But man dieth,
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.
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.
*****
She
And
Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because - she was taken out of Man.
*
There-fore 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.
**
and Adam and - his wife - hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
**
And Adam called - his wife's - name Eve;
- because she was the
mother of all living.
Unto Adam also and to - his wife - did the Lord
God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
***
And Abram took Sarai - his wife,
*****
And Adam knew Eve his wife;
and she
conceived, and bare Cain,
and said,
I
have gotten a man - from the Lord.
And she again
bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And in process
of time it came to pass, that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
And Abel, he also
brought of the firstlings
of his flock - and of the fat thereof.
And the Lord
had respect unto Abel and to his
offering:
But unto Cain and to his offering - he had not
respect.
And Cain
was very wroth,
and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth?
and why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
----
and if
thou doest
not well, - sin lieth
at the door.
And unto thee shall be his desire,
and thou
shalt rule over him.
****
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 Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up
against Abel his brother,
and slew him.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy
brother?
**
and Japheth: and
Ham is the father of Canaan.
*
Also
I heard the
voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
Then said I, Here am I;
send me.
And he
said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Make the heart of this people fat, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see
with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
***
Abram in
a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
*****
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and
said, My father: and he said, Here am I, - my son.
***
And he
said, I know not: Am I - my brother's keeper?
***
And every
plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:
for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,
and there
was not a man to till the ground.
*
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
*
But - there
went up a mist
from the earth,
and watered
the whole face of the ground.
*
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.
****
And he
said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood
crieth unto me
from the ground.
***
And the rib, which the
Lord God had taken from
man, made he
a workman,
and brought
her unto the man.
***
And he
said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant - of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
**
And now
art thou
cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth
to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
When thou
tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee
her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And Cain
said unto the Lord, My punishment
is greater than I can bear.
Behold, thou
hast driven me
out this day
from the face of the earth; and from thy
face shall I
be hid; and I
shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it
shall come to pass, that every one that findeth
me shall slay me.
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth
Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.
And the
Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord,
and dwelt in the land of Nod,
on the east of Eden.
*****
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 into the land of Canaan they came.
***
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem,
and Ham,
and Japheth:
and Ham is
the father of Canaan.
These are the
three sons
of Noah: and of them was the whole
earth overspread.
***
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 God
said unto Noah, The end
of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them;
and, behold,
I
will destroy them with the earth.
Make
thee an ark of
god prophet wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark,
and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
*****
And he
re-moved from thence unto a mountain - on the east of Bethel,
and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east:
and there
he builded an
altar unto the Lord,
and called
upon the name of the Lord.
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