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 bird of the heavens and over the tame-beast - and over all the land, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the land.

And God created the man in his own image, In the image of God, created he him, - Male and female, created he, them.

Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep, - but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters,

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

Now, the serpent, was more crafty than any living thing of the field which Yahweh God had made, so he said unto the woman, Can it really be that God hath said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And God said - Let the land put-forth vegetation-herb yielding seed, fruit-tree, bearing fruit, after its kind, whose seed is within it on the land. And it was so,

So then Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life - and man became a living soul.

And Yahweh said unto Abram: Come thou on thy way, Out of thy land and out of the place of thy birth and out of the house of thy father, - Unto the land that I will show thee;

And God said - Light, be, And light was.

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 bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.

For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

And Yahweh God said, It is, not good, that the man should remain alone, - I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.

And God saw every thing which he had made, and lo! it was very good. So it was evening - and it was morning, the sixth day.

Unto the woman, he said, I will, increase, thy pain of pregnancy, In pain, shalt thou year children, - Yet, unto thy husband, shall be thy hinging, Though, he, rule over thee.

That I may bless them who bless thee, But him who maketh light of thee, will I curse, - So shall be, blessed in thee, all the families of the ground.

And God said - Lo! I have given to you - every herb yielding seed which is on the face of all the land, and every tree wherein is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, - to you, shall it be, for food;

And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening - and it was morning, a, second day.

Then Yahweh saw that great, was the wickedness of man in the earth, and that, every purpose of the devices of his heart, was only wicked all the day;

So Yahweh God took the man, - and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to keeps it.

And it cared to pass after these things, that God, did prove Abraham, - and he said unto him, Abraham! And he said Behold me!

So it came to pass that, all the earth, was of one manner of speech, - and of one stock of words.

Now, the man, having come to know Eve his wife, - she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a Man, even Yahweh!

And it came to pass when men had begun to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters had been born to them,

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not cat of it, - for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shelf die.

These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations, - with God, did Noah walk.

These are the geneses of the heavens and the earth when they were created, - in the day when Yahweh God made earth and heavens.

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

And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, - because therein, rested he from all his work which God, by creating, had made.

So it was evening - and it was morning, a third day.

And it came to pass that, when Abram was ninety and nine years old, Yahweh appeared unto Abram, and said unto him, I, am GOD Almighty, - Walk, thou before me and become thou blameless:

And, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes and the tree was pleasant to make one knowing, then took she of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and she gave to her husband also, along with her, and he did eat.

And Yahweh God laid command on the man, saying, - Of every tree of the garden, thou mayest eat;

After these things, came the word of Yahweh unto Abram, in a vision saying, - Do not fear Abram, am a shield to thee, thine exceeding great reward.

And God said - Let there be luminaries 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 the man, he said, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life;

Then said Yahweh God - Lo! man, hath become like one of us, in respect of knowing good and evil, - Now, therefore, lest he thrust forth his hand, and take even of the tree of life, and eat, and live to times age-abiding, -

He that 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 had faith in Yahweh, - so he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the commanders staff a from between his feet, - Until that he come in as a Shiloh, And, his, be the obedience of the peoples:

Then heard they the sound of Yahweh God, walking to and fro in the garden at the breeze of the day, - so he hid himself - the man with his wife, from the face of Yahweh God, amid the trees of the garden.

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

And Yahweh appeared unto him among the oaks of Mamre, - as, he, was sitting at the opening of the tent in the heat of the day.

In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because therefrom, wast thou taken, - For, dust, thou art, And, unto dust, shalt thou return.

And the serpent said unto the woman, - Ye shall not die,

So God blessed Noah and his sons, - and said to them Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth;

flow Melchizedek king of Salem, had brought forth bread and wine, - he, being priest of GOD Most High.

Then said Yahweh God unto the serpent - Because thou hast done this, Accursed, art thou above every tame-beast, and above every wild-beast of the field, - on thy belly, shall thou go, and dust, shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

And God said - Let the waters swarm with an abundance of living soul, and, birds, shall fly over the earth, over the face of the expanse of the heavens.

So the two messengers went in towards Sodom at eventide, Lot, being seated in the gate of Sodom, - so Lot beheld and rose up to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the earth.

That I may make thee into a great nation, And bless thee and make great thy name, And become thou a blessing;

The giants, were in the each in these days, and also, after that, when the sons of God began to go in unto the daughters of men, and sons were born to them, the same, were the heroes that were from age-past times 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 shall your eyes be opened, - and ye shall become like God, knowing good and evil.

Ye, indeed, planned against me, evil, - God, planned it, for good, for the sake of doing, as at this day, to save alive much people.

And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, on the east, - and put there the man whom he had formed.

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

So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept, - and he took one of his ribs, and closed up flesh instead thereof.

And Yahweh said - My spirit shall not rule in man to times age - abiding, for that, he also, is flesh, - Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

This, is the record of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, In the likeness of God, made he him:

And God said - Let the land, bring forth, living soul, after its kind, tame-beast and creeping thing and wild-beast, of the land, after its kind. And it was so.

So it was evening - and it was morning, a fourth day.

And God said - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry - ground appear. And it was so.

For I have become his intimate friend, To the end that he may command his sons and his house after him, so shall they keep the way of Yahweh, by doing righteousness and justice. To the end that Yahweh may bring in for Abraham, what he hath spoken concerning him.

So Jacob went forth from Beer-sheba, and journeyed towards Haran.

and God called the light, day, but the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening - and it was morning, one day.

In that day, did Yahweh solemnise with Abram a covenant, saying, - To thy seed, have I given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river - the river Euphrates:

Now Yahweh God had formed from the ground every living thing of the field and every bird of the heavens, which he brought in unto the man, that he might see what he should call it, - and, whatsoever the man should call it - any living soul, that, should be the name thereof.

Then were opened the eyes of them both, and they knew that, naked, they were, - so they tacked together fig-leaves, and made for themselves girdles,

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

And the man said, This, one, now, is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh! This, one shall be called Woman, for, out of a man, hath this one been taken.

But, Noah, had found favour in the eyes, of Yahweh.

In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.

And Yahweh smelled a satisfying odour, so Yahweh said to himself. I will not, again, curse any more the ground for man's sake, although the device of the heart of man, be wicked from his youth, - neither will I again, any more smite every living thing, as I have done.

And Yahweh God made for the man - and for his wife - tunics of skin and clothed them.

and with every living soul that is with you, of birds, of tame-beasts and of all wild-beasts of the earth that are with you, - of all coming forth out of the ark, even to all wild-beasts of the earth;

And God made the two great luminaries, - the greater luminary to rule the day, and the lesser luminary to rule the night, also the stars.

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men! that they were, fair, - so they took to themselves wives of whomsoever they chose,

So he expelled the man, - and caused to dwell - in front of the garden of Eden - cherubim and a brandishing sword - flame, to keep the way to the tree of life.

And he said - Take, I pray thee, thy son, thine only one, whom thou lovest, even, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah and cause him to ascend there as an ascending-sacrifice, on one of the mountains which I shall name unto thee.

and Enoch walked with God, - and was not for God had taken him.

So it was evening - and it was morning, a fifth day.

And so it was when Abram entered into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that fair, was she exceedingly.

Shall it not, if thou do right, be lifted up? But if thou do not right, at the entrance a sin-bearer is lying, - Unto thee, moreover, shall be his longing, though, thou, rule over him.

So Yahweh said, The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it hath become great, - And their sin, because it hath become exceeding grievous,

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

And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree 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.

As for every moving thing that hath life, yours, shall it be, for food, - Like the green herb, have I given you all things.

And Cain said unto Abel his brother Let us go into the field 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 uprisings of the dawn.

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

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

And, Arpachshad, lived thirty-five years, - and begat Shelah;

So it came to pass when, the sun, had gone in, and Ira thick darkness, had come on, that lo there was a smoking hearth and torch of fire, which passed through between these pieces.

Of the beasts that were clean, and of the beasts that were not clean, - and of the birds, and everything that creepeth on the ground,

And the princes of Pharaoh beheld her, and praised her unto Pharaoh, - so the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh;

but the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot so she returned unto him into the ark, for, waters, were on the face of all the earth; and he put forth his hand and took her, and brought her in unto him, into the ark.

And, Bethuel, hath begotten Rebekah, - These eight, hath Milcah borne to Nahor brother of Abraham.

Wherefore saidst thou My sister, she; and so I was about to take her to me, to wife? But now, lo! 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 as far as Hobah, which was on the left of Damascus.

And Yahweh plagued Pharaoh with great plagues, also his house, - for the matter of Sarai, wife of Abram.

and with Abram, dealt he well for her sake, - so that he came to have flocks and herds and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses and camels.

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, with Phicol chieftain of his host, spake unto Abraham, saying, - God, is with thee in all that, thou art doing.

but, a vapour, went up from the earth, - and watered all the face of the ground.

And she said unto him, Both straw and fodder in plenty, have we, - also a place to tarry the night.

Behold, I pray thee, this city, is near for fleeing thither And, it, is a little one, let me I pray thee, escape thither - is it not a, little, one? That my soul may live!

and all the days of Seth were, nine hundred an I twelve years, - and he died.

Now, therefore, swear to me by God, here, that thou wilt not deal falsely by me, nor by mine offspring, nor by my descendants, - according to the lovingkindness wherewith I have dealt with thee, shalt thou deal with me, and with the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

Thorn also and thistle, shall it shoot forth to thee, - when thou hast come to eat of the herb of the field:

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

Let me go down, pray, and let me behold, whether according to their outcry which hath come in unto me, they have done altogether, And if not. I must know!

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

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

and Resen, between Niveveh and Calah, - the same is the great city.

moreover the gold of that and, is good, - there, is the bdellium, and the beryl stone,

So he brought back all the goods, - yea Lot also his brother with his goods, did he bring back, and the women also, and the people.

Then came forth the king of Sodom to meet him, after his return from the smiting of Chedorlaomer, and the kings who were with him, - into the vale of Shaveh the same, was the vale of the king.

two and two, went they in 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 beheld the earth, and lo! it had corrupted itself, - surely all flesh had corrupted its way, on the earth.

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

And Eber lived thirty-four years, - and begat Peleg;

Then, may God give thee of the dew of the heavens, And of the fatness of the earth, - And abundance of corn and new wine:

And, when Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, he granted her to bear children, - whereas, Rachel, was barren.

And he said unto him, Behold! I have lifted up thy countenance, even as to this thing, - so that I will not overthrow the city, of which thou hast spoken.

Then stayed he yet seven days more, - and, again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Rise! go up and down in the land, to the length thereof and to the breadth thereof, for to thee, will I give it.

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

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

And Pharaoh gave command concerning him unto certain men, - and sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

And, Shelah, lived thirty years, - and begat Eber;

And Cain said unto Yahweh - Greater is my punishment than I can bear.

then will I remember my covenant which is betwixt me and you, and every living soul among all flesh, - that the waters may no more become a flood, to destroy all flesh:

The name of the one, is Pishon, - the same, is that which surroundeth all the land of Havilah, where is gold;

And the men turned from thence, and went their way, towards Sodom, - but, Yahweh was yet standing before Abraham.

And the dove came in unto him at eventide, and lo! a newly sprouted olive-leaf, in her mouth, - so Noah knew that the waters had abated from off the earth.

He with whom thou find thy gods, shall not live! Before our brethren, note thou for thyself what is with me and take what is thine. Neither did Jacob know 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 who came forth out of the ark, were - Shem and Ham and Japheth, - now, Ham, was 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 came forth Philistim and Caphtorim.

And, Mizraim, begat Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim, and Naphtuchim;

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;

Now therefore, accursed, art thou, - from the ground which hath opened her mouth, to receive the shed-blood of thy brother at thy hand.

therefore will I establish my covenant with thee, - and thou shalt enter 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 sign of the covenant which have established, between me and all flesh that is on the earth.

And the name of the second river, is Gihon, - the same, is that which surroundeth all the land of Cush,

Let peoples serve thee And races bow down to thee, Become thou lord to thy brethren, And let the sons of thy mother bow down to thee, - He that curseth thee, be accursed! And he that blesseth thee, be blessed!

These, then are the generations of Terah, Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran, - and, Haran, begat Lot;

Then the man bowed his head, and bent himself down unto Yahweh;

Yet as for Ishmael, I have heard thee; o! I have blessed trim and will make him fruitful, and multiply him, exceedingly, - twelve princes, shall he beget, and I will grant him to be a great nation;

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore have ye come in mite me, seeing that, ye, hated me, and sent me away from you?

And, the name of the third river, is Hiddekel, the same, is that which goeth in front of Assyria; and the fourth river, is Euphrates.

And it came to pass, in the seven days, - that the waters of the flood, came on the earth.

And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, - and begat Terah;

so the bow shall be in the cloud, - and I will behold it, to remember an age-abiding covenant, between God, and every living soul among all flesh that is on 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, to thee, by this set time, in the next year.

And he said, Let it not, I pray thee, be vexing to My Lord, but let me speak only this once, Peradventure there may be found there - ten. And he said, I will not destroy it , for the sake of the ten!

and it shall be when I draw a veil of cloud over the earth, - and the bow in the cloud appeareth,

And there was born to Enoch Irad, and, Irad, begat Mehujael, - and Mehujael, begat Methusael, - and Methusael, begat Lamech.

Then said Lamech to his wives, Adah and Zillah! hear ye my voice, Ye wives of Lamech! give ear to my tale, For a man, have I slain in dealing my wounds, Yea, a youth, in smiting my blows:

And he added, yet once more, to speak unto him, and said, Peradventure there may be found there - forty. And he said - I will not do it, for the sake of the forty.

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

And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth:

And Abram passed along throughout the land, as far as the place of Shechem as far as the Teacher's Terebinth, the Canaanite being then in the land.

and dank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself in the midst of 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 from these, was all the earth overspread.

These are the sons of Shem, by their families by their tongues, in their lands by 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, thy seed also, may be numbered.

Then entered Laban into the tent of Jacob and into the tent of Leah and into the tent of the two handmaids, and found nothing, - then went he forth out of the tent of Leah, and entered into the tent of Rachel.

And he sad Behold, I pray thee, I have ventured to speak unto My Lord, Peradventure there may be found there - twenty. And he said I will not destroy it, for the sake of the twenty.

A place for light, shalt thou make to the ark and to a cubit, shalt thou finish it upwards, and the opening of the ark - in the side thereof, shalt thou put, - with lower, second and third stories, shalt thou make it.

And he stayed yet seven days more, - and sent forth the dove, but 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 me! bringing in the flood - even waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the spirit of life, from under the heavens, - everything that is in the earth, shall cease to breathe:

And it came to pass when he had come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife: Behold! I beseech thee I know that a woman fair to look on, thou art:

So it came to pass in the six hundred and first year at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters had dried up from off the earth, - and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked and lo! the face of the ground was dried.

Now, these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and there were born to them sons after the flood.

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

All the living creatures that are with thee of all flesh among birds, and among beasts, and among all the creeping things that creep on the earth, bring forth with thee, - and they shall swarm in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply, on the earth.

Now, Joktan, begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah;

And Reu lived thirty-two years - and begat Serug;

Haste thee escape thither, for I cannot do anything, until thou have come in thither. For this cause: was the name of the city called Zoar.

and the Hivite and the Arkite, and the Sinite:

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

So then, God spake to Noah, saying:

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

On this account, was the name of that place called Beer-sheba, - because there, had they two sworn.

And they said: We, saw plainly, that Yahweh was with thee, so we said, Let there be we pray thee an oath betwixt us both, betwixt us and thee, - and let us solemnise a covenant with thee: -

and Haran died, in the presence of Terah his father, - in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said: Thou shall give me, nothing at all, If thou wilt do for me this thing, I will return, I will shepherd thy flock I will keep it:

And it came to pass that the boundary of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou enterest in towards Gerar unto Gaza, - as thou enterest in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, as far as Lasha.

And Jacob said, Come swear to me just now! And he sware to him, - and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.

On this selfsame day, entered Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth. Noah's sons, - and Noah's wife, and his sons' three wives 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 it came to pass that the heavy 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.

Lo! thou has driven me out, this day, from off the face of the ground And from thy face, shall I be hid, So shall I become a wanderer and a fugitive in the earth. And it shall come to pass, whosoever findeth me, will slay me.

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

And, as for Zillah, she also, bare Tubal-Cain, a sharpener of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron, - and, the sister of Tubal-Cain, was Naamah.

Now, Rebekah, had a brother, whose name, was Laban, - so Laban ran unto the man outside, unto the fountain.

And Lamech took to himself two wives, - the name of the one, was Adah, and, the name of the second Zillah.

And it came to pass as they brake away onwards, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

And Abraham responded and said, - Behold I pray thee I have ventured to speak unto My Lord, though I am dust and ashes:

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

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, with all the goods that they bad gathered and the souls that they had gained in Haran, - and they came forth to go towards the land of Canaan, and came in to the land of Canaan.

And Yahweh came down, to behold the city, and the tower, - which the sons of men had built.

For this cause, was the name thereof called Babel; because there, did Yahweh confuse the speech of all the earth, - and, from thence, did Yahweh scatter them abroad, over the face of all the earth.

And Noah did so , - according to all that God 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 the name of his brother was Joktan.

so will it come to pass when the Egyptians behold thee, that they will say, His wife, this! and will slay me while thee, they preserve alive.

And he moved on from thence towards the hill country, on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, - with Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east, and bulk there an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

And Abraham said, I, will swear.

and, the name of his brother, was Jubal, - he, was father of everyone handling lyre and flute,

Now Arpachshad, begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

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

and said, Blessed be Yahweh. God of my lord Abraham, who hath not withdrawn his lovingkindness and his faithfulness, from my lord, - I - being in the way, Yahweh led me unto the house of the brethren of my lord!

And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister saying, Thus, did the man speak unto me, that he came unto the man, and lo! he was standing by the camels near the fountain;

From these, were dispersed the inhabitants of the coastlands of the nations, in their lands, each man by his tongue, by their families in their nations.

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

Of the bird after its kind and of the beast after its kind, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each, shall come in unto thee. for keeping alive.

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

So they entered in unto Noah, into the ark, - two and two of all flesh, wherein was the spirit of life.

Peradventure there are fifty righteous, in the midst of the city, Wilt thou really sweep away, and not spare the place, for the sake of the fifty righteous which are therein?

And, Sara, remained barren, - she had no child,

And he said, The seven young sheep, shalt thou take at my hand, - that they may serve as my witness, that I digged this well.

Then said they, each man to his friend, Come on! let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly, - So the bricks, served them for stone, and bitumen, served them for mortar,

Come forth out of the ark, - thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy song wives with thee.

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

And Jacob, having given to Esau bread and a dish of lentils, he did eat and drink and rose up, and went his way, - thus Esau despised his birthright!

And Kenan, lived seventy years, - and begat Mahalalel;

And Esau said, Here am I, on the point of dying, - wherefore, then, should I, have, a birthright?

And he said, Is it because his name, is called, Jacob, that he hath tricked me, now twice? My birthright, he took away, And lo! now, he hath taken away my blessing! And he said, Hast thou not reserved for me a blessing?

When, the sun, had come forth on the earth, Lot had entered into Zoar.

and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite, - and after-wards, were spread abroad the families of the Canaanite.

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

And it came to pass, that the flood was forty days on the earth, - and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth,

So Abram moved his tent and came in and dwelt among the oaks of Mamre, which were in Hebron, - and built there an altar to Yahweh.

All the living creatures, all that move along, and all birds, and all that moveth along over the earth - by their families, came forth out of the ark.

And she conceived again and bare a son, and said, Now - this time, will my husband he bound unto me, For I have borne him three sons, - For this cause, called she his name Levi.

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

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

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

they, and all the wild-beasts after their kind and all the tame-beasts after their kind, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth after their kind, - and all the birds after their kind, every bird of every wing.

Yahweh, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, who took me out of the house of my father, and out of the land of my kindred, and, who spake to me, and who sware to me, saying, To thy seed, will I give this land, he, will send his messenger before thee, so shalt then take a wife for my son from thence.

he, became a hero of hunting before Yahweh, for this cause, it is said. Like Nimrod, a hero of hunting before Yahweh.

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;

And, Isaac, loved, Esau, because of the game he put in his mouth, - but, Rebekah, was a lover of Jacob!.

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

And the sons of Javan: Elisha, and Tarshish. Kittim, and Rodanim, -

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

and all the days of Methuselah were, nine hundred and sixty-nine years, - and he died.

And Adah bare Jabal, - he, was father of such as dwell in tents, and have cattle;

Then died Samlah, - and there reigned in his stead, Shaul, from Rohoboth of the River.

Peradventure there may lack, of the fifty righteous, five, Wilt thou destroy for five all the city? And he said, I will not destroy, 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-five years, - and begat Jared;

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

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

And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved on the earth, of birds and of tame-beasts and of wild-beasts, and of all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, - land all mankind.

And when they had solemnised a covenant in Beer-sheba, - then arose Abimelech, with Phicol chief of his host, and returned unto the land of the Philistines.

Now 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 came to know what his youngest sore had done to him.

And, they that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered, as God commanded him, - and Yahweh shut him in round about.

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

So he blessed him and said, - Blessed be Abram of GOD Most High, possessor of the heavens and earth;

and all the days of Enoch were, three hundred and sixty-five years;

and he said, Come in. thou blessed of Yahweh, - Wherefore shouldst thou stand outside, when I have made ready the house and a place for the camels?

Yea the waters, prevailed very greatly, on the earth, - so that all the high mountains became covered, that were under all the heavens:

And Ham the father of Canaan saw his father's shame, - and told his two brethren outside.

But, the waters went on decreasing, until the tenth month, - in the tenth month , on the first of the month, were seen the tops of the mountains.

So Yahweh scattered them from thence over the face of all the earth, - and so they left off building the city.

God give extension to Japheth, But make his habitation in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be their servant.

Thus Abram brake up, again and again, towards the South.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that were on the dry ground died.

So Noah came forth, - and his sons and his wife, and his sons wives with him:

Then did Isaac tremble with an exceeding great trembling, and said Who then was it that caught game and brought in to me and I did eat of all ere yet thou didst come in and I blessed him? Yea blessed, shall he remain!

And the waters prevailed and increased greatly, on the earth, - and the ark went its way 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, sevenfold, be, the avenging of Cain, Then, of Lamech, seventy and seven.

and Hadoram and Uzai, and Diklah:

and Obal and Abimael, and Sheba:

So Pharaoh took his ring from off his hands and put it upon Joseph's hand, - and clothed him in garments of fine linen, and put the chain of gold upon his neck;

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

Then said Jacob to his brethren - Gather stones. And they took stones and made a heap, - and they did eat there, by the heap.

And it came to pass that their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou enterest in towards Sephar, the mountain of the east.

Thus was wiped out all that existed on the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens, thus were they wiped out from the earth, - so that there was left - only Noah and they that were with him in the ark.

Then said the king of Sodom unto Abram, - Give unto me the persons, but the goods, take thou for thyself.

And, the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah and Raamah, and Sabtechah, - 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 that he had made;

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

Then were told to Rebekah, the words of Esau her elder son, so she sent and called for Jacob, her younger son, and said unto him - Lo! Esau, thy brother, is consoling himself as touching thee, to slay thee.

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

Ye, therefore, be fruitful and multiply, swarm in the earth and multiply therein.

And Yahweh went his way, when he had made an end. of speaking unto Abraham, - Abraham, also returned to his place.

fifteen cubits upwards, prevailed the waters, so that the mountains became covered.

And my lord put me on oath saying, - Thou shalt not take a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land, I, am dwelling;

I, therefore, behold me! establishing 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 humiliation.

And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, God of Shem, - And let Cantata he their servant:

and he called his name Noah saying, - This, one shall give us rest from our work, And from the grievous toil of our hands, By reason of the ground which Yahweh hath cursed,

And Esau said unto his father, But one blessing, hast thou, O my father? Bless, me also, O my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

Now that thou hast felt about among all my goods, what hast thou found of the goods of thine own house? Set it out here, right before my brethren and thy brethren, - that they may give sentence betwixt us two.

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

and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, - and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, - and he died.

Then responded Laban and said unto Jacob - the daughters, are my daughters, And the sons, are my sons, And the sheep are my sheep, And, all that, thou, beholdest, To me doth it belong! But to my daughters, what can I do to these this day, Or to their sons whom they have borne?

And on thy sword, shalt thou live, And thy brother, shalt thou serve: But it shall come to pass when thou shalt rove at large, Then shalt thou break his yoke from off thy neck.

For in seven days more, I, am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, - so will I wipe out all the living things which I have made, from off the face of the ground.

here, am I stationed by the fountain of water, - so then it shall come to pass that, the maiden that is coming forth to draw, and I shall say unto her Let me drink. I pray thee a little water out of thy pitcher;

and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, - and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens;

Thus prevailed the waters on the earth, - a hundred and fifty days.

So Abraham took Ishmael his son and all born of his house and all bought with his silver - every male among the men of the house of Abraham, - and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on this selfsame day, according to that which God had spoken with him.

And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bare Enoch, - Now it happened that he was building a city, so he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

And the land produced, in the seven years of plenty, by handfuls,

This twenty years' time, have, I, been with thee - Thy ewes and thy she-goats, have not cast their young, - And the rams of thy flock, have I not eaten,

and bowed my head and bent myself down unto Yahweh, - and I blessed Yahweh God of my lord Abraham, who had led me in a way of faithfulness, to take the daughter of the brother of my lord for his son.

But Abraham reproved Abimelech, - on account of the well of water, which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

So Noah entered, and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him into the ark, - from before the waters of the flood,

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

And he sent forth a dove from him, - to see whether the waters had abated, from off the face of the ground;

And it came to pass that there was a famine, in the land, - so Abram went down towards Egypt, to sojourn there, because grievous, was the famine in the land.

Now, no bush of the field, as yet - was in the earth, and, no herb of the field, as yet had sprung up, - because Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, and, man, was there none to till the ground;

Now, Noah, was six hundred years old, - when, the flood, came, even waters on the earth.

But Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children, - she had, however, an Egyptian handmaid, whose name was Hagar.

And he said unto me, - Yahweh, before whom I have walked to and fro, will send his messenger with thee, so shall he prosper thy way, and thou shalt take a wife for my son out of my kindred and out of the house of my father.

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

And, these, are the generations of Isaac, son of Abraham, - Abraham, begat Isaac;

And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, - until that the wrath of thy brother turn away:

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

And the young woman ran, and told the household of her mother, - according to these words.

And Noah lived after the flood, - three hundred and fifty years:

And Noah began to he a husbandman, - so he planted a vineyard:

Now, Yahweh, visited Sarah, as he had said, - And Yahweh did for Sarah as he had spoken.

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years in which there was plenty in the land of Egypt, and laid up food in cities - the food of the fields of the city. which were round about it, laid he up within it.

and sent forth a raven, - and it kept going forth and returning, until the drying up of the waters from off the earth.

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

and it grieved Yahweh, that he had made man in the earth, - and he took sorrow unto his heart.

So Esau said unto Jacob. Do let me devour some of the red - this red, for, famished, I am. For this cause, 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 firstborn said unto the younger. Our father is old, - and, a man, there is not in the earth to come in unto us, after the way of all the earth.

Then planted he a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, - and called there on the name of Yahweh the age-abiding GOD.

And Yahweh God called unto the man, - and said to him, Where art thou?

And he brought him forth abroad and said - Look steadfastly. I pray thee towards the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number, them, And he said to him, Thus, shall be thy seed.

And he arose in that night and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, - and pressed over the ford of Jabbok.

That, thou wilt not do wrong by us, according as we touched not thee, and according as we did by thee nothing but good, and then sent thee away in peace, thee who, now, art blessed of Yahweh!

And Abram said unto the king of Sodom, - I have lifted up my hand unto Yahweh GOD Most High, possessor of the heavens and earth:

And, Yahweh, rained, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire, - from Yahweh, out of the heavens:

And he dreamed, and lo! a stairway, planted earthwards, with, its top, reaching towards the heavens, - and lo! messengers of God, ascending and descending thereon;

And, Yahweh, said unto Abram after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up, I pray thee thine eyes and look, from the place where thou art, - northward and southward and eastward and westward;

Make for thee an ark of timbers of gopher, Grooms, shalt thou make with the ark, - and - thou shalt cover it within and without with pitch.

And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter 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 and eighty-two years, - and begat sons and daughters;

During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

So then Abram set seven young sheep of the flock by them-selves,

And Noah did, - according to all that Yahweh commanded him.

Far be it from thee! to do after this manner. to put to death the righteous with the lawless! Then should righteous and lawless be alike, Far be it from thee! Shall, the Judge of all the earth not do justice?

And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on the shoulder of them both and went backwards, and covered the shame of their father, but their faces were backwards, and the shame of their father, saw they not.

and, all the men of his house, born of his house, and bought with silver from the son of a stranger, were circumcised with him.

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

And Yahweh appeared unto Abram, and said: To thy seed, will I give this land, - And he built there an altar, unto Yahweh who appeared unto him.

Now, a river, was coming forth out of Eden, to water the garden, - and, from thence, it parted, and became four heads,

Also of the bird of the heavens, by sevens, male and female, - to keep alive a seed on the face of all the earth.

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

Then he said - Not Jacob, shall thy name be called any more, but Israel, - For thou hast contended with God and with men and hast prevailed.

Yet flesh with the life thereof, the bleed thereof, shall ye not eat;

And they were both of them naked, the man and his wife, - and put not each other to shame.

And Yahweh God builded the rib which he had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her in unto the man.

And Abimelech said, I know not, who hath done this thing, - nor hast even thou, ever told me, nor have even I, ever heard, save to-day.

And Yahweh said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then will I spare all the place for their sake.

Now, Joseph, was taken down to Egypt, - and Potiphar, courtier of Pharaoh, chief of the royal executioners, an Egyptian bought him, at the hand of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down thither.

On this selfsame day, was Abraham circumcised, - and Ishmael his son;

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness after his image, - and called his name Seth:

And there came to be a famine in the land, besides the first famine which happened in the days of Abraham, - so Isaac went his way unto Abimelech, king of the Philistines towards Gerar;

so, all the days of Noah, were - nine hundred and fifty years, - and he died.

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, - and Terah died in Haran.

And Yahweh said - I must wipe off man whom I created from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens, - for I am grieved that I made them.

And I will confirm my covenant betwixt me and thee and thy seed after thee to their generations for an age-abiding covenant, - to become to thee a God, and to thy seed after thee;

And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh, - and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up on the altar.

Let me pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every young one that is speckled and spotted and every young one that is dark-coloured among the young sheep, and spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall he my wages.

And Rachel saw she had borne no children unto Jacob, so Rachel became envious of her sister, - and said unto Jacob, Come! give me children, or else, I die.

And the earth corrupted itself before God, - and the earth was filled with violence,

So the man gave names to all the tame-beasts, and to the birds of the heavens, and to all the wild-beasts of the field, - but, for man, had there not been found a helper as his counterpart.

And the life of Sarah came to be, a hundred and twenty-seven years, - the years of the life of Sarah.

So the man called the name of his wife, Eve, - in that, she, was made mother of every one living.

And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo! three men, standing over against him, - so he looked and ran to meet them from the opening of the tent, and bowed himself to the earth;

Then Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, - and commanded him and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

And the men rose up from hence, and looked out over the face of Sodom, - Abraham also going with them to set them on their way.

So it came to pass, after certain days, that Cain brought in of the fruit of the ground, a present to Yahweh:

And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, - yea it came to pass when Jacob, had only just gone forth, from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother, came in from his hunting.

Then said Yahweh unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said know not, the keeper of my brother, am, I?

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah, and gave him Asenath daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, to wife, - and Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

So shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves in thy seed, - Because thou didst hearken unto my voice.

So Abram came up out of Egypt he and his wife and all that he had and Lot with him, towards the South.

And he said to Abram - Thou must surely know, that, sojourners, will thy seed become in a land not theirs, and shall serve them and they will humble them, four hundred years;

So Jacob dwelt in the land of the sojournings of his father, - in the land of Canaan.

So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan, that the whole of it, was well-watered, - before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the Garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as thou enterest into Zoar.

And it came to pass that Isaac, was old, and his eyes became too dim to see, so he called Esau his elder son and said unto him My son! And he said unto him, Behold me!

And God remembered Noah, and all the wild - beasts and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark, - and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;

And Jacob said, - Come sell, just now, thy birthright unto me.

And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, - to give light on the earth;

So Leah conceived, and hare a son, and called his name Reuben, - for she said, Because, Yahweh hath looked upon my humiliation, For, now, will my husband love me.

So Abram, hearing that his brother had been taken captive, drew forth his trained men born in his house three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

That I will, richly bless, thee, and, abundantly multiply, thy seed, as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the lip of the sea, - that thy seed may take possession of the gate of his foes:

And, Cush begat Nimrod. - he, became a hero in the earth;

and rose up early in the morning, and took an oath each man to his brother, so Isaac let them go, and they departed from him in peace.

These, are the genealogies of Shem, Shem was a hundred years old when he begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood

That not from a thread even unto a sandal-thong, - will I take, anything, that is thine, - Lest thou shouldst say, I, enriched Abram!

And surely your blood, of your lives, will I require, From the hand of every living creature, will I require it, - and from the hand of man From the hand of each ones brother, will I require the life of man:

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, stud gave to Abimelech, - and they two solemnised a covenant

And when the youths grew up, it came to pass that Esau was a man skilled in game a man of the field, - but, Jacob, was a ready man, dwelling in tents.

So then Yahweh said unto Cain, - Wherefore hath it angered thee, and wherefore hath thy countenance fallen?

Then died Shaul, - and there reigned in his stead, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor.

These, are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations in their nations, and from these, were dispersed the nations in the earth after the flood.

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain and his two daughters with him. for he feared to dwell in Zoar, so he dwelt in a cave, he, and his two daughters.

And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith, daughter of Beeri. the Hittite; and Basemath, daughter of Elon, the Hittite;

And it came to pass, in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, - Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goim,

And she went on to hear his brother, Abel, - and Abel became a feeder of sheep, whereas Cain, was a tiller of the round.

And he said unto him, - I, am Yahweh, who brought thee forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Then came in a fugitive, and told Abram the Hebrew, - he, having his dwelling among the oaks of Mature the Amorite brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, they, also having a covenant with Abram.

Then called Jacob unto his sons, - and said - Gather yourselves together, and let me tell you, that which shall befall you in the afterpart of the days.

And he said, The sound of thee, heard I in the garden, and I was afraid, for, naked, was I, so I hid myself.

And God made the wild-beast of the land after its kind, and the tame-beast after its kind, and every creeping thing of the ground, after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

So Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh, - as to which it is still said to-day, In the mountain of Yahweh, will provision be made.

Of all the clean beasts, shalt thou take to thee by sevens, a male and his female, - and, of the beasts that are not clean,, shall be two a male and his female.

Then said God unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, - and make there an altar, to the GOD who appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

and made him ride in the second chariot which belonged to him, and they cried out before him. Bow the knee! thus setting him over all the land of Egypt.

And he said, What hast thou done? With a voice, the shed-blood of thy brother is crying out to me from the ground,

And to Seth - to him also, was born a son, and he called his name Enosh, - then, was a beginning made, to call on the name of Yahweh.

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down away from his brethren, - and turned aside unto a certain Adullamite, whose, name, was Hirah.

And the messenger of Yahweh said to her, Behold thee! with child, and about bearing a son - and thou shalt call his name Ishmael for Yahweh hath hearkened unto thy humiliation.

Now, Abraham, was old, far gone in days, - and, Yahweh, had blessed Abraham, in all things.

So God said unto Noah: the end of all flesh, hath come in before me, for, filled, is the earth with violence, because of them, - behold me, then, destroying them with the earth.

Ere yet they lay down, the men of the city - the men of Sodom, had come round against the house, from youth even unto age, - all the people from every quarter,

And thy name shall no more be called Abram, - but thy name shall become Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations, have I appointed thee;

And it came to pass at the end of two years of days, that, Pharaoh, was dreaming, when lo! he was standing by the river (Nile);

And God said - Truly, Sarah thy wife, is about to bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name, Isaac, - and I will establish my covenant with him as an age-abiding covenant, to his seed after him.

Say, I beseech thee that my sister, art thou, - to the end it may be well with me for thy sake, so shall my soul be preserved alive because of thee.

And the land brought-forth vegetation - herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, whose seed is within it, after its kind, And God saw that it was good.

And Terah took Abram his son and Lot son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, - and came forth with them out of Ur of the Chaldees, that they might go their way towards the land of Canaan, and they came in as far as Haran and dwelt there.

And Joseph could not restrain himself before all who were stationed near him, so he cried out - Have forth every man from me! And there stood no man with him, when Joseph made himself known unto his brethren,

Judah, as for thee, thy brethren shall praise thee when thy hand is on the neck of thy foes, - The sons of thy father, shall bow them-selves down to thee:

And the ark rested, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, - on the mountains of Ararat.

And God said unto Abraham Let it not be grievous in thine eyes concerning the boy and concerning thy bondwoman, In all that Sarah may say unto thee, hearken to her voice, - For in Isaac, shall there be called to thee - a seed.

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; For I saw God face to face; and my soul was delivered,

And Abraham took another wife and her name, was Keturah;

So Cain went forth from the presence of Yahweh, - and dwelt in the land of Nod, eastward of Eden.

And they said Come on! let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower with its head in the heavens, so let us make for ourselves a name, - lest we be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.

My bow, have I set in the cloud, - and it shall be for a sign of a covenant, betwixt me and the earth;

but of Cain and his present, he approved not, - and it angered Cain greatly, and his countenance fell.

and to every living thing of the land - and to every bird of the heavens, and to every thing that moveth on the land, wherein is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it wins so.

And he said, Who told thee that, naked, thou wast? Of the tree whereof I commanded thee not to eat, hast thou eaten?

And the man said, - The woman whom thou didst put with me, she, gave me of the tree, so I did eat.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, - See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

And Noah was five hundred years old, - and Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japheth.

And Abraham said, God, will provide for himself the lamb for an ascending-sacrifice, my son! So they went on their way, both of them, together.

Now Rachel, had taken the household gods and put them in the basket-saddle of the camel, and taken her seat upon them. And Laban felt about throughout all the tent, and found them not.

And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, - but, Sarah, is her name;

And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, - and said in his heart To one a hundred years old, shall a child be born? And shall even Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?

So then Isaac made entreaty unto Yahweh in behalf of his wife, for she was, barren, - and Yahweh suffered himself to be entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land of thy sojournings - all the land of Canaan, for an age-abiding possession - And I will be to them a God.

and in the fourteenth year, had Chedorlaomer come in and the kings who were with him, so they smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, - and the Emim, in Shaveh-kiriathaim;

Now Abraham was a hundred years old, - when Isaac his son was born to him.

And he said, I will, surely return, unto thee at the quickening season, - and lo! a son for Sarah thy wife. Now Sarah, was hearkening at the opening of the tent, it, being behind him.

when, Abraham, shall surely become, a great and mighty nation, - and all the nations of the earth, shall be blessed in him?

When Esau heard the words of his father, then cried he out with an outcry loud and bitter exceedingly, - and said to his father, Bless even me also, O my father!

Now, Yahweh, had said, - Am I going to hide from Abraham what I do,

As for me, lo! my covenant is with thee, - So shalt thou become - father of a multitude of nations;

And Abraham gat up early in the morning, unto the place where he had stood before Yahweh;

And God said, This, is the sign of the covenant which I am granting betwixt me and you, and every living soul that is with you, - to age-abiding generations: -

And Adam again knew his wife, and she bare a son, and called his name Seth, - For God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain slew him!

And Abraham brake up from thence, towards the land of the South, and fixed his dwelling between Kadesh and Shur, so he sojourned in Gerar.

And she conceived again and bare a son, and said This time, will I praise Yahweh, For which cause, she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.

yea, I will establish my covenant with you, so that all flesh shall not be cut off any more, by reason of the waters of a flood, - neither shall there he any more a flood to destroy the earth.

Then, he too, made dainty meats, and brought in to his father, - and said to his father, Let my father rise that he may eat of the game of his son, To the end thy soul may bless me!

So he called it, Shibah. For this cause, hath the name of the city, been Beer-sheba, unto this day.

So Abraham rose up early in the morning - and took bread and a skin of water and gave unto hagar, - putting them on her shoulder and the child, and sent her forth, - so she went her way and wandered, in the desert of Beer-sheba.

Abel, also, even, he, brought in of the firstlings of his sheep, and of their fat, and Yahweh approved of Abel and of his present;

And Yahweh said to her. Two nations, are in thy womb, And two races, from thy body, shall be parted, - And, one race, shall be stronger, than the other race, And the elder, shall serve the younger.