Chapter
I
In
the beginning Terah
And
Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,
Nahor,
and Haran.
Now these
are
the
generations of Terah:
Terah begat Abram,
Nahor,
and
Haran;
and
Haran begat Lot.
And
Haran died
before his
father Terah in the land of his nativity,
in Ur of the Chaldees.
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.
But
Sarai was barren;
she had no child.
And
Terah took Abram his
son, and Lot the son
of Haran - his son's
son,
and
Sarai his daughter in law,
his son Abram's wife;
***
And
he -
sent
forth a raven, which went forth to
and fro,
until
the waters were dried up
from off the earth.
***
and
they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees,
***
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.
**
And
Cain said unto the Lord,
My
punishment
is greater than I can bear.
***
God shall enlarge Japheth,
and
he shall dwell
in
the tents of Shem;
and
Canaan shall be his servant.
***
and
they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees,
to go
into the land of Canaan;
and
they came unto Haran,
and
dwelt there.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years:
and
Terah died
in
Haran.
Chapter
II
The Lord
Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother,
***
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
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 the Lord had said unto Abram,
Get
thee out
of thy
country,
and from thy kindred,
and
from thy
father's house, unto
a land that I
will shew thee:
And
I will make of thee a great nation,
and
I will bless thee,
and
make thy name great;
and
thou shalt be a blessing:
And
I
will bless them that bless thee,
and
curse him that curseth thee: and in
thee
shall all
families
of the earth be blessed.
***
And
he said,
Cursed be Canaan;
a
servant of servants
shall he be unto his brethren.
***
And Abram did according unto all
that the Lord commanded
him.
And Abram went in,
and
his sons,
and
his wife,
and
his sons' wives with
him, into the ark,
So
Abram departed,
as the Lord
had spoken unto him;
and
Lot went with him:
and
Abram was seventy and
five years old when he
departed
out of Haran.
And
Abram took Sarai his wife,
and
Lot his brother's son,
In
the
selfsame day entered
Abram,
and
the three wives of
his sons
- with them,
into the ark;
and
all their
substance
that they had gathered,
and
the souls that they had gotten in Haran;
and
they went
forth to go
into the land of Canaan;
and
into the land
of
Canaan
they came.
***
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 it-self, upon the earth:
and
it was so.
***
In
the -self-same - day
entered Abram,
Sarai his
wife,
and
Lot his brother's son,
and
all their substance that they had gathered,
and
the souls
that
they had
gotten in Haran;
and
they went
forth to
go into the land of Canaan;
and
the Lord shut him in.
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:
***
Chapter
III
And Abram passed through
the land unto the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh.
And
the Canaanite
was then in the land.
And
the Lord appeared unto Abram,
and said,
Unto thy
seed
will I give this land:
and
there builded
he an
altar unto the Lord,
who
appeared unto him.
And
he re-moved
from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel,
***
Make
thee
an ark of gopher wood;
rooms shalt
thou make in the ark,
and
shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
***
and
pitched his tent,
having Bethel on the west,
and
Hai on the b-east:
and
there he builded an altar unto the Lord,
and
called upon the name of the Lord.
And
Abram journeyed,
going on still toward the south.
Chapter
IV
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
they shall waste the land of Assyria with
the sword,
and
the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof:
thus
shall he deliver us from
the Assyrian,
when
he cometh into our
land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
And
the remnant of Jacob
shall be in
the midst of many people as a dew from
the Lord,
as the showers
upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man,
nor waiteth
for the sons of men.
And
the remnant
of
Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in
the midst of many people as a lion among
the beasts of the forest,
as
a young lion
among the flocks of sheep:
who,
if
he go
through,
both
treadeth down,
and
teareth in pieces,
and
none can
deliver.
***
Rejoice
not thou,
whole
Palestina,
because
the rod of
him that smote thee is broken:
for
out
of the serpent's root shall come forth a
cockatrice,
and
his fruit
shall be a fiery flying serpent.
And
the firstborn of the poor shall feed,
and
the needy shall lie down in safety:
and
I will kill thy
root with
famine,
and
he shall slay thy
remnant.
***
And
Cain said unto the Lord,
My
punishment is greater than
I
can bear.
***
And
there was
a famine in the land:
and
Abram went down into Egypt
to
sojourn there;
for
the famine
was
grievous
in the land.
And
it came to pass,
when he was
come near
to
enter into Egypt,
***
And
Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. . . .
. . . And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
And
Abram and Nahor took them wives:
the name of Abram's wife was Sarai;
***
that he said
unto Sarai his wife,
Behold
now,
I know that thou art a fair woman
to look upon:
Therefore it
shall come to pass,
when
the Egyptians shall see thee,
that they
shall say,
This
is his wife:
and
they will kill me,
but
they will save thee alive.
Say,
I pray thee,
thou art
my sister:
that
it may be well with me for thy sake; and my
soul shall live because of
thee.
And
it came to pass, that,
when
Abram was
come into Egypt,
the Egyptians beheld the woman
that she
was very fair.
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
Enoch walked
with God after he begat Methuselah . . .
. . . And all the days of Enoch were three hundred
sixty and five years:
And
Enoch walked
with
God: and he was not;
for God
took him.
***
And
the Lord God said
unto the serpent,
Because thou
hast done this,
thou
art cursed
above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
upon thy belly
shalt thou go,
and
dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
And
I
will put enmity between thee
and the workman,
and
between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head,
and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
***
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.
***
And
the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house
with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's
wife.
And
Pharaoh called Abram,
and
said,
What is
this
that thou hast done unto me?
why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
***
So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him;
and Lot went with him: and Abram was
seventy and five years old when he departed out of
Haran.
***
Why
saidst thou,
She is
my sister?
so
I
might have taken her to me to wife:
now therefore
behold thy wife,
take her,
and
go thy way.
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,
he,
and
his wife,
and
all that he had,
and
Lot with him,
into the south.
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