In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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 birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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 birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

And Jehovah 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.

And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham. And he said, Here am I.

And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

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.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

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 toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And Jehovah 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-

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man.

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.

And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come: And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.

And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

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.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou 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:

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth;

and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing;

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:

And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

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

And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.

And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

In that day Jehovah 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:

And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

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.

And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enosh:

And the man 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.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.

And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.

and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, 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.

and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be its desire, but do thou rule over it.

And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And out of the ground made Jehovah 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 the knowledge of good and evil.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; As the green herb have I given you all.

And Cain told 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.

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah.

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground,

And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.

And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.

but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

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.

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

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.

thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

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.

And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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?

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the same is the King's Vale).

there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and new wine.

And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb. But Rachel was barren.

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.

And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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.

The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah.

and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

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

and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan.

And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with thee.

and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

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.

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

Let peoples serve thee, And nations bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be every one that blesseth thee.

Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.

And the man bowed his head, and worshipped Jehovah.

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.

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

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.

and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

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 the ten's sake.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methushael; and Methushael begat Lamech.

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 for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me:

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 the forty's sake.

and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

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

and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

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 may thy seed also be numbered.

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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 the twenty's sake.

A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.

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:

And it came to pass in the six hundred 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 dried.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, namely , of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

And God spake unto Noah, saying,

and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because there they sware both of them.

And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee. And we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.

And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.

And Jacob said, Swear to me first. And he sware unto him. And he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

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;

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

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

and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.

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

And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

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.

And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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

And unto Eber were born two sons: The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days was the earth divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.

and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.

And Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.

And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Jehovah hath led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.

And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the 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 was standing by the camels at the fountain.

Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

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

Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

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

Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

And Sarai was barren; She had no child.

And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee.

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.

And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:

And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die. And what profit shall the birthright do to me?

And he said, Is not he rightly name Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two time. He took away my birthright. And, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.

and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.

and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto Jehovah.

every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.

And she conceived again, and bare a son. And said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore was his name called Levi.

And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land. He will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.

and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob.

and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch:

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

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

And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.

peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.

And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:

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

and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.

and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of Jehovah. Wherefore standest thou without? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

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

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.

So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him:

And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? Yea, and he shall be blessed.

And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau.

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there by the heap.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

And Jehovah went his way, as soon as he had left off communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

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

And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell.

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.

and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.

And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.

And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink.

the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

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.

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.

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

And I bowed my head, and worshipped Jehovah, and blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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.

And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

And he said unto me, Jehovah, 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.

And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begat Isaac.

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away.

And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.

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

And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:

And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

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

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage . For I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.

And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

And the first-born 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:

And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.

And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace. Thou art now the blessed of Jehovah.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

And he dreamed. And behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

And Jehovah 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:

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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.

And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.

And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing. Neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day.