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.
***
Now
these are the generations of Esau,
who
is Edom.
Esau
took his
wives of the daughters of Canaan;
Adah
the daughter of Elon
the Hittite,
and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
And
Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
And
Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
And
Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the
land of Canaan.
And
Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all
the persons
of
his
house, and his
cattle,
and all
his beasts,
and all
his substance, which he
had
got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country
from the face
of his brother Jacob.
For
their riches were more
than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they
were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir:
Esau is Edom.
And
these are the generations of
Esau the father of
the Edomites in mount Seir:
*****
Now
when Job's
three friends heard
of all this evil that was come upon him, they
came
every one
from
his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite,
and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar
the Naamathite:
for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with
him and to comfort him.
*****
And
Lamech
took unto him two wives:
the name of the one
was
Adah, . . . And Adah bare Jabal: he
was the father of such as dwell
in tents, and of such as have cattle.
***
These
are
the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah
the wife of Esau, Reuel the
son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
And
the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
And
Timna was
concubine to Eliphaz Esau's
son;
and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons
of Adah -- Esau's wife.
And
these are the sons of Reuel;
Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
And
these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah
the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau
Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
These
were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau;
duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
*****
And
when Joseph's brethren saw
that their father was dead,
they said,
Joseph will peradventure
hate us,
and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
And
they sent a messenger unto Joseph,
saying,
Thy father did command before he
died,
saying,
So
shall ye say
unto Joseph, Forgive,
I pray thee now,
the trespass
of
thy brethren,
and their sin; for they did
unto thee evil:
and now,
we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of
thy father. And Joseph wept
when
they spake unto him.
And
his brethren
also went
and fell
down before his face;
and
they said,
Behold,
we be thy servants.
And
Joseph said unto them,
Fear not:
for am I in the place of God?
But
as for you, ye thought
evil against me;
but God meant it unto good, to
bring to pass, as it is
this day, to save much people
alive.
Now
therefore
fear ye not:
I will nourish you, and your
little ones. And he comforted
them, and spake
kindly unto them.
And
Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred
and ten years.
And
Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third
generation: the children also
of
Machir
the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
And
Joseph said unto his brethren,
I
die:
and
God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this
land unto the land which he
sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And
Joseph took an
oath of
the children
of Israel, saying,
God
will surely visit you, and
ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
*****
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.
**
In the sweat of
thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it
wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
*****
So
Joseph died,
being an hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed
him, and he was
put in a coffin in Egypt.
*****
Then
Joseph being raised from sleep
did
as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and
took unto him his wife:
And
knew her not till she had brought forth
her firstborn son: and he
called
his name EMMANUEL.
Now when Emmanuel was born in Bethlehem
of Judaea in the days of Herod the king,
behold,
there
came wise men from
the east to Jerusalem,
Saying,
Where
is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star -- in the east,
-- and are come to worship him.
When
Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
And
when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded
of them where Christ should be born.
And
they said unto him,
In
Bethlehem of Judaea:
for thus it
is written by the prophet,
And
thou Bethlehem, in
the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor,
that shall rule my people Israel.
*****
Come,
my
people,
enter thou into thy
chambers, and shut thy doors
about thee: hide
thyself as it were for a little moment,
until the indignation be
overpast.
Until God's grace
comes.
*****
Hearken
therefore
unto the supplications of
thy servant, and of thy people Israel,
which they shall make toward
this
place: hear thou from
thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
*****
And
I will pour upon
the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications:
and they
shall look upon me whom
they have pierced, and they
shall mourn
for him, as
one mourneth
for his only
son,
and shall be in bitterness for
him, as
one that
is in bitterness for his firstborn.
*****
And
they said,
Hath
the Lord
indeed spoken
only by Moses? hath he not
spoken also by us? And
the Lord heard it.
***
And
the Spirit
of
God moved
upon the face of the waters.
***
(Now
the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of
the earth.)
And
the Lord spake suddenly
unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye
three unto the tabernacle of the congregation.
And
they three
came out.
***
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:
And
I will remember my
covenant,
which is between me
and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood
to destroy all flesh.
***
And
the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud,
and stood
in
the door
of
the tabernacle, and called
Aaron and Miriam: and they
both
came forth.
And he said,
Hear now my
words:
If
there be
a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself
known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
My
servant
Moses is not so,
who is faithful in all mine house.
*****
The meek also
shall increase
their
joy in the LORD, and the poor
among men
shall rejoice in the Holy One of
Israel.
Comfort ye,
comfort ye my people,
saith
your God.
And
the glory
of
the LORD
shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together:
for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
*****
And
he divided
himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah,
which
is on the left hand of Damascus.
***
Through
the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
And
he shall snatch on the right hand, and
be hungry; and he shall eat on
the left hand,
and they
shall
not be satisfied: they
shall eat
every man the flesh of his own arm:
Manasseh, Ephraim;
and
Ephraim, Manasseh:
and
they together
shall be against Judah.
For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
Woe
unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and that write grievousness
which they have
prescribed;
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and
to take away the right from the poor of my people,
that widows may be their prey, and that they may
rob the fatherless!
And
what will ye do in the day
of visitation,
and in the desolation which
shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
Without
me
they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain.
For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
O Assyrian, the rod
of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
I will send him against an hypocritical
nation,
and against the people of my wrath will I give him
a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey,
and to tread them down like the mire of the
streets.
Howbeit he meaneth not so,
neither doth his heart think
so; but it is in his heart to destroy
and
cut off nations not a few.
For
he saith,
Are
not my
princes altogether kings?
***
And
when Joseph saw that his father laid his right
hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased
him: and he held up
his father's
hand,
to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
***
And
Joseph said unto his father,
Not so,
my
father:
for
this is the firstborn; put thy right
hand upon his head.
And
his father refused,
and
said,
I know it,
my son,
I know it:
he also
shall become
a people,
and
he also shall be great:
but
truly his younger brother shall be greater than he,
and
his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
And
he blessed them that
day,
saying,
In
thee shall Israel bless,
saying,
God
make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:
and
he set Ephraim - before Manasseh.
*****
For
I
the LORD thy
God
will hold thy right hand,
saying
unto thee,
Fear not;
I will
help thee.
But
they that wait upon the LORD
shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with
wings as
eagles; they shall run,
and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint.
Fear thou not;
for
I am with thee:
be not dismayed;
for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee;
yea,
I
will help thee;
yea,
I
will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
*****
And
the Lord said,
My
spirit shall not always strive with man,
for
that he also
is flesh:
yet
his days shall be an hundred and
twenty years.
*****
Behold,
all
they that were incensed against
thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they
shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
*****
Thou
shalt
seek them, and shalt not
find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
For
I the LORD
thy God will hold thy right hand,
saying unto thee,
Fear not;
I will help thee.
*****
Shew
the things that are to come hereafter,
that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do
evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
***
But
Sarai was barren;
she
had no child.
***
Then
sang
Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord,
and
spake,
saying,
I
will sing unto the
Lord, for he hath
triumphed gloriously: the horse
and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea.
The Lord
is my strength and song, and he
is
become my salvation:
he
is
my God, and I
will prepare him an habitation;
my father's
God,
and I
will
exalt him.
*****
Sing,
O barren,
thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that
didst not travail with child: for more
are
the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,
saith the LORD.
*****
And
he said,
I will certainly return
unto
thee according to the
time of life;
and, lo,
Sarah thy
wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Now
Abraham and Sarah were old and
well stricken in
age; and it ceased
to be with Sarah after the
manner of women.
Therefore
Sarah laughed
within
herself,
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?
***
For
God,
said
she,
hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
***
Is
any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed
I
will return unto thee, according to the time
of
life,
and
Sarah shall have a son.
*****
Enlarge
the place of thy tent, and let them
stretch
forth the curtains of thine
habitations: spare not, lengthen thy
cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
*****
And
Pharaoh
called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave
him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.
And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
*****
For
thou shalt break forth on the right hand and
on
the left;
and thy
seed
shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate
cities
to be inhabited.
Fear not;
for thou shalt
not be ashamed:
*****
And
when Abram
was ninety years old and nine,
the Lord
appeared
to Abram,
and
said
unto him,
I
am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
*****
neither
be thou confounded;
for thou shalt not be put to shame:
*****
For
all the wells which his father's servants
had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them
with earth.
And
Abimelech said unto Isaac,
Go from us;
for thou art
much mightier than we.
*****
for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
reproach of thy widowhood any
more.
*****
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;
*****
For
thy Maker
is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name;
and
thy Redeemer the Holy
One of Israel;
The God of the whole earth shall he
be
called.
For
the LORD
hath called thee as a workman forsaken
and grieved in spirit, and a
wife of youth, when thou wast refused,
saith thy God.
For
a small
moment have
I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
In
a little wrath I
hid my face from thee for
a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I
have mercy
on thee,
saith
the LORD thy Redeemer.
For
this is as the waters of Noah unto me:
for
as I have
sworn
that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn
that
I would not be wroth with thee,
nor rebuke thee.
*****
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;
***
If
the men
of
my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had
of
his flesh! we
cannot be satisfied. The stranger did not lodge in the street:
but
I
opened my doors to the traveller. If I covered my
transgressions as Adam, by hiding
mine iniquity in my
bosom:
Did
I fear a great multitude, or
did the contempt of families terrify me,
that I
kept silence, and went not out of the door?
***
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:
*****
For
the mountains
shall depart, and the hills
be
removed;
but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my
peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comforted,
behold,
I
will lay thy stones with fair colours,
and lay
thy foundations
with
sapphires.
And
I will make thy windows of agates, and thy
gates
of carbuncles,
and all
thy borders of pleasant stones.
And
all thy children shall
be
taught of
the LORD;
and
great shall be the peace of thy
children.
In righteousness shalt
thou be established:
thou shalt be far
from oppression;
for thou shalt not fear:
and
from terror;
for
it shall not come near thee.
Behold,
they
shall surely
gather together, but
not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against
thee
shall fall for thy sake.
Behold,
I
have created the smith that
bloweth the coals in the fire,
and that bringeth forth an instrument
for
his work;
and I
have created the waster to
destroy.
No weapon
that
is formed against thee shall prosper;
and every
tongue that
shall rise
against thee
in
judgment thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD GOD
ISamuelyeaOn.
