The Bishops' Bible
1568 Matthew Parker editor
Gen 1:1 In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without fourme, and was voyde: & darknes [was] vpon the face of the deepe, and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God sayde, let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day.
Gen 1:6 And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters.
Gen 1:7 And God made the firmament, and set the diuision betwene the waters which [were] vnder the firmament, and the waters that [were] aboue the firmament: and it was so.
Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.
Gen 1:9 And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.
Gen 1:10 And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.
Gen 1:11 And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth [both] budde and hearbe apt to seede, and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde, which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:12 And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde.
Gen 1:13 And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.
Gen 1:14 And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.
Gen 1:15 And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lyghtes: a greater lyght to rule the day, and a lesse lyght to rule the nyght, and [he made] starres also.
Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shyne vpon the earth,
Gen 1:18 And to rule the day and nyght, and to make difference betweene the lyght and the darknesse: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:19 And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.
Gen 1:20 And God sayde: let the waters bryng foorth mouyng creature that hath lyfe, and foule that may flee vpon the earth in the open firmament of heauen.
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and euery lyuyng & mouing creature, which the waters brought foorth after theyr kynde, & euery fethered foule after their kynde: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:22 And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sea, and let foule multiplie in the earth.
Gen 1:23 And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.
Gen 1:24 And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde, cattell, worme, and beastes of the earth after his kynde: and it was so.
Gen 1:25 God made the beast of the earth after his kynde, and cattell after his kynde, and euery thyng that creepeth vpon the earth after his kynde: and God sawe that it was good.
Gen 1:26 God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his owne image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.
Gen 1:29 And God sayde: beholde, I haue geuen you euery hearbe bearing seede, which is in the vpper face of all ye earth, and euery tree in the which is the fruite of a tree bearing seede, [that] they may be meate vnto you:
Gen 1:30 To euery beast of the earth also, and to euery birde of the aire, and to euery such thing that creepeth vpon ye earth, which doth liue, I haue geuen euery greene hearbe for meate: and it was so.
Gen 1:31 And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.
Gen 2:1 The heauens also & the earth were finisshed, & all the hoast of them.
Gen 2:2 And in the seuenth day God ended his worke whiche he had made. And the seueth day he rested from all his worke which he had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make.
Gen 2:4 These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.
Gen 2:5 And euery plant of the fielde before it was in the earth, and euery hearbe of the fielde before it grewe. For the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rayne vppon the earth, neither [was there] a man to tyll the grounde.
Gen 2:6 But there went vp a miste from the earth, & watered the whole face of the grounde.
Gen 2:7 The Lorde God also dyd shape man, [euen] dust fro of the grounde, & breathed into his nosethrylles the breath of lyfe, and man was a lyuyng soule.
Gen 2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
Gen 2:9 Moreouer, out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree, that was fayre to syght, and pleasaunt to eate: The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll.
Gen 2:10 And out of Eden there went foorth a flood to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heades.
Gen 2:11 The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:
Gen 2:12 And the golde of the lande is very good. There is also Bdellium, and the Onix stone.
Gen 2:13 The name of the seconde riuer is Gyhon: the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Ethiopia.
Gen 2:14 The name of ye thirde ryuer is Hidekel, & it goeth toward the east side of Assiria: & the fourth ryuer is Euphrates.
Gen 2:15 And the Lord God toke the man, and put hym in the garden of Eden, that he myght worke it, and kepe it.
Gen 2:16 And the Lorde God commaunded the man, saying: eating, thou shalt eate of euery tree of the garden:
Gen 2:17 But as touching the tree of knowlege of good and euyll thou shalt not eate of it: For in what daye so euer thou eatest therof, thou shalt dye the death.
Gen 2:18 And the Lord God sayde: It is not good yt the man should be alone, I wyll make hym an helpe lyke vnto hym.
Gen 2:19 And so out of the grounde the Lorde God had shapen euery beast of the field, and euery foule of the ayre, and brought it vnto man, that he myght see howe he woulde call it. For lykewyse as man hym selfe named euery lyuyng thyng, euen so was the name therof.
Gen 2:20 And the man gaue names to all cattell, and foule of the ayre, & euery beast of the fielde: but for man founde he not an helpe lyke vnto hym.
Gen 2:21 The Lord God caused a deepe sleepe to fall vpon Adam, and he slept, and he toke one of his ribbes, and closed vp the place with fleshe in steade therof.
Gen 2:22 And the ribbe which the lord god had taken from man, made he a woman, & brought her vnto the man.
Gen 2:23 And man saide: this is nowe bone of my bones, and fleshe of my fleshe, she shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Gen 2:24 For this cause shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shalbe ioyned with his wyfe: and they shall become one fleshe.
Gen 2:25 And they were both naked the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Gen 3:1 And the serpent was suttiller then euery beast of the fielde which ye lord God hadde made, and he sayde vnto the woman: yea, hath God saide, ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?
Gen 3:2 And the woman sayde vnto the serpent: We eate of ye fruite of the trees of the garden.
Gen 3:3 But as for the fruite of the tree which is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde, ye shall not eate of it, neither shal ye touche of it, lest peraduenture ye dye.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent sayde vnto the woman: ye shall not dye the death.
Gen 3:5 For God doth knowe, that the same day that ye eate therof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shalbe eue as gods, knowyng good and euyll.
Gen 3:6 And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate.
Gen 3:7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sowed fygge leaues together, & made them selues apernes.
Gen 3:8 And they heard the voyce of the Lord God, walkyng in the garden in ye coole of the day: and Adam and his wyfe hyd themselues from the presence of the lord God amongst ye trees of the garden.
Gen 3:9 And the Lorde called Adam, & sayde vnto hym: where art thou?
Gen 3:10 Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.
Gen 3:11 And he sayde: Who tolde thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou not eaten of the same tree, concernyng the which I commaunded thee that thou shouldest not eate of it?
Gen 3:12 And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate.
Gen 3:13 And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.
Gen 3:14 And the lord god said vnto ye serpent: Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the fielde: vpon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy lyfe.
Gen 3:15 I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.
Gen 3:16 But vnto the woman he sayde: I wyll very much multiplie thy sorowe, and thy griefes of chylde bearyng, In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children: thy desire [shalbe] to thy husbande, and he shall haue the rule of thee.
Gen 3:17 Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe.
Gen 3:18 Thorne also and thistle shall it bryng foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the hearbe of the fielde.
Gen 3:19 In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.
Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wyfes name Heua, because she was the mother of all lyuyng.
Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.
Gen 3:22 And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.
Gen 3:23 Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.
Gen 3:24 And so he droue out man, and at the east side of the garde of Eden he set Cherubins, and a fierie two edged sworde, to kepe the way of the tree of lyfe.
Gen 4:1 And Adam knewe Heua his wyfe, who conceauing bare Cain, saying: I haue gotten a man of the Lorde.
Gen 4:2 And she proceading, brought foorth his brother Habel, and Habel was a keper of sheepe, but Cain was a tyller of the grounde.
Gen 4:3 And in processe of dayes it came to passe, that Cain brought of the fruite of the grounde, an oblation vnto ye lorde:
Gen 4:4 Habel also brought of the firstlynges of his sheepe, & of the fatte thereof: and the Lorde had respect vnto Habel, and to his oblation.
Gen 4:5 But vnto Cain and to his offeryng he had no respect: for the whiche cause Cain was exceedyng wroth, and his countenaunce abated.
Gen 4:6 And the Lorde saide vnto Cain: why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenaunce abated?
Gen 4:7 If thou do well, shalt thou not receaue? and yf thou doest not well, lyeth not thy sinne at the doores? Also vnto thee shall his desire be, and thou shalt haue dominion ouer hym.
Gen 4:8 And Cain talked with Habel his brother: and it came to passe when they were in the fielde, Cain rose vp agaynst Habel his brother, & slewe him.
Gen 4:9 And the Lorde said vnto Cain: where is Habel thy brother? Which sayde I wote not: Am I my brothers keper?
Gen 4:10 And he sayde: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me out of the grounde.
Gen 4:11 And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.
Gen 4:12 If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.
Gen 4:13 And Cain sayde vnto the Lord: My iniquitie is more then that it may be forgeuen.
Gen 4:14 Beholde, thou hast cast me out this day from the vpper face of the earth, & from thy face shall I be hyd, fugitiue also and a vacabounde shall I be in the earth: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that fyndeth me shal slay me.
Gen 4:15 And the Lorde said vnto him: Uerely whosoeuer slayeth Cain, he shalbe punished seuen folde. And the Lorde set a marke vpon Cain, lest any man fyndyng hym shoulde kyll hym.
Gen 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lorde, & dwelt in the lande of Nod, eastwarde from Eden.
Gen 4:17 Cain also knewe his wyfe, whiche conceaued and bare Henoch, and buyldyng a citie, he called the name of the same citie after the name of his sonne Henoch.
Gen 4:18 Unto ye same Henoch was borne Irad: Irad begat Mehuiael, Mehuiael begat Methusael, Methusael begat Lamech.
Gen 4:19 And Lamech toke vnto hym two wyues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Sella.
Gen 4:20 And Ada bare Iabel, which was the father of such as dwel in the tentes, and of such as haue cattell.
Gen 4:21 His brothers name was Iubal, which was the father of such as handle Harpe and Organ.
Gen 4:22 And Sella also bare Thubalcain, which wrought cunnyngly euery craft of brasse and of iron, the sister of Thubalcain was Noema.
Gen 4:23 And Lamech saide vnto his wiues Ada and Sella: Heare my voyce ye wyues of Lamech, hearken vnto my speache: for I haue slayne a man to the woundyng of my selfe, & a young man to myne owne punishment.
Gen 4:24 If Cain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech seuentie tymes & seuen tymes.
Gen 4:25 Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.
Gen 4:26 And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.
Gen 5:1 This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.
Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the daye of their creation.
Gen 5:3 And Adam lyued an hundreth and thirtie yeres, and begate a sonne in his owne lykenesse, after his image, & called his name Seth.
Gen 5:4 Al the dayes of Adam after he had begotten Seth, were eyght hudreth yeres, and he begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:5 And all the dayes that Adam lyued were nine hundreth and thirtie yeres, and he dyed.
Gen 5:6 Seth lyued an hundreth & fyue yeres, and begat Enos.
Gen 5:7 And Seth lyued after he begat Enos eyght hundreth and seuen yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:8 And all the dayes of Seth were nine hundreth & twelue yeres, and he dyed.
Gen 5:9 Enos lyued ninetie yeres, and begate Kenan.
Gen 5:10 And Enos lyued after he begate Kenan eyght hundreth & fiftie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:11 And all the dayes of Enos were nine hundreth & fyue yeres, and he dyed.
Gen 5:12 Kenan lyued seuentie yeres, and begate Mahalaleel.
Gen 5:13 And Kenan liued after he begate Mahalaleel eyght hudreth & fourtie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:14 And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.
Gen 5:15 Mahalaleel liued sixtie and fiue yeres, and begate Iered.
Gen 5:16 And againe Mahalaleel liued after he begate Iered eyght hundreth & thirtie yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
Gen 5:17 And al the dayes of Mahalaleel, were eyght hundreth ninetie and fiue yeres, and he dyed.
Gen 5:18 Iered lyued an hundreth sixtie & two yeres, and he begate Henoch.
Gen 5:19 And Iered liued after he begat Henoch, eyght hundreth yeres, & begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:20 And all the dayes of Iered were nine hundreth sixtie and two yeres, & he died.
Gen 5:21 Henoch lyued sixtie and fiue yeres, & begate Methuselah.
Gen 5:22 And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
Gen 5:23 And al ye dayes of Henoch were three hundreth sixtie and fiue yeres.
Gen 5:24 And Henoch walked with God: and he was no more seene, for God toke him away.
Gen 5:25 Methuselah also lyued an hundreth eyghtie and seue yeres, and begate Lamech.
Gen 5:26 And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seue hundreth eightie and two yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:27 And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundreth sixtie & nine yeres, and he dyed.
Gen 5:28 Lamech liued an hundreth eyghtie & two yeres, and begate a sonne,
Gen 5:29 And called his name Noah, saying: This same shall comfort vs as concerning our worke, & sorowe of our handes about the earth, which God cursed.
Gen 5:30 And Lamech lyued after he begat Noah, fiue hudreth ninetie & fiue yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:31 And all the dayes of Lamech were seuen hundreth seuentie and seue yeres, and he dyed.
Gen 5:32 Noah was fiue hundreth yere olde, & Noah begate Sem, Ham, & Iapheth.
Gen 6:1 And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:
Gen 6:2 And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.
Gen 6:3 And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.
Gen 6:4 But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.
Gen 6:5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart [was] only euyll euery day.
Gen 6:6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.
Gen 6:7 And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.
Gen 6:8 But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.
Gen 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.
Gen 6:10 Noah begat three sonnes, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.
Gen 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie.
Gen 6:12 And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.
Gen 6:13 And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth.
Gen 6:14 Make thee an Arke of Pine trees: Habitations shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and with out with pitche.
Gen 6:15 And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites.
Gen 6:16 A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue: but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof. With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it.
Gen 6:17 And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.
Gen 6:18 With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt: and thou shalt come into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, thy wife, and thy sonnes wyues with thee.
Gen 6:19 And of euery lyuyng thyng of all fleshe, a payre of euery one shalt thou bryng into the arke to kepe them alyue with thee, they shalbe male & female.
Gen 6:20 Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.
Gen 6:21 And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten, and thou shalt lay it vp with thee, that it may be meate for thee and them.
Gen 6:22 Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.
Gen 7:1 And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.
Gen 7:2 Of euery cleane beast thou shalt take with thee seuen and seuen, the male and his female, but of vncleane cattell two, the male and his female.
Gen 7:3 Of foules also of the ayre seuen and seuen, the male and the female, to kepe seede alyue vpon the face of all the whole earth.
Gen 7:4 For after seuen dayes, I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes: & all substaunce that I haue made, wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth.
Gen 7:5 Noah therfore did according vnto all that God commaunded him.
Gen 7:6 And Noah was sixe hundreth yere olde, when the fluddes of water came vpon the earth.
Gen 7:7 And Noah came, and his sonnes, and his wyfe, and his sonnes wyues with him to the arke, because of the waters of the fludde.
Gen 7:8 Of cleane beastes, and of vncleane beastes, and of foules, and of euery such as creepeth vpon the earth,
Gen 7:9 There came two & two vnto Noah vnto the arke, the male and the female, as God had commaunded Noah.
Gen 7:10 And so it came to passe after seuen dayes, that the waters of the flud were vpon the earth.
Gen 7:11 In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened.
Gen 7:12 And the rayne was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
Gen 7:13 In the selfe same day, entred Noah, and Sem, and Ham, and Iapheth the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wyfe, and the three wiues of his sonnes with the into the arke.
Gen 7:14 They, and euery beast after his kinde, and al the cattel after their kinde, yea, and euery worme that creepeth vpon the grounde after his kinde, and euerye byrde after his kinde, and euery fleeyng and fethered foule.
Gen 7:15 And they came vnto Noah into the arke, two and two, of all fleshe wherein is the breath of lyfe.
Gen 7:16 And they entryng in, came male and female of all fleshe, as God had commaunded him: and God shut hym in rounde about.
Gen 7:17 And the fludde came fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the arke, whiche was lyft vp aboue the earth.
Gen 7:18 The waters also waxed strong, and were encreased exceedyngly vpon the earth: and so the arke went vpon the vpper face of the waters.
Gen 7:19 And the waters preuayled exceedingly vpon the earth, and al the high hilles that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.
Gen 7:20 Fyfteene cubites vpward did the waters preuayle, so that the mountaynes were couered.
Gen 7:21 And all fleshe perished, that moued vpon the earth, in foule, in cattell, in beast, and in euery worme that creepeth vpon the earth, yea, and euery man also.
Gen 7:22 So that all that had the breath of lyfe in his nostrilles throughout all that was on the drye lande, dyed.
Gen 7:23 And euery substaunce was destroyed that remayned and that was in the vpper part of the grounde, both man and cattell, and worme, and the foule of the heauen, they were euen destroyed from of the earth, and Noah onlye remayned aliue, and they that were with him in the arke.
Gen 7:24 But the water preuayled vpon the earth, a hundreth and fiftie dayes.
Gen 8:1 And God remebred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke: and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceassed.
Gen 8:2 The fountaynes also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the rayne from heauen was restrayned.
Gen 8:3 And the waters from the earth returned, goyng and comming agayne: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftith day, the waters were abated.
Gen 8:4 And in the seuen moneth, in the seuenteenth day of ye moneth, the arke rested vpon the mountaynes of Armenia.
Gen 8:5 And the waters were goyng and decreasing vntyll the tenth moneth: In the tenth moneth, and in the first day of the same moneth, were the toppes of the mountaynes seene.
Gen 8:6 And after the ende of the fourtith day, it came to passe [that] Noah opened the wyndowe of the arke which he had made,
Gen 8:7 And he sent foorth a Rauen, whiche went out, goyng foorth, and returnyng, vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth.
Gen 8:8 And agayne he sent foort a Doue from him, that he myght see yf the waters were abated from the vpper face of the grounde.
Gen 8:9 And the Doue founde no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the arke, for the waters [were] in the vpper face of the whole earth, Then he put foorth his hande, & tooke her, and pulled her to him into the arke.
Gen 8:10 And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and agayne he sent foorth the Doue out of the arke:
Gen 8:11 And the Doue came to hym in the euentide, and loe, in her mouth was an Oliue leafe that she had pluct, wherby Noah dyd knowe that the waters were abated vpon the earth.
Gen 8:12 And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and sent foorth the Doue, whiche returned not vnto him any more.
Gen 8:13 And it came to passe, in the sixe hundreth and one yere, in ye first moneth, the first [day] of the moneth, the waters were dryed vp from the earth, and Noah remoued the coueryng of the arke, and looked, and beholde, the vpper face of the grounde was dryed vp.
Gen 8:14 And in the seconde moneth, in the seuen and twentie day of the moneth was the earth dryed.
Gen 8:15 And God spake vnto Noah, saying:
Gen 8:16 Go foorth of the arke, thou, and thy wife, thy sonnes, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
Gen 8:17 And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all fleshe, both foule and cattell, and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth, that they may breede in the earth, and bring foorth fruite, and multiplie vpon earth.
Gen 8:18 And so Noah came foorth, and his sonnes, his wyfe, and his sonnes wiues with hym:
Gen 8:19 Euery beast also, and euery worme, euery foule, and whatsoeuer crepeth vpon the earth after their kyndes, went out of the arke.
Gen 8:20 And Noah builded an aulter vnto ye Lorde, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, & offred burnt offering on the aulter
Gen 8:21 And the Lorde smelled a sweete [or quiet] sauour, and the Lord sayde in his heart: I wyll not hencefoorth curse the grounde any more for mans sake, for the imagination of mans heart is euyll [euen] from his youth: neyther wyll I smyte any more euery thyng lyuyng, as I haue done.
Gen 8:22 Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest, colde and heate, sommer and wynter, day and nyght, ceasse all the dayes of the earth.
Gen 9:1 And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.
Gen 9:2 The feare of you, & the dread of you, shalbe vpon euery beast of the earth, and vpon euery foule of the ayre, vpon al that moueth vpon the earth, and vpon all the fishes of the sea, into your hande are they deliuered.
Gen 9:3 Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges.
Gen 9:4 But flesh in the life therof [which is] the blood therof, shall ye not eate.
Gen 9:5 And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require: at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man.
Gen 9:6 Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
Gen 9:7 But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.
Gen 9:8 God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying:
Gen 9:9 Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you:
Gen 9:10 And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be.
Gen 9:11 And my couenaunt I make with you, that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde, neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more.
Gen 9:12 And God sayde: this is the token of the couenaut which I make betweene me and you, and euery lyuyng creature that is with you, for euer.
Gen 9:13 I do set my bowe in the cloude, and it shall be for a token betweene me and the earth.
Gen 9:14 And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude.
Gen 9:15 And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you, and euery liuing creature in all fleshe: and it shall no more come to passe, that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe.
Gen 9:16 And the bowe shalbe in the cloude, and I wyll loke vpon it, that I may thinke vpon the euerlasting couenaunt, betweene god and euery liuing creature in all fleshe that is vpon the earth.
Gen 9:17 And God sayd vnto Noah, This is the token of the couenaunt which I haue made betweene me and all fleshe that is vpon earth.
Gen 9:18 The sonnes of Noah goyng foorth of the arke, were Sem, Ham, & Iapheth: and Ham is the father of Chanaan.
Gen 9:19 These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.
Gen 9:20 Noah also began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyarde.
Gen 9:21 And he drynkyng of the wyne, was dronken, and vncouered within his tent.
Gen 9:22 And Ham the father of Chanaan, seeyng the nakednesse of his father, tolde his two brethren without.
Gen 9:23 And Sem and Iapheth takyng a garment, layde it vpon their shoulders, and commyng backwarde, couered the nakednesse of their father, namely their faces beyng turned away, lest they should see their fathers nakednesse.
Gen 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knewe what his younger sonne had done vnto him.
Gen 9:25 And he sayde: cursed be Chanaan, a seruaunt of seruauntes shall he be vnto his brethren.
Gen 9:26 He sayde moreouer: blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt.
Gen 9:27 God shall enlarge Iapheth: and he shall dwell in the tentes of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt.
Gen 9:28 Noah liued after the fludde three hundred and fiftie yeres.
Gen 9:29 And all the dayes of Noah, were nine hundred and fiftie yeres, and he dyed.
Gen 10:1 These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde.
Gen 10:2 The children of Iapheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Thubal, Mesech, and Thiras.
Gen 10:3 The children of Gomer: Askenas, and Ripath, and Thogarma.
Gen 10:4 The children of Iauan: Elisa, & Tharsis, Kitthim, and Donanim.
Gen 10:5 Of these were the Iles of the gentiles deuided in their landes, euery one after his tongue, and after his kinrede, in their nations.
Gen 10:6 The children of Ham, Chus: and Mizraim, and Phut, and Chanaan.
Gen 10:7 And the children of Chus: Seba, and Hauilah, and Sabthah, and Raamah, and Sabtheca.
Gen 10:8 The children of Raamah: Seba, and Dedan, Chus also begat Nimrod.
Gen 10:9 The same began to be mightie in the earth, for he was a mightie hunter before the Lorde: Wherfore it is sayde, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the Lorde.
Gen 10:10 The begynnyng of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, & Arab, and Calueh, in the lande of Sinar.
Gen 10:11 Out of that lande came Assur, and builded Niniue, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah,
Gen 10:12 Resen also betweene Niniue & Chalah, and it is a great citie.
Gen 10:13 Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Nephthuim,
Gen 10:14 Pathrusim also, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philisthiim) & Capthorim.
Gen 10:15 Chanaan begat Sidon his first borne sonne, and Heth,
Gen 10:16 And Iebusi, and Emori, and Girgasi,
Gen 10:17 And Hiui also, and Arki, and Sini,
Gen 10:18 And Aruadi, and Semari, and Hamathi: and afterwarde were the kinredes of the Chanaanites spread abrode.
Gen 10:19 The border of the Chanaanites was from Sidon as thou commest to Gerar vnto Azah, and as thou goest vnto Sodoma and Gomorra, and Adama, and Seboim, euen vnto Lesa.
Gen 10:20 These are the children of Ham in their kinredes, in their tongues, countreys, and in their nations.
Gen 10:21 Unto Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, and elder brother of Iapheth, there were chyldren borne.
Gen 10:22 The chyldren of Sem: Elam, and Assur, Arpharad, and Lud, and Aram.
Gen 10:23 The chyldren of Aram: Us, and Hul, Gether, and Mas.
Gen 10:24 Arphaxad begat Selah, and Selah begat Heber.
Gen 10:25 Unto Heber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth deuided, and his brothers name was Iactan.
Gen 10:26 Iactan begat Almodad, and Saleph, Hazarmaueth, and Ierah,
Gen 10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Dicla,
Gen 10:28 Obal also, and Abimael, and Seba,
Gen 10:29 And Ophir, and Hauilah, and Iobab, all these were the chyldren of Iactan.
Gen 10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesa, as thou goest vnto Sapher, a mount of the east.
Gen 10:31 These are the chyldren of Sem after their kinredes and tongues, in their landes and nations.
Gen 10:32 And so these are the kinredes of the chyldren of Noah after their generations in their peoples: and of these were the nations deuided in the earth after the flood.
Gen 11:1 And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache.
Gen 11:2 And when they went foorth from the east, they founde a playne in the lande of Sinar, and there they abode.
Gen 11:3 And one sayd to another: Come, let vs prepare brycke, and burne them in the fire. And they had brycke for stones, and slyme had they in steade of morter.
Gen 11:4 And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.
Gen 11:5 But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded.
Gen 11:6 And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, and this they begin to do: neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do.
Gen 11:7 Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.
Gen 11:8 And so the Lorde scattered them from that place into the vpper face of all the earth, and they left of to buylde that citie.
Gen 11:9 And therfore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord dyd there confounde the language of all the earth: and from thence dyd the Lorde scatter them abrode vpon the face of all the earth.
Gen 11:10 [ These are the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundreth yere old, and begat Arphaxad two yeres after the flood.
Gen 11:11 And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad fiue hundreth yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:12 Arphaxad liued fiue and thirtie yeres, and begat Selah.
Gen 11:13 And Arphaxad liued after he begat Selah, foure hundreth and three yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:14 Selah liued thirtie yeres, and begat Heber.
Gen 11:15 And Selah liued after he begat Heber, foure hundreth and three yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:16 And Heber liued thirtie and foure yeres, and begat Peleg.
Gen 11:17 And Heber liued after he begat Peleg, foure hundreth and thirtie yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:18 And Peleg liued thirtie yeres, and begat Reu.
Gen 11:19 And Peleg lyued after he begat Reu two hundreth and nyne yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:20 And Reu liued two and thirtie yeres, and begat Serug.
Gen 11:21 And Reu lyued after he begat Serug two hundreth and seuen yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:22 And Serug liued thirtie yere, and begat Nachor.
Gen 11:23 And Serug liued after he begat Nachor, two hundreth yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:24 And Nachor lyued nyne and twentie yeres, and begat Tarah.
Gen 11:25 And Nachor liued after he begat Tarah an hundreth and nineteene yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:26 Tarah liued seuentie yeres, and begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran.
Gen 11:27 These are the generations of Tarah: Tarah begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran: Haron begat Lot.
Gen 11:28 And Haran dyed in the presence of his father Tarah, in the lande of his natiuitie, euen in Ur of the Chaldees.
Gen 11:29 Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife [was] Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, [was] Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa.
Gen 11:30 But Sarai was baren, and had no chylde.
Gen 11:31 And Tarah toke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe his sonne Abrams wyfe, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldees, that they myght go into the land of Chanaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.
Gen 11:32 And the dayes of Tarah, were two hundreth and fiue yeres, and Tarah died in Haran.
Gen 12:1 And the Lord had sayde vnto Abram: get thee out of thy coutrey, and out of thy nation, and from thy fathers house, vnto a lande that I wyll shewe thee:
Gen 12:2 And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be [euen] a blessyng.
Gen 12:3 I wyll also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse the that curseth thee: and in thee shall all kinredes of the earth be blessed.
Gen 12:4 And so Abram departed, euen as the Lorde had spoken vnto hym, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seuentie and fiue yeres old when he departed out of Haran.
Gen 12:5 And Abram toke Sarai his wyfe, and Lot his brothers sonne, & all their substaunce that they had in possession, and the soules that they had begotten in Haran, and they departed, that they might come into the lande of Chanaan: and into the lande of Chanaan they came.
Gen 12:6 Abram passed through the lande, vnto the place of Sichem, vnto the plaine of Moreh. And the Chanaanite [was] then in the lande.
Gen 12:7 And the Lorde appearyng vnto Abram, sayd, Unto thy seede wyl I geue this lande: And there buylded he an aulter vnto the Lorde whiche appeared vnto hym.
Gen 12:8 And remouyng thence vnto a mountayne that was eastwarde from Bethel, he pitched his tent, hauyng Bethel on the west syde, & Hai on the east: and there he buyldyng an aulter vnto the Lorde, dyd call vpon the name of the Lorde.
Gen 12:9 And Abram toke his iourney, goyng and iourneying towarde the south.
Gen 12:10 [And] the there was a famine in that lande, and therfore went Abram downe into Egypt, that he myght soiourne there, for there was a greeuons famine in the lande.
Gen 12:11 And when he was come neare to enter into Egypt, he sayde vnto Sarai his wife: beholde, I knowe that thou art a fayre woman to loke vpon:
Gen 12:12 Therfore shall it come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they shall say, she is his wyfe, and they wyll kyll me, but they wyll saue thee aliue:
Gen 12:13 Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion.
Gen 12:14 And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre.
Gen 12:15 The princes also of Pharao sawe her, and comended her before Pharao, and the woman was taken into Pharaos house.
Gen 12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheepe and oxen, and he asses, menseruauntes, & maydeseruauntes, she asses and camelles.
Gen 12:17 But the Lorde plagued Pharao and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wyfe.
Gen 12:18 And Pharao callyng Abram, sayde: why hast thou done this vnto me?
Gen 12:19 Why diddest thou not tel me, that she was thy wyfe? why saydest thou, she is my sister? and so I might haue taken her to be my wyfe? Nowe therfore beholde, there is thy wyfe, take her, and go thy way.
Gen 12:20 And Pharao gaue his men commaundement concerning him: and they conuayed him foorth, and his wyfe, and all that he had.
Gen 13:1 And so Abram gat hym vp out of Egypt, he and his wife, and al that he had, and Lot with hym, toward the South.
Gen 13:2 And Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde.
Gen 13:3 And he went foorth on his iourney, from the south towarde Bethel, vnto the place where his tent had ben at the begynnyng, betwene Bethel and Hai:
Gen 13:4 Euen vnto the place of the aulter whiche he had made there at the first, and there Abram called on the name of the Lorde.
Gen 13:5 Lot also whiche went with Abram, had sheepe, cattell, and tentes.
Gen 13:6 And the lande was not able to beare them, that they might dwell together: for theyr substaunce was great, so that they coulde not dwell together.
Gen 13:7 And there fell a stryfe betwene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lottes cattell: Moreouer, the Chanaanites, and Pherisites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.
Gen 13:8 Then sayde Abram vnto Lot: let there be no strife I pray thee betweene thee and me, and betweene my heardmen and thyne, for we be brethren.
Gen 13:9 Is not the whole lande before thee? Seperate thy selfe I pray thee from me: yf thou wilt take the left hande, I wyll go to the ryght: or yf thou depart to the ryght hande, I wyll go to the left.
Gen 13:10 And so Lot lyftyng vp his eyes, behelde all the countrey of Iordane, whiche was well watred euery where before the Lorde destroyed Sodome and Gomorrh, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypt as thou commest vnto Soar.
Gen 13:11 Then Lot chose all the playne of Iordane, and toke his iourney from the east, and so departed the one [brother] from the other.
Gen 13:12 Abram dwelled in the lande of Chanaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the playne, and pitched his tent vntill Sodome.
Gen 13:13 But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde.
Gen 13:14 And the Lorde saide vnto Abram, after that Lot was departed fro hym: Lyft vp thyne eyes nowe, and loke fro the place where thou art, northwarde, southward, eastwarde, and westward:
Gen 13:15 For all the lande whiche thou seest, wyll I geue vnto thee, and to thy seede for euer.
Gen 13:16 And I wyl make thy seede as the dust of the earth: so that yf a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede also be numbred.
Gen 13:17 Arise, and walke about in the lande, after the length of it, & after the breadth of it: for I wyll geue it vnto thee.
Gen 13:18 Then Abram taking downe his tent, came and dwelled in the playne of Mamre, which is in Hebron, & buylded there an aulter vnto the Lorde.
Gen 14:1 And it came to passe in the dayes of Amraphel kyng of Sinar, Arioch kyng of Elasar, Chodorlaomer kyng of Elam, and Thidai kyng of the nations:
Gen 14:2 [These] made warre with Bera kyng of Sodome, and with Birsa kyng of Gomorrhe, and with Sinab kyng of Adma, and with Semeber kyng of Seboiim, and with the kyng of Bela, the same is Soar.
Gen 14:3 All these were ioyned together in the vale of Siddim, where [nowe] the salt sea is.
Gen 14:4 For twelue yere were they subiecte to kyng Chodorlaomer, and in the thirteenth yere rebelled.
Gen 14:5 And in the fourteenth yere came Chodorlaomer and the kynges that were with hym, and smote the Giauntes in Astaroth-carnaim, and the Lusimes in Ham, and the Emims in the playne of Cariathaim.
Gen 14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, vnto the playne of Paran, which bordereth vpon the wyldernesse.
Gen 14:7 And they returnyng, came to En-mispat, which is Cades, and smote all the countrey of the Amalecites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-thamar.
Gen 14:8 And there went out the kyng of Sodome, and the kyng of Gomorrhe, and the kyng of Adma, and the kyng of Seboiim, and the kyng of Bela, whiche is Soar.
Gen 14:9 And they ioyned battell with them in the vale of Siddim: that is to saye, with Chodorlaomer the kyng of Elam, and with Thidal kyng of nations, and with Amraphel kyng of Sinar, and with Arioch kyng of Elasar, foure kynges agaynst fyue.
Gen 14:10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slyme pyttes: and the kynges of Sodome and Gomorrhe fledde, and fell there, and they that remayned, fledde to the mountayne.
Gen 14:11 And they takyng all the goodes of Sodome and Gomorrhe, and all their vittayles, went their way.
Gen 14:12 And they caryed awaye Lot also Abrams brothers sonne, & his goodes, (for he dwelled in Sodome) and departed.
Gen 14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and tolde Abram the Hebrewe, whiche dwelled in the playne of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eschol, and brother of Aner, whiche were confederate with Abram.
Gen 14:14 When Abram hearde that his brother was taken, he armed his exercised [seruauntes] whiche were borne in his owne house, three hundreth & eyghteen, and folowed on them vntyll Dan.
Gen 14:15 And he and his seruauntes were parted [in companies] agaynst the by nyght, and smote them, and pursued them vnto Hoba, which lyeth on the left hand of Damascus.
Gen 14:16 And recouered all the goodes, and also brought agayne his brother Lot, & his goodes, the wome also, & the people.
Gen 14:17 After that he returned agayne from the slaughter of Chodorlaomer, and of the kynges that were with hym, came the kyng of Sodome foorth to meete hym in the valey Sauch, which is the kynges dale.
Gen 14:18 And Melchisedech kyng of Salem brought foorth breade and wine: & he [was] the priest of the most highest God,
Gen 14:19 And blessed hym, saying: Blessed be Abram vnto the hygh God possessour of heauen and earth.
Gen 14:20 And blessed [be] the high God, which hath deliuered thyne enemies vnto thy hande: and Abram gaue him tithes of all.
Gen 14:21 And the kyng of Sodome sayde vnto Abram: geue me the soules, and take the goodes to thy selfe.
Gen 14:22 And Abram aunswered the kyng of Sodome: I haue lyft vp my hande vnto the Lord the hye God, possessour of heauen and earth,
Gen 14:23 That I wyll not take of all that is thyne so muche as a threede or shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest saye, I haue made Abram ryche:
Gen 14:24 Saue onlye that which the young men haue eaten, and the portions of the men which went with Aner, Eschol, & Mamre, which shal take their portios.
Gen 15:1 After these thynges, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Abram in a vision, saying: feare not Abram I am thy shielde [and] thy exceedyng great rewarde.
Gen 15:2 And Abram sayde: Lorde God what wylt thou geue me when I go chyldelesse, the chylde of the stewardship of my house is this Eleazer of Damasco?
Gen 15:3 And Abram saide: See, to me thou hast geuen no seede: lo [borne] in my house is myne heire.
Gen 15:4 And beholde, the worde of the Lorde came vnto hym, saying, he shall not be thine heire: but one that shall come out of thine own bowels shalbe thine heire.
Gen 15:5 And he brought hym out, and sayde: loke vp vnto heauen, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And he sayde vnto hym: euen so shall thy seede be.
Gen 15:6 And [Abram] beleued the Lord, & that counted he to hym for righteousnesse.
Gen 15:7 And agayne he saide vnto him: I am the Lorde that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to geue thee this lande, & that thou myghtest inherite it.
Gen 15:8 And he sayde: Lorde God wherby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?
Gen 15:9 He aunswered vnto hym: Take an Heyfer of three yere olde, & a she Goate of three yere olde, and a three yere olde Ramme, a turtle Doue also, & a young Pigeon.
Gen 15:10 He toke therefore all these vnto hym, and deuided them in the middes, and layde euery peece one ouer agaynst another: but the birdes deuided he not.
Gen 15:11 And when the foules fell on the carkases, Abram droue them away.
Gen 15:12 And whe the sunne was downe, there fell a deepe sleepe vpon Abram: and lo, an horrour of great darknesse fell vpon hym.
Gen 15:13 And he sayde vnto Abram: Knowe this of a suertie, that thy seede shalbe a straunger in a lande that is not theirs, and shall serue them, and they shall entreate them euyll foure hundreth yeres.
Gen 15:14 But the nation whom they shall serue wyll I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substaunce.
Gen 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good olde age.
Gen 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shal come hyther agayne: for the wickednesse of the Amorites is not yet full.
Gen 15:17 And so it was, that when the sonne went downe, and it was twylyght, beholde a smokyng furnesse and a fire brande goyng betweene the said peeces.
Gen 15:18 In that same day the Lorde made a couenaunt with Abram, saying: vnto thy seede haue I geuen this lande, fro the ryuer of Egypt, euen vnto the great ryuer, the ryuer of Euphrates.
Gen 15:19 The Kenites and the Kenizites, and the Cadmonites,
Gen 15:20 And the Hethites, and the Perizites, and the Giauntes,
Gen 15:21 The Amorites also, and the Chanaanites, and Girgasites, & the Iebusites.
Gen 16:1 Sarai Abrams wyfe bare hym no chyldren: but she had an handemayde an Egyptian, Hagar by name.
Gen 16:2 And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: beholde, nowe the Lorde hath restrayned me, that I can not beare, I pray thee go in to my mayde, it may be that I may be builded by her: and Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.
Gen 16:3 And Sarai Abrams wyfe toke Hagar her mayde the Egyptian, after Abram hadde dwelled ten yeres in the lande of Chanaan, and gaue her to her husbande Abram to be his wyfe.
Gen 16:4 And he went in vnto Hagar, and she conceaued. And when she sawe that she had conceaued, her mistresse was despised in her eyes.
Gen 16:5 And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: there is wrong done vnto me by thee: I haue geuen my mayde into thy bosome, whiche seyng that she hath conceaued, I am despised in her eyes, the Lorde be iudge betweene thee & me.
Gen 16:6 But Abram sayde to Sarai: beholde thy mayde is in thy hande, do with her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fledde from the face of her.
Gen 16:7 And the angel of the Lord founde her beside a fountaine in ye wildernes, [euen] by the well that is in the way to Sur,
Gen 16:8 And he said: Hagar Sarais mayde, whence camest thou? and whither wylt thou go? She sayde: I flee fro the face of my mistresse Sarai.
Gen 16:9 And the angell of the Lorde sayde vnto her: Returne to thy mistresse agayne, and submit thy selfe vnder her handes.
Gen 16:10 And agayne the angell of the Lord sayde vnto her: I wyll multiplie thy seede in such sort, that it shal not be numbred for multitude.
Gen 16:11 And the Lordes angell said vnto her: See, thou art with chylde, and shalt beare a sonne, and shalt cal his name Ismael: because the Lorde hath hearde thy tribulation.
Gen 16:12 He also wyll be a wylde man, and his hande wyll be agaynst euery man, and euery mans hande against hym: and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Gen 16:13 And she called the name of the Lorde that spake vnto her, Thou God lokest on me: for she sayde, haue I not also heare loked after hym that seeth mee?
Gen 16:14 Wherfore ye well was called the well of hym that lyueth and seeth me: and it is betweene Cades and Bared.
Gen 16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a sonne, and Abram called his sonnes name which Hagar bare vnto hym, Ismael.
Gen 16:16 And Abram was foure score and sixe yeres olde, when Hagar bare Ismael to hym.
Gen 17:1 When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.
Gen 17:2 And I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, and wyll multiplie thee exceedyngly.
Gen 17:3 And Abram fell on his face, & God talked with hym, saying:
Gen 17:4 It is I, behold my couenaut [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Gen 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shalbe called Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.
Gen 17:6 I wyll make thee exceedyng fruitefull, and wyll make nations of thee, yea and kynges shall spryng out of thee.
Gen 17:7 Moreouer I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, & thy seede after thee, in their generations, by an euerlasting couenaut, yt I may be God vnto thee, and to thy seede after thee.
Gen 17:8 And I wyll geue vnto thee and to thy seede after thee, the lande wherein thou art a strauger [euen] al the lande of Chanaan, for an euerlastyng possession, and wyll be their God.
Gen 17:9 And God said agayne vnto Abraham: thou shalt kepe my couenaunt therfore, both thou & thy seede after thee in their generations.
Gen 17:10 This is my couenaunt which ye shall kepe betweene me & you, and thy seede after thee: euery man chylde among you shalbe circumcised.
Gen 17:11 Ye shal circumcise the fleshe of your foreskyn, and it shalbe a token of the couenaunt betwixt me and you.
Gen 17:12 And euery man chylde of eyght dayes olde shalbe circumcised amongst you in your generations, both he that is borne in thy house, as he that is bought with money of any straunger, whiche is not of thy seede.
Gen 17:13 He that is borne in thy house, and he also that is bought with money, must needes be circumcised: & my couenaut shalbe in your fleshe for an euerlastyng couenaunt.
Gen 17:14 And the vncircumcised manchylde, in whose fleshe the foreskyn is not circumcised, that soule shalbe cut of from his people, because he hath broken my couenaunt.
Gen 17:15 And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sara [shall] her name be.
Gen 17:16 And I wyll blesse her, and geue thee a sonne of her: yea, I wyll blesse her, and she shalbe [a mother] of nations, yea & kynges of people shall sprynge of her.
Gen 17:17 But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?
Gen 17:18 And Abraham sayde vnto God: O that Ismael myght lyue in thy syght.
Gen 17:19 Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
Gen 17:20 And as concernyng Ismael also I haue hearde thee: for I haue blessed him, and wyll make him fruitefull, and wyl multiplie him excedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I wyll make a great nation of hym.
Gen 17:21 But my couenaunt wyl I make with Isahac whiche Sara shall beare vnto thee, euen this tyme twelue moneth.
Gen 17:22 And he left of talkyng with hym, and departed vp from Abraham.
Gen 17:23 Abraham toke Ismael his sonne, and such as were borne in his house, & al that was bought with money, as many as were men chyldren, whiche were amongst the men of Abrahams house, & circumcised the fleshe of their foreskinne euen in the selfe same day, as God had sayde vnto hym.
Gen 17:24 Abraham also hym selfe was ninetie yere olde and nine when the fleshe of his foreskynne was circumcised.
Gen 17:25 Ismael his sonne was thirtie yere old when he was circumcised in the fleshe of his foreskynne.
Gen 17:26 The selfe same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his sonne.
Gen 17:27 And all the men of his house, borne in his house, or bought with money of straungers were circumcised with him.
Gen 18:1 And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day.
Gen 18:2 And he lift vp his eyes and loked, and loe, three men stoode by hym: And when he sawe them, he ranne to meete them from the tent doore, and bowed hym selfe towarde the grounde,
Gen 18:3 And sayde: Lorde, yf I haue nowe founde fauour in thy sight, passe not away I praye thee from thy seruaunt.
Gen 18:4 Let a litle water, I pray you, be fet, and washe your feete, and refreshe your selues vnder the tree.
Gen 18:5 And I wyll fet a morsell of bread to comfort your heartes withall, and then shall you go your wayes: for euen therefore are ye come to your seruaunt. And they sayde: do euen so as thou hast sayde.
Gen 18:6 And Abraham went apace into the tent vnto Sara, & sayde: Make redy at once three peckes of fine meale, kneade [it] and make cakes vpon the hearth.
Gen 18:7 And Abraham runnyng vnto his beastes, fet a calfe tender and good, and gaue it vnto a young man, and he hasted to make it redy at once.
Gen 18:8 And he toke butter and mylke, and the calfe which he had prepared, and set it before them, and stoode hym selfe by them vnder the tree: & they dyd eate.
Gen 18:9 And they sayde vnto hym: where is Sara thy wife? He aunswered, behold, in the tent.
Gen 18:10 And he sayde: I wyll certaynely returne vnto thee according to the time of lyfe: and lo, Sara thy wyfe shall haue a sonne. That heard Sara in the tent doore, which was behynde hym.
Gen 18:11 Abraham and Sara were both olde, and well stryken in age: and it ceassed to be with Sara after the maner as it is with women.
Gen 18:12 Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?
Gen 18:13 And God said vnto Abraham: wherfore dyd Sara laugh, saying, shall I of a suertie beare a chylde, which am olde?
Gen 18:14 Is any thing vnpossible to God? Accordyng to the tyme appoynted wyll I returne vnto thee [euen] according to the time of life: & Sara [shall] haue a sonne.
Gen 18:15 The Sara denied it, saying: I laughed not: for she was afrayde. And he sayde: it is not so, but thou laughedst.
Gen 18:16 And the men rysyng vp from thence, loked toward Sodome: and Abraham went with them to bryng them on the way.
Gen 18:17 And the Lorde sayde: shall I hyde from Abraham that thing which I do.
Gen 18:18 Seyng that Abraham shall surely be a great and a myghtie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in hym?
Gen 18:19 I knowe this also, that he wyll commaunde his chyldren and his householde after him, that they kepe the way of the Lord, and to do iustice and iudgement, that the Lorde may bryng vppon Abraha that he hath spoken vnto him.
Gen 18:20 And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous:
Gen 18:21 I wyll go downe nowe, and see whether they haue done altogether accordyng to that crye whiche is come vnto me: and yf not, I wyll knowe.
Gen 18:22 And the men departed thence, & went to Sodomeward: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lorde.
Gen 18:23 And Abraham drewe neare, and said: Wylt thou also destroye the righteous with the wicked?
Gen 18:24 If there be fiftie ryghteous within the citie, wylt thou destroye and not spare the place for the sake of fiftie ryghteous that are therein?
Gen 18:25 That be farre from thee that thou shouldest do after this maner, and slaye the ryghteous with the wicked, & that the ryghteous should be as the wicked, that be farre from thee: Shall not the iudge of all the worlde do accordyng to ryght?
Gen 18:26 And the Lorde sayde: If I fynde in Sodome fiftie ryghteous within the citie, I wyll spare all the place for their sakes.
Gen 18:27 And Abraham aunsweryng, sayde: beholde I haue taken vppon me to speake vnto the Lorde, whiche am but dust and asshes.
Gen 18:28 If there shall lacke fiue of fiftie ryghteous, wylt thou destroy all the citie for [lacke] of fiue? And he saide: If I fynde there fourtie and fiue I wyl not destroy them.
Gen 18:29 And he proceaded to speake vnto hym agayne, and sayde: What yf there shall be fourtie founde there? He aunswered: I wyll not do it for fourties sake.
Gen 18:30 He sayde vnto hym agayne: O let not my lord be angry that I speake: What yf there shall thirtie be founde there? And he sayde: I wyll do nothyng yf I fynde thirtie there.
Gen 18:31 He sayde agayne: O see I haue taken vppon me to speake nowe also vnto my Lord: What if there shalbe twentie founde there? He aunswered, I wyll not destroy [them] for twenties sake.
Gen 18:32 And he sayde: O let not my Lorde be angry, and I wyll speake yet but this once: What if ten shalbe found there? He aunswered, I wil not destroy [them] for tennes sake.
Gen 18:33 And the Lorde went his way assoone as he had left communyng with Abraham, and Abraham [also] turned vnto his place.
Gen 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate at the gate of Sodome: and Lot seing [them] rose vp to meete them, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the grounde.
Gen 19:2 And he sayde: Oh my Lordes, turne in I praye you, into your seruauntes house, and tary all nyght, and washe your feete, and ye shall ryse vp early to go in your wayes. Whiche sayde, nay: but we wyll byde in the streates all nyght.
Gen 19:3 And he preassed vpon them exceedinglye: and they returnyng in vnto hym, entred into his house, & he made them a feast, and did bake vnleuened bread, and they did eate.
Gen 19:4 And before they went to rest, the men of the citie [euen] the men of Sodome compassed the house rounde about, both olde and young, all people fro [all] quarters.
Gen 19:5 And they callyng vnto Lot, sayde vnto hym: Where are the men whiche came in to thee this nyght? bryng them out vnto vs, that we may knowe them.
Gen 19:6 And Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doores after hym.
Gen 19:7 And sayde: Nay, for Gods sake brethren, do not [so] wickedly.
Gen 19:8 Behold, I haue two daughters whiche haue knowen no man, them wyll I bryng out nowe vnto you, and do with them as it [seemeth] good in your eyes: only vnto these men do nothyng, for therefore came they vnder the shadowe of my roofe.
Gen 19:9 And they sayde, stande backe: And they said agayne, he came in as one to soiourne, and wyll he be nowe a iudge? we wyll surely deale worse with thee then with them. And they preassed sore vpon the man [euen] Lot, and came to breake vp the doore.
Gen 19:10 But the men put foorth their hande, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the doore.
Gen 19:11 And the men that were at the doore of the house they smoke with blyndenesse both small and great, so that they were weryed in sekyng the doore.
Gen 19:12 And the men sayde vnto Lot: Hast thou here any besides? sonne in lawe, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bryng them out of this place:
Gen 19:13 For we wyl destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the face of God: for the Lorde hath sent vs to destroy it.
Gen 19:14 And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe which maried his daughters, saying: Stande vp, get ye out of this place, for the Lorde wyll ouerthrowe this citie. But he seemed as though he had mocked, vnto his sonnes in lawe.
Gen 19:15 And when the mornyng arose, the angels caused Lot to speede him, saying: Stande vp, take thy wyfe, and thy two daughters which be at hande, lest thou perishe in the sinne of the citie.
Gen 19:16 And as he prolonged the tyme, the men caught both him, his wife, and his two daughters by the handes, the Lorde beyng mercyfull vnto hym: and they brought hym foorth, and set hym without the citie.
Gen 19:17 And when he had brought them out, he sayde: Saue thy selfe, and loke not behynde thee, neither tary thou in all this playne [countrey] Saue thy selfe in the mountaine, lest thou perishe.
Gen 19:18 And Lot sayde vnto them: Oh not so my Lordes.
Gen 19:19 Beholde thy seruaunt hath founde grace in thy syght, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauyng my lyfe: Beholde I can not be saued in the mountayne, lest some harme fall vppon me, and I dye.
Gen 19:20 Beholde here is a citie by to flee vnto, euen yonder litle one: Oh let me escape thyther: Is it not a litle one, and my soule shall lyue?
Gen 19:21 And he sayde to hym: See, I haue receaued thy request as concernyng this thing, that I wyll not ouerthrowe this citie for the whiche thou hast spoken.
Gen 19:22 Haste thee, and be saued there: for I can do nothyng tyl thou be come thyther, and therfore the name of the citie is Soar.
Gen 19:23 And the sonne was nowe rysen vpon the earth, and Lot was entred into Soar.
Gen 19:24 Then the Lorde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomorrhe brymstone and fire, from the Lorde out of heauen:
Gen 19:25 And ouerthrewe those cities, and all that plaine region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grewe vpon the earth.
Gen 19:26 But Lots wyfe folowyng him, loked behynde her, & was turned into a piller of salt.
Gen 19:27 Abraham rysyng vp early, gote hym to the place where he stoode before the presence of God, and loked towarde Sodome and Gomorrhe, and towarde all the lande of that playne countrey,
Gen 19:28 And behelde, and lo the smoke of the countrey arose, as the smoke of a furnesse.
Gen 19:29 And it came to passe, that when God destroyed the cities of that region, he thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middest of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrewe the cities, in one of the whiche Lot dwelled.
Gen 19:30 And Lot departed out of Soar, and dwelled in the mountayne with his two daughters: for he feared to tary in Soar, but dwelled in a caue, he and his two daughters.
Gen 19:31 And the elder said vnto the younger: our father is olde, and there is not a man in the earth to come in vnto vs after the maner of all the worlde.
Gen 19:32 Come, let vs geue our father wine to drynke, and lye with hym, that we may saue seede of our father.
Gen 19:33 And so they gaue their father wine to drinke that night: and the elder daughter went and lay with her father, and he perceaued it not neither when she laye downe, neyther when she rose vp.
Gen 19:34 And on the morowe the elder sayde vnto the younger: beholde, yesternight lay I with my father: let vs make hym drynke wyne this nyght also, & go thou and lye with hym, that thou mayest rayse vp seede of our father. And they made their father drynke wyne that nyght also.
Gen 19:35 And the younger arose, and laye with hym: & he perceaued it not, neither whe she lay downe, neither whe she rose vp.
Gen 19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with chylde by their father.
Gen 19:37 And the elder bare a sonne, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites vnto this day.
Gen 19:38 And the younger bare a sonne also, & called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the chyldren of Ammon vnto this day.
Gen 20:1 And Abraham departed thence towarde the south countrey, & dwelled betweene Cades and Sur, and soiourned in Gerar.
Gen 20:2 And Abraham sayde of Sara his wyfe, she is my syster: And Abimelech kyng of Gerar sent, and fet Sara away.
Gen 20:3 But God came to Abimelech by night in a dreame, and saide to hym: See, thou art but a dead man for the womans sake whiche thou hast taken away, for she is a mans wyfe.
Gen 20:4 But Abimelech had not yet touched her: and he sayde, Lorde wylt thou slay ryghteous people?
Gen 20:5 Saide not he vnto me, she is my sister? yea and she her selfe sayde, he is my brother: with a single heart, and innocent handes haue I done this.
Gen 20:6 And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her.
Gen 20:7 Nowe therefore delyuer the man his wyfe agayne, for he is a prophete, and he shall pray for thee, that thou mayest lyue: But and yf thou delyuer her not agayne, be sure that thou shalt dye the death, [both thou] and all that thou hast.
Gen 20:8 Therefore, Abimelech rysyng vp betimes in the mornyng, called all his seruauntes, and tolde all these sayinges in their eares: and the men were sore afrayde.
Gen 20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, & sayde vnto hym: What hast thou done vnto vs? & what haue I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me & on my kingdome [so] great a sinne? thou hast done deedes vnto me that ought not to be done.
Gen 20:10 And Abimelech saide vnto Abraham: what sawest thou that thou hast done this thyng?
Gen 20:11 Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake.
Gen 20:12 Yet in very deede she is my sister, for she is ye daughter of my father, though she be not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wyfe.
Gen 20:13 And after God caused me to wander out of my fathers house, I sayde vnto her: this kyndnesse shalt thou shewe vnto me, in all places where we come, that thou say of me, he is my brother.
Gen 20:14 Then toke Abimelech sheepe and oxen, men seruauntes and women seruauntes, & gaue [them] vnto Abraham, and delyuered hym Sara his wyfe agayne.
Gen 20:15 And Abimelech sayde: beholde my lande lyeth before thee, dwell where it pleaseth thee best.
Gen 20:16 But vnto Sara he saide: See I haue geuen thy brother a thousand peeces of syluer: beholde, it is as a coueryng of thyne eyes vnto all that are with thee, and to all [other:] and thus she was reproued.
Gen 20:17 And so Abraham prayed vnto God, & God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maydens, & they bare chyldren.
Gen 20:18 For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.
Gen 21:1 The Lord visited Sara as he had promised, and did vnto her accordyng as he had spoke.
Gen 21:2 For Sara conceaued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, euen the same season whiche the Lorde had appoynted.
Gen 21:3 And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, whiche Sara bare hym, Isahac.
Gen 21:4 And Abraham circumcised his sonne Isahac, when he was eyght dayes olde, as God commaunded him.
Gen 21:5 And Abraham was an hundreth yere olde, when his sonne Isahac was borne vnto him.
Gen 21:6 But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.
Gen 21:7 She sayd also: who would haue sayde vnto Abraham, that Sara shoulde haue geuen chyldren sucke? for I haue borne [him] a sonne in his olde age.
Gen 21:8 The chylde grewe, and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isahac was weaned.
Gen 21:9 Sara saw also the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian, whiche she had borne vnto Abraham, [to be] a mocker.
Gen 21:10 Wherfore she sayd vnto Abraham: cast out this bond woman, & her sonne: for the sonne of this bonde woman, shal not be heyre with my sonne Isahac.
Gen 21:11 And this saying was very greeuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.
Gen 21:12 And God sayde vnto Abraham, let it not be greeuous in thy sight, because of the lad and of thy bonde woman: In al that Sara hath said vnto thee, heare her voyce, for in Isahac shall thy seede be called.
Gen 21:13 Moreouer, of the sonne of the bonde woman wyll I make a nation, because he is thy seede.
Gen 21:14 And so Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and tooke bread, and a bottel of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, puttyng it on her shoulder, and the lad also, and sent her away: who departing, wandered vp and downe in the wildernesse of Beer seba.
Gen 21:15 And the water was spent in the bottell, and she cast the lad vnder some one of the trees:
Gen 21:16 And went, and sate on the other syde a great way, as it were a bowe shote of: for she sayd, I wyll not see the death of the chylde. And she sitting downe on the other side, lyft vp her voyce & wept.
Gen 21:17 And God hearde the voyce of the lad, and the angell of God called to Hagar out of heauen, and said vnto her, what ayleth thee Hagar? feare not: for God hath hearde the voyce of the lad where he lyeth.
Gen 21:18 Aryse and lyft vp the lad, and take him in thyne hande, for I wyll make of hym a great people.
Gen 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she sawe a well of water, and she went and filled the bottell with water, and gaue the lad drinke.
Gen 21:20 And God was with the lad, and he grewe, and dwelt in the wyldernesse, and became a principall archer.
Gen 21:21 And he dwelt in the wyldernesse of Paran, and his mother got hym a wyfe out of the lande of Egypt.
Gen 21:22 And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Gen 21:23 And nowe therefore, sweare vnto me euen here by God, that thou wylt not hurt me, nor my chyldren, nor my chyldrens children: but that thou shalt deale with me and the countrey where thou hast ben a straunger, accordyng vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed thee.
Gen 21:24 And Abraham saide, I will sweare.
Gen 21:25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a wel of water, which Abimeleches seruauntes had violently taken away.
Gen 21:26 And Abimelech said, I wote not who hath done this thing: also thou toldest me not, neyther hearde I [of it] but this day.
Gen 21:27 And Abraham toke sheepe and Oxen, and gaue them vnto Abimelech: & they made both of them a leage together.
Gen 21:28 And Abraham set seuen ewe lambes by them selues.
Gen 21:29 And Abimelech sayd vnto Abraham: what meane these seuen ewe lambes whiche thou hast set by them selues?
Gen 21:30 He aunswered: for these seuen ewe lambes shalt thou take of my hande, that they may be a wytnesse vnto me, that I haue digged this well.
Gen 21:31 Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.
Gen 21:32 Thus made they a leage together at Beer seba: and Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne rose vp, and turned agayne into the lande of the Philistines.
Gen 21:33 And Abraham planted a wood in Beer seba, and called there on the name of the Lorde the euerlasting God.
Gen 21:34 And Abraham soiourned in the Philistines lande a long season.
Gen 22:1 After these sayinges, god did tempt Abraham, and sayde vnto him Abraham. Which answered, here I am.
Gen 22:2 And he saide: take thy sonne, thyne onlye sonne Isahac whom thou louest, & get thee vnto the lande Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering vpon one of the mountaines which I wyl shewe thee.
Gen 22:3 Then Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and sadled his Asse, and toke two of his young men with hym, and Isahac his sonne, and cloue wood for the burnt offering, and rose vp, and got hym to the place whiche God had appointed hym.
Gen 22:4 The thirde day Abraham lyft vp his eyes, and sawe the place a farre of:
Gen 22:5 And sayde vnto his young men, byde here with the Asse, I and the lad will go yonder & worship, and come agayne to you.
Gen 22:6 And Abraham toke the wood of the burnt offeryng, and layde it vpon Isahac his sonne: but he him selfe toke fire in his hande and a knyfe, and they went both of them together.
Gen 22:7 Then spake Isahac vnto Abraham his father, and sayd, my father. And he aunswered, here am I, my sonne. He sayde, see here is fyre and wood, but where is the beast for burnt sacrifice?
Gen 22:8 Abraham aunswered: My God wyll prouide a beast for burnt sacrifice: and so they went both together.
Gen 22:9 And when they came to ye place which God had shewed him, Abraham buylt an aulter there, and dressed the wood, and bound Isahac his sonne, and layde him on the aulter aboue vpo the wood.
Gen 22:10 And Abraham stretchyng foorth his hande, toke the knyfe to haue killed his sonne.
Gen 22:11 And the angell of the Lord called vnto him from heauen, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he sayd, here [am] I:
Gen 22:12 And he sayde: lay not thy hande vpon the chylde, neyther do any thyng vnto hym, for nowe I knowe that thou fearest God, & hast for my sake not spared [yea] thine onlye sonne.
Gen 22:13 And Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and beholde, behynde [hym] there was a Ramme caught by the hornes in a thicket: and Abraham went & tooke the Ramme, and offered hym vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne.
Gen 22:14 And Abraham called ye name of the place, the Lorde wyll see. As it is sayde this day, in the mounte will the Lorde be seene.
Gen 22:15 And the angell of the Lorde cryed vnto Abraham from heauen the seconde tyme,
Gen 22:16 And sayd: by my selfe haue I sworne, sayeth the Lorde, because thou hast done this thyng, and hast not spared yea thyne onlye sonne,
Gen 22:17 That in blessing I wyll blesse thee, and in multiplying I wyll multiplie thy seede as the starres of heauen, and as the sande which is vpon the sea side, and thy seede shall possesse the gates of his enemies.
Gen 22:18 And in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearde my voyce.
Gen 22:19 So turned Abraham againe vnto his young men: and they rose vp, and went together to Beer seba, and Abraham dwelt at Beer seba.
Gen 22:20 And after these thynges, one tolde Abraham, saying: beholde Milcha, she hath also borne chyldren vnto thy brother Nachor,
Gen 22:21 Hus his eldest sonne, and Buz his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians,
Gen 22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Iidlaph, and Bethuel.
Gen 22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eyght did Milcha beare to Nachor Abrahams brother.
Gen 22:24 And his concubine called Reumah, she bare also Tebah, & Gaham, Thahas, and Maacha.
Gen 23:1 Sara was an hudreth and seuen and twentie yere olde (so long liued she.)
Gen 23:2 And Sara dyed in Ciriath arba, the same is Hebron, in the lande of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourne for Sara, and to weepe for her.
Gen 23:3 And Abraham stoode vp fro the sight of his corse, and talked with the sonnes of Heth, saying:
Gen 23:4 I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.
Gen 23:5 And the chyldren of Heth aunswered Abraham, saying vnto hym:
Gen 23:6 Heare vs my Lorde, thou art a prince of God amongest vs, in the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbyd thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy dead [therin.]
Gen 23:7 Abraham stoode vp and bowed hym selfe before the people of the lande, that is, the chyldren of Heth.
Gen 23:8 And he communed with them, saying: If it be your mynde that I shal bury my dead out of my sight, heare me, and speake for me to Ephron the sonne of Sohar,
Gen 23:9 That he may geue me the caue of Machpelah, whiche he hath in the ende of his fielde: but for as much money as it is worth shall he geue it me, for a possession to bury in amongest you.
Gen 23:10 (For Ephron dwelleth amongest the chyldren of Heth) and Ephron the Hethite aunswered Abraham in the audience of the chyldren of Heth, and of all that went in at the gates of his citie, saying:
Gen 23:11 Not so my Lord, heare me: the fielde geue I thee, and the caue that therin is geue I thee also, in the presence of the sonnes of my people geue I it thee, burye thy dead.
Gen 23:12 And Abraham bowed him selfe before the people of the lande.
Gen 23:13 And spake vnto Ephron in the audience of the people of the countrey, saying: yf thou wylt [geue it] then I pray thee heare me, I wyll geue syluer for the fielde, take it of me, and I will bury my dead therin.
Gen 23:14 Ephron aunswered Abraham, saying vnto hym:
Gen 23:15 My Lord, hearken vnto me, the lande is worth foure hundred sicles of siluer, what is that betwixt thee and me? bury therfore thy dead.
Gen 23:16 And Abraham hearkened vnto Ephron, and wayed him the siluer which he had sayde in the aundience of the sonnes of Heth, euen foure hundred syluer sicles of currant money amongest marchauntes.
Gen 23:17 And the fielde of Ephron in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, eue the fielde and the caue that was therein, and all the trees that were in the fielde, and that were in al the borders rounde about, was made sure
Gen 23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the sight of the chyldren of Heth, before all that went in at the gates of the citie.
Gen 23:19 After this dyd Abraham bury Sara his wyfe in the double caue of the fielde that lyeth before Mamre, the same is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.
Gen 23:20 And so both the fielde & the caue that is therein, was made vnto Abraham a sure possession to bury in, by the sonnes of Heth.
Gen 24:1 And Abraham was old & stricken in dayes, and the Lorde had blessed Abraham in all thinges.
Gen 24:2 And Abraham saide vnto his eldest seruaut of his house, whiche had the rule ouer all that he had: put thy hande vnder my thigh:
Gen 24:3 And I wyll make thee sweare by the Lorde God of heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites, amongest which I dwel:
Gen 24:4 But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isahac.
Gen 24:5 But the seruaunt sayd vnto hym: peraduenture the woman wyll not agree to come with me vnto this lande, shall I bryng thy sonne againe vnto the land whiche thou cammest out of?
Gen 24:6 To whom Abraham aunswered: beware that thou bring not my sonne thyther agayne.
Gen 24:7 The Lorde God of heauen whiche toke me from my fathers house, & from the land of my kinred, and which spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, vnto thy seede wyll I geue this lande: he shall sende his angell before thee, and thou shalt take a wyfe vnto my sonne from thence.
Gen 24:8 Neuerthelesse, if the woman wyl not folowe thee, then shalt thou be cleare from this my othe: onlye bring not my sonne thyther agayne.
Gen 24:9 And the seruaunt put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his maister, and sware to hym as concernyng yt matter.
Gen 24:10 And the seruaunt toke ten Camelles of the Camelles of his maister, & departed (& had of al maner of goods of his maister with him) and so he arose & went to Mesopotamia, vnto ye citie of Nachor.
Gen 24:11 And made his Camelles to lye downe without the citie by a welles side of water at euen, about the time that women come out to drawe water.
Gen 24:12 And he saide: Lord God of my maister Abraham, I pray thee sende me good speede this day, and shewe mercy vnto my maister Abraham.
Gen 24:13 Lo, I stande here by the well of water, and the daughters of the me of this citie come out to drawe water:
Gen 24:14 Nowe let the damsel to whom I say, stoupe downe thy pitcher I pray thee, that I may drinke: If she say also, drinke, and I wyll geue thy Camelles drinke also: let the same be she that thou hast ordeyned for thy seruaunt Isahac, and thereby shall I knowe that thou hast shewed mercy on my maister.
Gen 24:15 And it came to passe yer he had lefte speakyng, beholde, Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bethuel, sonne to Milcha, the wyfe of Nachor Abrahams brother, and her pytcher vpon her shoulder:
Gen 24:16 The damsel was very fayre to looke vpon, and yet a mayde, and vnknowen of man: and she went downe to the wel, and filled her pitcher, and came vp.
Gen 24:17 And the seruaunt runnyng to meete her, sayde: let me I pray thee drinke a litle water of thy pitcher.
Gen 24:18 And she sayd: drinke my Lorde. And she hasted, and let downe her pytcher vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke.
Gen 24:19 And when she had geuen him drinke, she sayde: I wyll drawe water for thy Camelles also, vntyl they haue dronke ynough.
Gen 24:20 And she poured out her pytcher into the trough hastyly, and ranne agayne vnto the well to draw [water] and drew for all his Camelles.
Gen 24:21 And the man wondred at her, but held his peace, to witte whether the Lorde had made his iourney prosperous, or not.
Gen 24:22 And as the Camelles had left drinking, the man tooke a golden earring of halfe a sickle wayght, and two bracelettes for her handes, of ten sickles wayght of golde,
Gen 24:23 And sayde: whose daughter art thou? tell me I pray thee: is there rowme in thy fathers house for vs to lodge in?
Gen 24:24 She aunswered hym: I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcha whiche she bare vnto Nachor.
Gen 24:25 And said moreouer vnto him, we haue litter and prouender ynough, and also rowme to lodge in.
Gen 24:26 And the man bowed hymselfe, and worshipped the Lorde,
Gen 24:27 And sayde: blessed be the Lorde God of my maister Abraham, whiche hath not left destitute my maister of his mercye and trueth: for when I was on my iourney, the Lorde brought me to my maisters brothers house.
Gen 24:28 And the damsell ranne, and told them of her mothers house these thinges.
Gen 24:29 And Rebecca had a brother called Laban: and he ranne out vnto the man, [euen] to the well.
Gen 24:30 For assoone as he had seene the earerynges, and the bracelettes in his sisters hande, and hearde the wordes of Rebecca his sister, saying, thus sayde the man vnto me: he went out vnto the man, and lo, he stoode with the Camelles by the well syde,
Gen 24:31 And he sayde: come thou blessed of the Lord, wherfore standest thou without? I haue dressed the house, & rowme for thy Camelles.
Gen 24:32 And then the ma came into the house, and he vnharnessed the Camelles, and brought lytter and prouender for the Camelles, and water to wash his feete, & the mens feete that were with him.
Gen 24:33 And there was set meate before hym to eate: but he sayd, I wyll not eate vntyll I haue sayde myne arande. And he sayd: say on.
Gen 24:34 And he sayde: I am Abrahams seruaunt,
Gen 24:35 And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.
Gen 24:36 And Sara my maisters wyfe bare hym a sonne when she was olde, and vnto him hath he geue all that he hath.
Gen 24:37 And my maister made me sweare, saying: thou shalt not take a wyfe to my sonne amongest the daughters of the Chanaanites, in whose lande I dwell:
Gen 24:38 But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne.
Gen 24:39 And I sayde vnto my maister: peraduenture the woman wyll not folowe me.
Gen 24:40 And he answered me: the Lord before whom I walke, wyll sende his angell with thee, and prosper thy iourney, and thou shalt take a wyfe for my sonne of my kinred, and of my fathers house.
Gen 24:41 Then shalt thou be free from this othe [made] to me, when thou commest to my kinred: and yf they geue not thee [one] thou shalt be free from this othe [made] to me.
Gen 24:42 And so I came this day vnto the wel, and sayde: O Lorde the God of my maister Abraham, if it be so nowe that thou makest my iourney whiche I go prosperous,
Gen 24:43 Beholde, I stande by the well of water: and when a virgin commeth foorth to drawe water, and I say to her, Geue me [I pray thee] a little water of thy pitcher to drinke:
Gen 24:44 And she say to me, Drinke thou, and I wyll also drawe for thy Camelles: let the same be the woman whom the Lorde hath prepared for my maisters sonne.
Gen 24:45 And before I had made an ende of speakyng in myne heart, beholde, Rebecca came foorth, and her pitcher on her shoulder, and she went downe vnto the well, and drewe water, and I sayde vnto her, Geue me drinke I pray thee.
Gen 24:46 And she made haste, and toke downe her pitcher from her [shoulder] and said: Drinke, and I wyll geue thy Camelles drinke also. So I dranke, and she gaue the Camelles drinke also.
Gen 24:47 And I asked her, saying: whose daughter art thou? She answered: the daughter of Bethuel Nachors sonne, whom Milcha bare vnto hym: and I put the earring vpon her face, and the bracelettes vpon her handes.
Gen 24:48 And I bowed my selfe, and worshipped the Lorde, and blessed the Lorde God of my maister Abraham, whiche had brought me the ryght way, to take my maisters brothers daughter vnto his sonne.
Gen 24:49 Nowe also if [he] wyll consent to deale mercyfully and truely with my maister, tel me: and if not, tel me also, that I may turne me to the ryght hande, or to the left.
Gen 24:50 Then aunswered Laban and Bethuel, saying: This saying is proceeded euen of the Lorde, we can not therefore say vnto thee eyther good or bad.
Gen 24:51 Beholde, Rebecca [is] before thee, take her, and go, that she may be thy maisters sonnes wife, euen as god hath sayde.
Gen 24:52 And when Abrahams seruaunt heard theyr wordes, he worshipped the Lord, bowyng hym selfe towarde the earth.
Gen 24:53 And the seruaunt toke foorth iewelles of syluer, and iewelles of golde, and rayment, and gaue them to Rebecca: and to her brother, and to her mother he gaue costly gyftes
Gen 24:54 And they did eate and drinke, both he and the men that were with hym, and taried all night: and when they rose vp in the mornyng, he said: let me depart vnto my maister.
Gen 24:55 Her brother and her mother aunswered: let the damsell abyde with vs, and it be but euen ten dayes, and then shall she go.
Gen 24:56 He sayde vnto them: hynder me not, beholde, the Lorde hath prospered my iourney, sende me away therefore, that I may go to my maister.
Gen 24:57 And they sayde: we wyll call the damsell, and enquire at her mouth.
Gen 24:58 And they called foorth Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: wylt thou go with this man? And she aunswered, I wyll go.
Gen 24:59 So they let Rebecca theyr sister go, and her nurse, & Abrahams seruaunt, and his men.
Gen 24:60 And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousandes, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies.
Gen 24:61 And Rebecca arose and her damselles, and gat them vp vpon the Camelles, and folowed the man: and the seruaunt toke Rebecca, and went his waye.
Gen 24:62 And Isahac was commyng from the waye of the well of the lyuyng and seeyng me: for he dwelt in the South countrey.
Gen 24:63 And Isahac was gone out to pray in the fielde at the euentide, and he lift vp his eyes, and saw the Camelles commyng.
Gen 24:64 And Rebecca lyft vp her eyes, & when she sawe Isahac, she lyghted of the Camell,
Gen 24:65 (For she said vnto the seruaunt: what man is this, that commeth walkyng against vs in the fielde? And the seruaunt sayd, it is my maister): therfore she toke her vayle and couered her.
Gen 24:66 And the seruaunt tolde Isahac all thinges that he had done.
Gen 24:67 And Isahac brought her into his mother Saraes tent, and toke Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loued her: and so Isahac receaued comfort after his mother.
Gen 25:1 Abraham proceeded further, and toke hym another wyfe, called Cetura.
Gen 25:2 Whiche bare hym Zimram, and Iocsan, and Medan, and Midian, and Iesbac, and Suah.
Gen 25:3 Iocsan begat Seba and Dedan, and the sonnes of Dedan were Assurim, and Letusim, and Leummim.
Gen 25:4 And the sonnes of Midian, Ephah, & Epher, & Hanoch, & Abida, & Eldaah: all these were the children of Cetura.
Gen 25:5 And Abraham gaue al his goodes vnto Isahac:
Gen 25:6 But vnto the sonnes of the concubines whiche Abraham had, he gaue gyftes, and sent them away from Isahac his sonne (whyle he yet lyued) eastwarde vnto the east countrey.
Gen 25:7 And these are the dayes of the yeres of Abrahams lyfe which he liued, an hundred threscore and fifteene yeres.
Gen 25:8 And then Abraham waxyng away, dyed in a lustie age, beyng an olde man, when he had liued ynough, and was gathered to his people.
Gen 25:9 And his sonnes Isahac and Ismael buryed hym in the double caue in the fielde of Ephron sonne of Soar the Hethite, before Mamre.
Gen 25:10 Whiche fielde Abraham bought of the sonnes of Heth: there was Abraham buryed, and Sara his wyfe.
Gen 25:11 And it came to passe after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his sonne Isahac, and Isahac dwelled by the well of liuing and seeing me.
Gen 25:12 These are the generations of Ismael Abrahams sonne, whiche Hagar the Egyptian Saraes handmayde bare vnto Abraham.
Gen 25:13 And these are the names of the sonnes of Ismael, accordyng to the names of their kindred: the eldest sonne of Ismael, Nabaioth, and Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Gen 25:14 And Misma, and Duma, and Massa, Hadar, and Thema,
Gen 25:15 Ietur, Naphis, and Cedina.
Gen 25:16 These are the sonnes of Ismael, and these are their names by theyr townes and castles, twelue princes of their housholdes.
Gen 25:17 And these are the yeres of the lyfe of Ismael, an hundred and thirtie and seuen yere: and he waxing away, dyed, and was layed vnto his people.
Gen 25:18 And they dwelled from Hauilah vnto Sur, that is by the border of Egypt as thou goest toward Assur, and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
Gen 25:19 And these are the generations of Isahac, Abrahams sonne: Abraham begat Isahac.
Gen 25:20 And Isahac was fourtie yere olde when he toke Rebecca to wyfe, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, and sister to Laban the Syrian.
Gen 25:21 And Isahac made intercession vnto the Lorde for his wyfe, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of hym, and Rebecca his wyfe conceaued.
Gen 25:22 And the childre stroue together within her wombe: therfore she said, if [it be] so, why am I thus? wherefore she went to aske the Lorde.
Gen 25:23 And the Lorde sayde vnto her: there are two maner of people in thy wombe, and two nations shalbe deuided out of thy bowelles, and the one nation shalbe mightier then the other, and the elder shalbe seruaunt vnto the younger.
Gen 25:24 Therefore when her tyme was come to be deliuered, behold, there were two twynnes in her wombe.
Gen 25:25 And he that came out fyrst, was red, and he was all ouer as it were a hearie garment, and they called his name Esau.
Gen 25:26 And after hym came his brother out, and his hande holdyng Esau by the heele, and his name was called Iacob: and Isahac was threscore yere olde when they were borne.
Gen 25:27 And the boyes grewe, and Esau became a cunnyng hunter, and a wylde man: but Iacob was a perfect man, and dwelled in tentes.
Gen 25:28 Isahac loued Esau, because he dyd eate of his venison, but Rebecca loued Iacob.
Gen 25:29 Iacob sodde pottage, and Esau came from the fielde, and was fayntie:
Gen 25:30 And Esau sayd to Iacob: feede me I pray thee, with that same red pottage, for I am fayntie: and therfore was his name called Edom.
Gen 25:31 And Iacob saide: sell me this day thy byrthryght.
Gen 25:32 Esau sayde: lo, I am at the poynt to dye, and what profite shall this byrthryght do me?
Gen 25:33 Iacob aunswered: sweare to me then this day. And he sware to him, & solde his byrthryght vnto Iacob.
Gen 25:34 Then Iacob gaue Esau bread and pottage of ryse, and he dyd eate and drinke, and rose vp, and went his way: and Esau little regarded his byrthright.
Gen 26:1 And there fell a famine in the land, besides the first that was in the dayes of Abraham: And Isahac went vnto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, vnto Gerar.
Gen 26:2 And the Lorde appeared vnto hym, and sayde: Go not downe into Egypt, [but] abyde in the lande whiche I shall shewe vnto thee.
Gen 26:3 Soiourne in this lande, and I wyl be with thee, and wyll blesse thee: for vnto thee and vnto thy seede I wyll geue all these countreys, and I wyll perfourme the othe whiche I sware vnto Abraham thy father.
Gen 26:4 And wyl make thy seede to multiplie as the starres of heauen, and wyll geue vnto thy seede al these countreys: and in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:
Gen 26:5 Because that Abraham hearkened vnto my voyce, & kept my ordinaunce, my commaundementes, my statutes, and my lawes.
Gen 26:6 And Isahac dwelled in Gerar.
Gen 26:7 And the men of the place asked [him] of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye.
Gen 26:8 And after he had ben there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines loked out at a windowe, & sawe Isahac sportyng with Rebecca his wyfe.
Gen 26:9 And Abimelech called Isahac, and said: beholde, she is of a suretie thy wife, and why saydest thou, she is my sister? To whom Isahac aunswered: because I thought that I might peraduenture haue dyed for her sake.
Gen 26:10 Abimelech said: why hast thou done this vnto vs? one of the people myght lyghtly haue lyne by thy wyfe, and so shouldest thou haue brought sinne vpon vs.
Gen 26:11 And so Abimelech charged al his people, saying: He that toucheth this man or his wyfe, shall dye the death.
Gen 26:12 Then Isahac sowed in that lande, and receaued in the same yere an hundred folde: and the Lorde blessed hym.
Gen 26:13 And the man waxed myghtie, & went foorth, and grewe tyll he was exceeding great.
Gen 26:14 For he had possessio of sheepe, of oxen, and a myghtie housholde: and therfore the Philistines had enuie at hym.
Gen 26:15 For the Philistines stopped and fylled vp with earth all the welles which his seruauntes had digged in his father Abrahams tyme.
Gen 26:16 And Abimelech sayde vnto Isahac: Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then we a great deale.
Gen 26:17 Therefore Isahac departed thence, and abode in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen 26:18 And Isahac returning, digged againe the welles of water which they digged in the dayes of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, & named them after the same names by the which his father had named them.
Gen 26:19 Isahacs seruauntes digged in the valley, and founde a well of springyng water.
Gen 26:20 And the heardmen of Gerar did striue with Isahacs heardmen, saying: the water is ours. Then called he the well contention, because they stroue with hym.
Gen 26:21 And they digged another well, and stroue for that also: and he called the name of it enmitie.
Gen 26:22 And then he departed thence, & digged another well, for the which they stroue not. Therfore called he it roomth, saying: the Lorde hath made vs nowe roome that we may encrease vpon the earth.
Gen 26:23 And he went vp thence to Beer-seba.
Gen 26:24 And the Lorde appeared vnto hym the same night, and sayde: I am the God of Abraham thy father, feare not, for I am with thee, and wyl blesse thee and multiple thy seede for my seruaunt Abrahams sake.
Gen 26:25 And he builded an aulter there, and called vpon the name of the Lorde, and pitched his tent: and there Isahacs seruauntes dygged a well.
Gen 26:26 Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar, and Ahuzath his friende, and Phicol the captaine of his armie.
Gen 26:27 And Isahac sayde vnto them: wherfore come ye to me, seyng ye hate me, and haue put me away from you?
Gen 26:28 Whiche aunswered: We sawe most certainly that the Lord was with thee, and we sayde: let there be nowe an oth betwixt vs, euen betwixt vs and thee, and let vs make a league with thee:
Gen 26:29 That thou shouldest do vs no hurt, as we haue not touched thee, and as we haue done vnto thee nothyng but good, & sent thee away in peace: for thou art nowe the blessed of the Lorde.
Gen 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they dyd eate and drynke.
Gen 26:31 And they rose vp betymes in the mornyng, and sware one to another: And Isahac sent them away, and they departed from hym in peace.
Gen 26:32 And the same daye Isahacs seruauntes came and tolde hym of a well which they had dygged, and sayde vnto hym, we haue founde water.
Gen 26:33 And he called it Sebah: and the name of the citie is called Beer-seba vnto this day.
Gen 26:34 Esau was fourtie yere olde, & he toke a wyfe [called] Iudith, the daughter of Beeri an Hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hethite [also.]
Gen 26:35 Which were disobedient vnto Isahac and Rebecca.
Gen 27:1 And it came to passe, that whe Isahac waxed olde, & his eyes were dimme, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest sonne, & saide vnto hym, my sonne? And he sayde vnto hym: here am I.
Gen 27:2 And he sayde: Beholde, I am nowe olde, and knowe not the daye of my death.
Gen 27:3 Nowe therefore take I pray thee thy weapons, thy quyuer and thy bowe, and get thee to the fielde, that thou mayest take me some venison.
Gen 27:4 And make me well tastyng meates, such as I loue, and bryng it to me, that I may eate, that my soule may blesse thee before that I dye.
Gen 27:5 But Rebecca hearde when Isahac spake to Esau his sonne: And Esau wet into the fielde to hunt venison, and to bryng it.
Gen 27:6 And Rebecca spake vnto Iacob her sonne, saying: Beholde, I haue hearde thy father talkyng with Esau thy brother, and saying:
Gen 27:7 Bring me venison, and make me daintie meate, that I may eate, and blesse thee before the Lorde, afore my death.
Gen 27:8 Nowe therfore my sonne heare my voyce in that which I comaunde thee.
Gen 27:9 Get thee to the flocke, and bryng me thence two good kyddes fro the goates, and I wyll make of them pleasaunt meates for thy father, such as he loueth.
Gen 27:10 And thou shalt bryng it to thy father that he may eate, and that he may blesse thee before his death.
Gen 27:11 Then said Iacob to Rebecca his mother: Beholde, Esau my brother is a heary man, and I am smoothe:
Gen 27:12 My father shall peraduenture feele mee, and I shall seeme vnto hym as though I went about to begyle hym, and so shall I bryng a curse vpon me, and not a blessyng.
Gen 27:13 And his mother sayde vnto him, Upon me be the curse my sonne: only heare my voyce, and go and fetche me them.
Gen 27:14 And [Iacob] went, and fet them, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made pleasaunt meate, such as she knewe his father loued.
Gen 27:15 And Rebecca fet goodly rayment of her eldest sonne Esau, whiche were in the house with her, and put them vpon Iacob her younger sonne:
Gen 27:16 And she put the skynnes of the kiddes vpon his handes, and vpon the smoothe of his necke.
Gen 27:17 And she put that pleasaunt meate and bread, whiche she had prepared, in the hande of her sonne Iacob.
Gen 27:18 When he came to his father, he sayde: my father? And he aunswered, here am I: who art thou, my sonne?
Gen 27:19 And Iacob sayde vnto his father: I am Esau thy eldest sonne, I haue done accordyng as thou baddest me: aryse I pray thee, syt, and eate of my venison, that thy soule may blesse me.
Gen 27:20 And Isahac said vnto his sonne: how commeth it that thou hast founde it so quickly my sonne? He aunswered: the lorde thy God brought it to my handes.
Gen 27:21 Then sayde Isahac vnto Iacob: Come neare, and I wyll feele thee my sonne, whether thou be my very sonne Esau, or not.
Gen 27:22 Then went Iacob to Isahac his father, and he felt hym, and sayde: The voyce is Iacobs voyce, but the handes are the handes of Esau.
Gen 27:23 And he knewe him not, because his handes were heary as his brother Esaus handes: and so he blessed hym.
Gen 27:24 And he asked him: art thou my sonne Esau? And he sayde: that I am.
Gen 27:25 Then sayde he: Bryng me, & let me eate of my sonnes venison, that my soule may blesse thee. And he brought hym, and he ate: and he brought hym wine also, and he dranke.
Gen 27:26 And his father Isahac said vnto him: Come neare, and kysse me, my sonne.
Gen 27:27 And he went vnto him, & kyssed him, and he smelled the sauour of his rayment, and blessed hym, & saide: See, the smell of my sonne, is as the smell of a fielde which the Lorde hath blessed.
Gen 27:28 God geue thee of the deawe of heauen, and of the fatnesse of the earth, and plentie of corne and wine.
Gen 27:29 People be thy seruauntes, and nations bowe to thee: be lorde ouer thy brethren, and thy mothers children stowpe with reuerence vnto thee: cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Gen 27:30 Assoone as Isahac had made an ende of blessyng Iacob, & Iacob was scarse gone out from the presence of Isahac his father, then came Esau his brother from his huntyng.
Gen 27:31 And he also had made a pleasaunt meate, and brought it vnto his father, and saide vnto his father: let my father aryse, and eate of his sonnes venison, that thy soule may blesse me.
Gen 27:32 Then his father Isahac sayde vnto hym: who art thou? He aunswered: I am thy sonne, thy first borne Esau.
Gen 27:33 And Isahac was greatly astonied out of measure, and sayde: which [is he] and where [is he] then that hath hunted venison and brought it me, and I haue eaten of al before thou camest? and haue blessed hym, yea & he shalbe blessed.
Gen 27:34 When Esau hearde the wordes of his father, he cryed aloude & bitterly, aboue measure, and sayde vnto his father: blesse me, I also am [thy sonne] O my father.
Gen 27:35 Who aunswered. Thy brother came with subtiltie, and hath taken awaye thy blessyng.
Gen 27:36 And he said agayne: Is not he rightly named Iacob? for he hath vndermyned me nowe two tymes. [First] he toke away my birthright: and see, nowe hath he taken away my blessyng also. And he sayde: hast thou kept neuer a blessyng for me?
Gen 27:37 Isahac aunswered, and sayde vnto Esau: Beholde, I haue made hym thy Lorde, & all his brethren haue I made his seruauntes: Moreouer, with corne and wine haue I stablished him, what shall I do vnto thee nowe my sonne?
Gen 27:38 And Esau sayde vnto his father: hast thou but that one blessyng my father? blesse me, I am also [thy sonne] O my father. So lyfted vp Esau his voyce, and wept.
Gen 27:39 Then Isahac his father aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: beholde, thy dwellyng place shalbe the fatnesse of the earth, and of the deawe of heauen from aboue.
Gen 27:40 And through thy sworde shalt thou liue, and shalt be thy brothers seruaunt: and it shal come to passe, that thou shalt get the maisterie, & thou shalt loose his yoke from of thy necke.
Gen 27:41 And Esau hated Iacob, because of the blessyng that his father blessed hym withall. And Esau sayde in his heart: The dayes of sorowyng for my father are at hande, then wyll I slaye my brother Iacob.
Gen 27:42 And these wordes of Esau her elder sonne were tolde to Rebecca: And she sent, & called Iacob her younger sonne, & saide vnto him: Beholde, thy brother Esau as touchyng thee doth comforte hym selfe [full purposyng] to kyll thee.
Gen 27:43 Nowe therefore my sonne heare my voyce: make thee redy, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran,
Gen 27:44 And tary with him awhyle vntyl thy brothers fiercenesse be swaged,
Gen 27:45 And vntyll thy brothers wrath turne away from thee, & he forget the thinges which thou hast done to hym: then wyll I sende and fet thee away from thence: why should I be desolate of you both in one day?
Gen 27:46 And Rebecca spake to Isahac: I am weery of my lyfe for the daughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wyfe of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the lande, what good shall my lyfe do me?
Gen 28:1 And so Isahac called Iacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto hym: See thou take not a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:
Gen 28:2 Arise, and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and there take thee a wyfe of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.
Gen 28:3 And God almyghtie blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, & multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a number of people:
Gen 28:4 And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee, and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest receaue to inherite ye lande wherein thou art a straunger, whiche God gaue vnto Abraham.
Gen 28:5 Thus Isahac sent foorth Iacob: and he went towarde Mesopotamia, vnto Laban, sonne of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebecca Iacob and Esaus mother.
Gen 28:6 When Esau sawe that Isahac had blessed Iacob, and sent hym to Mesopotamia to fet hym a wyfe from thence, and that as he blessed him, he gaue him a charge, saying, thou shalt not take a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:
Gen 28:7 And that Iacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone to Mesopotamia:
Gen 28:8 And Esau seyng also that the daughters of Chanaan pleased not Isahac his father:
Gen 28:9 Then went Esau vnto Ismael, and toke vnto the wyues [which he had] Mahalah the daughter of Ismael Abrahams sonne, the sister of Nebaioth to be his wyfe.
Gen 28:10 Iacob departed from Beer-seba, and went towarde Haran.
Gen 28:11 And he came vnto a certayne place, & taryed there all night, because the sunne was downe: and toke of the stones of the place, and put vnder his head, and layde hym downe in the same place to sleepe.
Gen 28:12 And he dreamed, and beholde there stoode a lather vpo the earth, and the toppe of it reached vp to heauen: and see, the angels of God went vp & downe vpon it.
Gen 28:13 Yea, and God from aboue leaned vpon it, and sayde: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isahac, the land which thou sleepest vpon, wyll I geue thee and thy seede.
Gen 28:14 And thy seede shalbe as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spreade abrode to the west, to the east, to the north, and to the south: and in thee, and in thy seede, shall all the kynredes of the earth be blessed.
Gen 28:15 And see, I am with thee, and wyll be thy keper in all [places] whyther thou goest, and wyll bryng thee agayne into this lande: For I wyl not leaue thee, vntyll I haue made good that whiche I haue promised thee.
Gen 28:16 When Iacob was awaked out of his sleepe, he sayde: Surely the Lorde is in this place, and I knewe it not.
Gen 28:17 And he was a frayde, and saide: howe dreadefull is this place? it is none other but euen the house of God, & it is the gate of heauen.
Gen 28:18 And Iacob rose vp early in the mornyng, and toke the stone that he hadde layed vnder his head, and pitched it vpon an ende, and powred oyle in the toppe of it.
Gen 28:19 And he called the name of the place Bethel: but the name of the citie was called Luz, before tyme.
Gen 28:20 And Iacob vowed a vowe, saying: Yf God wyll be with me, and wyll kepe me in this iourney in which I go, and wyll geue me bread to eate, and clothes to put on:
Gen 28:21 So that I come agayne vnto my fathers house in saftie: then shal the Lord be my God.
Gen 28:22 And this stone whiche I haue set vp on an ende, shalbe Gods house: and of all that thou shalt geue me, I wyl surely geue the tenth vnto thee.
Gen 29:1 Then Iacob went on his iourney, & came into the lande of the people of the east.
Gen 29:2 And [as] he loked about, beholde, there was a wel in the field, and loe, three flockes of sheepe lay there by, for at that well were the flockes watered: and there was a great stone vpon the well mouth.
Gen 29:3 And thyther were all the flockes brought, and they roulled the stone fro the welles mouth, & watred the sheepe, & put the stone agayne vpon the welles mouth vnto his place.
Gen 29:4 And Iacob saide vnto them: My brethren, whence be ye? And they sayde: of Haran are we.
Gen 29:5 And he sayde vnto them: Knowe ye Laban the sonne of Nachor? They sayde: we knowe hym.
Gen 29:6 And he sayde vnto them: is he in good health? And they sayde: he is in good health, and beholde his daughter Rachel commeth with the sheepe.
Gen 29:7 And he sayde: loe [it is] yet a great whyle to nyght, neither is it tyme that the cattell should be gathered together: water ye the sheepe, and go and feede [them.]
Gen 29:8 And they sayde: we may not vntyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyl they roule the stone from the welles mouth, and so we water our sheepe.
Gen 29:9 Whyle he yet talked with them, Rachel came with her fathers sheepe: for she kept them.
Gen 29:10 Assoone as Iacob sawe Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother, & the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother, Iacob went & rouled the stone from the welles mouth, & watered the flocke of Laban his mothers brother.
Gen 29:11 And Iacob kyssed
