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

1. 8.

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