From
the beginning to
the
conclusion it is all in the family
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he
a
woman, and brought her unto the man.
*
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.
*
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?
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.
*
her maid
And,
behold,
thy
cousin Elisabeth, she hath
also conceived a son in her old age:
and this is the sixth month
with her,
who was called barren.
For
with God nothing shall be impossible.
And
My said,
Behold
the handmaid of the Lord; be it
unto me according to thy word.
And the angel departed from
her.
*
Sarai and Hagar cousins.
*
Now these
are the generations of Terah:
Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran;
and Haran begat Lot.
**
And
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,
and told his two
brethren
without.
**
And
Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one
in the earth.
He
was a mighty hunter before the Lord:
wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod
the mighty hunter before the Lord.
And
the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
**
And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again
the second time to recover the
remnant of his people, which shall
be left, from Assyria, and from
Egypt,
and from Pathros,
and from Cush,
and from Elam, and from Shinar, and
from Hamath, and from the islands of the
sea.
And
he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
and Judah
shall not vex Ephraim.
**
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
*
That
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
- took them wives of all which they chose.
*
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.
*
And
Abram and Nahor - took them wives:
the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father
of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
*
And
yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter
of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
***
Which
alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of
the sea. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion,
and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. Which
doeth great things past finding out;
yea,
and
wonders without number.
Lo,
he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on
also, but I
perceive him not.
**
So
man lieth down, and riseth not:
till the heavens be no more, they shall
not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
**
He
divideth the sea with his power,
and by his understanding he smiteth
through the proud. By his spirit he
hath garnished the heavens;
his hand
hath
formed the crooked serpent.
Lo,
these
are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is
heard of him? but the thunder of his power
who can understand?
*
As God liveth,
who
hath
taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; My lips
shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue
utter deceit.
Samuel


