In the beginning God created the heaven 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 air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth.

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

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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

Now the LORD had said to Abram, Depart from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to a land that I will show 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 replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living animal that moveth upon the earth.

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

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

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

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

And I will bless them that bless thee, and 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 bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.

And God called the firmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the second day.

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

And it came to pass after these things, that God tempted Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

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

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of 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 surely die.

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

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

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

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

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

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

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

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

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

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from 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 hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man hath become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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

And to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh shall come: and to him shall be the gathering of the people.

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

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

And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

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

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

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

And Melchisedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And there came two angels to Sodom at evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom; and Lot seeing them, rose to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face towards the ground;

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

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them: the same became mighty men, who were of old, 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 of it, then your eyes shall be opened: and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

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

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

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

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

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

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

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and the creeping animal, and the beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into 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 will keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which 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 the evening and the morning were the first day.

In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, 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 for themselves aprons.

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

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

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

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

For Adam also and for his wife the LORD God made coats of skins, and clothed them.

And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

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

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

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

And he said, Take now thy son, thy only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will name to thee.

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

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And to thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

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

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

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things:

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

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

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

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

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah.

And it came to pass, that when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every animal that creepeth upon the earth;

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

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

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah bore to Nahor Abraham's brother.

Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me for a wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

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

And the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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

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

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

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

Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a small one: Oh, let me escape thither! (Is it not a small one?) and my soul shall live.

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

Now therefore swear to me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou hast sojourned.

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

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

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

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

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

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

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

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

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

There went in two and two to Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

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

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bore also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

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

Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.

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

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

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

And this is the fashion in which thou shalt make it: the length of the ark shall 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 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 Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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

The name of the first is Pison, which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went towards Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

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

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

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

And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and 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, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

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

And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan.

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

But with thee will I establish my covenant: and thou shalt come 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 token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

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

Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee; be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

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

And the man bowed his head, and worshipped the LORD.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: which floweth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

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

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

And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And Salah 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 at this set time in the next year.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten will be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

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

And to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Peradventure there will be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

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

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

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

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

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

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

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

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

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

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord: Peradventure there will be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; which returned not again to 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 behold, I, even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven: and every thing that is on the earth shall die.

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

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

Now 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 begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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

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

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

Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot do any thing till thou hast come thither: therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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

The children of Shem; Elam, and Ashur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

And God spoke to Noah, saying,

And the Jebusite, and the Emorite, and the Girgasite,

Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba: because there they swore both of them.

And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

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

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

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, to Gaza; as thou goest to Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even to Lashah.

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him: and he sold his birth-right to Jacob.

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

In the same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark.

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

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

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

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

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

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

And Zillah, she also bore Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

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

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

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

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

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

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went to go forth into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD there confounded the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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

And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

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

And he removed from thence to a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he erected an altar to the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

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

And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

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

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left my master destitute of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

And it came to pass when he saw the ear-ring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me; that he came to the man; and behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

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

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

Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping animal of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come 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 in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which is the breath of life.

Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are in it?

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have digged this well.

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

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

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

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way: thus Esau despised his birth-right.

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birth-right bring to me?

And he said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me twice: he took away my birth-right; and behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites dispersed.

And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

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

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.

Every beast, every creeping animal, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Now this time will my husband adhere to me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

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

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

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

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

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

And all the days of Cainan 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 he ate of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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

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

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

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

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

And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.

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

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

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

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

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

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: Then Abimelech arose, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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

And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.

And they that entered, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

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

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

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

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; why standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

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

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

And the waters decreased continually, till the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

And Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south.

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

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

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

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth: and the ark moved upon the face of the waters.

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

If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lamech 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 upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

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

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

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest to Sephar, a mount of the east.

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping animals, and the fowl of heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to 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 Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

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

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

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

And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned to his place.

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

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

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

And the name of the second called he Ephraim: for God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

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

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

Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household-stuff? set it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed:

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

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

And Laban answered, and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have borne?

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother: and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

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

Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

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

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

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin, in the 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 called the name of the city, after the name of his son Enoch.

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

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 have I not eaten.

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

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

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

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

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

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

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

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

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

And he said to me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house.

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

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

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

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And the damsel 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 he planted a vineyard:

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.

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

And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, till the waters were dried from off the earth.

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

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

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

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

And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where art thou?

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

And he arose that night, and took his two wives, and his two women-servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted my hand to the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

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

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

And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

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

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

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

While the earth remaineth, 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 the LORD commanded him.

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

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

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

And blessed be the most high God, who hath delivered thy enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To thy seed will I give this land: and there he erected an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.

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

Of fowls of the air also by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

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

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

But flesh with the life of it, which is its blood, shall ye not eat.

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

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, he made woman, and brought her to the man.

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

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt: and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down thither.

In the same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

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

And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.

And 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 the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping animal, and the fowls of the air; for I repent that I have made them.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.

And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

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

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowls of the air, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.

And Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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

And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

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

And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD.

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him for a wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On: and Joseph went over all the land of Egypt.

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed: because thou hast obeyed my voice.

And Abram returned from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

And he said to Abram, Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

And Jacob dwelt in the land in which his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest to Zoar.

And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said to him, My son: and he said to him, Behold, here am I.

And God remembered Noah, and every living animal, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were checked.

And Jacob said, Sell to me this day thy birth-right.

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth.

And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them to Dan.

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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

And they rose betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made a covenant.

And the boys grew: and Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents.

And the LORD said to Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

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

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

And Esau was forty years old when he took for a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the 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 nations;

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And he said to him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

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

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it will be seen.

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground.

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

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

And the angel of the LORD said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

And Abraham was old and far advanced in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them: and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me: and there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brethren.

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thy enemies: thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

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

And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman; in all that Sarah hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

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

And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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

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

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every animal that creepeth upon the earth, in which is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eat?

And the man said, The woman, whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

And Pharaoh said to 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, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering: so they went both of them together.

Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land in which thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

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

And he said, I will certainly return to thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

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

And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

And Abraham rose early in the morning, to the place were he stood before the LORD:

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.

And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

And Abraham journeyed from thence towards the south country, and dwelt between Kadash and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

And she conceived again, and bore a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah, and left bearing.

And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

And he also had made savory meat, and brought it to his father; and said to his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

And Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar (putting it on her shoulder) and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect to Abel, and to his offering:

And the LORD said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels: and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.