The Marriage II

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The Marriage

be-fore

4. Into or in the presence of: She asked that the visitor be brought before her. 5. Under the consideration or jurisdiction of: The case is now before the court. 6. In a position superior to: The prince is before his brother in the line of succession.conj. 1. In advance of the time when: See me before you leave. 2. Rather than; sooner than: I will die before I will betray my country.[Middle English bifore, from Old English beforan. See per1.]

re-proach

(ri-proch)v. tr. re-proached, re-proach-ing, re-proach-es. 1. To express disapproval of, criticism of, or disappointment in (someone). See Synonyms at admonish. 2. To bring shame upon; disgrace.n. 1. Blame; rebuke. 2. One that causes rebuke or blame. 3. Disgrace; shame. --idiom. beyond reproach. So good as to preclude any possibility of criticism.[Middle English reprochen, from Old French reprochier, from Vulgar Latin *repropiare : Latin re-, re- + Latin prope, near. See per1.]

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In the beginning - God created the heaven and the earth.

And God called the light Day,

and the darkness he called Night.

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In beginning - - God created

And God said,

Let us - make man - in our - image,

after our - likeness:

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So God created - man in –

his own image,

in - the image of God

- created he

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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:

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and it was so.

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him;

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and there was not a man to till the ground.

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Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

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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 in process of time it came to pass,

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And the Lord God said,

It is not good that the man should be alone;

I will make - him - an -help meet for - him

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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

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in our - image,

man became a living soul

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And Adam said,

This is now bone of my bones,:

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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 said,

and flesh of my flesh:

                                 

after our - likeness:

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

and clothed them.

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

and clothed them.

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And she again bare his brother Abel.

And Abel was a keeper of sheep,

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Image

but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

that  Cain - brought of the fruit of the ground - an offering unto the Lord.

Likeness

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.

And the Lord said unto Cain,

Why art – thou - wroth?

and why is - thy countenance fallen?

If thou doest well,

shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well,

sin lieth at the door.

And unto thee shall be his desire,

and thou shalt rule over him.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother:

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Hear, O heavens,

and give ear, O earth:

for the Lord hath spoken,

I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

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and it came to pass,

when they were in the field,

that  Cain rose up against Abel his brother,

and slew him.

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Terah

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years,

and begat Terah: . . .

And Terah lived seventy years,

and begat Abram,

Nahor,

and Haran.

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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 the Lord said unto Cain,

Where is Abel thy brother?

And he said,

I know not:

Am I my brother's keeper?

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And the Lord God said,

It is not good that the man should be alone;

I will make - him - an -help meet for - him

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And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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And God said,

Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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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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And Adam knew his wife again;

and she bare a son,

and called his name – Seth:

For God,

said she,

hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel,

whom Cain slew.

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And to Seth,

to him al-so there was born a son;

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and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

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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and he took one - of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

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And Terah took - Abram his son,

and Lot the son of Haran his son's son,

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And the rib,

which the Lord God had taken from man,

made he a workman,

and - brought her unto the man.

And Adam said,

This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:

she shall be called Workman, because she was taken out of Man.

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And Abram and Nahor

took them wives:

the name of Abram's wife was Sarai;

and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah,

the daughter of Haran,

the father of Milcah,

and the father of Iscah.

But Sarai was barren;

she had no child.

And Terah took Abram his son,

and Lot the son of Haran his son's - son,

and Sarai his daughter in law,

his son Abram's wife;

and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees,

to go into the land of Canaan;

and they came unto Haran,

and dwelt there.

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And the Lord God said,

It is not good that the man should be alone;

I will make - him - an -help meet for - him

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And God called

the light  - Day,

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And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house,

that ruled over all that he had,

Put,

I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

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And he said,

Cursed be Canaan;

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And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven,

and the God of the earth,

that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

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But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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But thou shalt go unto my -(Sarai) – country (Assyria), and to my kindred,

and - take a wife - unto my son Isaac.

And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the workman will not be willing to follow me unto this land:

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

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

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must I needs bring - thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

And Abraham said unto him,

Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

The Lord God of heaven,

which took me from my father's house,

and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me,

and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

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And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren:

and the Lord was entreated of him,

and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And the children struggled together within her;

and she said,

If it be so,

why am I thus?

And she went to inquire of the Lord.

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and God divided the light - from the darkness.

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And the Lord said unto her,

Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated - from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;

and the elder shall serve the younger.

And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,

behold,

there were twins in her womb.

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and said,

God hath taken away - my -reproach:

And she called his name Joseph;

and said,

The Lord shall add to me another son.

And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph,

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

and clothed them.

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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,

because he was the son of his old age:

and he made him a coat of many colours.

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that Jacob said unto Laban,

Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Give me - my wives and my children,

for whom I have served thee,

and let me go:

for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

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And Jacob was left alone;

and there wrestled a man with him - until the breaking of the day.

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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.

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Why,

seeing times

are not hidden from the Almighty,

do they that know him not see his days?

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless,

they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way:

the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

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And the workman

said

unto the serpent,

We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,

God hath said,

Ye shall not eat of it,

neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

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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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And when he saw that he prevailed not against him,

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Put, I pray thee,

thy hand under my thigh:

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he touched the hollow of his thigh;

and the hollow of Jacob's thigh - was out of joint,

as he wrestled with him.

And he said,

Let me go,

for the day breaketh.

And he said,

I will not let thee go,

except thou bless me.

And he said unto him,

What is thy name?

And he said,

Jacob.

And he said,

Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,

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I am the God of Abraham thy father:

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but Israel:

for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,

and hast prevailed.

And Jacob asked him,

and said,

Tell me,

I pray thee,

thy name.

And he said,

Where- fore is it that thou dost ask - after my name?

And he blessed him there.

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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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And Joseph went after his brethren,

and found them in Dothan.

And when they saw him afar off,

even before he came near unto them,

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And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

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they conspired against him to slay him.

And they said one to another,

Behold,

this dreamer cometh.

Come now therefore,

and let us slay him,

and cast him into some pit,

and we will say,

Some evil beast hath devoured him:

and we shall see what will become of his dreams. . . .

And it came to pass when Joseph was come unto his brethren,

that they - stripped Joseph out of his coat,

his coat of many colours that was on him;

And they took him,

and cast him into a pit:

and the pit was empty,

there was no water in it.

And they sat down - to eat bread:

and they lifted up their eyes - and looked,

and,

behold,

a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery - and balm and myrrh,

going to carry it down to Egypt.

And Judah said unto his brethren,

What profit is it if we slay our brother,

and conceal his blood?

Come,

and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites,

and let not our hand be upon him;

for he is our brother and our flesh.

And his brethren were content.

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Then again Abraham took a wife,

and her name was Keturah.

And she bare him Zimran,

and Jokshan,

and Medan,

and Midian,

and Ishbak,

and Shuah.

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Then there passed by Midianites,

merchantmen;

and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit,

and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver:

and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

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And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand,

and put it upon Joseph's hand,

and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen,

and put a gold chain about his neck;

And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him,

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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

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Bow the knee:

and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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And a certain ruler asked him,

saying,

Good Master,

what shall I do - to inherit eternal life?

     And Emmanuel said unto him,

Why callest thou me good?

none is good, save one, that is, God.

ISamuelYea