The First Book of Moses -Genesis
{1:1} In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. {1:2} 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.
{1:3} And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light. {1:4} And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and
God divided the light from the darkness. {1:5} And God
called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And
the evening and the morning were the first day.
{1:6} And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
{1:7} 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. {1:8} And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
{1:9} 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. {1:10} And God called the dry [land]
Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he
Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:11} 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. {1:12} 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. {1:13} And the
evening and the morning were the third day.
{1:14} 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:
{1:15} And let them be for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. {1:16}
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. {1:17} And God set them in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth, {1:18} 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. {1:19} And the
evening and the morning were the fourth day. {1:20} 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. {1:21} 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. {1:22} And God blessed them, saying, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
fowl multiply in the earth. {1:23} And the evening and the
morning were the fifth day.
{1:24} 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. {1:25} 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.
{1:26} 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. {1:27} So God created man in his
[own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. {1:28} 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.
{1:29} 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. {1:30} 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. {1:31} 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.
{2:1} Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and
all the host of them. {2:2} 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. {2:3}
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.
{2:4} 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, {2:5} 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. {2:6} But there went up a mist from the earth, and
watered the whole face of the ground. {2:7} 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.
{2:8} And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in
Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. {2:9}
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. {2:10} And a river went out of
Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted,
and became into four heads. {2:11} The name of the first
[is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of
Havilah, where [there is] gold; {2:12} And the gold of that
land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone.
{2:13} And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the
same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
{2:14} 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. {2:15} And the LORD God took
the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and
to keep it. {2:16} And the LORD God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
{2:17} 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.
{2:18} And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the
man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
{2:19} 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. {2:20} 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. {2:21} 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; {2:22} And the rib,
which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man. {2:23} 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. {2:24} Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh. {2:25} And they were both naked, the man and his
wife, and were not ashamed.
{3:1} 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?
{3:2} And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat
of the fruit of the trees of the garden: {3:3} 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. {3:4} And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall
not surely die: {3:5} 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. {3:6} 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. {3:7}
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. {3:8} 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. {3:9} And
the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him,
Where [art] thou? {3:10} And he said, I heard thy voice in
the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I
hid myself. {3:11} 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? {3:12} And
the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with
me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. {3:13} 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. {3:14} 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: {3:15} 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. {3:16} 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. {3:17} 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; {3:18} Thorns also
and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the
herb of the field; {3:19} 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. {3:20} And Adam called his wife’s name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living. {3:21} Unto Adam
also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins,
and clothed them. {3:22} 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: {3:23} Therefore the LORD
God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from whence he was taken. {3:24} So he drove out
the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life.
{4:1} And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived,
and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the
LORD. {4:2} And she again bare his brother Abel. And
Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
ground. {4:3} And in process of time it came to pass, that
Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the
LORD. {4:4} 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: {4:5} But unto Cain and to
his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth,
and his countenance fell. {4:6} And the LORD said unto
Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance
fallen? {4:7} 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. {4:8}
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.
{4:9} And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy
brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother’s
keeper? {4:10} And he said, What hast thou done? the voice
of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
{4:11} And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which
hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from
thy hand; {4:12} 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. {4:13} And Cain said
unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.
{4:14} 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.
{4:15} 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.
{4:16} And Cain went out from the presence of the
LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
{4:17} 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. {4:18} And unto
Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
{4:19} And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name
of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
{4:20} And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as
dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle. {4:21} And his
brother’s name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ. {4:22} And Zillah, she also bare
Tubal- cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron:
and the sister of Tubal-cain [was] Naamah. {4:23} 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. {4:24} If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly
Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
{4:25} 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. {4:26} 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.
{5:1} This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In
the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made
he him; {5:2} Male and female created he them; and
blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when
they were created.
{5:3} And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and
begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called
his name Seth: {5:4} And the days of Adam after he had
begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons
and daughters: {5:5} And all the days that Adam lived were
nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. {5:6} And Seth
lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: {5:7} And
Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:8} And all the days
of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
{5:9} And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
{5:10} And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred
and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:11} And
all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and
he died.
{5:12} And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat
Mahalaleel: {5:13} And Cainan lived after he begat
Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons
and daughters: {5:14} And all the days of Cainan were nine
hundred and ten years: and he died.
{5:15} And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and
begat Jared: {5:16} And Mahalaleel lived after he begat
Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and
daughters: {5:17} And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight
hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
{5:18} And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years,
and he begat Enoch: {5:19} And Jared lived after he begat
Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
{5:20} And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty
and two years: and he died.
{5:21} And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah: {5:22} And Enoch walked with God after he
begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters: {5:23} And all the days of Enoch were three
hundred sixty and five years: {5:24} And Enoch walked
with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. {5:25} And
Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech: {5:26} And Methuselah lived after he begat
Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons
and daughters: {5:27} And all the days of Methuselah were
nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
{5:28} And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two
years, and begat a son: {5:29} 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. {5:30} And Lamech lived after he begat
Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and
daughters: {5:31} And all the days of Lamech were seven
hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. {5:32} And
Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
{6:1} And it came to pass, when men began to multiply
on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
{6:2} That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that
they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they
chose. {6:3} 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. {6:4} 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.
{6:5} 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. {6:6} And
it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart. {6:7} 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.
{6:8} But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
{6:9} These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a
just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah
walked with God. {6:10} And Noah begat three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {6:11} The earth also was corrupt
before God, and the earth was filled with violence. {6:12}
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. {6:13}
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.
{6:14} Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt
thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without
with pitch. {6:15} 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. {6:16} 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. {6:17} 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. {6:18} 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. {6:19} 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.
{6:20} 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.
{6:21} 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. {6:22} Thus did Noah; according to all
that God commanded him, so did he.
{7:1} 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. {7:2} 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.
{7:3} Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
{7:4} 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. {7:5} And Noah did according unto all that the
LORD commanded him. {7:6} And Noah [was] six hundred
years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
{7:7} 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. {7:8} Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are]
not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth
upon the earth, {7:9} There went in two and two unto Noah
into the ark, the male and the female, as God had
commanded Noah. {7:10} And it came to pass after seven
days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
{7:11} 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. {7:12} And the rain
was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. {7:13} 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; {7:14} 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. {7:15} And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two
and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life. {7:16}
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh,
as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
{7:17} 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. {7:18} And the waters prevailed, and were
increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the
face of the waters. {7:19} And the waters prevailed
exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that
[were] under the whole heaven, were covered. {7:20}
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered. {7:21} 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: {7:22} All in whose nostrils [was] the
breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land,] died. {7:23}
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. {7:24} And the
waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
{8:1} 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; {8:2} The fountains also of the deep and the
windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven
was restrained; {8:3} And the waters returned from off the
earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty
days the waters were abated. {8:4} And the ark rested in the
seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon
the mountains of Ararat. {8:5} 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.
{8:6} And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that
Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
{8:7} And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and
fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. {8:8}
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
abated from off the face of the ground; {8:9} 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. {8:10} And he stayed
yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of
the ark; {8:11} 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. {8:12}
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove;
which returned not again unto him any more.
{8:13} 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. {8:14} And in the second month, on the
seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
{8:15} And God spake unto Noah, saying, {8:16} Go
forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
sons’ wives with thee. {8:17} 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. {8:18} And Noah
went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives
with him: {8:19} Every beast, every creeping thing, and
every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after
their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
{8:20} 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. {8:21} 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. {8:22} While the earth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day
and night shall not cease.
{9:1} And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
{9:2} 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. {9:3}
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even
as the green herb have I given you all things. {9:4} But
flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall
ye not eat. {9:5} 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. {9:6} Whoso sheddeth man’s blood,
by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God
made he man. {9:7} And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply;
bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
{9:8} And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with
him, saying, {9:9} And I, behold, I establish my covenant
with you, and with your seed after you; {9:10} 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. {9:11} 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. {9:12} 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: {9:13} I do set my bow in
the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between
me and the earth. {9:14} And it shall come to pass, when I
bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in
the cloud: {9:15} 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. {9:16} 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. {9:17} 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.
{9:18} And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark,
were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of
Canaan. {9:19} These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of
them was the whole earth overspread. {9:20} And Noah
began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
{9:21} And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he
was uncovered within his tent. {9:22} And Ham, the father
of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two
brethren without. {9:23} 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. {9:24} And Noah awoke from his wine, and
knew what his younger son had done unto him. {9:25} And
he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he
be unto his brethren. {9:26} And he said, Blessed [be] the
LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
{9:27} God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the
tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
{9:28} And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and
fifty years. {9:29} And all the days of Noah were nine
hundred and fifty years: and he died.
{10:1} Now these [are] the generations of the sons of
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons
born after the flood. {10:2} The sons of Japheth; Gomer,
and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras. {10:3} And the sons of Gomer;
Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. {10:4} And the
sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
{10:5} By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in
their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families,
in their nations.
{10:6} And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and
Phut, and Canaan. {10:7} And the sons of Cush; Seba, and
Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the
sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. {10:8} And Cush begat
Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. {10:9}
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is
said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
{10:10} And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and
Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
{10:11} Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, {10:12} And
Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great
city. {10:13} And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and
Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, {10:14} And Pathrusim, and
Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
{10:15} And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
{10:16} And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgasite, {10:17} And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the
Sinite, {10:18} And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the
Canaanites spread abroad. {10:19} 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. {10:20} These [are]
the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in
their countries, [and] in their nations.
{10:21} Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of
Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were
[children] born. {10:22} The children of Shem; Elam, and
Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. {10:23} And
the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
{10:24} And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
{10:25} 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. {10:26} And Joktan begat
Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and Jerah,
{10:27} And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, {10:28} And
Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, {10:29} And Ophir, and
Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
{10:30} And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest
unto Sephar a mount of the east. {10:31} These [are] the
sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in
their lands, after their nations. {10:32} 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.
{11:1} And the whole earth was of one language, and of
one speech. {11:2} 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. {11:3} 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. {11:4}
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. {11:5} And the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
{11:6} 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. {11:7} Go to, let us go down, and
there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another’s speech. {11:8} So the LORD scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they
left off to build the city. {11:9} 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.
{11:10} These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was]
an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after
the flood: {11:11} And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad
five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:12}
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
{11:13} And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
{11:14} And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
{11:15} And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred
and three years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:16} And
Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: {11:17}
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:18} And Peleg
lived thirty years, and begat Reu: {11:19} And Peleg lived
after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat
sons and daughters. {11:20} And Reu lived two and thirty
years, and begat Serug: {11:21} And Reu lived after he
begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons
and daughters. {11:22} And Serug lived thirty years, and
begat Nahor: {11:23} And Serug lived after he begat Nahor
two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:24}
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
{11:25} And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred
and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:26}
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor,
and Haran.
{11:27} Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah
begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
{11:28} And Haran died before his father Terah in the land
of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. {11:29} 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. {11:30} But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.
{11:31} 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. {11:32} And the days of Terah
were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
{12:1} 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: {12:2} 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: {12:3} 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.
{12:4} 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. {12:5} 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.
{12:6} And Abram passed through the land unto the place
of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite
[was] then in the land. {12:7} 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. {12:8} 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. {12:9} And Abram journeyed, going on
still toward the south.
{12:10} 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. {12:11} 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: {12:12} 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.
{12:13} 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.
{12:14} And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come
into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was]
very fair. {12:15} The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and
commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken
into Pharaoh’s house. {12:16} 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.
{12:17} And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house
with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. {12:18}
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? {12:19} 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.
{12:20} And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning
him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he
had.
{13:1} And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his
wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
{13:2} And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold. {13:3} And he went on his journeys from the south
even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Bethel and Hai; {13:4} Unto the place
of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there
Abram called on the name of the LORD.
{13:5} And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks,
and herds, and tents. {13:6} And the land was not able to
bear them, that they might dwell together: for their
substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
{13:7} And there was a strife between the herdmen of
Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. {13:8}
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen; for we [be] brethren. {13:9} [Is] not the whole
land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if
[thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if
[thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
{13:10} And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain
of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the
LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the
garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest
unto Zoar. {13:11} Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated
themselves the one from the other. {13:12} Abram dwelled
in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the
plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom. {13:13} But the
men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.
{13:14} And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot
was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look
from the place where thou art northward, and southward,
and eastward, and westward: {13:15} For all the land which
thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
{13:16} And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then]
shall thy seed also be numbered. {13:17} Arise, walk
through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it;
for I will give it unto thee. {13:18} Then Abram removed
[his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which
[is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
{14:1} And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king
of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of
Elam, and Tidal king of nations; {14:2} [That these] made
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. {14:3} All
these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
the salt sea. {14:4} Twelve years they served
Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
{14:5} And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and
the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in
Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims
in Shaveh Kiriathaim, {14:6} And the Horites in their
mount Seir, unto El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness.
{14:7} And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which
[is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites,
and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon- tamar. {14:8}
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; {14:9} With
Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings with five. {14:10} And the vale of
Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to
the mountain. {14:11} And they took all the goods of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their
way. {14:12} And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son,
who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
{14:13} 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. {14:14} 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. {14:15} And he
divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night,
and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is]
on the left hand of Damascus. {14:16} And he brought back
all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and
his goods, and the women also, and the people.
{14:17} 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. {14:18} And Melchizedek king
of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the
priest of the most high God. {14:19} And he blessed him,
and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God,
possessor of heaven and earth: {14:20} And blessed be the
most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy
hand. And he gave him tithes of all. {14:21} And the king
of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take
the goods to thyself. {14:22} And Abram said to the king of
Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most
high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, {14:23} That I
will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I
will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest
say, I have made Abram rich: {14:24} 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.
{15:1} After these things the word of the LORD came
unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy
shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward. {15:2} And
Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus? {15:3} And Abram said, Behold, to me thou
hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine
heir. {15:4} 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.
{15:5} And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look
now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to
number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
{15:6} And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to
him for righteousness. {15:7} And he said unto him, I [am]
the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to
give thee this land to inherit it. {15:8} And he said, Lord
GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? {15:9}
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 turtledove, and a young pigeon. {15:10} And he
took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he
not. {15:11} And when the fowls came down upon the
carcases, Abram drove them away. {15:12} And when the
sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo,
an horror of great darkness fell upon him. {15:13} And he
said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them;
and they shall afflict them four hundred years; {15:14} And
also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance. {15:15}
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age. {15:16} But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of
the Amorites [is] not yet full. {15:17} 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. {15:18} In the same day the LORD made a
covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given
this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the
river Euphrates: {15:19} The Kenites, and the Kenizzites,
and the Kadmonites, {15:20} And the Hittites, and the
Perizzites, and the Rephaims, {15:21} And the Amorites,
and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
{16:1} Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children:
and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was]
Hagar. {16:2} And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the
LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in
unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.
And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. {16:3} And
Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave
her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
{16:4} And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived:
and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was
despised in her eyes. {16:5} And Sarai said unto Abram,
My wrong [be] upon thee: I have given my maid into thy
bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was
despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
{16:6} But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in
thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.
{16:7} And the angel of the LORD found her by a
fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur. {16:8} 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. {16:9} And
the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress,
and submit thyself under her hands. {16:10} And the angel
of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
{16:11} 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.
{16:12} And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be]
against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and
he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. {16:13}
And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her,
Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked
after him that seeth me? {16:14} Wherefore the well was
called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and
Bered.
{16:15} And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called
his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. {16:16} And
Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare
Ishmael to Abram.
{17:1} And when Abram was ninety years old and nine,
the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the
Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. {17:2}
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and
will multiply thee exceedingly. {17:3} And Abram fell on
his face: and God talked with him, saying, {17:4} As for
me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a
father of many nations. {17:5} Neither shall thy name any
more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for
a father of many nations have I made thee. {17:6} And I
will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations
of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. {17:7} And I will
establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed
after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to
be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. {17:8} And I
will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
{17:9} And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my
covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their
generations. {17:10} This [is] my covenant, which ye shall
keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every
man child among you shall be circumcised. {17:11} And ye
shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a
token of the covenant betwixt me and you. {17:12} And he
that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every
man child in your generations, he that is born in the house,
or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of thy
seed. {17:13} He that is born in thy house, and he that is
bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
{17:14} And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of
his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off
from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
{17:15} And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy
wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall]
her name [be. ]{17:16} And I will bless her, and give thee a
son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a
mother] of nations; kings of people shall be of her. {17:17}
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in
his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred
years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
{17:18} And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might
live before thee! {17:19} And God said, Sarah thy wife
shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name
Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an
everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him. {17:20}
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will
make him a great nation. {17:21} But my covenant will I
establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this
set time in the next year. {17:22} And he left off talking
with him, and God went up from Abraham.
{17:23} 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 in the selfsame
day, as God had said unto him. {17:24} And Abraham
[was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised
in the flesh of his foreskin. {17:25} And Ishmael his son
[was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin. {17:26} In the selfsame day was
Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. {17:27} And all
the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with
money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
{18:1} And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of
Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
{18:2} And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three
men stood by him: and when he saw [them,] he ran to meet
them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the
ground, {18:3} And said, My Lord, if now I have found
favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy
servant: {18:4} Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and
wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: {18:5}
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
{18:6} And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and
said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal,
knead [it,] and make cakes upon the hearth. {18:7} And
Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it. {18:8} And he took butter, and milk, and the calf
which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood
by them under the tree, and they did eat.
{18:9} And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy
wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. {18:10} And he said,
I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life;
and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard
[it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him. {18:11} Now
Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in age;
[and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
{18:12} Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying,
After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being
old also? {18:13} And the LORD said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a
child, which am old? {18:14} Is any thing too hard for the
LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee,
according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
{18:15} Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she
was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
{18:16} And the men rose up from thence, and looked
toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them
on the way. {18:17} And the LORD said, Shall I hide from
Abraham that thing which I do; {18:18} Seeing that
Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
{18:19} 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
bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
{18:20} And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
{18:21} I will go down now, and see whether they have
done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come
unto me; and if not, I will know. {18:22} And the men
turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but
Abraham stood yet before the LORD. {18:23} And
Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the wicked? {18:24} Peradventure there be
fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not
spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein?
{18:25} 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 wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the
Judge of all the earth do right? {18:26} And the LORD
said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I
will spare all the place for their sakes. {18:27} And
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and
ashes: {18:28} Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty
righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five?
And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy
[it. ]{18:29} And he spake unto him yet again, and said,
Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I
will not do [it] for forty’s sake. {18:30} And he said [unto
him,] Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak:
Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I
will not do [it,] if I find thirty there. {18:31} And he said,
Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord:
Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said,
I will not destroy [it] for twenty’s sake. {18:32} And he
said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but
this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he
said, I will not destroy [it] for ten’s sake. {18:33} And the
LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing
with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.