12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee years, and begat Sa ah. shail all families of the earth be blessed. 13 And Arphaxad lived, after he begat 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had Salah, four hundred and three years, and spoken unto him; and Lot went with Lima begat sons and daughters. and Abram was seventy and five years old 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat when lie departed out of Haran. Eber. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot 15 And Salah lived, after he begat Eber, his brother's son, and all their substance that Jour hundred and three years, and begat they had gathered, and the souls that they sons and dauginters.

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg.

17 And Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they come.

6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and be-land. gat Reu.

19 And Peleg lived, after he negat Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.

7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he au altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai unto the LORD, and called upon the name of

21 And Reu lived, after he begat Serug, two hundred and seven years, and begat sons or the east; and there he builded an altar

and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat the LORD. Nahor.

9 And Abram journeyed, going on still to

23 And Serug lived, after he begat Na-wards the south. hor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nalhor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Teralı.

25 And Naher lived, after he begat Terah, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Naler, and Haran.

27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

10 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.

11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, i know that thou art a fair wonten to look upon:

12 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

14 And it came to pass, that, when

13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister 28 And Haran died before his father Te- that it may be well with me for thy sake; rah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the and my soul shall live because of thee. Chaldees. 29 And Abramand Nahor took them wives: Abram was come into Egypt, the Egypthe name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and tians beheld the woman, that she was very the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daugh-fair. ter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the i5 The princes also of Pharaoh saw father of Iscain. her, and coinmended her before Pharaoh;

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and house.

Lot the son of Harar his son's son, and Sarai 16 And he entreated Abram well for her his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; sake: and he Lad sheep, and oxen, and heand they went forth with them from Urasses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, of the Chaidees, to go into the land of and she-asses, and camels.

Canaan: and they came unto Haran, and 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and bis dwelt there. house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haren.

CHAP. XII.

N the LORD had said unto Abram, Get

thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from my father's house, unto a land that i will shew thee:

2 And I will inc'ke of thee a great nation, and I will bless tinee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, ard said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou na tell me that she was thy wife?

19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wite, take her, and go thy way.

20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and

3 And I will bless mein that bless thee, his wife, and all that he had.

CHAP. ХИЛ.

A ND Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent Lad been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;

4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: anal there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

Ellasar, Chedorlaomerking of Elam, and Ti dal king cf nations;

2 That these maoe war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

3 All these were joined together in the valo of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Kar. naim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and tha Emims in Shaveh-Kiriathaim.

6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, un

6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not to El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

dwell together.

71 And there was a strife between the heramen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanue and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdinen; for we be brethren.

7 And they returned and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwel in Hazezon-tamar.

3 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, (the same is Zoar,) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim:

9 Is not the whole land before thee? Sep- 9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, arate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou and with Tidal king of nations, and Amrawilt take the left hand, then I will go to the phel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of right, or if thou depart to the right hand, Ellasar; four kings with five.

then I will go to the left.

10 And the vale of Siddim was full of

101 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld slime-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Goall the plain of Jordan, that it was well wa- morralı fied, and fell there; and they that retered every where, before the LORD destroy-mained fled to the mountain. ed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden 11 And they took all the goods of Sodom of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and comest unto Zoar.

went their way.

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jor- 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's

dan; and Lot journeyed east and they separated theniscives the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodoin were wicked, and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated froin Lim, lift up now thine eyes, and lock from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a 10an can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

17 Arise, walk through the land, in the length of it, and in the breadth of it: for I will give it unto thee.

181 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, we is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

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CHAP. XIV.

son, (who dwelt in Sodom,) and his goods, and departed.

13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, and these were confederate with Abram.

14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued then unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, (after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him,) at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was the priest of the most high God.

19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed

ND it came to pass, in the days of Am-be Abram of the most high God, possessor of raphel, king of Shinar, Arioch king of heaven and earth:

GENESIS.

20 And blesse l be the most high God, which 16 But in the fourth generation they chan hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And he gave him tithes of all.

211 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself..

22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abramrich:

24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion.

CHAP. XV.

FTER these

things the word of the A LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

17 And it came to pass, that when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

18 In that same day the LORD made a co venant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seen have I given this land, from the river of Egypt vuto the great river, the river Euphrates:

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizziteš, and the Rephaims,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, CHẤP. XVI. and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

NO

bare him

no

TOW Sarai, Abram's wife,
children: and she had un handmaid, an

Egyptian, whose naine was Hagar.

2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may

2 And Abram said, Lord GoD, what wilt I thou give me, seeing 1 go childless, and the that I may obtain children by her. And

steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

41 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

gave

Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her
maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt
her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
ten years in the land of Canaan, and
4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she
conceived; and when she saw that she had
conceived, her mistress was despised in her
eyes.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the be upon thee: I have given my maid into

stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

61 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

711 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaidees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

10 And he tock unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another; but the birds divided he not.

11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases Abram drove them away.

12 And when the sun was going down, & deep sieep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth she fled from her face. thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her,

7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, hy the fountain in the way to Shur.

8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid; whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her. under her hands. Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself

10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude,

11 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. 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand

13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a and that is not theirs, and shali serve them: and they shall afflict them four hundrell be against every man, and every man's years:

14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 And thou shalt goto thy fathers in peace; thoushalt be buried in a good old age.

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and against him: and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: fur she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

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CHAP. XVII, XVIII. 14 Wherefore the well was called Beer- laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child akai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years

Bered.

15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and old, bear? Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. CHAP. XVII.

ND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to bram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God: balk before me, and be thou perfect.

18 And Abraham said unto God, O that
Ishmael might live before thee!

and thou shalt call his
19 And God said, Sarah thy wife sha'l bear
thee a son indeed;
name Isaac: and 1 will establish my cove-
nant with him for an everlasting covenant,
and with his seed after him.

20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee:
Behold, I have blessed him, and will make

And I will make my covenant between him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedme and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly: twelve princes shall he beget; and ingly.

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

51 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abrahası: for a father of many nations have I

made thee.

I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant will, I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

237 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings in the self-same day, as God had said unto him. chall come out of thee.

7 And I will establish my covenant be

24 And Abraham was ninety years old veen me and thee, and thy seed after thee, and nine when he was circumcised in the in their generations, for an everlasting cove- flesh of his foreskin.

mant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed

after thee.

25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy Beed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an ever-cumcised, and Ishmael his son;

lasting possession; and I will be their God.

26 In the self-same day was Abraham cir27 And all the men of his house, born in house, and bought with money of the

91 And God said unto Abraham, Thou the shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and stranger, were circumcised with him.

thy seed after thee, in their generations.

CHAP. XVIII.
ND the LORD appeared unto him in the
A
plains of Mamre: and he sat in the

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall
keep, between me and you, and thy seed)
after thee; Every man-child among you shall tent-door in the heat of the day;

be circumcised.

2 And he lifted up his eyes, and looked,

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of and, lo, three men stood by him: and, when

your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your generations; he that is born in the bouse, or hought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

3 And said, My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, 1 pray thee, from thy servant:

4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetch

13 He that is born in thy house, and he led, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves

that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

under the tree;

5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall

14 And the uncircumcised man-child, pass on: for therefore are ye come to your whose flesh of his foreskin is not circum-servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast cised, that soul shall be cut off from his said.

people; he hath broken my covenant.

6 And Abraham hastened into the tent

15 And God said unto Abraham, As for unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name three measures of fine meal, knead it, and Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

make cakes upon the hearth.

16 And I will bless her, and give thee al 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it shall be a mother of nations; kings of people unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. IS And he took buter and milk, and the shall be of her.

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face. and calf which he had dressed, and set it before

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10 And he said, I will certainly return 29 And he spake unto him yet again, and unto thee according to the time of life; said, Peradventure there shall he forty found and, lo, Saralı thy wife shall have a sou. there. And he said, I will not do it for And Sarah heard it in the tent-door, which forty's sake. was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and Lord be angry, and I will speak: P'erad well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with venture there shall thirty be found there. Sarah after the inanner of women.

And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirg there. 31 And be said, Behold now, I have teen upon me to speak unto the LORD: rad 13 And the LORD said unto Abraham. venture there shall be twenty found there Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

come a great and mighty nation, and all 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, tura the natious of the earth shall be blessed in bim?

19 For I know him, that he will command his children, and his household after him; and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may 3. And he pressed upon them greatly; and

25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked; and that the righteous should be as the 9 And they said, Stard back. And they

26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, tizen I will And they pressed sore upon the man, even

27 And Abraliain answered and said, Be- 10 But the men put forth their band, and hold now, I have taken upon me to speak un-pulled Lot into the house to them, and shu to the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: to the door.