King James Version
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.
2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light.
4 And God saw the
light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day.
6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made
the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called
the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 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 itself, upon the earth: and it
was so.
12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
13 And the
evening and the morning were the third day.
14 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them
be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them
be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and
it was so.
16 And God made
two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set
them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule
over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and
God saw that it was good.
19 And the
evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 ¶ And God said, Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly
above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God
created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters
brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the
evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 ¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth
after his kind: and it was so.
25
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and
God saw that it was good.
26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created
man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them.
28 And God
blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth.
29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the
which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given
every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 ¶ And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
1 ¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all
the host of them.
2 And on the
seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed
the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested
from all his work which God created and made.
4 ¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the
earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and
the heavens,
5 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.
6 But there went
up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 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.
8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the
ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and
good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree
of knowledge of good and evil.
10
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was
parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of
the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah,
where there is gold;
12 And the gold
of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name
of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of
Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the LORD
God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it
and to keep it.
16 ¶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every
tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the
day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 ¶ And the LORD God said, It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the
ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;
and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam
called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to
every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for
him.
21 ¶ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof;
22 And the rib,
which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man.
23 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.
24 Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
25
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
1 ¶ Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the
field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God
said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the
trees of the garden:
3 But of the
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall
not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent
said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall
be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 ¶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for
food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat.
7
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were
naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard
the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and
Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the
trees of the garden.
9 ¶ And the LORD God called unto
Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I
heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid
myself.
11 ¶ And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not
eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the LORD
God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said,
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 ¶ 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:
15 And I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 ¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy
sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth
children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 ¶ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded
thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in
sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also
and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the
field;
19 In the sweat
of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of
it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20 ¶ And Adam called his wife's name
Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21 ¶ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make
coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 ¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as
one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23 Therefore the
LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence
he was taken.
24 So he drove
out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree
of life.
1 ¶ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and
bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2 And she again
bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 ¶ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4 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:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was
very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 ¶ And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and
why is thy countenance fallen?
7 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.
8 ¶ 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.
9 ¶ And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy
brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood
crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art
thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy
brother's blood from thy hand;
12 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.
13 ¶ And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is
greater than I can bear.
14 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.
15
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.
16 ¶ And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and
dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he
builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son,
Enoch.
18 And unto Enoch
was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and
Methusael begat Lamech.
19 ¶ And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the
one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bare
Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21 And his
brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and
organ.
22
And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in
brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
23 ¶ And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah,
Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a
man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
24
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
25 ¶ And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son,
and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed
instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26 And to Seth,
to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
1 ¶ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the
day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2 Male and female
created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in
the day when they were created.
3 And Adam lived
an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his
image; and called his name Seth:
4 And the days of
Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and
daughters:
5
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and
he died.
6 ¶ And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat
Enos:
7 And Seth lived
after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and
daughters:
8
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he
died.
9 And Enos lived
ninety years, and begat Cainan:
10 And Enos lived
after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and
daughters:
11 And all the
days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
12
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
13 And Cainan
lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons
and daughters:
14 And all the
days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
15 And Mahalaleel
lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
16
And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters:
17 And all the
days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
18 And Jared
lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons
and daughters:
20 And all the
days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah:
22 And Enoch
walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the
days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch
walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
25 ¶ And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven
years, and begat Lamech:
26 And Methuselah
lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years,
and begat sons and daughters:
27 And all the
days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
28 ¶ And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years,
and begat a son:
29 And he called
his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the
LORD hath cursed.
30 And Lamech
lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and
daughters:
31 And all the
days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
32
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and
Japheth.
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and
they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 ¶ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and
twenty years.
4 ¶ There were giants in the earth in those days; and
also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters
of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were
of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 ¶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD
said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both
man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it
repenteth me that I have made them.
8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in
his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat
three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 ¶ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth
was filled with violence.
12 And God looked
upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted
his way upon the earth.
13 ¶ 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.
14 Make thee an
ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within
and without with pitch.
15
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the
ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt
thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door
of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third
stories shalt thou make it.
17
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to
destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every
thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee
will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy
sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
19
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and
female.
20 Of fowls after
their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth
after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou
unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 ¶ Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.
1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy
house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his
female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also
of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face
of all the earth.
4 For yet seven
days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I
destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 ¶ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD
commanded him.
6 And Noah was
six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with
him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean
beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that
creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in
two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to
pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the
second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened.
12 And the rain
was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 ¶ In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons
with them, into the ark;
14 They, and
every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind,
and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went
in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life.
16 And they that
went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded
him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters
prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the
face of the waters.
19
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high
hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits
upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 ¶ 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:
22
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry
land, died.
23 And every
living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man,
and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were
destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with
him in the ark.
24
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
1 ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and
all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over
the earth, and the waters asswaged;
2
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped,
and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters
returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and
fifty days the waters were abated.
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 continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first
day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
6 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that
Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
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 her, and pulled her in unto him into 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 pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from
off the earth.
12 And he stayed
yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto
him any 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 seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons'
wives with thee.
17 Bring forth
with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and
of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they
may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went
forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
19 Every beast,
every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth,
after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 ¶ And Noah builded an altar unto
the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered
burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD
smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again 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 While the
earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not cease.
1 ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of
you and the dread 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.
4 But flesh with
the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your
blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require
it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require
the life of man.
6
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the
image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye
fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply
therein.
8 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,
saying,
9
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed
after you;
10 And with every
living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast
of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the
earth.
11 And I will
establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be
a flood to destroy the earth.
12 ¶ And God said, This is the token of the covenant
which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for
perpetual generations:
13 I do set my
bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall
come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen
in the cloud:
15 And I will
remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of
all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow
shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the
everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is
upon the earth.
17 And God said unto
Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established
between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
18 ¶ And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark,
were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 These are the
three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began
to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within
his tent.
22 And Ham, the
father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren
without.
23 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.
24 ¶ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his
younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said,
Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said,
Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant.
28 ¶ And Noah lived after the flood
three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the
days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
1 ¶ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
2
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal,
and Meshech, and Tiras.
3 And the sons of
Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of
Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 By these were
the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
6 ¶ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and
Canaan.
7 And the sons of
Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of
Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat
Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as
Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10 And the beginning
of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of
Shinar.
11 Out of that
land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
12 And Resen
between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
13 And Mizraim
begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
14 And Pathrusim,
and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
15 ¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
16
And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
17 And the
Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
18 And the
Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families
of the 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.
21 ¶ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of
Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were
children born.
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 Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
25 And 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.
1 ¶ And the whole earth was of one 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.
3
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said,
Go to, let us build 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.
6 And the LORD
said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they
begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do.
7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may
not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD
scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left
off to build the city.
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.
10 ¶ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an
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 begat sons and
daughters.
20 And Reu lived
two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
21 And Reu lived
after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug
lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
23 And Serug
lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor
lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
25
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and
begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah
lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 ¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat
Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in
Ur of the Chaldees.
29 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.
30
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 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 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.
32 And the days
of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
1 ¶ 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:
2 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:
3 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.
4 ¶ 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.
5 And Abram took
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 into the land of Canaan they came.
6 ¶ And Abram passed through the land
unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then
in the land.
7 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.
8 And he removed
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.
9 And Abram
journeyed, going on still toward the south.
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 woman 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.
13 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.
14 ¶ And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into
Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
15 The princes
also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was
taken into Pharaoh's house.
16
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.
17 And the LORD
plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
18 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?
19 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.
20 And Pharaoh
commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all
that he had.