And
God blessed
them,
saying,
Be fruitful,
And
he
entreated
Abram well for her sake:
and he had sheep,
and
oxen,
and
he asses,
and
menservants,
and
maidservants,
and
she asses,
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and
camels.
. . .
. . . And Pharaoh commanded
his men
concerning him:
and
they sent him away,
and
his
wife,
and all that he had.
And Abram went up out of
Egypt,
***
And
Lot said unto them,
Oh, not so,
my Lord:
*****
he,
and
his
wife,
and
all that he
had,
and
Lot
with him, into the south.
And
Abram was very rich in
cattle, in silver, and in gold.
And
he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,
between Bethel and Hai;
*****
And
God blessed
them,
saying,.
. .
. . .multiply,
and
fill the waters
in
the seas,
*****
And the angel of the Lord said unto her,
Return
to thy mistress, and submit
thyself under her hands.
And
the angel
of
the
Lord
said unto her,
I will multiply
thy seed exceedingly,
that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
And
the angel of the
Lord
said unto her,
Behold,
thou
art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
***
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.
And I will make my covenant between
me and
thee, and will multiply thee
exceedingly.
***
And
as for Ishmael, I have heard thee:
Behold,
I
have blessed him, and will make him fruitful,
and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget, and I
will make him a great nation.
But
my covenant
will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
***
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
God blessed
them,
saying,. . .
. . . and
fill the
waters - in the seas, . . .
Also
he sent forth a dove
from him,
to see if
the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
But
the dove
found
no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into
the ark,
for
the waters
were
on
the face
of
the whole
earth:
***
But
the men put forth their hand,
and
pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
***
then
he put
forth his hand,
and
took her,
and
pulled
her in unto him into the ark.
***
And
Cain went
out from the presence of the Lord,
***
And
Lot went out at the door unto them,
*****
And
Jacob went out from Beersheba,
and went
toward Haran.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the
sun was
set;
and
he took
of
the stones of that place,
and put
them for
his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
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And
he dreamed,
and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven:
and
behold the angels of God ascending and
descending on it.
And,
behold,
the Lord stood above it,
and
said,
I
am the Lord
God of Abraham
-
thy father,
and the God
of Isaac:
the land whereon thou liest,
to thee will I give it, and to thy
seed;
*****
And God blessed
them,
saying,. . .
. . . and, . . .
. . . and let
fowl - multiply in the earth.
Our father is
old,
and
there is
not a man in the earth to come in unto us
-
after the manner
of
all the earth:
***
As birds flying,
so
will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending
also he will deliver
it;
and
passing over he
will preserve it.
***
Come,
let
us make -
our
father drink wine, and
we will
lie with him,
that
we may
preserve
seed
of our father.
Thus
were both the daughters of Lot with child by their
father.
And
the firstborn bare a son, and called
his name Moab: the same is the father of the
Moabites unto this day.
And
the younger,
she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the
children of Ammon unto this
day.
*****
And
think not to
say within yourselves,
We
have
Abraham
to
- our father:
for I say unto you,
that God is able
of these stones to raise up children
unto Abraham.
***
Yea,
they shall not
be planted; yea, they shall not be sown:
Yea,
their stock
shall not take root in
the earth:
and
he shall also
blow
upon them, and they shall wither,
and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
***
And
now also
the axe is laid unto the root of
the trees:
therefore
every tree which
bringeth not forth good fruit is
hewn down,
and cast into the fire.
I indeed
baptize you with water unto repentance: but he
that
cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes
I am not
worthy to bear:
he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost,
and with
fire:
Whose fan is in his hand,
and he
will
throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn
up the chaff
with unquenchable fire.
Then
cometh Emmanuel
from
Galilee to Jordan unto Elias, to be baptized of him.
But Elias forbad him,
saying,
I
have need to
be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
And
Emmanuel answering
said
unto him,
Suffer
it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
***
For
he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
He
will
not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me
with
bitterness.
If
I speak of strength,
lo,
he is strong:
and
if of judgment, who shall set me a
time to plead?
If I
justify myself,
mine
own mouth shall condemn me:
if I say,
I am perfect,
it
shall also prove me perverse.
Though
I were perfect,
yet would I not know
my
soul:
I
would despise my life.
This
is one thing,
therefore I said it,
He destroyeth the perfect and
the wicked.
If the scourge slay suddenly, he
will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
*****
Then
he suffered
him.
*****
Also
he sent forth a dove from him, to see
if
the waters were abated from
off the face of the ground;
But
the
dove found no rest for the sole of her foot,
and she
returned
unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face
of the whole earth: then he put forth
his hand,
and took
her,
and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
And
he stayed yet other seven days;
**
For God,
said she,
hath
appointed me another seed instead
of
Abel, whom Cain slew.
**
and
again he sent
forth the dove out
of the ark;
And
the dove
came in to him in the evening;
and,
lo,
in
her mouth
was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters
were abated from off the earth.
*****
And
Emmanuel,
when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he
saw the Spirit
of
God descending
like
a dove, and lighting upon him:
And
lo a voice from heaven,
saying,
This
is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.
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