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7, Rodanim.

of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and 1Dodanim. Of these were the isles of the na- In 1 Chr. i. tions divided in their lands, every one after his tongue; after their families, in their nations.

6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, 8 and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod: he be9 gan to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the 10 LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was

2 Or, coastlands

Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in I the land of Shinar. Out of that land he went 3 Or, went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and forth Asshur 12 Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, and Resen between

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Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and 14 Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines), Heb. and Caphtorim.

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And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and 16 Heth; and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and 17 the Girgashite; and the Hivite, and the Arkite, 18 and the Sinite; and the Arvadite, and the Ze

marite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah 20 and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha. These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

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And unto Shem, the father of all the children. of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him 22 also were children born. The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud,

Pelishtim.

1 The Sept. reads, begat Cainan, and

Shelah.

? That is, Division.

and Aram. And the sons of Aram; Uz, and 23 Hul, and Gether, and Mash. And Arpachshad 24 'begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber. And 25 unto Eber were born two sons: the name of Cainan begat the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. And Joktan begat Almodad, and She- 26 leph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah; and Ha- 27 doram, and Uzal, and Diklah; and Obal, and 28 Abimael, and Sheba; and Ophir, and Havilah, 29 and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou 30 goest toward Sephar, the 'mountain of the east. These are the sons of Shem, after their families, 31 after their tongues, in their lands, after their

3 In 1 Chr. i. 22, Ebal.

4 Or, hill country

5 Heb. lip.

7 Or, in the cast

8 That is, bitumen

nations.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, 31 after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

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And the whole earth was of one 'language 6 Heb. words. and of one 'speech. And it came to pass, as 2 they journeyed 'east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And 3 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 mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, 4 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. And the LORD came down to see the city and 5 the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, they are one 6 people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do. Go to, let us go down, and there 7

confound their language, that they may not 8 understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build 9 the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there 'confound the language of all the earth and from thence confound. did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arpach11 shad two years after the flood: and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

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And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, 13 and begat Shelah: and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

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And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat 15 Eber and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and 17 begat Peleg and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat 19 Reu: and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

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And Reu lived two and thirty years, and 21 begat Serug and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

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And Serug lived thirty years, and begat 23 Nahor and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Heb.

balal, to

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and 24 begat Terah and Nahor lived after he begat 25 Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat 26 Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Now these are the generations of Terah. 27 Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died in the 28 presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram 29 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. And Sarai was barren; she had no child. And 30, 31 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. And the days of Terah were 32 two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Now the LORD said unto Abram, Get thee 12 out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great 2 nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing and I 3 will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. So Abram 4 went, 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. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and 5

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2 Heb. Negeb,

the southern

tract of Judah.

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 6 the land of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the 'oak of Moreh. And the 1Or, terebinth 7 Canaanite was then in the land. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and 9 called upon the name of the LORD. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair 12 woman to look upon: and it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, 13 but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because 14 of thee. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the 15 woman that she was very fair. And the princes of Pharaon saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she-asses, 17 and camels. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh