11 Bible Verses about Civilization
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And God said - Let us make man in our image after our likeness - and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens and over the tame-beast - and over all the land, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the land. And God created the man in his own image, In the image of God, created he him, - Male and female, created he, them.
For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
We know that, of God, are we; and, the whole world, in the wicked one, is lying.
The times of ignorance, therefore, overlooking, God, as things now are, is charging all men everywhere to repent, inasmuch as he hath appointed a day, in which he is about to be judging the habitable earth in righteousness, by a man whom he hath pointed out, - offering faith unto all, by raising him from among the dead?
And, with many different words, bare he frail witness, and went on exhorting them saying - Be saved from this perverse generation!
As, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having in like manner to these given themselves over to fornication, and gone away after other kind of flesh, lie exposed as an example, a penalty of age-abiding fire, undergoing.
And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bare Enoch, - Now it happened that he was building a city, so he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Now, these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and there were born to them sons after the flood. The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Javan and Tubal, - and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath, and Togarmah.read more.
And the sons of Javan: Elisha, and Tarshish. Kittim, and Rodanim, - From these, were dispersed the inhabitants of the coastlands of the nations, in their lands, each man by his tongue, by their families in their nations. And, the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan. And, the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah and Raamah, and Sabtechah, - And the sons of Raamah, Sheba and Dedan. And, Cush begat Nimrod. - he, became a hero in the earth; he, became a hero of hunting before Yahweh, for this cause, it is said. Like Nimrod, a hero of hunting before Yahweh. So the beginning of his kingdom came to be Babel, and Erech, and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. From that land, went forth Asshur, - and he built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah: and Resen, between Niveveh and Calah, - the same is the great city. And, Mizraim, begat Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim, and Naphtuchim; and Pathrusim and Casluhim whence came forth Philistim and Caphtorim. And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth: and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite; and the Hivite and the Arkite, and the Sinite: and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite, - and after-wards, were spread abroad the families of the Canaanite. And it came to pass that the boundary of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou enterest in towards Gerar unto Gaza, - as thou enterest in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, as far as Lasha. These, are the sons of Ham, by their families by their tongues, in their lands in their nations. Now, to Shem, father of all the sons of Eber, elder brother of Japheth, to him also, were children born. The sons of Shem, Elam and Asshur, - and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. And, the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul, and Gether and Mash. Now Arpachshad, begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber. And to Eber, were born two sons, - the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days, was the earth divided, and the name of his brother was Joktan. Now, Joktan, begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah; and Hadoram and Uzai, and Diklah: and Obal and Abimael, and Sheba: and Ophir and Havilah, and Jobab - all these were sons of Joktan. And it came to pass that their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou enterest in towards Sephar, the mountain of the east. These are the sons of Shem, by their families by their tongues, in their lands by their nations. These, are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations in their nations, and from these, were dispersed the nations in the earth after the flood.
