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 fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.

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

And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

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

And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.

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

And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

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

And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.

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.

To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

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

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;

And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning a second day.

And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.

And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

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

And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah.

And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to 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 of it thou shalt certainly die.

This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.

These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,

And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished.

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

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

And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou shalt freely eat;

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

And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out 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 he hath made Man.

and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

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

The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples.

And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden.

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

And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die;

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

And Melchisedec king of Salem brought out bread and wine. And he was priest of the Most High God.

And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,

And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.

In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.

but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.

Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as it is this day, to save a great people alive.

And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.

And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.

And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

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

And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast 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 to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him.

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

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

On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;

And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.

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 begot Enosh.

And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man.

But Noah found favour 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 that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

And Jehovah Elohim made Adam and his wife coats of skin, and clothed them.

and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark every animal of the earth.

And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, and the stars.

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

And he drove out Man; and he set the Cherubim, and the flame of the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on 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 when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

If thou doest well, will not thy countenance look up with confidence? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

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

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.

And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, 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 I give you everything.

And Cain spoke to 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 remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.

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

And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.

And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on 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 resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

(And Bethuel begot Rebecca.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Why didst thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her as my wife. And now, behold, there is thy wife: take her, and go away.

And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is to the left of Damascus.

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

And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels.

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

But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground.

And she said to him, There is straw, and also much provender with us; also room to lodge.

Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither is it not small? and my soul shall live.

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

And now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest.

and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me; and if not, I will know it.

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

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah: this is the great city.

And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

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

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he had returned from smiting Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, into the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's valley.

there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.

And his concubine, named Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maacah.

And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

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

And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

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

And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

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

And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

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

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is too great to be borne.

and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh.

The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.

And the men turned thence, and went towards Sodom; and Abraham remained yet standing before Jehovah.

And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth.

With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brethren discern what is thine with me, and take it to thee. But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim, out of whom came the Philistines, and the Caphtorim.

And Mizraim begot the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim,

And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.

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

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

and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

And God said to Noah, This is the sign 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: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Cush.

Let peoples serve thee, And races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be they that curse thee, And blessed be they that bless thee.

And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

And the man stooped, and bowed down before Jehovah,

And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

And Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have driven me away from you?

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates.

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

And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot 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 soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

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

And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, that I speak yet but this time! Perhaps there may be ten found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

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

And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lemech.

And Lemech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lemech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for my wound, and a youth for my bruise.

And he continued yet to speak with him, and said, Perhaps there may be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.

And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,

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

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

and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,

the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was the population of the whole earth spread abroad.

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 any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered.

And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two handmaids' tents, and found nothing; and he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

And he said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak with the Lord. Perhaps there may 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 high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: with a lower, second, and third story shalt thou make it.

And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him.

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of life: everything that is on the earth shall expire.

And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a woman fair to look upon.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.

And these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and to them were sons born after the flood.

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

Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.

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

And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

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

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

And God spoke to Noah, saying,

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

Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

And they said, We saw certainly that Jehovah is with thee; and we said, Let there be then an oath between us between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,

And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans.

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as one goes to Gerar, up to Gazah; as one goes to Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, up to Lesha.

And Jacob said, Swear unto me now. And he swore unto him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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

On the same day went 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 begot Nahor.

And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

And the pour of rain was on 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 this day from the face of the ground, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a wanderer and fugitive on the earth; and it will come to pass, that every one who finds 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 bore Tubal-Cain, the forger of every kind of tool of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the well.

And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah.

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

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out 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 built.

Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.

And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded him, so did he.

And to 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 see thee, that they will say, She is his wife; and they will slay me, and save thee alive.

And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of those who handle the harp and pipe.

And Arphaxad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.

And to Shem to him also were sons born; he is the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

and said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has not withdrawn his loving-kindness and his faithfulness from my master; I being in the way, Jehovah has led me to the house of my master's brethren.

And it came to pass when he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's hand, and when he heard the words of Rebecca his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me that he came to the man, and behold, he was standing by the camels, by the well.

From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to 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 fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to 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 to Noah, into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which was the breath of life.

There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein?

And Sarai was barren: she had no child.

And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

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

Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

And Jacob gave Esau bread and the dish of lentils; and he ate and drank, and rose up and went away. Thus Esau despised the birthright.

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel.

And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and of what use can the birthright be to me?

And he said, Is it not therefore he was named Jacob, for he has supplanted me now twice? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread themselves abroad.

And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.

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

Then Abram moved his tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah.

All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now this time will my husband be united to me, for 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 sons of Joktan.

they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind every bird of every wing.

Jehovah the God of the heavens, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land of my nativity, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land he will send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife for my son thence.

He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah!

And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob.

And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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

And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.

And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.

And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents, and breed cattle.

And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead.

Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.

And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.

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

And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:

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

And Abraham was ninety-nine years old 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 learned what his youngest son had done to him.

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

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

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heavens and earth.

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

And he said, Come in, blessed of Jehovah! why standest thou outside? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.

And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.

And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.

Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

Then Isaac trembled with exceeding great trembling, and said, Who was he, then, that hunted venison and brought it to me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him; also blessed he shall be.

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

And Isaac his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau.

If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold.

and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a gold chain on his neck.

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

And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as one goes to Sephar, the eastern mountain.

And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the souls, and take the property for thyself.

And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. 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 Methushelah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lemech.

And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebecca. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, comforts himself that he will kill thee.

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

And Jehovah went away when he had ended speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; 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 Canaanite, in whose land I am dwelling;

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

And the name of the second he called Ephraim For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

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

And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.

And Esau said to his father, Hast thou then but one blessing, my father? bless me me also, my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

Whereas thou hast explored all my baggage, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide between us both.

And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.

And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.

And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that thou seest is mine; but as for my daughters, what can I do this day to them, or to their sons whom they have brought forth?

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

For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

behold, I stand by the well of water, and let it come to pass that the damsel who cometh forth to draw water, and to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water out of thy pitcher to drink,

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.

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

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money every male among the people of Abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city; and he called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.

And in the seven years of plenty the land 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 flock I have not eaten.

And I stooped, and bowed down before Jehovah; and I blessed Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has led me the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that 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 Lemech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.

And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

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

And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

And he said to me, Jehovah, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way, that thou mayest take a wife for my son of my family, and out of my father's house.

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

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

and abide with him some days, until thy brother's fury turn away --

And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

And the maiden ran and told these things to her mother's house.

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 to Sarah as he had spoken.

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it.

And he sent out the raven, which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth.

And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with the red the red thing there, 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 to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

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

And Jehovah Elohim called to Man, and said to him, Where art thou?

And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok;

that thou wilt do us no wrong, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have let thee go in peace; thou art now blessed of Jehovah.

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

And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,

And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to the heavens. And behold, angels of God ascended and descended upon it.

And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: with cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

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

And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.

Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time 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 to all that Jehovah had commanded him.

Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And Shem and Japheth took the upper garment and both laid it upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father's nakedness.

and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

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

And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.

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

Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.

And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.

Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

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

And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man.

And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me of it, neither have I heard of it but to-day.