And
Emmanuel answered
and
said unto them,
Take
heed
that no man deceive you.
For
many shall come in my name,
saying,
I am Christ;
and
shall deceive
many.
And
ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
see
that
ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
*****
And
now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath
opened her mouth
to receive
thy brother's blood from thy
hand;
**
And
the Lord said unto Moses,
Rise up early in the morning,
and
stand before
Pharaoh,
and
say unto him,
Thus
saith the Lord God of the Hebrews,
Let
my people go,
that
they
may serve me.
*
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the workman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
And
he entreated Abram well for her sake:
and he
had
sheep, and oxen, and he
asses,
and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
And
the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
- because
of Sarai Abram's wife.
*
For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart,
and upon thy servants, and upon thy people;
that thou mayest know
that
there is none like me in all
the earth.
**
For
now I
will stretch out my hand,
that I
may
smite thee
and
thy people
with pestilence;
and thou
shalt
be cut off from the earth.
*****
For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom: and there shall be famines,
and pestilences,
and earthquakes, in divers places.
*****
And
the Lord God - took the man,
and put him into
the garden of Eden
to dress it and
to keep it.
And
the Lord God commanded the man,
saying,
Of every tree of the
garden thou mayest
freely eat:
But of the tree of
the
knowledge of
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:
for
in the day
- that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
***
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.
And
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw
the nakedness of his father,
and told his two brethren without.
**
In
the selfsame day entered
Noah,
and
Shem,
and
Ham,
and
Japheth,
the sons
of
Noah,
and
Noah's wife,
. . .
**
Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they
shall be one
flesh.
And
they were both naked, the man and
his wife,
and were not ashamed.
**
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.
**
Male
and female created
he them;
and blessed them,
and
called their name Adam,
in
the day when they were created.
**
And
Noah awoke
from
his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
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.
***
Unto the workman
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 husbandman,
and he shall rule over thee.
***
And
unto Adam he said,
Because
thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree,
of which I
commanded
thee,
saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed
is the ground for thy sake;
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it
all the days of thy life;
*****
And
the Lord said,
I
have surely seen the affliction
of
my people
which are in Egypt,
and have heard their cry by
reason of their taskmasters; for I
know their
sorrows;
And
I am come
down to
deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out
of that land unto a good
land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
*****
All these are
the beginning of sorrows.
Then
shall they deliver you up
to be afflicted, and shall kill you:
and ye
shall be hated
of
all nations for my name's
sake.
And
then shall many be offended, and shall betray
one an-other, and shall hate one another.
And
many false prophets
shall rise, and shall deceive many.
*****
Now
Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased
to be with Sarah after the manner of workmen.
Therefore
Sarah laughed
within herself,
saying,
After
I
am waxed old
shall I have pleasure,
my lord
being old also?
*****
And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But
he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And
this gospel
of the kingdom shall be pTreached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then
shall
the end
come.
********
And shall say,
Cast ye
up,
cast ye
up,
prepare
the way,
take up the stumblingblock
out of the way of my people.
For thus saith the high and
lofty One that
inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high
and
holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite
ones.
Samuel
