a ch. 19. 29.

Ex. 2. 24.

1 Sam. 1. 19.

b Ex. 14. 21.

c ch. 7. 11.

d Job 38. 37.

f ch. 6. 16.

GENESIS.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Heb. in going forth and returning.

CHAPTER VIII.

The waters assuage. 4 The ark resteth on Ararat.
7 The raven and the dove. 15 Noah, com-

manded, 18 goeth forth out of the ark. 20 He build
eth an altar, and offereth sacrifice, 21 which God
accepteth, and promiseth to curse the earth no more.

3 And the waters returned from off

+ Heb. in go- the earth + continually: and after the

ing and re-
turning.

end of the hundred and fifty days
the waters were abated.

e ch. 7. 24.

2348.

† Heb. were

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased conin going and tinually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

every living thing, and all the
cattle that was with him in the ark:
band God made a wind to pass over
the earth, and the waters assuaged.
2 The fountains also of the deep
and the windows of heaven were
stopped, and the rain from heaven
was restrained.

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God & remembered Noah, and that is with thee, of all

6 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened 'the window of the ark which he had

made:

the ark.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11 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.

Noah leaveth the ark.

seven and twentieth day of the month, B. C. 2348. was the earth dried.

15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying,

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16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and g ch. 7. 18. thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any

17 Bring forth with thee hevery h ch. 7. 15.

7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

9 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

+ Heb. caused her, and pulled her in unto him into AND God blessed Noah and his

her to come.

more.

13 ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the

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20 T And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every cleank Lev. ch. 11. beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled 'ta sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again m curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the "imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22 Pt While the earth remaineth, † Heb. as yet seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

all the days of the earth. n ch. 6. 5. Job 14. 4. & 15. 14. Ps. 51. 5. Jer. 17. 9. Matt. 15. 19.

Rom. 1. 21. & 3, 23.

sons, and said unto them, a Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Hos. 2. 18.

2 "And the fear of you and the dread b ch. 1. 28. of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

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e Rom. 14. 14,

d

20.

1 Cor. 10. 23,

26.

Col. 2. 16.

1 Tim. 4. 3, 4.

4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye f Lev. 17. 10, not eat.

11, 14.& 19. 26. Deut. 12, 23. 1 Sam. 14, 33, 34.

Acts 15.20,29.

5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and hatg the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Ex. 21. 28. h ch. 4. 9, 10.

Ps. 9. 12.

i Acts 17. 26.

a ch. 1. 28.

ver. 7, 19. ch. 10. 32.

c Deut. 12. 15. & 14. 3, 9, 11. Acts 10.12,13.

d ch. 1. 29.

The descendants of Shem.

B. C.

+

15 ↑ And Canaan begat † Sidon his about 2218. firstborn, and Heth,

†Heb. Tzidon.

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, for mortar. and the Sinite,

18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite and af

i ch. 13. 12, 14, terward were the families of the

15, 17. & 15. 18-21.

Num. 34.

2--12

Josh. 12. 7,8. † Heb. Azzah.

k1 Chr. 1. 17, &c.

+ Heb. Arpachshad.

† Heb. Shelah.

1 ch. 11. 12. 2247.

|| That is, Di-
vision.
m 1 Chr. 1. 19.

n ver. 1.

o ch. 9.19.

about 2247.

GENESIS.

† Heb. lip.

† Heb, words. || Or, east

ward, as ch. 13.11. 2 Sam.

6. 2, with 1 Chr. 13. 6.

Canaanites spread abroad.

19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto † Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

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21 ¶ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

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22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and +Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

23 And the children of Aram; Uz,
and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
24 And Arphaxad begat 1Salah; |
and Salah begat Eber.

25 mAnd unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east.

31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

32 "These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

CHAPTER XI.

One language in the world. 3 The building of Ba-
bel. 6 The confusion of tongues. 10 The genera
tions of Shem. 27 The generations of Terah the
father of Abram. 31 Terah goeth from Ur to
Haran.

The confusion of tongues.

B. C. about 2247.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and tburn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they

them to a burning.

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a Deut. 1. 28.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build Heb. burn us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 "And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

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6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all done language; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, flet us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So1 the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city.

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9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

1 Chr. 1. 17.

10 ¶ 1These are the generations of 1 ch. 10. 22. Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah :

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

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.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu :

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and

† Heb. a man said to his neighbour.

AND the whole earth was of one begat sons and daughters.

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language, and of one † speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat P Serug:

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

GENESIS.