In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth

And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, 'Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'

And God saith, 'Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed is in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.

And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

And Jehovah saith unto Abram, 'Go for thyself, from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father, unto the land which I shew thee.

and God saith, 'Let light be;' and light is.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

And Jehovah God saith, 'Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'

And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day the sixth.

Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband is thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'

And God saith, 'Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

And God calleth to the expanse 'Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.

And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

And it cometh to pass after these things that God hath tried Abraham, and saith unto him, 'Abraham;' and he saith, 'Here am I.'

And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth Cain, and saith, 'I have gotten a man by Jehovah;'

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'

These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.

These are births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day third.

And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, 'I am God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;

After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, 'Fear not, Abram, I am a shield to thee, thy reward is exceeding great.'

And God saith, 'Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,

And Jehovah God saith, 'Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that it is good;

And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.

The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his is the obedience of peoples.

And they hear the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day;

by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

And the serpent saith unto the woman, 'Dying, ye do not die,

And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

And Melchizedek king of Salem hath brought out bread and wine, and he is priest of God Most High;

And Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life;

And God saith, 'Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself -- face to the earth,

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

The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they are the heroes, who, from of old, are the men of name.

And God seeth the light that it is good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it -- your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'

As for you, ye devised against me evil -- God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;

And God saith, 'Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

And Jehovah God causeth a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he sleepeth, and He taketh one of his ribs, and closeth up flesh in its stead.

And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

This is an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;

And God saith, 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fourth.

And God saith, 'Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

And Jacob goeth out from Beer-Sheba, and goeth toward Haran,

and God calleth to the light 'Day,' and to the darkness He hath called 'Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one.

In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, 'To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat,

And Jehovah God formeth from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and bringeth in unto the man, to see what he doth call it; and whatever the man calleth a living creature, that is its name.

and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they are naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.

And Seth liveth an hundred and five years, and begetteth Enos.

and the man saith, 'This is the proper step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, 'I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

And Jehovah God doth make to the man and to his wife coats of skin, and doth clothe them.

and with every living creature which is with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the ark -- to every beast of the earth.

And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;

and sons of God see the daughters of men that they are fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

yea, he casteth out the man, and causeth to dwell at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flame of the sword which is turning itself round to guard the way of the tree of life.

And He saith, 'Take, I pray thee, thy son, thine only one, whom thou hast loved, even Isaac, and go for thyself unto the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak unto thee.'

And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him.

and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fifth.

And it cometh to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she is exceeding fair;

Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

And Jehovah saith, 'The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah -- because great; and their sin -- because exceeding grievous:

and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.

and Jehovah God causeth to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, 'Let us go into the field;' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.

And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn;

And Abraham saith unto God, 'O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying,

And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.

And it cometh to pass -- the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been -- and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces.

of the clean beasts and of the beasts that are not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground,

and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her unto Pharaoh, and the woman is taken to Pharaoh's house;

and the dove hath not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turneth back unto him, unto the ark, for waters are on the face of all the earth, and he putteth out his hand, and taketh her, and bringeth her in unto him, unto the ark.

and Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah;' these eight hath Milcah borne to Nahor, Abraham's brother;

Why hast thou said, She is my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.'

And he divideth himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smiteth them, and pursueth them unto Hobah, which is at the left of Damascus;

And Jehovah plagueth Pharaoh and his house -- great plagues -- for the matter of Sarai, Abram's wife.

and to Abram he hath done good because of her, and he hath sheep and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and handmaids, and she-asses, and camels.

And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh -- Phichol also, head of his host -- unto Abraham, saying, 'God is with thee in all that thou art doing;

and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

She saith also unto him, 'Both straw and provender are abundant with us, also a place to lodge in.'

lo, I pray thee, this city is near to flee thither, and it is little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.'

And all the days of Seth are nine hundred and twelve years, and he dieth.

and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'

and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;

And Seth liveth after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely -- and if not -- I know;'

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

And Pharaoh calleth for Abram, and saith, 'What is this thou hast done to me? why hast thou not declared to me that she is thy wife?

and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah; it is the great city.

and the gold of that land is good, there is the bdolach and the shoham stone;

and he bringeth back the whole of the substance, and also Lot his brother and his substance hath he brought back, and also the women and the people.

And the king of Sodom goeth out to meet him (after his turning back from the smiting of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings who are with him), unto the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's valley.

two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.

And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

and his concubine, whose name is Reumah, she also hath borne Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maachah.

And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.

and God doth give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine;

And Jehovah seeth that Leah is the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel is barren;

And he saith unto him, 'Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city for which thou hast spoken;

And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark;

rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'

and this is that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits is the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;

And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years.

And Pharaoh chargeth men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife, an all that he hath.

And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.

And Cain saith unto Jehovah, 'Greater is my punishment than to be borne;

and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;

the name of the one is Pison, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of the Havilah where the gold is,

and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah.

and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.

with whomsoever thou findest thy gods -- he doth not live; before our brethren discern for thyself what is with me, and take to thyself:' and Jacob hath not known that Rachel hath stolen them.

And the woman saith unto the serpent, 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat,

And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.

And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim, (whence have come out Philistim,) and the Caphtorim.

And Mitzraim hath begotten the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim,

And Enos liveth after his begetting Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Enos liveth ninety years, and begetteth Cainan.

and now, cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

'And I have established My covenant with thee, and thou hast come in unto the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy son's wives with thee;

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

And God saith unto Noah, 'This is a 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 Gibon, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

peoples serve thee, and nations bow themselves to thee, be thou mighty over thy brethren, and the sons of thy mother bow themselves to thee; those who curse thee are cursed, and those who bless thee are blessed.'

And these are births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;

And the man boweth, and doth obeisance to Jehovah,

As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

and Isaac saith unto them, 'Wherefore have ye come unto me, and ye have hated me, and ye send me away from you?'

and the name of the third river is Hiddekel, it is that which is going east of Asshur; and the fourth river is Phrat.

And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.

and the bow hath been in the cloud, and I have seen it -- to remember the covenant age-during between God and every living creature among all flesh which is on the earth.'

And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

And he saith, 'Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, 'I do not destroy it, because of the ten.'

and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud,

And born to Enoch is Irad; and Irad hath begotten Mehujael; and Mehujael hath begotten Methusael; and Methusael hath begotten Lamech.

And Lamech saith to his wives: -- 'Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, give ear to my saying: For a man I have slain for my wound, Even a young man for my hurt;

And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, 'Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, 'I do it not, because of the forty.'

And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Canaan hath begotten Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

And Abram passeth over into the land, unto the place Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite is then in the land.

and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

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

with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

These three are sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been overspread.

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

And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;

And Laban goeth into the tent of Jacob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two handmaidens, and hath not found; and he goeth out from the tent of Leah, and goeth into the tent of Rachel.

And he saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, 'I do not destroy it, because of the twenty.'

a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its side, -- lower, second, and third stories dost thou make it.

And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.

And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.

And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which is a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that is in the earth doth expire.

and it cometh to pass as he hath drawn near to enter Egypt, that he saith unto Sarai his wife, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have known that thou art a woman of beautiful appearance;

And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.

And these are births of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and born to them are sons after the deluge.

And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.'

And Joktan hath begotten Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.

haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.

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

Sons of Shem are Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, 'Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee;

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

therefore hath he called that place 'Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.

And they say, 'We have certainly seen that Jehovah hath been with thee, and we say, 'Let there be, we pray thee, an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

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

And he saith, 'What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, 'Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch;

And the border of the Canaanite is from Sidon, in thy coming towards Gerar, unto Gaza; in thy coming towards Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, unto Lasha.

and Jacob saith, 'Swear to me to-day:' and he sweareth to him, and selleth his birthright to Jacob;

when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'

In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark;

And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor.

And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

And all the days of Enos are nine hundred and five years, and he dieth.

lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'

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

And Zillah she also bare Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron; and a sister of Tubal-Cain is Naamah.

And Rebekah hath a brother, and his name is Laban, and Laban runneth unto the man who is without, unto the fountain;

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

and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

And Abraham answereth and saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes;

And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

And Abram taketh Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Charan; and they go out to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come in to the land of Canaan.

And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

therefore hath one called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

And Noah doth according to all that God hath commanded him; so hath he done.

And to Eber have two sons been born; the name of the one is Peleg (for in his days hath the earth been divided,) and his brother's name is Joktan.

and it hath come to pass that the Egyptians see thee, and they have said, 'This is his wife,' and they have slain me, and thee they keep alive:

And he removeth from thence towards a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretcheth out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah.

And Abraham saith, 'I -- I do swear.'

and the name of his brother is Jubal, he hath been father of every one handling harp and organ.

And Arphaxad hath begotten Salah, and Salah hath begotten Eber.

As to Shem, father of all sons of Eber, brother of Japheth the elder, he hath also begotten:

and saith, 'Blessed is Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord; -- I being in the way, Jehovah hath led me to the house of my lord's brethren.'

yea, it cometh to pass, when he seeth the ring, and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heareth the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, 'Thus hath the man spoken unto me,' that he cometh in unto the man, and lo, he is standing by the camels by the fountain.

By these have the isles of the nations been parted in their lands, each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.

a male and a female He hath prepared them, and He blesseth them, and calleth their name Man, in the day of their being prepared.

Of the fowl after its kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort they come in unto thee, to keep alive.

Sons of Japheth are Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which is a living spirit;

peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who are in its midst?

And Sarai is barren -- she hath no child.

And he saith, 'For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

and they say each one to his neighbour, 'Give help, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.

every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, among fowl, and among cattle, and among every creeping thing which is creeping on the earth, bring out with thee;

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

and Jacob hath given to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he eateth, and drinketh, and riseth, and goeth; and Esau despiseth the birthright.

And Cainan liveth seventy years, and begetteth Mahalaleel.

And Esau saith, 'Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me -- birthright?'

And he saith, 'Is it because one called his name Jacob that he doth take me by the heel these two times? my birthright he hath taken; and lo, now, he hath taken my blessing;' he saith also, 'Hast thou not kept back a blessing for me?'

The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar,

and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterwards have the families of the Canaanite been scattered.

And Cainan liveth after his begetting Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah.

every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl; every creeping thing on the earth, after their families, have gone out from the ark.

And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, 'Now is the time, my husband is joined unto me, because I have born to him three sons,' therefore hath one called his name Levi.

And sons of Gomer are Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these are sons of Joktan;

they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird -- every wing.

Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;

he hath begun to be a hero in the land; he hath been a hero in hunting before Jehovah; therefore it is said, 'As Nimrod the hero in hunting before Jehovah.'

And all the days of Cainan are nine hundred and ten years, and he dieth.

And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

and Isaac loveth Esau, for his hunting is in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.

And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And sons of Javan are Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

And Jared liveth an hundred and sixty and two years, and begetteth Enoch.

And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.

And Adah beareth Jabal, he hath been father of those inhabiting tents and purchased possessions;

and Samlah dieth, and reign in his stead doth Saul from Rehoboth of the River;

peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous -- dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, 'I destroy it not, if I find there forty and five.'

And Mahalaleel liveth after his begetting Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Mahalaleel liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Jared.

'And thou, take to thyself of all food that is eaten; and thou hast gathered unto thyself, and it hath been to thee and to them for food.'

And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech riseth -- Phichol also, head of his host -- and they turn back unto the land of the Philistines;

And Abraham is a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

And sons of Aram are Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,

and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close it for him.

And all the days of Mahalaleel are eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he dieth.

and he blesseth him, and saith, 'Blessed is Abram to God Most High, possessing heaven and earth;

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

And he saith, 'Come in, O blessed one of Jehovah, why standest thou without, and I -- I have prepared the house and place for the camels!'

And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which are under the whole heavens;

And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.

and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

God doth give beauty to Japheth, And he dwelleth in tents of Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.'

And Abram journeyeth, going on and journeying towards the south.

all in whose nostrils is breath of a living spirit -- of all that is in the dry land -- have died.

And Noah goeth out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;

and Isaac trembleth a very great trembling, and saith, 'Who, now, is he who hath provided provision, and bringeth in to me, and I eat of all before thou comest in, and I bless him? -- yea, blessed is he.'

and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.

And Isaac his father saith to him, 'Who art thou?' and he saith, 'I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau;'

For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'

and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him with garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is -- a pillar of salt!

and Jacob saith to his brethren, 'Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

and their dwelling is from Mesha, in thy coming towards Sephar, a mount of the east.

And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who are with him in the ark;

And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, 'Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,'

And sons of Cush are Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah; and sons of Raamah are Sheba and Dedan.

And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah openeth the window of the ark which he made,

And Methuselah liveth an hundred and eighty and seven years, and begetteth Lamech.

And the words of Esau her elder son are declared to Rebekah, and she sendeth and calleth for Jacob her younger son, and saith unto him, 'Lo, Esau thy brother is comforting himself in regard to thee -- to slay thee;

and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days.

And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'

And Jehovah goeth on, when He hath finished speaking unto Abraham, and Abraham hath turned back to his place.

fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;

'And my lord causeth me to swear, saying, Thou dost not take a wife to my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose land I am dwelling.

'And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: 'for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.'

And he saith: 'Blessed of Jehovah my God is Shem, And Canaan is servant to him.

and calleth his name Noah, saying, 'This one doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.'

And Esau saith unto his father, 'One blessing hast thou my father? bless me, me also, O my father;' and Esau lifteth up his voice, and weepeth.

for thou hast felt all my vessels: what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house? set here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and they decide between us both.

and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.

And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

And all the days of Lamech are seven hundred and seventy and seven years, and he dieth.

And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, 'The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing is mine; and to my daughters -- what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?

and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'

for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'

(lo, I am standing by the fountain of water), then the virgin who is coming out to draw, and I have said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher,

and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

and Cain knoweth his wife, and she conceiveth, and beareth Enoch; and he is building a city, and he calleth the name of the city, according to the name of his son -- Enoch.

and the land maketh in the seven years of plenty by handfuls.

These twenty years I am with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten;

and I bow, and do obeisance before Jehovah, and I bless Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath led me in the true way to receive the daughter of my lord's brother for his son.

And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;

And Lamech liveth an hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth a son,

And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goeth down towards Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine is grievous in the land;

and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

and Noah is a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.

And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name is Hagar;

and he saith unto me, Jehovah, before whom I have walked habitually, doth send His messenger with thee, and hath prospered thy way, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father;

And all the days of Jared are nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he dieth.

And these are births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;

and thou hast dwelt with him some days, till thy brother's fury turn back,

And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.

And the young person runneth, and declareth to the house of her mother according to these words.

And Noah liveth after the deluge three hundred and fifty years;

And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,

And Jehovah hath looked after Sarah as He hath said, and Jehovah doth to Sarah as He hath spoken;

And he gathereth all the food of the seven years which have been in the land of Egypt, and putteth food in the cities; the food of the field which is round about each city hath he put in its midst;

and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth.

And Jared liveth after his begetting Enoch eight hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.

and Esau saith unto Jacob, 'Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I am weary;' therefore hath one called his name Edom Red;

and Ishmael his son is a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

And the first-born saith unto the younger, 'Our father is old, and a man there is not in the earth to come in unto us, as is the way of all the earth;

and Abraham planteth a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preacheth there in the name of Jehovah, God age-during;

And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, 'Where art thou?'

and He bringeth him out without, and saith, 'Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, 'Thus is thy seed.'

And he riseth in that night, and taketh his two wives, and his two maid-servants, and his eleven children, and passeth over the passage of Jabbok;

do not evil with us, as we have not touched thee, and as we have only done good with thee, and send thee away in peace; thou art now blessed of Jehovah.'

and Abram saith unto the king of Sodom, 'I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth --

and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

And he dreameth, and lo, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and lo, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;

And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot's being parted 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 thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress;

And Jehovah saith to Noah, 'Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

And Methuselah liveth after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

and Abraham setteth seven Lambs of the flock by themselves.

And Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him:

Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

And Shem taketh -- Japheth also -- the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces are backward, and their father's nakedness they have not seen.

and all the men of his house -- born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger -- have been circumcised with him.

and blessed is God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.

And Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith, 'To thy seed I give this land;' and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, who hath appeared unto him.

And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from thence it is parted, and hath become four chief rivers;

also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

And Lamech liveth after his begetting Noah five hundred and ninety and five years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And he saith, 'Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.'

only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.

And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;

and Abimelech saith, 'I have not known who hath done this thing, and even thou didst not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard save to-day.'

And Jehovah saith, 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.'

And Joseph hath been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners, an Egyptian man, buyeth him out of the hands of the Ishmaelites who have brought him thither.

in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth a son in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.

And there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goeth unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.

And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.

And Jehovah saith, 'I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'

'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats -- and it hath been my hire;

And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, 'Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.'

And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence.

And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper -- as his counterpart.

And the life of Sarah is a hundred and twenty and seven years -- years of the life of Sarah;

And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living.

and he lifteth up his eyes and looketh, and lo, three men standing by him, and he seeth, and runneth to meet them from the opening of the tent, and boweth himself towards the earth,

And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, 'Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan;

And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;

And it cometh to pass at the end of days that Cain bringeth from the fruit of the ground a present to Jehovah;

And it cometh to pass, as Isaac hath finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob is only just going out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother hath come in from his hunting;

And Jehovah saith unto Cain, 'Where is Abel thy brother?' and he saith, 'I have not known; my brother's keeper -- I?'

and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt.

and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south;

and He saith to Abram, 'knowing -- know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,

And Jacob dwelleth in the land of his father's sojournings -- in the land of Canaan.

And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it is all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,

And it cometh to pass that Isaac is aged, and his eyes are too dim for seeing, and he calleth Esau his elder son, and saith unto him, 'My son;' and he saith unto him, 'Here am I.'

And God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which are with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

and Jacob saith, 'Sell to-day thy birthright to me.'

and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

and Leah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Reuben, for she said, 'Because Jehovah hath looked on mine affliction; because now doth my husband love me.'

And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan.

that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which is on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

And Cush hath begotten Nimrod;

and rise early in the morning, and swear one to another, and Isaac sendeth them away, and they go from him in peace.

These are births of Shem: Shem is a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.

from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I -- I have made Abram rich;

'And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;

And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;

And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted with hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob is a plain man, inhabiting tents;

And Jehovah saith unto Cain, 'Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen?

and Saul dieth, and reign in his stead doth Baal-hanan son of Achbor;

These are families of the sons of Noah, by their births, in their nations, and by these have the nations been parted in the earth after the deluge.

And Lot goeth up out of Zoar, and dwelleth in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he hath been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwelleth in a cave, he and his two daughters.

And Esau is a son of forty years, and he taketh a wife, Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite,

And it cometh to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim,

and she addeth to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain hath been servant of the ground.

And He saith unto him, 'I am Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;'

And one who is escaping cometh and declareth to Abram the Hebrew, and he is dwelling among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, and they are Abram's allies.

And Jacob calleth unto his sons and saith, 'Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which doth happen with you in the latter end of the days.

and he saith, 'Thy sound I have heard in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.'

And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.

and Abraham calleth the name of that place 'Jehovah-Jireh,' because it is said this day in the mount, 'Jehovah doth provide.'

of all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its female;

And God saith unto Jacob, 'Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'

and causeth him to ride in the second chariot which he hath, and they proclaim before him, 'Bow the knee!' and -- to put him over all the land of Egypt.

And He saith, 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;

And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the name of Jehovah.

And it cometh to pass, at that time, that Judah goeth down from his brethren, and turneth aside unto a man, an Adullamite, whose name is Hirah;

and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, 'Behold thou art conceiving, and bearing a son, and hast called his name Ishmael, for Jehovah hath hearkened unto thine affliction;

And Abraham is old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all things;

And God said to Noah, 'An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;

and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

And it cometh to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and lo, he is standing by the River,

and God saith, 'Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, so that it is well with me because of thee, and my soul hath lived for thy sake.'

And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed is in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that it is good;

And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there.

And Joseph hath not been able to refrain himself before all those standing by him, and he calleth, 'Put out every man from me;' and no man hath stood with him when Joseph maketh himself known unto his brethren,

Judah! thou -- thy brethren praise thee! Thy hand is on the neck of thine enemies, Sons of thy father bow themselves to thee.

And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

and God saith unto Abraham, 'Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee -- hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.

And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for 'I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;'

And Abraham addeth and taketh a wife, and her name is Keturah;

And Cain goeth out from before Jehovah, and dwelleth in the land, moving about east of Eden;

And they say, 'Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;

and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which is breath of life, every green herb is for food:' and it is so.

And He saith, 'Who hath declared to thee that thou art naked? of the tree of which I have commanded thee not to eat, hast thou eaten?'

and the man saith, 'The woman whom Thou didst place with me -- she hath given to me of the tree -- and I do eat.'

And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.'

And Noah is a son of five hundred years, and Noah begetteth Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

and Abraham saith, 'God doth provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son;' and they go on both of them together.

And Rachel hath taken the teraphim, and putteth them in the furniture of the camel, and sitteth upon them; and Laban feeleth all the tent, and hath not found;

And God saith unto Abraham, 'Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name;

And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, 'To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'

And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she is barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,

and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings who are with him, and they smite the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

And Abraham is a son of a hundred years in Isaac his son being born to him,

and he saith, 'returning I return unto thee, about the time of life, and lo, to Sarah thy wife a son.'

and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

When Esau heareth the words of his father, then he crieth a very great and bitter cry, and saith to his father, 'Bless me, me also, O my father;'

and Jehovah said, 'Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing,

I -- lo, My covenant is with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

And Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the place where he hath stood before the face of Jehovah;

And God saith, 'This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, to generations age-during;

And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth, 'for God hath appointed for me another seed instead of Abel:' for Cain had slain him.

And Abraham journeyeth from thence toward the land of the south, and dwelleth between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourneth in Gerar;

And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith this time, 'I praise Jehovah;' therefore hath she called his name Judah; and she ceaseth from bearing.

And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.'

and he also maketh tasteful things, and bringeth to his father, and saith to his father, 'Let my father arise, and eat of his son's provision, so that thy soul doth bless me.'

and he calleth it Shebah, oath, therefore the name of the city is Beer-Sheba, well of the oath, unto this day.

And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and taketh bread, and a bottle of water, and giveth unto Hagar (placing it on her shoulder), also the lad, and sendeth her out; and she goeth on, and goeth astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;

and Abel, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present,

And Jehovah saith to her, 'Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the one people than the other people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'