DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." ery 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. 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.' And Elohim 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. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 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. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.' And Elohim said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'" DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." (6.) Chap. ix. 28. "And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years, and all the years of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died." DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." Chap. ix. 20-27. "And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 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. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, 'Cursed be Canaan; a servant of DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." servants shall he be unto his brethren." And he said, Blessed be Jehovah Elohim of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Elohim shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.' DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." IV. Chap. xi. 10-26. Genealogical register till Abraham. DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." Chap. x. Register of the nations, with parallel genealogies. V. Chap. xi. 27-32 is decidedly Elohistic. The passage xii.— xiv. containing Abraham's migration to Canaan and Egypt, his separation from Lot, his military expeditionis chiefly Jehovistic, but, perhaps, contains some Elohistic verses, as in xii. 5, 6, and elsewhere." d Comp. the passage ix. 1-17, which is closely allied to this. • Verse 18 is interpolated. thou hast taken for she is a man's wife.' But Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? Said he not unto me, "She is my sister?" and she, even she herself, said, "He is my brother" in the integrity of my heart, and innocency of my hands, have I done this.' And Elohim said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." sojourn there; for the | And Isaac went unto therefore it shall come to pass, Say, I pray thee, thou "And it came to Gerar. And Jehovah appeared unto him, and said, 'Go not down into Egypt: dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father: and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." a Now, therefore, restore the man his wife; for he is prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.' "Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, 'What hast thou done unto us? and what have I of fended thee, that thou hast brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.' And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?' And Abraham said, DOCUMENT "JEHOVAH." Jehovah sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. "And plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 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? 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.' And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had." to say, 'She is my wife;' 'lest,' said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah ;' because she was fair to look upon. And it came to pass when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, 'Behold, of a surety, she is thy wife; and how saidst thou, "She is my sister"?' And Isaac said unto him, 'Because I said, "Lest I die for her."' And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.' And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, 'He that toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely be put to death." DOCUMENT "ELOHIM." place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake." And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife. And it came to pass, when Elohim caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, "This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, 'He is my brother. "And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. And Abimelech said, 'Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.' And unto Sarah he said, 'Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee, and with all other' thus she was reproved. "So Abraham prayed unto Elohim; and Elohim healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children." DOCUMENT ELOHIM." IX. Chap. xxi. 1-21." Birth of Isaac, and Expulsion of Ishmael. "Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which Elohim had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him. And Abraham And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him. "And Sarah said, 'Elohim hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.' And she said, 'Who would have said "Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said unto Abram, 'Behold, now, Jehovah 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. And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid the Ægyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. "And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she Comp. verses 2-4 with xvii. 21, 10-14; verse 13 with xvii. 20. Verse 1 is interpolated. |