Marriage III

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(met)adj. Fitting; proper: "It seems not meet, - nor wholesome to my place"

                                         American Heritage Talking Dictionary

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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit -- after his kind, - whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, -- after his kind: and God saw - that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature -- after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth -- after his kind: and it was so.

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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

After His Image

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

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 God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: - because - that in it - he had rested from all -- his work which God created - and made.

And the earth was - without form, and void;

and  darkness was upon the face of the deep.

And the Lord God formed man of - the dust of the ground, and - breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; - and man became a living soul.

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there - he put the man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also - in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and d-evil.

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me an-other seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took - one of his ribs, and closed up - the flesh  instead - there-of;

And out of the ground - the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam - to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name there-of.

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found - an help - meet for him.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, - made he a workman, and brought her unto the man.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Therefore shall a man - leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

And I will put enmity - between thee and the workman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head,

and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, - and clothed them.

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And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become - as one of us, to know good and d-evil:

and now, lest he put forth his hand, and - take also of - the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Therefore the Lord God - sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence - he was taken.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

And Adam knew Eve - his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat there-of. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.

And Cain was very wroth,

and his countenance - fell.

ISamuel