Bath
Bathsheba
See,
for that the Lord hath given you the
sabbath,
therefore
he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days;
abide ye every man in his place, let no man go
out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day.
Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his
mother,
and
shall cleave unto his wife:
and
they shall be one flesh.
And God said unto
Abraham, Let it not
be grievous in thy sight because of the lad,
and
because of thy bondwoman;
in
all
that Sarah hath said unto thee,
hearken
unto her voice;
for
in Isaac shall
thy seed be called.
And
also
of the son of the bondwoman will I
make a nation, because he is thy seed.
And
Abraham rose up early in the morning,
And the name of
the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward
the
east of Assyria.
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
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
took bread,
and
a bottle of water,
and
gave it unto Hagar,
putting
it on her
shoulder,
and
the child,
and
sent her away:
and
she departed,
and
wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
And
the water w-as spent in the bottle,
and
she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
That
the sons of God saw the daughters of
men that they were fair;
and
they took them wives of all which they chose.
And
the Lord said,
My
spirit shall not always strive with
man, for that he also is flesh:
. . . when the sons of God came in
unto the daughters of men,
and
they bare children to them,
the same became mighty men which were of old, . . .
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
began to be a mighty one in the earth.
And
she went,
and
sat her down over again-st him a good way off,
The archers have sorely grieved him,
and
shot at him,
and
hated him:
as
it
were a bow - shot:
for
she said,
Let
me not see the death
of the child.
And
she sat over again-st him,
and
lift up her voice,
and
wept.
Leah was tender
eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
When thou go-est forth to war again-st
thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath
delivered them into thine hands,
and thou hast taken them captive,
And seest
among the captives a beautiful woman,
. . .and a tree to be desired to make one wise,.
.
and
hast a desire unto her,
that
thou
wouldest have her to thy wife;
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house;
and
she shall shave her head,
and
pare her nails;
And
she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her,
and
shall remain in thine house, .
. .
but
let
your brethren, the whole house of
Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord
hath kindled
.
. . and bewail her father and her mother a full month:
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and
the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof;
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and
after
that thou shalt go in unto her,
and
be her husband,
and
she shall be thy wife.
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And
whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes,
and
bathe himself in water,
and
be unclean until the even.
And Zillah,
she
also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass
and iron:
and
the sister of Tubalcain w-as Naamah.
Aaron
took him Elisheba,
daughter
of Amminadab,
sister
of
Naashon,
to wife;
and
she bare him Nadab,
and
Abihu,
Eleazar,
and
Ithamar.
The
sons of Japheth; Gomer,
and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. . . . And the sons of
Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
The
children of Shem;
Elam,
As
and
Asshur,
and
Arphaxad,
and
Lud,
and
Aram.
I
do
set my bow in the cloud,
and
it
shall be for a token of a covenant between me
and the
earth.
And
it
shall come to pass,
when I bring
a cloud over the earth,
that
the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
And
he said,
Swear unto me.
And
he sware unto him.
And
Israel
bowed him-self upon the bed's head.
Of
the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud:
And
one told Jacob,
and
said,
Behold,
thy son Joseph cometh unto thee:
and
Israel strengthened himself,
and
sat upon the bed.
And
now thy two sons,
Ep-h-raim
and Man-as-seth,
which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt,
are
mine;
as
Reuben
and
Simeon,
they
shall be mine.
Reuben, thou art my
firstborn,
my
might,
and
the beginning of my strength,
the excellency of dignity,
and
the excellency of power:
Unstable
as water,
thou
shalt not excel;
because thou wentest up to thy father's bed;
then defiled-st thou it:
he
went up to my couch.
And
when Jacob had made an end of
commanding his sons,
he
gathered up his feet into the bed,
and yielded up the ghost,
and
was gathered unto his
people.
And it came to pass in an eveningtide,
that
David arose from
off his bed,
and
walked upon the roof of the king's house:
and
from the roof he saw a woman washing her-self;
and
the woman was very beautiful
to look upon.
And Cain knew his wife;
and
she conceived,
and
bare Enoch:
and
he builded a city,
and
called the name of the city,
after
the
name of his son, Enoch.
And David sent and inquired after the woman.
. . . and one
that feared God, . . .
And
Abel,
he
also
brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
And the Lord had respect unto Abel
and
to his offering:
Unto
Shem also,
the father of all the children of Eber,
the brother of Japheth the elder,
even to him were children born.
The
children of Shem;
Elam,
and
Asshur,
and
Arphaxad,
and
Lud,
and A-ram.
And
the children of Aram;
Uz,
and
Hul,
and
Gether,
and
Mash.
And
Arphaxad begat Salah;
and
Salah begat Eber.
And
unto Eber were born two sons:
the name of one w-as Peleg;
. . . and God divided the light from the darkness.
and
let it divide the waters from the waters.
And
God made the firmament,
and
divided the waters which were under
the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:
and
it w-as so.
And
God said,
Let
there be lights
in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from
the night;
And
God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth,
And
to rule over the day and over the night,
and
to divide the light from the darkness:
and
God saw that it w-as good.
The
sons of Japheth; Gomer, . . . By
these were the isles of the Gentiles
divided
in their lands;
every
one
after his tongue,
after
their families,
in their nations.
the name of one was Peleg; for in his days
was the earth divided;
And the whole
earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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.
for in his days
was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
And Joktan
begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
And Obal,
and Abimael, and Sheba,
And
one said,
Is
not this Bathsheba,
the daughter of Eliam,
the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
then he put forth his hand,
and
took her,
and
pulled her in unto him into the ark.
And
David sent messengers,
and took her;
and
she came in unto him,
and
he lay with her;
Samuel
