But man dieth,

But man dieth, and wasteth away:

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And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast,

and the creeping thing,

and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me - that I have made them.

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And the earth was without form,

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So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which - I please,

and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

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and void;

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and  darkness was upon the face of the deep.

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

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.

And God called the light - Day,

and the darkness he called - Night.

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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.

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And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden;

and there he put the - man whom he - had formed.

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And Noah began to be an husband-man,

and he planted a vineyard:

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And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

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And he drank of the wine,

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He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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and was drunken;

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My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. By the great force of my disease is my garment changed:

it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust - and ashes.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me:

I stand up, and thou regard-est me not.

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

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And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

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And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,

and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

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For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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And the earth was without form,

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and he was uncovered within his tent.

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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.

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Go to, let us - go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

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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.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, 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 was so.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

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Seven Nights

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.

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This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

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All these were the sons of Joktan.

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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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Therefore shall a man leave - his father and his mother,

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But man dieth, and wasteth away:

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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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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,

and told his two brethren - without.

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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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. . . 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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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:

And they were both naked, the man and his wife,

and were not ashamed.

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

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

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

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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 I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed - out of Haran.

ISamuel