The creation of man.

GENESIS.

The garden of Eden.

which went

x ch.5. 1. & 9.
6.
Ps. 100, 3.
Ecc. 7. 29.
Acts 17. 26,
28, 29.
1 Cor. 11. 7.

Col.3. 10.
James 3. 9.
y ch. 9. 2.
Ps. 8. 6.

Ps. 103. 14. Ecc. 12. 7. Is. 64. 8. 1 Cor. 15. 47. i Job 33. 4. Acts 17. 25.

Is. 2. 22.

a ch. 5. 2. Mal. 2. 15. Matt. 19. 4.

b ch. 9. 1, 7. Lev. 26. 9.

mch. 13. 10. Is. 51.3. Ez, 28. 13. Joel 2. 3. nch. 3. 24. och. 4. 16.

128. 3, 4.

eth.

Ez. 27. 23. P ver. 15. 4 Ez. 31. 8. rch. 3. 22. Prov. 3. 18. & 11. 30. Rev. 2. 7. & 22. 2, 14. s ver. 17. tch. 25. 18. u Num. 11. 7.

seed

c ch. 9. 3. Job 36. 31.

| Heb. Cush.

15. & 136. 25. & 146. 7. Acts 14. 17.

soul. d Ps. 145. 15, 16. & 147. 9.

Job 38, 41. f Ps. 104. 24. 1 Tim. 4. 4.

B. C. 4004. creepeth upon the earth after his 6 But I there went up a mist from B. C. 4004. kind : and God saw that it was good. the earth, and watered the whole face

| Or, a mist 26 | And God said, Let us make of the ground. man in our image, after our likeness : 7 And the LORD God formed man tof up from, &c. and y let them have dominion over the dust of the ground, and i breathed 1 Heb. dust of

the fish of the sea, and over the fowl into his nostrils the breath of life; h ch. 3. 19, 23. Eph. 4. 24. of the air, and over the cattle, and and 'man became a living soul.

over all the earth, and over every 8 | And the Lord God planted ma
creeping thing that creepeth upon the garden "eastward in °Eden; and there
earth.

Phe put the man whom he had formed. 27 So God created man in his own 9 And out of the ground made the k ch. 7. 22 z 1 Cor. 11. 7. image, ? in the image of God created LORD God to grow qevery tree that

he him; a male and female created is pleasant to the sight, and good for 11 Cor. 15. 45. he them.

food; rthe tree of life also in the Mark 10 6. 28 And God blessed them, and God midst of the garden, s and the tree

said unto them, bBe fruitful, and of knowledge of good and evil. Ps. 127.3. & multiply, and replenish the earth, 10 And a river went out of Eden

and subdue it: and have dominion to water the garden; and from thence 2 Kings19.12. over the fish of the sea, and over it was parted, and became into four

the fowl of the air, and over every heads. + Heb. creep

living thing that moveth upon the 11 The name of the first is Pison:
earth.

that is it which compasseth * the whole 29 | And God said, Behold, I have land of Havilah, where there is gold; + Heb. seeding given you every herb + bearing seed, 12 And the gold of that land is good :

which is upon the face of all the u there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
earth, and every tree, in the which is 13 And the name of the second riv-
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to er is Gihon: the same is it that com-
you it shall be for meat.

passeth the whole land of + Ethiopia.
Ps. 104. 14,
30 And to devery beast of the earth,

14 And the name of the third river and to every e fowl of the air, and to is Hiddekel : that is it which goeth Dan. 10. 4. every thing that creepeth upon the toward the east of Assyria. And the Or, eastward

to Assyria. Heb. a living earth, wherein there is + life, I have fourth river is Euphrates.

given every green herb for meat: and 15 And the LORD God took | the 11 Or, Adam. it was so.

man, and put him into the garden y ver. 8. 31 And 'God saw every thing that of Eden to dress it and to keep it. he had made, and, behold, it was 16 And the LORD God commanded very good. And the evening and the the man, saying, Of every tree of the morning were the sixth day. garden † thou mayest freely eat:

f Heb. eating 17 2 But of the tree of the knowledge CHAPTER II.

of good and evil, a thou shalt not eat
4
8 The planting of the garden of Eden, 10 and the of it: for in the day that thou eatest
river thereof. 17 The tree of knowledge only thereof bt thou shalt surely die.

t Heb, dying forbidden. 19 The naming of the creatures.

18 | And the LORD God said, It is The making of woman, and the institution of

not good that the man should be THUS the heavens and the earth alone; "I will make him a helpt meet | Heb. as be

were finished, and the host for him. of them.

b ch, 3. 3, 19. 19 dAnd out of the ground the LORD 2 bAnd on the seventh day God end. God formed every beast of the field, ed his work which he had made; and and every fowl of the air; and brought he rested on the seventh day from all them unto Adam to see what he would 1 Or, The man. his work which he had made.

call them: and whatsoever Adam call3 And God blessed the seventh day, ed every living creature, that was the and sanctified it: because that in it name thereof.

d ch. 1. 20, 24. he had rested from all his work which 20 And Adam #gave names to all + Heb. called. | Heb. created God tcreated and made.

cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and e Ps. 8. 6. 4 q . These are the generations of to every beast of the field; but for Ps. 90. 1, 2.

the heavens and of the earth when Adam there was not found a help
they were created, in the day that meet for him.
the LORD God made the earth and 21 And the LORD God caused a deep ch. 15. 12.
the heavens,

sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept;
5 And every e plant of the field be- and he took one of his ribs, and closed
fore it was in the earth, and every | up the flesh instead thereof.

herb of the field before it grew : for 22 And the rib, which the LORD God f Job 38, 26, the Lord God had not fcaused it to had taken from man, made he a 27, 28.

rain upon the earth, and there was woman, and brought her unto the
not a man sto till the ground.

The fall of man.

GENESIS.

Their punishment.

h ch. 29. 14.

o ver. 4.
2 Cor. 11. 3.
1 Tim. 2. 14.

2 Sam. 5. 1. & 19. 13.

32.

i1 Cor. 11. 8. k ch, 31. 15. Ps. 45. 10. Matt. 19. 5. Mark 10. 7. 1 Cor. 6. 16.

11. m Ex. 32. 25. Is. 47. 3.

Mic7. . r Matt. 3. 7. & 13. 38. & 23. 33. John 8. 44. Acts 13. 10. 1 John 3. 3. s Ps. 132. il. Is. 7. 14. Mic. 5. 3.

Gal. 4. 4.

a Rev. 12. 9. & 20. 2.

N

band.

+ Heb. Yea,

Col. 2. 15. Heb. 2. 14. 1 John 5, 5.

u Ps. 48. 6.
Is. 13. 8. &
21. 3.
John 16. 21.

c ch. 2. 17.

w ch. 4. 7.

to bud.

& 14. 34.

d ver. 13.
2 Cor. 11, 3.
1 Tim. 2. 14.

B. C. 4004. 23 And Adam said, This is now 13 And the LORD God said unto the B. C. 4004.

b bone of my bones, and flesh of my woman, What is this that thou hast

flesh: she shall be called Woman, done? And the woman said, “The Judg. 9. 2

because she was i taken out of man. serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

24 Therefore shall a man leave 14 And the LORD God said Punto p Ex. 21. 29, Eph. 5. 30.

his father and his mother, and shall the serpent, Because thou hast done
cleave unto his wife : and they shall this, thou art cursed above all cattle,
be one flesh.

and above every beast of the field; 25 'And they were both naked, upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust us: 65, 25, | Eph. 5. 31. the man and his wife, and were not shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: I ch. 3. 7, 10, mashamed.

15 And I will put enmity between

thee and the woman, and between 'thy
CHAPTER III.

seed and sher seed; it shall bruise thy
The serpent deceiveth Eve. 6 Man's shameful fall. head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
9 God arraigneth them. 14 The serpent is cursed.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will
15 The promised seed. 16 The punishment of man-
kind. 21 Their first clothing. 22 They are driven greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy Matt.1.23,25.
out of paradise.

Luke 1.31, conception ; uin sorrow thou shalt

34, 35. OW a the serpent was more sub- bring forth children ; wand thy desire tile than any beast of the field shall be Il to thy husband, and he shall 11 Or, subject

to thy • Matt. 10. 16. which the LORD God had made. And *rule over thee. 2

he said unto the woman, +Yea, hath 17 And unto Adam he said, "Because t Rom. 16. 20. because, 8c.

God said, Ye shall not eat of every thou hast hearkened unto the voice of
tree of the garden ?
thy wife, 2 and hast eaten of the tree,

Rev. 12.7,17.
2 And the woman said unto the ser- a of which I commanded thee, saying,
pent, We may eat of the fruit of the Thou shalt not eat of it: bcursed is the
trees of the garden:

ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt 3° But of the fruit of the tree which thou eat of it all the days of thy life; | i Tim. 2. 15. is in the midst of the garden, God 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, nei- + bring forth to thee; and e thou shalt Heb. cause ther shall ye touch it, lest ye die. eat the herb of the field.

x1 Cor. 11. 3. 4. And the serpent said unto the 19 'In the sweat of thy face shalt

th woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Eph. 5. 22, eat bread, till thou return unto

23, 24. 5 For God doth know that in the the ground; for out of it wast thou day ye eat thereof, then your eyes taken : & for dust thou art, and hunto

1 Pet.3.1,5,6. shall be opened ; and ye shall be as dust shalt thou return. gods, knowing good and evil.

20 And Adam called his wife's name 6 And when the woman saw that| | Eve; because she was the mother || That is,

Living. the tree was good for food, and that of all living. 4. Heb. a de- it was pleasant to the eyes, and a 21 Unto Adam also and to his wife

tree to be desired to make one wise, did the LORD God make coats of skins, Is. 24. 5, 6. f 1 Tim. 2 14. she took of the fruit thereof, f and did and clothed them.

eat, and gave also unto her husband 22 | And the LORD God said, 'Be& ver. 12, 17. with her; and he did eat.

hold, the man is become as one of us, 7 And h the eyes of them both were to know good and evil : and now, lest opened, and they knew that they were he put forth his hand, k and take also { Ecc. 1. 13.

2 Thess. 3.10. naked; and they sewed fig leaves to- of the tree of life, and eat, and live || Or, things to gether, and made themselves il aprons. for ever : gird about.

8 And they heard k the voice of the 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him

Lord God walking in the garden in forth from the garden of Eden,' to till † Heb. windo the + cool of the day: and Adam and the ground from whence he was taken.

his wife 'hid themselves from the pres- 24 So he drove out the man: and he
ence of the LORD God amongst the placed mat the east of the garden of iver. 5:
trees of the garden.

Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword
9 And the LORD God called unto which turned every way, to keep the
Adam, and said unto him, Where art way of the tree of life.
thou?

CHAPTER IV.
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in

The birth and occupation of Cain and Abel. 3 Their the garden, mand I was afraid, because offerings unto the Lord. 8 The murder of Abel. 11 I was naked; and I hid myself.

The curse of Cain. 17 His son Enoch, and the first

city. 19 Lamech and his two wives. 25 The birth
11 And he said, Who told thee that of Seth, 26 and Enos.
thou wast naked ? Hast thou eaten of

4003. the tree, whereof I commanded thee

conceived, and 11 That is,

Gotten, or, that thou shouldest not eat?

and said, I have gotten a man from Acquiredo 12 And the man said, “The woman the Lord. whom thou gavest to be with me, she 2 And she again bare his brother | Heb. Hebel.

| Heb. a gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

+Abel. And Abel was ta keeper of feeder.

1 Tim. 2. 11, 12. Tit. 2. 5.

e ver. 7. Acts 26. 18.

yl Sam. 15. 23.

Z ver. 6.

a ch. 2. 17.
b Ecc. 1. 2, 3.

sire.

The murder of Abel.

GENESIS.

Lamech and his wives.

+ Heb. at the

a ch. 3. 23. & 9. 20.

mech.

or, goats, b Num. 18. 12. c Num. 18. 17.

d Heb. 11. 4.

ech. 31. 2.

r Rom. 4. 11, 12.

Hob. 11.4.

ch. 3. 16.

about

in

my wound.

hurt.

f Matt. 23. 35. 1 John 3. 12. Jude 11.

$ ver. 15.

& Ps. 9. 12.

h John 8. 44.

Put. Heb.
Sheth.

uch. 5. 6.

i Heb. 12. 24. Rev. 6. 10.

B. C. 4003, sheep, but Cain was aa tiller of the and Irad begat Mehujael : and Me- B. C. ground.

hujael begat Methusael : and Methu- about 3875. 3 And t in process of time it came to sael begat + Lamech. end of days.

pass, that Cain brought bof the fruit of 19 | And Lamech took unto him Heb. Lethe ground an offering unto the LORD. two wives : the name of the one was

4 And Abel, he also brought of the Adah, and the name of the other + Heb. sheep, firstlings of his #flock and of the fat Zillah. thereof. And the Lord had d

respect 20 And Adah bare Jabal : he was unto Abel and to his offering :

the father of such as dwell in tents, Prov. 3.9. 5 But unto Cain and to his offering and of such as have cattle.

he had not respect. And Cain was 21 And his brother's name was Ju-
very wroth, eand his countenance fell. bal : he was the 'father of all such

6 And the LORD said unto Cain, as handle the harp and organ.
Why art thou wroth? and why is 22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-
thy countenance fallen?

cain, an tinstructor of every artificer Heb.whetter. ĭ If thou doest well, shalt thou not in brass and iron : and the sister of 1 Or, have the l be accepted ? and if thou doest not Tubal-cain was Naamah. excellency?

well, sin lieth at the door: and ll unto 23 And Lamech said unto his wives, ll Or, subject thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt | Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye unto thee, rule over him.

wives of Lamech, hearken unto my 8 T And Cain talked with Abel his speech: for I have slain a man to 1 0r, I would 3875. brother : and it came to pass, when my wounding, and a young man I to

slay a man they were in the field, that Cain rose my hurt.

ll Or, in my up against Abel his brother, and 'slew 24 $ If Cain shall be avenged sevenhim.

fold, truly Lamech seventy and seven9 And the LORD said unto Cain, fold. & Where is Abel thy brother? And 25 And Adam knew his wife again; 3874. he said, " I know not: Am I my broth- and she bare a son, and called his tch. 5. 3. er's keeper ? name || Seth : For God, said she, hath That is, Ap

pointed, or, 10 And he said, What hast thou appointed me another seed instead of

done ? the voice of thy brother's | Abel, whom Cain slew. t Heb. bloods. + blood icrieth unto me from the 26 And to Seth, u to him also there

3769. ground.

was born a son; and he called his Heb. Enosh. 11 And now art thou cursed from name + Enos: then began men || to 11 or, to call the earth, which hath opened her call upon the name of the LORD.

by the name mouth to receive thy brother's blood

of the LORD.

CHAPTER V. from thy hand.

w 1 Kings 18. 12 When thou tillest the ground, it

The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from

Adam unto Noah, including the translation of
shall not henceforth yield unto thee
her strength; a fugitive and a vaga-
THIS is the a book of the genera-

4004. bond shalt thou be in the earth.

tions of Adam. In the day that 13 And Cain said unto the Lord, God created man, in b the likeness of # Or, Mine || My punishment is greater than I God made he him ; iniquity is can bear.

2 Male and female created he them; c ch. 1. 27. greater than

14 Behold, thou hast driven me out and blessed them, and called their be forgiven.

this day from the face of the earth ; name Adam, in the day when they k Job 15. 20

and 'from thy face shall I be hid; were created.
and I shall be a fugitive and a vaga- 3 | And Adam lived a hundred and 3874.
bond in the earth ; and it shall come thirty years, and begat a son in his
to pass, mthat every one that findeth own likeness, after his image ; and
me shall slay me.

d called his name Seth : 21, 27.

15 And the Lord said unto him, ! 4 e And the days of Adam after he Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, had begotten Seth were eight hunvengeance shall be taken on him dred years : fand he begat sons and fch. 1. 28.

sevenfold. And the LORD 'set a daughters : o Ez. 9. 4, 6.

mark upon Cain, lest any finding 5 And all the days that Adam lived
him should kill him.

were nine hundred and thirty years :
16 | And Cain P went out from the sand he died.
presence of the LORD, and dwelt in 6 And Seth lived a hundred and

3769. the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. five years, and h begat Enos :

17 And Cain knew his wife ; and she 7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos + Heb. Cha- conceived, and bare + Enoch: and he eight hundred and seven years, and

builded a city, 4 and called the name begat sons and daughters :
of the city, after the name of his son, 8 And all the days of Seth were nine
Enoch.

hundred and twelve years : and he
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: died.

The genealogy of the patriarchs.

GENESIS.

The wickedness of the world.

nch. 6. 10.
o ch. 10. 21.

a ch. 1. 28.

leel.

b Deut. 7. 3, 4.

17. 1 Pet. 3.

Deut. 29. 19.
Prov. 6. 18.
Matt. 15. 19.

23. 19. 1 Sam.
15. 11, 29.
2 Sam. 24. 16.
Mal. 3. 6.
James 1. 17.

the whole imagination. The Hebrew

eth not only

B. C. 3679. 9 | And Enos lived ninety years, and 32 And Noah was five hundred years B. C. 2448. begat + Cainan :

old: and Noah begat - Shem, Ham, + Heb. Kenan.

10 And Enos lived after he begat 'and Japheth. Cainan eight hundred and fifteen

CHAPTER VI.
years, and begat sons and daughters :

The wickedness of the world, which provoked God's
11 And all the days of Enos were wrath, and caused the flood. 8 Noah findeth grace.
nine hundred and five years : and he 14 The order, form, and end of the ark.
died.

ND it came to pass, a when men 3609.

12 | And Cainan lived seventy years, began to multiply on the face
t Gr. Male
and begat + Mahalaleel :

of the earth, and daughters were born
13 And Cainan lived after he begat unto them,
Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty

2 That the sons of God saw the
years, and begat sons and daughters : daughters of men that they were

14 And all the days of Cainan were fair; and they b took them wives of Gal. 5. 16, nine hundred and ten years : and he all which they chose.

19, 20. died.

3 And the LORD said, “My Spirit a Ps. 78. 39. 3544. 15 | And Mahalaleel lived sixty and shall not always strive with man, for

'ech. 8. 27. | Heb. Jered. five years, and begat +Jared :

that he also is flesh: yet his days
16 And Mahalaleel lived after he be- shall be a hundred and twenty years.
gat Jared eight hundred and thirty 4 There were giants in the earth in 2469.
years, and begat sons and daughters : those days; and also after that, when See Num.

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel the sons of God came in unto the
were eight hundred ninety and five daughters of men, and they bare chil-
years: and he died.

dren to them, the same became mighty 3382. 18 | And Jared lived a hundred men which were of old, men of renown.

sixty and two years, and he begat 5 And God saw that the wicked- 2448 i Jude 14, 15, i Enoch:

ness of man was great in the earth,
19 And Jared lived after he begat and that llevery e imagination of the 100
Enoch eight hundred years, and begat thoughts of his heart was only evil
sons and daughters :
† continually.

word sigpifi20 And all the days of Jared were 6 And fit repented the LORD that

the imaginanine hundred sixty and two years : he had made man on the earth, and

tion, but also and he died.

it & grieved him at his heart. 3317. 21 [ And Enoch lived sixty and five

And the LORD said, I will destroy Gr. Mathu- years, and begat + Methuselah : man whom I have created from the

day. 22 And Enoch k walked with God face of the earth; + both man, and Heh. from 17.1. & 24.40. after he begat Methuselah three hun- beast, and the creeping thing, and the 26.10698326.9. dred years, and begat sons and daugh- fowls of the air; for it repenteth me 116. 9. & 128. ters :

that I have made them.

Eph. 4. 30. 23 And all the days of Enoch were 8 But Noah hfound grace in the eyes h ch. 19. 19. three hundred sixty and five years : of the LORD.

13, 16, 17. 1 2 Kings 2. 24 And 'Enoch walked with God : 9 [ These are the generations of

and he was not; for God took him. Noah: Noah was a just man and 3130. 25 And Methuselah lived a hundred Il perfect in his generations, and Noah | Or, upright. eighty and seven years, and begat

k walked with God.
+ Lamech:

10 And Noah begat three sons,
26 And Methuselah lived after he 'Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
begat Lamech seven hundred eighty

11 The earth also was corrupt mbe- k ch. 5. 22. and two years, and begat sons and fore God; and the earth was filled 1 ch. 5. 32. daughters:

with violence.
27 And all the days of Methuselah 12 And God o looked upon the earth,
were nine hundred sixty and nine and, behold, it was corrupt; for all
years : and he died.

flesh had corrupted his way upon the 2948

28 | And Lamech lived a hundred earth.
eighty and two years, and begat a son: 13 And God said unto Noah, p The

Hab. 2. 8, 17. || That is, 29 And he called his name || Noah, end of all flesh is come before me; Comfort. saying, This same shall comfort us for the earth is filled with violence

concerning our work and toil of our through them ; qand, behold, I will ma ch. 3. 17. & hands, because of the ground m which destroy them with the earth. the LORD hath cursed.

14 | Make thee an ark of gopher 30 And Lamech lived after he begat wood; trooms shalt thou make in + Heb. nests. Noah five hundred ninety and five the ark, and shalt pitch it within PJer. 51, 13,

years, and begat sons and daughters : and without with pitch. 2353.

31 And all the days of Lamech were 15 And this is the fashion which
seven hundred seventy and seven thou shalt make it of: The length
years : and he died.

the purposes and desires. # Heb. every

k ch. 6. 9. &

ܪ

man un to beast. g Is. 63. 10.

1. Mic. 6. 8. Mal. 2. 6.

Ex. 33. 12,1

Noah entereth the ark.

GENESIS.

The flood of waters.

r ver. 13. ch.7. 4, 21, 22, 23. 2 Pet. 2. 5.

Prov. 8. 28.
Ez. 26. 19.

1 Pet. 3. 20. 2 Pet. 2. 5.

gates. ich.1.7.& 8.2. Ps. 78. 23.

16.

ch. 6. 18.
Heb. 11. 7.
1 Pet. 3. 20.
2 Pet. 2. 5.

See ch, 2. 19.

nch. 6. 20.

w Heb. 11.7.

B. C. 2448. cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that | B. C. 2349.

and the height of it thirty cubits. are not clean, and of fowls, and of ev

16 A window shalt thou make to ery thing that creepeth upon the earth,
the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou 9 There went in two and two unto
finish it above; and the door of the Noah into the ark, the male and the
ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; female, as God had commanded Noah.
with lower, second, and third stories 10 And it came to pass llafter seven | Or, on the

seventh day. shalt thou make it.

days, that the waters of the flood were
17 'And, behold, I, even I, do bring upon the earth.
a flood of waters upon the earth, to

11 | In the six hundredth year of
destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath Noah's life, in the second month, the
of life, from under heaven; and every seventeenth day of the month, the
thing that is in the earth shall die. same day were all h the fountains of h ch. 8. 2.

18 But with thee will I establish my the great deep broken up, and the sch. 7. 1, 7, 13. covenant; and sthou shalt come into li windows of heaven were opened. IIOr, flood

the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy 12 kAnd the rain was upon the earth
wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. forty days and forty nights.

19 And of every living thing of all 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, k ver. 4, 17. tch. 7. 8, 9,15, flesh, two of every sort shalt thou and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, | 1 ver. 1, 7.

bring into the ark, to keep them alive the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife,
with thee; they shall be male and and the three wives of his sons with
female.

them, into the ark;
20 Of fowls after their kind, and 14 m They, and every beast after his m ver. 2, 3, 8,
of cattle. after their kind, of every kind, and all the cattle after their

creeping thing of the earth after his kind, and every creeping thing that u ch. 7. 9, 15. kind; two of every sort "shall come creepeth upon the earth after his

unto thee, to keep them alive. kind, and every fowl after his kind,
21 And take thou unto thee of all every bird of every + sort.

| Heb. wing.
food that is eaten, and thou shalt 15 And they n went in unto Noah
gather it to thee; and it shall be for into the ark, two and two of all flesh,
food for thee, and for them.

wherein is the breath of life. 22 wThus did Noah; according to all 16 And they that went in, went in See Ex.40.16. that God commanded him, so did he. male and female of all flesh, oas God ver. 2, 3. x ch.7.5, 9, 16.

had commanded him: and the LORD
CHAPTER VII.

shut him in.
Noah, with his fanily, and the living creatures, en-
ter into the ark. 17 The beginning, increase, and

17 PAnd the flood was forty days p ver. 4, 12. continuance of the flood. 21 All flesh destroyed. upon the earth; and the waters in2349.

a Come thou and all thy house was lifted up above the earth.
into the ark; for b thee have I seen 18 And the waters prevailed, and
righteous before me in this genera- were increased greatly upon the
tion.

earth; "and the ark went upon the q Ps. 104. 26.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt face of the waters.
take to thee by sevens, the male 19 And the waters prevailed exceed-
and his female : dand of beasts that ingly upon the earth; "and all the
are not clean by two, the male and high hills, that were under the whole
his female.

heaven, were covered.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the
the male and the female; to keep waters prevail ; and the mountains
seed alive upon the face of all the were covered.
earth.

21 And all flesh died that moved sch. 6. 13, 17. 4 For yet seven days, and I will upon the earth, both of fowl, and of e ver. 12, 17. cause it to rain upon the earth e forty cattle, and of beast, and of every

days and forty nights; and every creeping thing that creepeth upon

living substance that I have made the earth, and every man: † Heb. blot will I + destroy from off the face of 22 All in whose nostrils was + the + Heb. the the earth. breath of life, of all that was in the

spirit of life. fch. 6. 22. 5 And Noah did according unto all dry land, died.

that the LORD commanded him. 23 And every living substance was

6 And Noah was six hundred years destroyed which was upon the face
old when the flood of waters was of the ground, both man, and cattle,
upon the earth.

and the creeping things, and the fowl
And Noah went in, and his of the heaven; and they were destroy-
sons, and his wife, and his sons'ed from the earth : and u Noah only
wives with him, into the ark, because remained alive, and they that were
of the waters of the flood.

, and it

a ver. 7, 13.
Matt. 24. 38.
Luke 17. 26.
Heb. 11. 7.
1 Pet. 3, 20,
2 Pet. 2. 5.

+ Heb. seven

seven.

r Ps. 104. 6. Jer. 3. 23.

b ch. 6. 9.
Ps. 33. 18, 19.
Prov, 10. 9.
2 Pet. 2. 9.

C ver. 8.
Lev. ch. 11.

d Lev. 10. 10. Ez. 44. 23.

ver. 4.
Job 22. 16.
Matt. 24. 39.
Luke 17, 27.
2 Pet. 3. 6.

tch. 2. 7.

out.

breath of the