In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.

And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament.

And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared.

And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas, and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit-tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so.

And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good.

And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.

And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so.

And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also.

And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth,

and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so.

And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind, and God saw that they were good.

And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth.

And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.

And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.

And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.

And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food.

And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so.

And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.

And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.

And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.

This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,

and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it.

But there rose a fountain out of the earth, and watered the whole face of the earth.

And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

And God planted a garden eastward in Edem, and placed there the man whom he had formed.

And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.

And a river proceeds out of Edem to water the garden, thence it divides itself into four heads.

The name of the one, Phisom, this it is which encircles the whole land of Evilat, where there is gold.

And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald.

And the name of the second river is Geon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia.

And the third river is Tigris, this is that which flows forth over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.

And the Lord God gave a charge to Adam, saying, Of every tree which is in the garden thou mayest freely eat,

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—of it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let us make for him a help suitable to him.

And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it.

And Adam gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild beasts of the field, but for Adam there was not found a help like to himself.

And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.

And God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.

And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

For God knew that in whatever day ye should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, Adam, where art thou?

And he said to him, I heard thy voice as thou walkedst in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.

And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat?

And Adam said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate.

And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.

And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall watch against thy head, and thou shalt watch against his heel.

And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labours, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.

And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she was the mother of all living.

And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.

And God said, Behold, Adam is become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now lest at any time he stretch forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and eat, and so he shall live for ever—

So the Lord God sent him forth out of the garden of Delight to cultivate the ground out of which he was taken.

And he cast out Adam and caused him to dwell over against the garden of Delight, and stationed the cherubs and the fiery sword that turns about to keep the way of the tree of life.

And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord.

And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,

but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell.

And the Lord God said to Cain, Why art thou become very sorrowful and why is thy countenance fallen?

Hast thou not sinned if thou hast brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to thee shall be his submission, and thou shalt rule over him.

And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And the Lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he said, I know not, am I my brother's keeper?

And the Lord said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood cries to me out of the ground.

And now thou art cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

When thou tillest the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to thee: thou shalt be groaning and trembling on the earth.

And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.

If thou castest me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from thy presence, and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that any one that finds me shall slay me.

And the Lord God said to him, Not so, any one that slays Cain shall suffer seven-fold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain that no one that found him might slay him.

So Cain went forth from the presence of God and dwelt in the land of Nod over against Edem.

And Cain knew his wife, and having conceived she bore Enoch; and he built a city; and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

And to Enoch was born Gaidad; and Gaidad begot Maleleel; and Maleleel begot Mathusala; and Mathusala begot Lamech.

And Lamech took to himself two wives; the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the second Sella.

And Ada bore Jobel; he was the father of those that dwell in tents, feeding cattle.

And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the psaltery and harp.

And Sella also bore Thobel; he was a smith, a manufacturer both of brass and iron; and the sister of Thobel was Noëma.

And Lamech said to his wives, Ada and Sella, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, consider my words, because I have slain a man to my sorrow and a youth to my grief.

Because vengeance has been exacted seven times on Cain's behalf, on Lamech's it shall be seventy times seven.

And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Seth, saying, For God has raised up to me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enos: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.

This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:

male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.

And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.

And the days of Adam, which he lived after his begetting Seth, were seven hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Now Seth lived two hundred and five years, and begot Enos.

And Seth lived after his begetting Enos, seven hundred and seven years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

And Enos lived an hundred and ninety years, and begot Cainan.

And Enos lived after his begetting Cainan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

And Cainan lived an hundred and seventy years, and he begot Maleleel.

And Cainan lived after his begetting Maleleel, seven hundred and forty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

And Maleleel lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and he begot Jared.

And Maleleel lived after his begetting Jared, seven hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died.

And Jared lived an hundred and sixty and two years, and begot Enoch:

and Jared lived after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he died.

And Enoch lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and begat Mathusala.

And Enoch was well-pleasing to God after his begetting Mathusala, two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years.

And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

And Mathusala lived an hundred and sixty and seven years, and begot Lamech.

And Mathusala lived after his begetting Lamech eight hundred and two years, and begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Mathusala which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.

And Lamech lived an hundred and eighty and eight years, and begot a son.

And he called his name Noe, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed.

And Lamech lived after his begetting Noe, five hundred and sixty and five years, and begot sons and daughters.

And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty-three years, and he died.

And Noe was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.

And the Lord God having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered it deeply.

And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them.

But Noe found grace before the Lord God.

And these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God.

And Noe begot three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth.

But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

And the Lord God said to Noe, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.

Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.

Thou shalt narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above thou shalt finish it, and the door of the ark thou shalt make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories thou shalt make it.

And behold I bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatsoever things are upon the earth shall die.

And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.

Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.

And thou shalt take to thyself of all kinds of food which ye eat, and thou shalt gather them to thyself, and it shall be for thee and them to eat.

And Noe did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him, so did he.

And the Lord God said to Noe, Enter thou and all thy family into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

And of the clean cattle take in to thee sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.

And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.

For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.

And Noe did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him.

And Noe was six hundred years old when the flood of water was upon the earth.

And then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.

And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth,

pairs went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noe.

And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

On that very day entered Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, the sons of Noe, and the wife of Noe, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.

And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind,

went in to Noe into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noe, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.

And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.

And the water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water.

And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven.

Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.

And there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man.

And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died.

And God blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noe was left alone, and those with him in the ark.

And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.

And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.

And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.

And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from off the earth.

And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove from the ark.

And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from off the earth, and Noe opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth.

And in the second month the earth was dried, on the twenty-seventh day of the month.

And the Lord God spoke to Noe, saying,

Come out from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

And all the wild beasts as many as are with thee, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with thee: and increase ye and multiply upon the earth.

And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.

And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.

And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt-offering upon the altar.

And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more smite all living flesh as I have done.

All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it.

And the dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, I have placed them under your power.

And every reptile which is living shall be to you for meat, I have given all things to you as the green herbs.

But flesh with blood of life ye shall not eat.

For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.

He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

But do ye increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and have dominion over it.

And God spoke to Noe, and to his sons with him, saying,

And behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

and with every living creature with you, of birds and of beasts, and with all the wild beasts of the earth, as many as are with you, of all that come out of the ark.

And I will establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall not any more die by the water of the flood, and there shall no more be a flood of water to destroy all the earth.

And the Lord God said to Noe, This is the sign of the covenant which I set between me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations.

I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall be seen in the cloud.

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out all flesh.

And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth.

And God said to Noe, This is the sign of the covenant, which I have made between me and all flesh, which is upon the earth.

Now the sons of Noe which came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, Japheth. And Cham was father of Chanaan.

These three are the sons of Noe, of these were men scattered over all the earth.

And Noe began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house.

And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.

And Sem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.

And Noe recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger son had done to him.

And he said, Cursed be the servant Chanaan, a slave shall he be to his brethren.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shall be his bond-servant.

May God make room for Japheth, and let him dwell in the habitations of Sem, and let Chanaan be his servant.

And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

And all the days of Noe were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

The sons of Japheth, Gamer, and Magog, and Madoi, and Jovan, and Elisa, and Thobel, and Mosoch, and Thiras.

And the sons of Gamer, Aschanaz, and Riphath, and Thorgama.

And the sons of Jovan, Elisa, and Tharseis, Cetians, Rhodians.

From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.

And the sons of Cham, Chus, and Mesrain, Phud, and Chanaan.

And the sons of Chus, Saba, and Evila, and Sabatha, and Rhegma, and Sabathaca. And the sons of Rhegma, Saba, and Dadan.

And Chus begot Nebrod: he began to be a giant upon the earth.

He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Orech, and Archad, and Chalanne, in the land of Senaar.

Out of that land came Assur, and built Ninevi, and the city Rhooboth, and Chalach,

and Dase between Ninevi and Chalach: this is the great city.

And Mesrain begot the Ludiim, and the Nephthalim, and the Enemetiim, and the Labiim,

and the Patrosoniim, and the Chasmoniim (whence came forth Phylistiim) and the Gaphthoriim.

And Chanaan begot Sidon his first-born, and the Chettite,

and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

and the Evite, and the Arukite, and the Asennite,

and the Aradian, and the Samarean, and the Amathite; and after this the tribes of the Chananites were dispersed.

And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon till one comes to Gerara and Gaza, till one comes to Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, as far as Dasa.

These were the sons of Cham in their tribes according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

And to Sem himself also were children born, the father of all the sons of Heber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

Sons of Sem, Elam, and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Cainan.

And sons of Aram, Uz, and Ul, and Gater, and Mosoch.

And Arphaxad begot Cainan, and Cainan begot Sala. And Sala begot Heber.

And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one, Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother Jektan.

And Jektan begot Elmodad, and Saleth, and Sarmoth, and Jarach,

and Odorrha, and Aibel, and Decla,

and Eval, and Abimael, and Saba,

and Uphir, and Evila, and Jobab, all these were the sons of Jektan.

And their dwelling was from Masse, till one comes to Saphera, a mountain of the east.

These were the sons of Sem in their tribes, according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

These are the tribes of the sons of Noe, according to their generations, according to their nations: of them were the islands of the Gentiles scattered over the earth after the flood.

And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.

And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they dwelt there.

And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.

And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.

And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.

Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.

And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.

On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.

And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.

And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Cainan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.

And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.

And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

And Phaleg lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.

And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

And Ragau lived an hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.

And Ragau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.

And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.

And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.

And these are the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.

And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.

And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.

And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.

And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he dwelt there.

And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.

And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and out of the house of thy father, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

And I will bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Charrhan.

And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan.

And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Sychem, to the high oak, and the Chananites then inhabited the land.

And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to thy seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who appeared to him.

And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Bæthel, and there he pitched his tent in Bæthel near the sea, and Aggai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

And it came to pass when Abram drew nigh to enter into Egypt, Abram said to Sara his wife, I know that thou art a fair woman.

It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall slay me, but they shall save thee alive.

Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of thee, and my soul shall live because of thee.

And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt—the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful—

that the princes of Pharao saw her, and praised her to Pharao and brought her into the house of Pharao.

And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and asses, and men-servants, and women-servants, and mules, and camels.

And God afflicted Pharao with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sara, Abram's wife.

And Pharao having called Abram, said, What is this thou hast done to me, that thou didst not tell me that she was thy wife?

Wherefore didst thou say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, thy wife is before thee, take her and go quickly away.

And Pharao gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, and silver, and gold.

And he went to the place whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Bæthel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bæthel and Aggai,

to the place of the altar, which he built there at first, and Abram there called on the name of the Lord.

And Lot who went out with Abram had sheep, and oxen, and tents.

And the land was not large enough for them to live together, because their possessions were great; and the land was not large enough for them to live together.

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited the land.

And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we are brethren.

Lo! is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself from me; if thou goest to the left, I will go to the right, and if thou goest to the right, I will go to the left.

And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until thou come to Zogora.

And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.

And Lot dwelt in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.

But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with thine eyes, and behold from the place where thou now art northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;

for all the land which thou seest, I will give it to thee and to thy seed for ever.

And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth; if any one is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.

Arise and traverse the land, both in the length of it and in the breadth; for to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

And Abram having removed his tent, came and dwelt by the oak of Mambre, which was in Chebrom, and he there built an altar to the Lord.

And it came to pass in the reign of Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, that Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations,

made war with Balla king of Sodom, and with Barsa king of Gomorrha, and with Sennaar, king of Adama, and with Symobor king of Seboim and the king of Balac, this is Segor.

All these met with one consent at the salt valley; this is now the sea of salt.

Twelve years they served Chodollogomor, and the thirteenth year they revolted.

And in the fourteenth year came Chodollogomor, and the kings with him, and cut to pieces the giants in Astaroth, and Carnain, and strong nations with them, and the Ommæans in the city Save.

And the Chorrhæans in the mountains of Seir, to the turpentine tree of Pharan, which is in the desert.

And having turned back they came to the well of judgment; this is Cades, and they cut in pieces all the princes of Amalec, and the Amorites dwelling in Asasonthamar.

And the king of Sodom went out, and the king of Gomorrha, and king of Adama, and king of Seboim, and king of Balac, this is Segor, and they set themselves in array against them for war in the salt valley,

against Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, and Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, the four kings against the five.

Now the salt valley consists of slime-pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrha, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.

And they took all the cavalry of Sodom and Gomorrha, and all their provisions, and departed.

And they took also Lot the son of Abram's brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he dwelt in Sodom.

And one of them that had been rescued came and told Abram the Hebrew; and he dwelt by the oak of Mamre the Amorite the brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aunan, who were confederates with Abram.

And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.

And he came upon them by night, he and his servants, and he smote them and pursued them as far as Choba, which is on the left of Damascus.

And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people.

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodollogomor, and the kings with him, to the valley of Saby; this was the plain of the kings.

And Melchisedec king of Salem brought forth loaves and wine, and he was the priest of the most high God.

And he blessed Abram, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, who made heaven and earth,

and blessed be the most high God who delivered thine enemies into thy power. And Abram gave him the tithe of all.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the men, and take the horses to thyself.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I will stretch out my hand to the Lord the most high God, who made the heaven and the earth,

that I will not take from all thy goods from a string to a shoe-latchet, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.

Except what things the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Eschol, Aunan, Mambre, these shall take a portion.

And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield thee, thy reward shall be very great.

And Abram said, Master and Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus is mine heir.

And Abram said, I am grieved since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born servant shall succeed me.

And immediately there was a voice of the Lord to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come out of thee shall be thine heir.

And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, Thus shall thy seed be.

And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

And he said to him, I am God that brought thee out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give thee this land to inherit.

And he said, Master and Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

And he said to him, Take for me an heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon.

So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide.

And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.

And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.

And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much property.

But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.

And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.

And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.

In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.

The Kenites, and the Kenezites, and the Kedmoneans,

and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim,

and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.

And Sara the wife of Abram bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Agar.

And Sara said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sara.

So Sara the wife of Abram having taken Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.

And he went in to Agar, and she conceived, and saw that she was with child, and her mistress was dishonoured before her.

And Sara said to Abram, I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonoured before her. The Lord judge between me and thee.

And Abram said to Sara, Behold thy handmaid is in thy hands, use her as it may seem good to thee. And Sara afflicted her, and she fled from her face.

And an angel of the Lord found her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Sur.

And the angel of the Lord said to her, Agar, Sara's maid, whence comest thou, and whither goest thou? and she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sara.

And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

And the angel of the Lord said to her, I will surely multiply thy seed, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.

And the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ismael, for the Lord hath hearkened to thy humiliation.

He shall be a wild man, his hands against all, and the hands of all against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

And she called the name of the Lord God who spoke to her, Thou art God who seest me; for she said, For I have openly seen him that appeared to me.

Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; behold it is between Cades and Barad.

And Agar bore a son to Abram; and Abram called the name of his son which Agar bore to him, Ismael.

And Abram was eighty-six years old, when Agar bore Ismael to Abram.

And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am thy God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying,

And I, behold! my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraam, for I have made thee a father of many nations.

And I will increase thee very exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee.

And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.

And God said to Abraam, Thou also shalt fully keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee for their generations.

And this is the covenant which thou shalt fully keep between me and you, and between thy seed after thee for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised.

And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and you.

And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed.

He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with money shall be surely circumcised, and my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant.

And God said to Abraam, Sara thy wife—her name shall not be called Sara, Sarrha shall be her name.

And I will bless her, and give thee a son of her, and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be of him.

And Abraam fell upon his face, and laughed; and spoke in his heart, saying, Shall there be a child to one who is a hundred years old, and shall Sarrha who is ninety years old, bear?

And Abraam said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee.

And God said to Abraam, Yea, behold, Sarrha thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to him and to his seed after him.

And concerning Ismael, behold, I have heard thee, and, behold, I have blessed him, and will increase him and multiply him exceedingly; twelve nations shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarrha shall bear to thee at this time, in the next year.

And he left off speaking with him, and God went up from Abraam.

And Abraam took Ismael his son, and all his home-born servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraam, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.

And Abraam was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

And Ismael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

And at the period of that day, Abraam was circumcised, and Ismael his son,

and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations.

And God appeared to him by the oak of Mambre, as he sat by the door of his tent at noon.

And he lifted up his eyes and beheld, and lo! three men stood before him; and having seen them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and did obeisance to the ground.

And he said, Lord, if indeed I have found grace in thy sight, pass not by thy servant.

Let water now be brought, and let them wash your feet, and do ye refresh yourselves under the tree.

And I will bring bread, and ye shall eat, and after this ye shall depart on your journey, on account of which refreshment ye have turned aside to your servant. And he said, So do, as thou hast said.

And Abraam hasted to the tent to Sarrha, and said to her, Hasten, and knead three measures of fine flour, and make cakes.

And Abraam ran to the kine, and took a young calf, tender and good, and gave it to his servant, and he hasted to dress it.

And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed; and he set them before them, and they did eat, and he stood by them under the tree.

And he said to him, Where is Sarrha thy wife? And he answered and said, Behold! in the tent.

And he said, I will return and come to thee according to this period seasonably, and Sarrha thy wife shall have a son; and Sarrha heard at the door of the tent, being behind him.

And Abraam and Sarrha were old, advanced in days, and the custom of women ceased with Sarrha.

And Sarrha laughed in herself, saying, The thing has not as yet happened to me, even until now, and my lord is old.

And the Lord said to Abraam, Why is it that Sarrha has laughed in herself, saying, Shall I then indeed bear? but I am grown old.

Shall anything be impossible with the Lord? At this time I will return to thee seasonably, and Sarrha shall have a son.

But Sarrha denied, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. And he said to her, Nay, but thou didst laugh.

And the men having risen up from thence looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha. And Abraam went with them, attending them on their journey.

And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraam my servant what things I intend to do?

But Abraam shall become a great and populous nation, and in him shall all the nations of the earth be blest.

For I know that he will order his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraam all things whatsoever he has spoken to him.

And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha has been increased towards me, and their sins are very great.

I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to me, and if not, that I may know.

And the men having departed thence, came to Sodom; and Abraam was still standing before the Lord.

And Abraam drew nigh and said, Wouldest thou destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked?

Should there be fifty righteous in the city, wilt thou destroy them? wilt thou not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it?

By no means shalt thou do as this thing is so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: by no means. Thou that judgest the whole earth, shalt thou not do right?

And the Lord said, If there should be in Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole city, and the whole place for their sakes.

And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.

But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five wanting? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five.

And he continued to speak to him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake.

And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I shall speak? but if there be found there thirty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the thirty's sake.

And he said, Since I am able to speak to the Lord, what if there should be found there twenty? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there twenty.

And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

And the Lord departed, when he left off speaking to Abraam, and Abraam returned to his place.

And the two angels came to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat by the gate of Sodom, and Lot having seen them, rose up to meet them, and he worshipped with his face to the ground, and said,

Lo! my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning ye shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street.

And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat.

But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, compassed the house, both young and old, all the people together.

And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that went in to thee this night? bring them out to us that we may be with them.

And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him,

and said to them, By no means, brethren, do not act villanously.

But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and do ye use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of my roof.

And they said to him, Stand back there, thou camest in to sojourn, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm thee more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew nigh to break the door.

And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.

And the men said to Lot, Hast thou here sons-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if thou hast any other friend in the city, bring them out of this place.

For we are going to destroy this place; for their cry has been raised up before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.

And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law.

But when it was morning, the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise and take thy wife, and thy two daughters whom thou hast, and go forth; lest thou also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city.

And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him.

And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save thine own life by all means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape to the mountain, lest perhaps thou be overtaken together with them.

And Lot said to them, I pray, Lord,

since thy servant has found mercy before thee, and thou hast magnified thy righteousness, in what thou doest towards me that my soul may live,—but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die.

Behold this city is near for me to escape thither, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? and my soul shall live because of thee.

And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to thee also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which thou hast spoken.

Hasten therefore to escape thither, for I shall not be able to do anything until thou art come thither; therefore he called the name of that city, Segor.

The sun was risen upon the earth, when Lot entered into Segor.

And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

And he overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.

And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

And Abraam rose up early to go to the place, where he had stood before the Lord.

And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and towards the surrounding country, and saw, and behold a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.

And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.

And Lot went up out of Segor, and dwelt in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Segor; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth.

Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father.

So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do thou go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father.

So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father, and he knew not when he slept, nor when he arose.

And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father.

And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day.

And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Amman, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammanites to this present day.

And Abraam removed thence to the southern country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

And Abraam said concerning Sarrha his wife, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, lest at any time the men of the city should kill him for her sake. So Abimelech king of Gerara sent and took Sarrha.

And God came to Abimelech by night in sleep, and said, Behold, thou diest for the woman, whom thou hast taken, whereas she has lived with a husband.

But Abimelech had not touched her, and he said, Lord, wilt thou destroy an ignorantly sinning and just nation?

Said he not to me, She is my sister, and said she not to me, He is my brother? with a pure heart and in the righteousness of my hands have I done this.

And God said to him in sleep, Yea, I knew that thou didst this with a pure heart, and I spared thee, so that thou shouldest not sin against me, therefore I suffered thee not to touch her.

But now return the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live; but if thou restore her not, know that thou shalt die and all thine.

And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and he spoke all these words in their ears, and all the men feared exceedingly.

And Abimelech called Abraam and said to him, What is this that thou hast done to us? Have we sinned against thee, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? Thou hast done to me a deed, which no one ought to do.

And Abimelech said to Abraam, What hast thou seen in me that thou hast done this?

And Abraam said, Why I said, Surely there is not the worship of God in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.

For truly she is my sister by my father, but not by my mother, and she became my wife.

And it came to pass when God brought me forth out of the house of my father, that I said to her, This righteousness thou shalt perform to me, in every place into which we may enter, say of me, He is my brother.

And Abimelech took a thousand pieces of silver, and sheep, and calves, and servants, and maid-servants, and gave them to Abraam, and he returned him Sarrha his wife.

And Abimelech said to Abraam, Behold, my land is before thee, dwell wheresoever it may please thee.

And to Sarrha he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, those shall be to thee for the price of thy countenance, and to all the women with thee, and speak the truth in all things.

And Abraam prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his women servants, and they bore children.

Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarrha Abraam's wife.

And the Lord visited Sarrha, as he said, and the Lord did to Sarrha, as he spoke.

And she conceived and bore to Abraam a son in old age, at the set time according as the Lord spoke to him.

And Abraam called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarrha bore to him, Isaac.

And Abraam circumcised Isaac on the eighth day, as God commanded him.

And Abraam was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.

And Sarrha said, The Lord has made laughter for me, for whoever shall hear shall rejoice with me.

And she said, Who shall say to Abraam that Sarrha suckles a child? for I have born a child in my old age.

And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraam made a great feast the day that his son Isaac was weaned.

And Sarrha having seen the son of Agar the Egyptian who was born to Abraam, sporting with Isaac her son,

then she said to Abraam, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this bondwoman shall not inherit with my son Isaac.

But the word appeared very hard before Abraam concerning his son.

But God said to Abraam, Let it not be hard before thee concerning the child, and concerning the bondwoman; in all things whatsoever Sarrha shall say to thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And moreover I will make the son of this bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

And Abraam rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Agar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness near the well of the oath.

And the water failed out of the skin, and she cast the child under a fir tree.

And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bow-shot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.

And God heard the voice of the child from the place where he was, and an angel of God called Agar out of heaven, and said to her, What is it, Agar? fear not, for God has heard the voice of the child from the place where he is.

Rise up, and take the child, and hold him in thine hand, for I will make him a great nation.

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of springing water; and she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the child drink.

And God was with the child, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And he dwelt in the wilderness, and his mother took him a wife out of Pharan of Egypt.

And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech spoke, and Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, to Abraam, saying, God is with thee in all things, whatsoever thou mayest do.

Now therefore swear to me by God that thou wilt not injure me, nor my seed, nor my name, but according to the righteousness which I have performed with thee thou shalt deal with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.

And Abraam said, I will swear.

And Abraam reproved Abimelech because of the wells of water, which the servants of Abimelech took away.

And Abimelech said to him, I know not who has done this thing to thee, neither didst thou tell it me, neither heard I it but only to-day.

And Abraam took sheep and calves, and gave them to Abimelech, and both made a covenant.

And Abraam set seven ewe-lambs by themselves.

And Abimelech said to Abraam, What are these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set alone?

And Abraam said, Thou shalt receive the seven ewe-lambs of me, that they may be for me as a witness, that I dug this well.

Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore.

And they made a covenant at the well of the oath. And there rose up Abimelech, Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the commander-in-chief of his army, and they returned to the land of the Phylistines.

And Abraam planted a field at the well of the oath, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

And Abraam sojourned in the land of the Phylistines many days.

And it came to pass after these things that God tempted Abraam, and said to him, Abraam, Abraam; and he said, Lo! I am here.

And he said, Take thy son, the beloved one, whom thou hast loved—Isaac, and go into the high land, and offer him there for a whole-burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

And Abraam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took with him two servants, and Isaac his son, and having split wood for a whole-burnt-offering, he arose and departed, and came to the place of which God spoke to him,

on the third day; and Abraam having lifted up his eyes, saw the place afar off.

And Abraam said to his servants, Sit ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will proceed thus far, and having worshipped we will return to you.

And Abraam took the wood of the whole-burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took into his hands both the fire and the knife, and the two went together.

And Isaac said to Abraam his father, Father. And he said, What is it, son? And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, where is the sheep for a whole-burnt-offering?

And Abraam said, God will provide himself a sheep for a whole-burnt-offering, my son. And both having gone together,

came to the place which God spoke of to him; and there Abraam built the altar, and laid the wood on it, and having bound the feet of Isaac his son together, he laid him on the altar upon the wood.

And Abraam stretched forth his hand to take the knife to slay his son.

And an angel of the Lord called him out of heaven, and said, Abraam, Abraam. And he said, Behold, I am here.

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the child, neither do anything to him, for now I know that thou fearest God, and for my sake thou hast not spared thy beloved son.

And Abraam lifted up his eyes and beheld, and lo! a ram caught by his horns in a plant of Sabec; and Abraam went and took the ram, and offered him up for a whole-burnt-offering in the place of Isaac his son.

And Abraam called the name of that place, The Lord hath seen; that they might say to-day, In the mount the Lord was seen.

And an angel of the Lord called Abraam the second time out of heaven,

saying, I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and on my account hast not spared thy beloved son,

surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.

And Abraam returned to his servants, and they arose and went together to the well of the oath; and Abraam dwelt at the well of the oath.

And it came to pass after these things, that it was reported to Abraam, saying, Behold, Melcha herself too has born sons to Nachor thy brother,

Uz the first-born, and Baux his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians, and Chazad, and

Azav and Phaldes, and Jeldaph, and Bathuel, and Bathuel begot Rebecca;

these are eight sons, which Melcha bore to Nachor the brother of Abraam.

And his concubine whose name was Rheuma, she also bore Tabec, and Taam, and Tochos, and Mocha.

And the life of Sarrha was an hundred and twenty-seven years.

And Sarrha died in the city of Arboc, which is in the valley, this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan; and Abraam came to lament for Sarrha and to mourn.

And Abraam stood up from before his dead; and Abraam spoke to the sons of Chet, saying,

I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

And the sons of Chet answered to Abraam, saying, Not so, Sir,

but hear us; thou art in the midst of us a king from God; bury thy dead in our choice sepulchres, for not one of us will by any means withhold his sepulchre from thee, so that thou shouldest not bury thy dead there.

And Abraam rose up and did obeisance to the people of the land, to the sons of Chet.

And Abraam spoke to them, saying, If ye have it in your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hearken to me, and speak for me to Ephron the son of Saar.

And let him give me the double cave which he has, which is in a part of his field, let him give it me for the money it is worth for possession of a burying-place among you.

Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Chet, and Ephron the Chettite answered Abraam and spoke in the hearing of the sons of Chet, and of all who entered the city, saying,

Attend to me, my lord, and hear me, I give to thee the field and the cave which is in it; I have given it thee before all my countrymen; bury thy dead.

And Abraam did obeisance before the people of the land.

And he said in the ears of Ephron before the people of the land, Since thou art on my side, hear me; take the price of the field from me, and I will bury my dead there.

But Ephron answered Abraam, saying,

Nay, my lord, I have heard indeed, the land is worth four hundred silver didrachms, but what can this be between me and thee? nay, do thou bury thy dead.

And Abraam hearkened to Ephron, and Abraam rendered to Ephron the money, which he mentioned in the ears of the sons of Chet, four hundred didrachms of silver approved with merchants.

And the field of Ephron, which was in Double Cave, which is opposite Mambre, the field and the cave, which was in it, and every tree which was in the field, and whatever is in its borders round about, were made sure

to Abraam for a possession, before the sons of Chet, and all that entered into the city.

After this Abraam buried Sarrha his wife in the Double Cave of the field, which is opposite Mambre, this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan.

So the field and the cave which was in it were made sure to Abraam for possession of a burying place, by the sons of Chet.

And Abraam was old, advanced in days, and the Lord blessed Abraam in all things.

And Abraam said to his servant the elder of his house, who had rule over all his possessions, Put thy hand under my thigh,

and I will adjure thee by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Chananites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.

But thou shalt go instead to my country, where I was born, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son Isaac.

And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back thy son to the land whence thou camest forth, if haply the woman should not be willing to return with me to this land?

And Abraam said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou carry not my son back thither.

The Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land whence I sprang, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to thee and to thy seed, he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife to my son from thence.

And if the woman should not be willing to come with thee into this land, thou shalt be clear from my oath, only carry not my son thither again.

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraam, and swore to him concerning this matter.

And the servant took ten camels of his master's camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.

And he rested his camels without the city by the well of water towards evening, when damsels go forth to draw water.

And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraam, prosper my way before me to day, and deal mercifully with my master Abraam.

Lo! I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of them that inhabit the city come forth to draw water.

And it shall be, the virgin to whomsoever I shall say, Incline thy water-pot, that I may drink, and she shall say, Drink thou, and I will give thy camels drink, until they shall have done drinking—even this one thou hast prepared for thy servant Isaac, and hereby shall I know that thou hast dealt mercifully with my master Abraam.

And it came to pass before he had done speaking in his mind, that behold, Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, the wife of Nachor, and the same the brother of Abraam, came forth, having a water-pot on her shoulders.

And the virgin was very beautiful in appearance, she was a virgin, a man had not known her; and she went down to the well, and filled her water-pot, and came up.

And the servant ran up to meet her, and said, Give me a little water to drink out of thy pitcher;

and she said, Drink, Sir; and she hasted, and let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him to drink, till he ceased drinking.

And she said, I will also draw water for thy camels, till they shall all have drunk.

And she hasted, and emptied the water-pot into the trough, and ran to the well to draw again, and drew water for all the camels.

And the man took great notice of her, and remained silent to know whether the Lord had made his way prosperous or not.

And it came to pass when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden ear-rings, each of a drachm weight, and he put two bracelets on her hands, their weight was ten pieces of gold.

And he asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me if there is room for us to lodge with thy father.

And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bathuel the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.

And she said to him, We have both straw and much provender, and a place for resting.

And the man being well pleased, worshipped the Lord,

and said, Blessed be the Lord the God of my master Abraam, who has not suffered his righteousness to fail, nor his truth from my master, and the Lord has brought me prosperously to the house of the brother of my lord.

And the damsel ran and reported to the house of her mother according to these words.

And Rebecca had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to meet the man, to the well.

And it came to pass when he saw the ear-rings and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebecca his sister, saying, Thus the man spoke to me, that he went to the man, as he stood by the camels at the well.

And he said to him, Come in hither, thou blessed of the Lord, why standest thou without, whereas I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?

And the man entered into the house, and unloaded the camels, and gave the camels straw and provender, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were with him.

And he set before them loaves to eat; but he said, I will not eat, until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on.

And he said, I am a servant of Abraam;

and the Lord has blessed my master greatly, and he is exalted, and he has given him sheep, and calves, and silver, and gold, servants and servant-maids, camels, and asses.

And Sarrha my master's wife bore one son to my master after he had grown old; and he gave him whatever he had.

And my master caused me to swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Chananites, among whom I sojourn in their land.

But thou shalt go to the house of my father, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take thence a wife for my son.

And I said to my master, Haply the woman will not go with me.

And he said to me, The Lord God to whom I have been acceptable in his presence, himself shall send out his angel with thee, and shall prosper thy journey, and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my tribe, and of the house of my father.

Then shalt thou be clear from my curse, for whensoever thou shalt have come to my tribe, and they shall not give her to thee, then shalt thou be clear from my oath.

And having come this day to the well, I said, Lord God of my master Abraam, if thou prosperest my journey on which I am now going,

behold, I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come forth to draw water, and it shall be that the damsel to whom I shall say, Give me a little water to drink out of thy pitcher,

and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will draw water for thy camels, this shall be the wife whom the Lord has prepared for his own servant Isaac; and hereby shall I know that thou hast wrought mercy with my master Abraam.

And it came to pass before I had done speaking in my mind, straightway Rebecca came forth, having her pitcher on her shoulders; and she went down to the well, and drew water; and I said to her, Give me to drink.