While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

And God said to Noah and to his sons,

And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,

Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.

And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.

all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.

Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

And he went on, journeying still to the South.

And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all he had.

And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.

And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus.

And when he was coming back after putting to flight Chedorlaomer and the other kings, he had a meeting with the king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that is, the King's Valley.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,

That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.

He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.

Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;