Saturday, January 3, 2015

His Wife


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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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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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them.
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I know it,
my son,
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And on the seventh day - God ended his work which - he had made;

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I know it:
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and he rested on the seventh day from all - his work which - he had made.
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and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

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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 the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;
and from thence it was parted,
and became into four heads.
The name of the first is Prison:
that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

And the gold of that land is good:
there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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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 Cain went out from the presence of the Lord,
and dwelt in the land of Nod,
on the east of Eden.
And Cain knew his wife;
and she conceived,
 and bare Enoch:
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and he builded a city,
and called the name of the city,
after the name of his son, Enoch.

And unto Enoch was born Irad:
and Irad begat Mehujael:
and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah,
and the name of the other Zillah.
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And Adah bare Jabal:
he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
And his brother's name was Jubal:
he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
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And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah,
Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech:
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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 also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos:
then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
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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 Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years,
and begat a son:
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands,
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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.
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And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart.
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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,
and Noah walked with God.
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And God looked upon the earth,
and,
behold,
it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
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Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten,
and thou shalt gather it to thee;
and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

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Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech:
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And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
And he called his name Noah, . . .
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Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him,
so did he.

ISamuel