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 the rib,
which the Lord God had taken from man,
made he a work-man, and brought her unto the man.
*
And
they were both
naked, the man and his
wife, and were not ashamed.
*****
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.
***
But
ye should say, Why
persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Be ye afraid of the sword:
for wrath bringeth the punishments
of the sword, that ye may know -
there is a judgment.
*****
But
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
*****
But
the men
of Sodom were wicked and sinners before
- the Lord exceedingly.
***
He
breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. I have sewed sackcloth upon my
skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. My
face is
foul with weeping, and on my eyelids
is the shadow of death; Not for
any injustice in mine hands: also my
prayer
is pure.
O
earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. Also now,
behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth
out tears unto God.
*****
And
the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom
and Gomorrah is great, and because their
sin
is very grievous;
I will go down - now, and see whether they
have
done altogether according to the
cry of it,
which is come unto me; and if not, - I will know.
*****
And
Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife,
I pray thee, between me
and
thee,
and between my herd-men and thy herd-men; for we be brethren.
*
And
Lot lifted up
his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered - every where,
- before the Lord destroyed
-
Sodom and Gomorrah, - even as the garden of the Lord, like the land
of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Then Lot
chose him
all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they - separated themselves the one from - the other.
*****
And
the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: - but Abraham stood yet
before the Lord.
*****
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is
in the earth shall die.
But
with thee will I establish my covenant;
and thou shalt come into
the ark,
thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives
with thee.
*
And
the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy
house into the ark;
for thee have I seen righteous
before
me in this generation.
***
He
pursued them, and
passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
Who
hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; - I am he.
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near,
and came.
***
And
Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
*****
And Noah builded
an altar unto the Lord; and took
of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.
***
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city:
wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
*****
And
he said, Who told thee
that
thou wast naked? Hast thou
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
*
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.
*
Unto the work-man he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception; in sorrow thou
shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
*****
That
be far from - thee -
to do - after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, - that be far - from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
And
the
Lord
said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then
I will spare all the place for their sakes.
*****
Therefore
Sarah laughed within her-self, saying, After - I am waxed old
shall I have pleasure, my
lord being old also?
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore
did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a
child, which
am old?
**
And
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, - I have taken upon me
to
speak unto the Lord, which am
but
dust and ashes:
Peradventure
there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy
all the city for lack of five?
And
he said, If I find there
forty
and five, I will not destroy it.
*****
And
she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, . . .
**
And
Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his
name Seth:
*
And
he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there
shall be forty found there.
And
he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
*****
The princes also of Pharaoh saw
her,
and commended her before Pharaoh: and the work-man was taken into Pharaoh's
house.
And he
entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she asses, and camels.
And the
Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house
with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
And
Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me?
why didst thou not tell me
that
she was thy wife?
***
And
he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will
speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.
And
he said, I will not do it,
if I
find thirty there.
*****
For which
of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Lest haply,
after
he hath
laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin
to
mock him,
Saying,
This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
***
For
God,
said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel,
***
Or
what
king, going to make war against an-other king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be
able with ten thousand to meet
him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Or
else,
while the other is yet a great way off,
he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
So
likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Salt
is good: but if the
salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
*****
And
he
said, Behold now, I have taken upon me
to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there
shall be twenty found there.
And
he
said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
*****
And
Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, -
after Abram had dwelt ten years in the
land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
And
he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that
she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
***
And
he said, Oh
let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten
shall be found there.
And he
said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
And
the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
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