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.