Sermon on the Mountain XXVI

 One an the other

In the beg in n in g God created the heaven and the earth.

*****

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 it came to pass, when men beg-an to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

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 al-so is flesh: . . .

*****

And Lamech said unto his wives, Ad-ah and Zill-ah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

*****

. . . yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also - after that, - 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, -  men of renown.

*****

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

*****

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

********

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit - after his kind,

*****

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also - after that, - when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children - to them,

*****

and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made

*****

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that - no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

  I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

*****

No man can serve two masters:

*****

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

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,

*****

And Lamech took unto him – two - wives: the name of the one was Ad-ah, and the name of the other Zill-ah.

gen-er-a-tion

(jen-rashn)n. 1. All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor: Mother and daughters represent two generations. 2. Biology. A form or stage in the life cycle of an organism: asexual generation of a fern. 3. The average interval of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring. 4.   A group of individuals born and living about the same time. A group of generally contemporaneous individuals regarded as having common cultural or social characteristics and attitudes: . . .

                                                                              American Heritage Talking Dictionary

*****

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,

*****

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring in-to the ark, - to keep - them - alive with thee; - they shall be male and female.

*****

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

*****

for either he will hate the one,

*****

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lov-est, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

*****

and love the other;

*****

 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

And while - he lingered, - the men laid hold upon his hand, and up-on the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

*****

or else he will hold to the one,

*****

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.  If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not - one fashion us in the womb? If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten there-of; (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

This also -were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that  the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. If my land cry against me, or that the furrows like-wise there-of complain;

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in - his own eyes.

*****

and despise the other.

ISamuelyeaon-AmAllah