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Difference between revisions 1801544 and 1879546 on enwikiversity<[[Bible, English, King James, According to the documentary hypothesis]] According to the [[w:documentary hypothesis|documentary hypothesis]], the [[w:Torah|Torah]] is composed from a number of originally independant sources joined by a [[w:redaction|redactor]]. One of these supposed sources is named the [[w:JE|"JE source"]], due to it being considered a redacted together combination of the [[w:Jahwist|Jahwist (J) source]] and the [[w:Elohist|Elohist (E) source]]. There follows the reconstructed text of the JE Source, using the [[w:King James Version|King James Translation]] of the Torah. *The text usually ascribed to the Jahwist (J) is highlighted in <font color=#000088>navy blue</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>([[Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source, Jahwist source|view in isolation]])</font></small> *The text usually ascribed to the Elohist (E) is highlighted in <font color=#008888>teal blueish grey</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>([[Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source, Elohist source|view in isolation]])</font>{{font|color=#000088|navy blue}} <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|([[Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source, Jahwist source|view in isolation]])}}</small> *The text usually ascribed to the Elohist (E) is highlighted in {{font|color=#008888|teal blueish grey}} <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|([[Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, JE source, Elohist source|view in isolation]])}}</small> ''Due simply to its size, it has been divided into 3 divisions of approximately similar size, for the purposes of easy downloading. These divisions do not knowingly reflect the content of the text, or the original divisions, in any way.'' ''Although the text is ordered as it appears in the bible, the partitions do not reflect, in any way, the original partitioning of the text, and simply exists for the ease of modern readership'' ==Part 1 - Creation== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> For the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.</font> ==Part 2 - The fall of Man== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> For out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.</font> == Part 3 - Cain and Abel == <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> That Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.</font> ==Part 4 - The Nephilim== <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small><font color=#000088> <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, .</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.</font> ==Part 5 - The flood== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> Both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And the LORD shut him in.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> Both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.</font> ==Part 6 - The curse of Ham== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.</font> ==Part 7 - The descendants of Noah== <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small><font color=#000088> <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> As thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small><font color=#000088> <small><font color=#0000FF>A</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>B</font color></small><font color=#000088> And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>C</font color></small><font color=#000088> For in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>D</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>E</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>F</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>G</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>H</font color></small><font color=#000088> And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.</font> ==Part 8 - The tower of Babel== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.</font> ==Part 9 - The migration of Abram== <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small><font color=#000088> <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.</font> ==Part 10 - Abram's wife as his sister== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.</font> ==Part 11 - The partition between Abram and Lot== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> Before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.</font> ==Part 12 - Chedorlaomer== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;)</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five. And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> For he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> Born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> And of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> Lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.</font> ==Part 13 - The promise to Abram== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they shall afflict them four hundred years;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.</font> == Part 14 - Hagar and Ishmael == <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was .</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> For she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small><font color=#000088> ==Part 15 - The first circumcision== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, So do, as thou hast said.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.</font> ==Part 16 - Sodom and Gomorrah== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> That the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> Both old and young, all the people from every quarter:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#000088> Only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#000088> But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#000088> So that they wearied themselves to find the door.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#000088> Son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#000088> For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>53</font color></small><font color=#000088> Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>54</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>55</font color></small><font color=#000088> Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>56</font color></small><font color=#000088> And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>57</font color></small><font color=#000088> The LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>58</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>59</font color></small><font color=#000088> Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>60</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>61</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>62</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: <small><font color=#0000FF>63</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>64</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>65</font color></small><font color=#000088> Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>66</font color></small><font color=#000088> The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>67</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>68</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>69</font color></small><font color=#000088> But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>70</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>71</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>72</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.</font> ==Part 17 - Lot's daughters== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.</font> ==Part 18 - Abram's wife as his sister for a second time== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> In the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> For I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#008888> Behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#008888> So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#008888> For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.</font> ==Part 19 - The exile of Hagar and Ismael== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, for Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> In all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#008888> What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#008888> Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#008888> And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.</font> ==Part 20 - The treaty of Beersheba== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> Saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> But according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham said, I will swear.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.</font> ==Part 21 - The sacrifice of Isaac== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#008888> And took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#008888> And rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#008888> And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#008888> And they came to the place which God had told him of;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small> <small><font color=#0000FF>A</font color></small><font color=#008888> Saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>B</font color></small><font color=#008888> That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>C</font color></small><font color=#008888> And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>D</font color></small><font color=#008888> And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>E</font color></small><font color=#008888> So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.</font> ==Part 22 - The nephews of Abraham== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.</font> ==Part 23 - Isaac and Rebekah== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> That thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> Must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> He shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> That the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#000088> That he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#000088> And water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, I am Abraham's servant.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#000088> And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>53</font color></small><font color=#000088> But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>54</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>55</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>56</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>57</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>58</font color></small><font color=#000088> And if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>59</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>60</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>61</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>62</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>63</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>64</font color></small><font color=#000088> And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>65</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>66</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>67</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>68</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>69</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>70</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>71</font color></small><font color=#000088> Which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>72</font color></small><font color=#000088> And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>73</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>74</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>75</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>76</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>77</font color></small><font color=#000088> He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>78</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>79</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>80</font color></small><font color=#000088> And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>81</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>82</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>83</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>84</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>85</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>86</font color></small><font color=#000088> Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>87</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>88</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>89</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>90</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>91</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>92</font color></small><font color=#000088> For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>93</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>94</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>95</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>96</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.</font> ==Part 24 - Keturah's sons== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#008888> Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#008888> And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#008888> And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#008888> And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Abraham gave up the ghost;</font> ==Part 25 - Jacob and Esau== <small><font color=#0000FF>..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................</font></small> <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> Thus Esau despised his birthright.</font> ==Part 26 - The covenant with Isaac== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> For unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.</font> ==Part 27 - Isaac's wife as his sister== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> For he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> One of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.</font> ==Part 28 - The wells of Isaac== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> The Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he went up from thence to Beersheba.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And said unto him, We have found water.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.</font> ==Part 29 - The blessing of Isaac== <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> He called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>9</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>10</font color></small><font color=#000088> Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; <small><font color=#0000FF>11</font color></small><font color=#000088> And I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>12</font color></small><font color=#000088> And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>13</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>14</font color></small><font color=#000088> My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>15</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>16</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>17</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>18</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>19</font color></small><font color=#000088> And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>20</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>21</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>22</font color></small><font color=#000088> Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>23</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>24</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>25</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>26</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>27</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>28</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>29</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>30</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>31</font color></small><font color=#000088> And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>32</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>33</font color></small><font color=#000088> See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>34</font color></small><font color=#000088> Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>35</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>36</font color></small><font color=#000088> Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>37</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, <small><font color=#0000FF>38</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, <small><font color=#0000FF>39</font color></small><font color=#000088> That Esau his brother came in from his hunting.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>40</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>41</font color></small><font color=#000088> Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>42</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>43</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>44</font color></small><font color=#000088> Where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>45</font color></small><font color=#000088> And have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>46</font color></small><font color=#000088> And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>47</font color></small><font color=#000088> Bless me, even me also, O my father.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>48</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>49</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>50</font color></small><font color=#000088> He took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>51</font color></small><font color=#000088> And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>52</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>53</font color></small><font color=#000088> And with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>54</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father?</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>55</font color></small><font color=#000088> Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>56</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>57</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>58</font color></small><font color=#000088> And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>59</font color></small><font color=#000088> And it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.</font> ==Part 30 - The exile of Jacob == <small><font color=#0000FF>1</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>2</font color></small><font color=#000088> And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>3</font color></small><font color=#000088> And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him,</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>4</font color></small><font color=#000088> Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>5</font color></small><font color=#000088> Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>6</font color></small><font color=#000088> And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>7</font color></small><font color=#000088> Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him:</font> <small><font color=#0000FF>8</font color></small><font color=#000088> Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?</font>{{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| For the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.}} ==Part 2 - The fall of Man== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; }} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? }} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| And hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|29}}{{font|color=#000088| Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|30}}{{font|color=#000088| In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|31}}{{font|color=#000088| For out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|32}}{{font|color=#000088| And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|33}}{{font|color=#000088| Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|34}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|35}}{{font|color=#000088| And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|36}}{{font|color=#000088| Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|37}}{{font|color=#000088| And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.}} == Part 3 - Cain and Abel == {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| That Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|29}}{{font|color=#000088| If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|30}}{{font|color=#000088| And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|31}}{{font|color=#000088| For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|32}}{{font|color=#000088| And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.}} ==Part 4 - The Nephilim== <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................}}</small>{{font|color=#000088|</font>}}</font></font></font> {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, .}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.}} ==Part 5 - The flood== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| Both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And the LORD shut him in.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| Both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| And Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| And the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|29}}{{font|color=#000088| Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|30}}{{font|color=#000088| And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|31}}{{font|color=#000088| And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|32}}{{font|color=#000088| So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|33}}{{font|color=#000088| And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|34}}{{font|color=#000088| And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|35}}{{font|color=#000088| And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|36}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|37}}{{font|color=#000088| For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|38}}{{font|color=#000088| While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.}} ==Part 6 - The curse of Ham== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, }} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.}} ==Part 7 - The descendants of Noah== <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................}}</small>{{font|color=#000088|</font>}}</font></font></font> {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| As thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.}} <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................}}</small>{{font|color=#000088|</font>}}</font></font></font> {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|A}}{{font|color=#000088| And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|B}}{{font|color=#000088| And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|C}}{{font|color=#000088| For in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|D}}{{font|color=#000088| And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|E}}{{font|color=#000088| And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|F}}{{font|color=#000088| And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|G}}{{font|color=#000088| And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|H}}{{font|color=#000088| And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.}} ==Part 8 - The tower of Babel== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.}} ==Part 9 - The migration of Abram== <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................}}</small>{{font|color=#000088|</font>}}</font></font></font> {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.}} ==Part 10 - Abram's wife as his sister== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.}} ==Part 11 - The partition between Abram and Lot== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| Before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.}} ==Part 12 - Chedorlaomer== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;)}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five. And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| For he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| Born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| And pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| And of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|29}}{{font|color=#000088| And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|30}}{{font|color=#000088| And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|31}}{{font|color=#000088| And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|32}}{{font|color=#000088| And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|33}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|34}}{{font|color=#000088| That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|35}}{{font|color=#000088| Lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|36}}{{font|color=#000088| Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|37}}{{font|color=#000088| Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.}} ==Part 13 - The promise to Abram== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And they shall afflict them four hundred years;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.}} == Part 14 - Hagar and Ishmael == {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was .}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| For she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.}} <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................}}</small>{{font|color=#000088|</font>}}</font></font></font> ==Part 15 - The first circumcision== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And they said, So do, as thou hast said.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.}} ==Part 16 - Sodom and Gomorrah== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| That the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|29}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|30}}{{font|color=#000088| And wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|31}}{{font|color=#000088| And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|32}}{{font|color=#000088| And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|33}}{{font|color=#000088| And he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|34}}{{font|color=#000088| But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|35}}{{font|color=#000088| Both old and young, all the people from every quarter:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|36}}{{font|color=#000088| And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|37}}{{font|color=#000088| Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|38}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|39}}{{font|color=#000088| And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|40}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|41}}{{font|color=#000088| Let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|42}}{{font|color=#000088| Only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|43}}{{font|color=#000088| And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|44}}{{font|color=#000088| Now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|45}}{{font|color=#000088| But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|46}}{{font|color=#000088| And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|47}}{{font|color=#000088| So that they wearied themselves to find the door.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|48}}{{font|color=#000088| And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|49}}{{font|color=#000088| Son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|50}}{{font|color=#000088| For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|51}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|52}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|53}}{{font|color=#000088| Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|54}}{{font|color=#000088| And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|55}}{{font|color=#000088| Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|56}}{{font|color=#000088| And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|57}}{{font|color=#000088| The LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|58}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|59}}{{font|color=#000088| Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|60}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|61}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|62}}{{font|color=#000088| And I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|63}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|64}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|65}}{{font|color=#000088| Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|66}}{{font|color=#000088| The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|67}}{{font|color=#000088| Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|68}}{{font|color=#000088| And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|69}}{{font|color=#000088| But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|70}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|71}}{{font|color=#000088| And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|72}}{{font|color=#000088| And, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.}} ==Part 17 - Lot's daughters== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.}} ==Part 18 - Abram's wife as his sister for a second time== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#008888| But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#008888| Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#008888| But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#008888| Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#008888| In the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#008888| And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#008888| For I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#008888| Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#008888| And if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#008888| Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#008888| Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#008888| And what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#008888| Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#008888| And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#008888| And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#008888| This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#008888| And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#008888| Behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#008888| So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#008888| For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.}} ==Part 19 - The exile of Hagar and Ismael== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, for Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#008888| And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#008888| And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#008888| And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#008888| Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#008888| For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#008888| And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#008888| And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#008888| In all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#008888| And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#008888| And gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#008888| And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#008888| And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#008888| And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#008888| And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#008888| And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#008888| What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#008888| Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#008888| And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#008888| And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#008888| And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.}} ==Part 20 - The treaty of Beersheba== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#008888| And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#008888| Saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#008888| Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#008888| But according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham said, I will swear.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#008888| And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#008888| Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#008888| Then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.}} ==Part 21 - The sacrifice of Isaac== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#008888| And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#008888| And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#008888| And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#008888| And took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#008888| And rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#008888| Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#008888| And he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#008888| And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#008888| And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#008888| And they came to the place which God had told him of;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#008888| And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.}} <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................}}</small> {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|A}}{{font|color=#008888| Saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|B}}{{font|color=#008888| That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|C}}{{font|color=#008888| And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|D}}{{font|color=#008888| And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|E}}{{font|color=#008888| So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.}} ==Part 22 - The nephews of Abraham== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, }} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.}} ==Part 23 - Isaac and Rebekah== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| That thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| Must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| He shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| Let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| And she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|29}}{{font|color=#000088| And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|30}}{{font|color=#000088| And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|31}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|32}}{{font|color=#000088| That the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|33}}{{font|color=#000088| And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|34}}{{font|color=#000088| And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|35}}{{font|color=#000088| She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|36}}{{font|color=#000088| And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|37}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|38}}{{font|color=#000088| I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|39}}{{font|color=#000088| And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|40}}{{font|color=#000088| And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|41}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|42}}{{font|color=#000088| And when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|43}}{{font|color=#000088| That he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|44}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|45}}{{font|color=#000088| And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|46}}{{font|color=#000088| And water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|47}}{{font|color=#000088| And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|48}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, I am Abraham's servant.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|49}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|50}}{{font|color=#000088| And he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|51}}{{font|color=#000088| And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|52}}{{font|color=#000088| And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|53}}{{font|color=#000088| But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|54}}{{font|color=#000088| And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|55}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|56}}{{font|color=#000088| And thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|57}}{{font|color=#000088| Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|58}}{{font|color=#000088| And if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|59}}{{font|color=#000088| And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|60}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|61}}{{font|color=#000088| And I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|62}}{{font|color=#000088| And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|63}}{{font|color=#000088| Let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|64}}{{font|color=#000088| And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|65}}{{font|color=#000088| And she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|66}}{{font|color=#000088| And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|67}}{{font|color=#000088| And said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|68}}{{font|color=#000088| And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|69}}{{font|color=#000088| And I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|70}}{{font|color=#000088| And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|71}}{{font|color=#000088| Which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|72}}{{font|color=#000088| And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|73}}{{font|color=#000088| Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|74}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|75}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|76}}{{font|color=#000088| And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|77}}{{font|color=#000088| He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|78}}{{font|color=#000088| And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|79}}{{font|color=#000088| And they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|80}}{{font|color=#000088| And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|81}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|82}}{{font|color=#000088| And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|83}}{{font|color=#000088| And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|84}}{{font|color=#000088| And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|85}}{{font|color=#000088| And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|86}}{{font|color=#000088| Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|87}}{{font|color=#000088| And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|88}}{{font|color=#000088| And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|89}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|90}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|91}}{{font|color=#000088| And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|92}}{{font|color=#000088| For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|93}}{{font|color=#000088| And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|94}}{{font|color=#000088| And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|95}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|96}}{{font|color=#000088| And he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.}} ==Part 24 - Keturah's sons== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#008888| Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#008888| And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#008888| And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#008888| And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| Then Abraham gave up the ghost;}} ==Part 25 - Jacob and Esau== <small>{{font|color=#0000FF|..........................................................................POTENTIAL DISCONTINUITY........................................................................}}</small> {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| Thus Esau despised his birthright.}} ==Part 26 - The covenant with Isaac== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| For unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.}} ==Part 27 - Isaac's wife as his sister== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| For he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| One of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.}} ==Part 28 - The wells of Isaac== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| The Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And he went up from thence to Beersheba.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, }} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| And have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|29}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|30}}{{font|color=#000088| And said unto him, We have found water.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|31}}{{font|color=#000088| And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.}} ==Part 29 - The blessing of Isaac== {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| He called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|9}}{{font|color=#000088| Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|10}}{{font|color=#000088| Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; }} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|11}}{{font|color=#000088| And I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|12}}{{font|color=#000088| And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|13}}{{font|color=#000088| And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|14}}{{font|color=#000088| My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|15}}{{font|color=#000088| And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|16}}{{font|color=#000088| And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|17}}{{font|color=#000088| And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|18}}{{font|color=#000088| And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|19}}{{font|color=#000088| And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|20}}{{font|color=#000088| And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|21}}{{font|color=#000088| And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|22}}{{font|color=#000088| Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|23}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|24}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|25}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|26}}{{font|color=#000088| And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|27}}{{font|color=#000088| And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|28}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|29}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|30}}{{font|color=#000088| And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|31}}{{font|color=#000088| And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|32}}{{font|color=#000088| And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|33}}{{font|color=#000088| See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|34}}{{font|color=#000088| Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|35}}{{font|color=#000088| Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|36}}{{font|color=#000088| Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|37}}{{font|color=#000088| And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, }} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|38}}{{font|color=#000088| And Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, }} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|39}}{{font|color=#000088| That Esau his brother came in from his hunting.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|40}}{{font|color=#000088| And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|41}}{{font|color=#000088| Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|42}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|43}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|44}}{{font|color=#000088| Where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|45}}{{font|color=#000088| And have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|46}}{{font|color=#000088| And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|47}}{{font|color=#000088| Bless me, even me also, O my father.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|48}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|49}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|50}}{{font|color=#000088| He took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|51}}{{font|color=#000088| And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|52}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|53}}{{font|color=#000088| And with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|54}}{{font|color=#000088| And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father?}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|55}}{{font|color=#000088| Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|56}}{{font|color=#000088| And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|57}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|58}}{{font|color=#000088| And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|59}}{{font|color=#000088| And it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.}} ==Part 30 - The exile of Jacob == {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|1}}{{font|color=#000088| And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|2}}{{font|color=#000088| And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|3}}{{font|color=#000088| And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him,}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|4}}{{font|color=#000088| Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|5}}{{font|color=#000088| Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|6}}{{font|color=#000088| And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|7}}{{font|color=#000088| Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him:}} {{font|size=smaller|color=#0000FF|8}}{{font|color=#000088| Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?}} ==Parts 31 - 87 (the end)== ''Due simply to the document's size, it has been divided into 3 divisions of approximately similar size, for the purposes of easy downloading. 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