Racism origins VI

  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.

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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 the evening and the morning were the third day.

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. . . God created the heaven –and  the earth.

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So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God - created he him;

male and female created he them.

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And God called the light Day,

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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.

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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.

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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.

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden;

and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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The children of Shem; Elam,

and Asshur,

and Arphaxad,

and Lud,

and Aram.

And the children of Aram;

Uz,

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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job;

and that man was perfect

and upright,

and one that feared God,

and eschewed d-evil.

    And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

    His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;

so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And his sons went and feasted in their houses, . . .

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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and d-evil.

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For God,

said she,

hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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and he was not;

for God took him.

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For yet

seven days,

and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

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every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

And it was so,

when the days of their feasting were gone about,

 that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered - burnt offerings according to the number of them all:

for Job said,

It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.

Thus did Job continually.

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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 created great whales,

and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,

after their kind,

and every winged fowl - after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

And God blessed them,

saying,

Be fruitful, and multiply,

and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken;

and he was uncovered within his tent.

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And Cush begat Nim-rod:

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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Howl, O gate;

cry, O city;

thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved:

for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion,

and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

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And there came a messenger unto Job,

and said,

The oxen were plowing,

and the asses feeding beside them:

And the Sabeans fell upon them,

and took them away;

yea,

they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword;

and - I only am - escaped alone to tell thee.

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Your country is desolate,

your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

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While he was yet speaking, there came also an-other,

and said,

The fire of God is fallen from heaven,

and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them;

and - I only am - escaped alone to tell thee.

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They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord,

and their offspring with them.

      And it shall come to pass, that before they call,

I will answer;

and while they are yet

speaking,

I will hear.

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Behold the land

of the Chaldeans;

this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:

they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

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Come down,

and sit in the dust,

 O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground:

there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans:

for thou shalt no more be called tender - and delicate.

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While he was yet speaking, there came also another,

and said,

The Chaldeans made out three bands,

and fell upon the camels, (Wealth) and have carried them away,

yea,

and slain the servants with the edge of the sword;

and - I only am - escaped alone to tell thee.

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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 the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth;

and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;

and all the high hills,

that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail;

and the mountains were covered.

And all flesh died - that moved upon the earth,

both of fowl,

and of cattle,

and of beast,

and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth,

and every man:

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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; . . .

And the children of Aram; Uz, . . . .

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But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

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While he was yet speaking, there came also another,

and said,

Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men,

and they are dead;

and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither:

the Lord gave,

and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

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After this opened Job - his

mouth,-  and cursed his day.

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And Job spake,

and said,

Let the day perish wherein I was born,

and the night in which it was said,

There is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness;

let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;

let a cloud dwell upon it;

let the blackness of the day terrify it.

As for that night,

let darkness seize upon it;

let it not be joined unto the days of the year,

let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo,

let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;

let it look for light,

but have none;

neither let it see the dawning of the day:

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,

nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Why died I not from the womb?

why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Why did the knees prevent me? (From kneeling down) or why the breasts that I should suck?

For now should I have lain still and been quiet,

I should have slept:

then had I been at rest,

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

There the wicked cease from troubling;

and there the weary be at rest.

There the prisoners rest together;

they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,

and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,

and whom God hath hedged in?

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,

and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;

yet trouble came.

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed,

and my calamity laid in the balances together!

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit:

the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Then should I yet have comfort;

yea,

I would harden myself in sorrow:

let him not spare;

for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

What is my strength, that I should hope?

and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

Is not my help in me?

and is wisdom driven quite from me?

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,

and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot,

they are consumed out of their place.

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

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