It's all in the imagination III

But man dieth, and wasteth away

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And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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And the Spirit of God (So) moved upon the face of the waters.

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So God created man in his own image,

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There were giants in the earth in those days;

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he made the -- stars - also.

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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,

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and to divide the light from the darkness:

and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let there be light:

and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good:

and God divided the light - from - the darkness.

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and also -- after that,

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And to Seth, to him also - there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then - began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

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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.

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

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And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

And I will put enmity between thee and the work-man, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

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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.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

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

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So the Lord scattered them abroad - from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they - left - off to build the city.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did - there confound the language of all the earth: and from - thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

These are the generations of Shem:

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And the earth was without form, and void;

and  darkness was upon the face of the deep.

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And God saw the light, that it was good:

and God divided the light from the darkness.

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And God called the light Day,

and the darkness he called Night.

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And to rule over the day - and over the night,

and to divide the light from the darkness:

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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night,

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These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

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And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.. . .

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And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,

And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

Eber, Peleg, Reu,

Serug, Nahor, Terah,

Abram; the same is Abraham.

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And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, - after his image; and called his name Seth:

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Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

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And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

He was a mighty hunter - before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,

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And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

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That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

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And Abram and Nahor took them wives:

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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.

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. . . Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, . . .

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And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

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And Abram and Nahor took them wives: . . .the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; . . .But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

ISamuel