The Geneva Bible
1587 by William Whittingham
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without forme and voide, and darkenesse was vpon the deepe, and the Spirit of God moued vpon ye waters.
Gen 1:3 Then God saide, Let there be light: And there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God sawe the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light, Day, and the darkenes, he called Night. So the euening and the morning were the first day.
Gen 1:6 Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the middes of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.
Gen 1:7 Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament; it was so.
Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heauen. So the Euening and the morning were the seconde day.
Gen 1:9 God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare; it was so.
Gen 1:10 And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God sawe that it was good.
Gen 1:11 Then God said, Let the earth bud foorth the bud of the herbe, that seedeth seede, the fruitfull tree, which beareth fruite according to his kinde, which hath his seede in it selfe vpon the earth; it was so.
Gen 1:12 And the earth brought foorth the bud of the herbe, that seedeth seede according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruite, which hath his seede in it selfe according to his kinde: and God sawe that it was good.
Gen 1:13 So the euening and the morning were the third day.
Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lightes in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.
Gen 1:15 And let them be for lightes in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth; it was so.
Gen 1:16 God then made two great lightes: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesse light to rule the night: he made also the starres.
Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shine vpon the earth,
Gen 1:18 And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkenes: and God sawe that it was good.
Gen 1:19 So the euening and the morning were the fourth day.
Gen 1:20 Afterward God said, Let the waters bring foorth in abundance euery creeping thing that hath life: and let the foule flie vpon the earth in the open firmament of the heauen.
Gen 1:21 Then God created the great whales, and euery thing liuing and mouing, which the waters brought foorth in abundance according to their kinde, and euery fethered foule according to his kinde: and God sawe that it was good.
Gen 1:22 Then God blessed them, saying, Bring foorth fruite and multiplie, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the foule multiplie in the earth.
Gen 1:23 So the euening and the morning were the fift day.
Gen 1:24 Moreouer God said, Let the earth bring foorth the liuing thing according to his kinde, cattell, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth, according to his kinde; it was so.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth according to his kinde, and the cattell according to his kinde, & euery creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: & God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:26 Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.
Gen 1:27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Bring forth fruite and multiplie, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, & ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth.
Gen 1:29 And God said, Beholde, I haue giuen vnto you euery herbe bearing seede, which is vpon al the earth, and euery tree, wherein is the fruite of a tree bearing seede: that shall be to you for meate.
Gen 1:30 Likewise to euery beast of the earth, and to euery foule of the heauen, and to euery thing that moueth vpon the earth, which hath life in it selfe, euery greene herbe shall be for meate; it was so.
Gen 1:31 And God sawe all that he had made, and loe, it was very good. So the euening and the morning were the sixt day.
Gen 2:1 Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Gen 2:2 For in the seuenth day GOD ended his worke which he had made, and the seuenth day he rested from al his worke, which he had made.
Gen 2:3 So God blessed the seuenth day, & sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God had created and made.
Gen 2:4 These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,
Gen 2:5 And euery plant of the fielde, before it was in the earth, and euery herbe of the field, before it grewe: for the Lorde God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, neither was there a man to till the ground,
Gen 2:6 But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.
Gen 2:7 The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule.
Gen 2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
Gen 2:9 (For out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meate: the tree of life also in the middes of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of euill.
Gen 2:10 And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heads.
Gen 2:11 The name of one is Pishon: the same compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where is golde.
Gen 2:12 And the golde of that land is good: there is Bdelium, and the Onix stone.
Gen 2:13 And the name of the seconde riuer is Gihon: the same compasseth the whole lande of Cush.
Gen 2:14 The name also of the third riuer is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the Eastside of Asshur: and the fourth riuer is Perath)
Gen 2:15 Then the Lord God tooke the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he might dresse it and keepe it.
Gen 2:16 And the Lorde God commaunded the man, saying, Thou shalt eate freely of euery tree of the garden,
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and euill, thou shalt not eate of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death.
Gen 2:18 Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.
Gen 2:19 So the Lorde God formed of the earth euery beast of the fielde, and euery foule of the heauen, and brought them vnto the man to see howe he would call them: for howsoeuer the man named the liuing creature, so was the name thereof.
Gen 2:20 The man therefore gaue names vnto all cattell, and to the foule of the heauen, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam founde he not an helpe meete for him.
Gen 2:21 Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.
Gen 2:22 And the ribbe which the Lorde God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man.
Gen 2:23 Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Gen 3:1 Nowe the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the fielde, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God in deede said, Ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?
Gen 3:2 And the woman said vnto the serpent, We eate of the fruite of the trees of the garden,
Gen 3:3 But of the fruite of the tree which is in the middes of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eate of it, neither shall ye touche it, lest ye die.
Gen 3:4 Then the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not die at all,
Gen 3:5 But God doeth knowe, that when ye shall eate thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and euill.
Gen 3:6 So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.
Gen 3:7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaues together, and made them selues breeches.
Gen 3:8 Afterward they heard the voyce of the Lord God walking in the garden in the coole of the day, and the man & his wife hid themselues from the presence of the Lorde God among the trees of the garden.
Gen 3:9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said vnto him, Where art thou?
Gen 3:10 Who saide, I heard thy voyce in the garden, and was afraide: because I was naked, therefore I hid my selfe.
Gen 3:11 And he saide, Who tolde thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eate?
Gen 3:12 Then the man saide, The woman which thou gauest to be with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.
Gen 3:13 And the Lorde God saide to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.
Gen 3:14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattell, and aboue euery beast of the fielde: vpon thy belly shalt thou goe, and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy life.
Gen 3:15 I wil also put enimitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seede & her seede. He shall breake thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
Gen 3:16 Vnto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy sorowes, and thy conceptions. In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children, and thy desire shalbe subiect to thine husbande, and he shall rule ouer thee.
Gen 3:17 Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eate of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life.
Gen 3:18 Thornes also, and thistles shall it bring foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the herbe of the fielde.
Gen 3:19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
Gen 3:20 (And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)
Gen 3:21 Vnto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coates of skinnes, and clothed them.
Gen 3:22 And the Lord God said, Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, to knowe good and euill; nowe lest he put foorth his hand, and take also of ye tree of life & eate & liue for euer,
Gen 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden, to till ye earth, whence he was taken.
Gen 3:24 Thus he cast out man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sworde shaken, to keepe the way of the tree of life.
Gen 4:1 Afterwarde the man knewe Heuah his wife, which conceiued and bare Kain, and said, I haue obteined a man by the Lord.
Gen 4:2 And againe she brought foorth his brother Habel, & Habel was a keeper of sheepe, and Kain was a tiller of the ground.
Gen 4:3 And in processe of time it came to passe, that Kain brought an oblation vnto the Lorde of the fruite of the ground.
Gen 4:4 And Habel also him selfe brought of the first fruites of his sheepe, and of the fat of them, and the Lorde had respect vnto Habel, and to his offering,
Gen 4:5 But vnto Kain and to his offering he had no regarde: wherefore Kain was exceeding wroth, and his countenance fell downe.
Gen 4:6 Then ye Lord said vnto Kain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance cast downe?
Gen 4:7 If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sinne lieth at the doore: also vnto thee his desire shalbe subiect, and thou shalt rule ouer him.
Gen 4:8 Then Kain spake to Habel his brother; when they were in the fielde, Kain rose vp against Habel his brother, and slewe him.
Gen 4:9 Then the Lorde said vnto Kain, Where is Habel thy brother? Who answered, I cannot tell. Am I my brothers keeper?
Gen 4:10 Againe he said, What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me from the earth.
Gen 4:11 Now therefore thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy brothers blood from thine hand.
Gen 4:12 When thou shalt till the grounde, it shall not henceforth yeelde vnto thee her strength: a vagabond and a runnagate shalt thou be in the earth.
Gen 4:13 Then Kain said to the Lorde, My punishment is greater, then I can beare.
Gen 4:14 Behold, thou hast cast me out this day fro the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and shalbe a vagabond, and a runnagate in the earth, and whosoeuer findeth me, shall slay me.
Gen 4:15 Then the Lord said vnto him, Doubtlesse whosoeuer slayeth Kain, he shalbe punished seue folde; the Lord set a marke vpon Kain, lest any man finding him should kill him.
Gen 4:16 Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.
Gen 4:17 Kain also knewe his wife, which conceiued and bare Henoch: and he built a citie, and called the name of the citie by ye name of his sonne, Henoch.
Gen 4:18 And to Henoch was borne Irad, and Irad begate Mehuiael, and Mehuiael begate Methushael, and Methushael begate Lamech.
Gen 4:19 And Lamech tooke him two wiues: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Gen 4:20 And Adah bare Iabal, who was the father of such as dwell in the tents, and of such as haue cattell.
Gen 4:21 And his brothers name was Iubal, who was the father of all that play on the harpe and organes.
Gen 4:22 And Zillah also bare Tubal-kain, who wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and of yron: and the sister of Tubal-kain was Naamah.
Gen 4:23 Then Lamech saide vnto his wiues Adah and Zillah, Heare my voyce, ye wiues of Lamech: hearken vnto my speach: for I would slay a man in my wound, and a yong man in mine hurt.
Gen 4:24 If Kain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech, seuentie times seuen folde.
Gen 4:25 And Adam knewe his wife againe, and she bare a sonne, and she called his name Sheth: for God, saide she, hath appointed me another seede for Habel, because Kain slewe him.
Gen 4:26 And to ye same Sheth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enosh. Then beganne men to call vpon the name of the Lord.
Gen 5:1 This is the booke of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likenes of God made he him,
Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day that they were created.
Gen 5:3 Nowe Adam liued an hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate a childe in his owne likenes after his image, and called his name Sheth.
Gen 5:4 And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Sheth, were eight hundreth yeeres, and he begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:5 So all the dayes that Adam liued, were nine hundreth and thirtie yeeres: and he died.
Gen 5:6 And Sheth liued an hundreth and fiue yeeres, and begate Enosh.
Gen 5:7 And Sheth liued, after he begate Enosh, eight hundreth and seuen yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:8 So all the dayes of Sheth were nine hundreth and twelue yeeres: and he died.
Gen 5:9 Also Enosh liued ninetie yeeres, and begate Kenan.
Gen 5:10 And Enosh liued, after he begate Kenan, eight hundreth and fifteene yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:11 So all the dayes of Enosh were nine hundreth and fiue yeeres: and he died
Gen 5:12 Likewise Kenan liued seuentie yeeres, and begate Mahalaleel.
Gen 5:13 And Kenan liued, after he begate Mahalaleel, eight hundreth and fourtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:14 So all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and tenne yeeres: and he died.
Gen 5:15 Mahalaleel also liued sixtie & fiue yeres, and begate Iered.
Gen 5:16 Also Mahalaleel liued, after he begate Iered, eight hundreth and thirtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:17 So all the dayes of Mahalaleel were eight hundreth ninetie and fiue yeeres: and he died.
Gen 5:18 And Iered liued an hundreth sixtie and two yeeres, and begate Henoch.
Gen 5:19 Then Iered liued, after he begate Henoch, eight hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:20 So all the dayes of Iered were nine hundreth sixtie and two yeeres: and he died.
Gen 5:21 Also Henoch liued sixtie & fiue yeeres, and begate Methushelah.
Gen 5:22 And Henoch walked with God, after he begate Methushelah, three hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:23 So all the dayes of Henoch were three hundreth sixtie and fiue yeeres.
Gen 5:24 And Henoch walked with God, and he was no more seene: for God tooke him away.
Gen 5:25 Methushelah also liued an hundreth eightie and seuen yeeres, and begate Lamech.
Gen 5:26 And Methushelah liued, after he begate Lamech, seuen hundreth eightie and two yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:27 So al the dayes of Methushelah were nine hundreth sixtie and nine yeeres: and he died.
Gen 5:28 Then Lamech liued an hundreth eightie and two yeeres, and begate a sonne,
Gen 5:29 And called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort vs concerning our worke and sorowe of our hands, as touching the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.
Gen 5:30 And Lamech liued, after he begate Noah, fiue hundreth ninetie and fiue yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 5:31 So all the dayes of Lamech were seuen hundreth seuentie and seuen yeeres: and he died.
Gen 5:32 And Noah was fiue hundreth yeere olde; Noah begate Shem, Ham and Iapheth.
Gen 6:1 So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,
Gen 6:2 Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
Gen 6:3 Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth & twentie yeeres.
Gen 6:4 There were gyants in the earth in those dayes: yea, and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had borne them children, these were mightie men, which in olde time were men of renoume.
Gen 6:5 When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
Gen 6:6 Then it repented ye Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorie in his heart.
Gen 6:7 Therefore ye Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I haue created, fro man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: for I repent that I haue made them.
Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Gen 6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with God.
Gen 6:10 And Noah begate three sonnes, Shem, Ham and Iapheth.
Gen 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.
Gen 6:12 Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon the earth.
Gen 6:13 And God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with the earth.
Gen 6:14 Make thee an Arke of pine trees: thou shalt make cabines in the Arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Gen 6:15 And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the Arke shalbe three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, and the height of it thirtie cubites.
Gen 6:16 A windowe shalt thou make in the Arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finish it aboue, and the doore of the Arke shalt thou set in the side thereof: thou shalt make it with the lowe, seconde and third roume.
Gen 6:17 And I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.
Gen 6:18 But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
Gen 6:19 And of euery liuing thing, of all flesh two of euery sort shalt thou cause to come into the Arke, to keepe them aliue with thee: they shalbe male and female.
Gen 6:20 Of the foules, after their kinde, and of the cattell after their kind, of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, that thou mayest keepe them aliue.
Gen 6:21 And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten: and thou shalt gather it to thee, that it may be meate for thee and for them.
Gen 6:22 Noah therefore did according vnto all, that God commanded him: euen so did he.
Gen 7:1 And the Lord said vnto Noah, Enter thou and all thine house into the Arke: for thee haue I seene righteous before me in this age.
Gen 7:2 Of euery cleane beast thou shalt take to thee by seuens, the male & his female: but of vncleane beastes by couples, the male & his female.
Gen 7:3 Of the foules also of the heauen by seuens, male and female, to keepe seede aliue vpon the whole earth.
Gen 7:4 For seuen dayes hence I will cause it raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and all the substance that I haue made, will I destroy from off the earth.
Gen 7:5 Noah therefore did according vnto all that the Lord commanded him.
Gen 7:6 And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.
Gen 7:7 So Noah entred and his sonnes, and his wife, & his sonnes wiues with him into the Arke, because of the waters of the flood.
Gen 7:8 Of the cleane beastes, and of the vncleane beastes, and of the foules, and of all that creepeth vpon the earth,
Gen 7:9 There came two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Gen 7:10 And so after seuen dayes the waters of the flood were vpon the earth.
Gen 7:11 In the sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened,
Gen 7:12 And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
Gen 7:13 In the selfe same day entred Noah with Shem, and Ham and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them into the Arke.
Gen 7:14 They and euery beast after his kinde, and all cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euen euery bird of euery fether.
Gen 7:15 For they came to Noah into ye Arke, two and two, of all flesh wherein is ye breath of life.
Gen 7:16 And they entring in, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
Gen 7:17 Then ye flood was fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the Arke, which was lift vp aboue the earth.
Gen 7:18 The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly vpon the earth, and the Arke went vpon the waters.
Gen 7:19 The waters preuailed so exceedingly vpon the earth, that all the high mountaines, that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.
Gen 7:20 Fifteene cubites vpwarde did the waters preuaile, when the mountaines were couered.
Gen 7:21 Then all flesh perished that moued vpon the earth, both foule and cattell and beast, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, and euery man.
Gen 7:22 Euery thing in whose nostrels the spirit of life did breathe, whatsoeuer they were in the drie land, they died.
Gen 7:23 So he destroyed euery thing that was vpon the earth, from man to beast, to ye creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: they were euen destroyed from the earth; Noah onely remained; & they that were with him in ye Arke.
Gen 7:24 And the waters preuailed vpon the earth an hundreth and fiftie dayes.
Gen 8:1 Nowe God remembred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with him in the Arke: therefore God made a winde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceased.
Gen 8:2 The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,
Gen 8:3 And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.
Gen 8:4 And in the seuenth moneth, in the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the Arke rested vpon the mountaines of Ararat.
Gen 8:5 And the waters were going and decreasing vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, and in the first day of the moneth were the toppes of the mountaines seene.
Gen 8:6 So after fourtie dayes, Noah opened the windowe of the Arke, which he had made,
Gen 8:7 And sent forth a rauen, which went out going forth and returning, vntill the waters were dried vp vpon the earth.
Gen 8:8 Againe he sent a doue from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.
Gen 8:9 But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote: therefore she returned vnto him into the Arke (for the waters were vpon the whole earth) and he put forth his hand, and receiued her, and tooke her to him into the Arke.
Gen 8:10 And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and againe he sent forth the doue out of the Arke.
Gen 8:11 And the doue came to him in ye euening, and loe, in her mouth was an oliue leafe that she had pluckt: whereby Noah knewe that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Gen 8:12 Notwithstanding he wayted yet other seuen dayes, and sent forth the doue, which returned not againe vnto him any more.
Gen 8:13 And in the sixe hundreth and one yeere, in the first day of the first moneth the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remoued the couering of the Arke and looked, and beholde, the vpper part of the ground was drie.
Gen 8:14 And in the second moneth, in the seuen & twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.
Gen 8:15 Then God spake to Noah, saying,
Gen 8:16 Goe forth of the Arke, thou & thy wife, and thy sonnes and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
Gen 8:17 Bring forth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all flesh, both foule and cattell, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, that they may breede abundantly in ye earth, and bring forth fruite & increase vpon ye earth.
Gen 8:18 So Noah came forth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him.
Gen 8:19 Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery foule, all that moueth vpon the earth after their kindes went out of the Arke.
Gen 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord & tooke of euery cleane beast, & of euery cleane foule, and offered burnt offerings vpon the altar.
Gen 8:21 And the Lord smelled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.
Gen 8:22 Hereafter seede time & haruest, & colde and heate, and sommer and winter, and day and night shal not cease, so long as ye earth remaineth.
Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sonnes, and said to them, Bring foorth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish the earth.
Gen 9:2 Also the feare of you, and the dread of you shalbe vpon euery beast of the earth, and vpon euery foule of the heauen, vpon all that moueth on the earth, and vpon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they deliuered.
Gen 9:3 Euery thing that moueth and liueth, shall be meate for you: as the greene herbe, haue I giuen you all things.
Gen 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.
Gen 9:5 For surely I will require your blood, wherein your liues are: at the hand of euery beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, euen at the hand of a mans brother will I require the life of man.
Gen 9:6 Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.
Gen 9:7 But bring ye forth fruite & multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.
Gen 9:8 God spake also to Noah & to his sonnes with him, saying,
Gen 9:9 Behold, I, euen I establish my couenant with you, and with your seede after you,
Gen 9:10 And with euery liuing creature that is with you, with the foule, with the cattell, and with euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, vnto euery beast of the earth.
Gen 9:11 And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.
Gen 9:12 Then God saide, This is the token of the couenant which I make betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing, that is with you vnto perpetuall generations.
Gen 9:13 I haue set my bowe in the cloude, and it shalbe for a signe of the couenant betweene me and the earth.
Gen 9:14 And when I shall couer the earth with a cloud, and the bowe shall be seene in the cloude,
Gen 9:15 Then will I remember my couenant, which is betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing in all flesh, and there shalbe no more waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.
Gen 9:16 Therefore the bowe shalbe in the cloude, that I may see it, and remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God, and euery liuing thing in all flesh that is vpon the earth.
Gen 9:17 God said yet to Noah, This is the signe of the couenant, which I haue established betweene me and all flesh that is vpon the earth.
Gen 9:18 Nowe the sonnes of Noah going foorth of the Arke, were Shem and Ham and Iapheth; Ham is the father of Canaan.
Gen 9:19 These are the three sonnes of Noah, and of them was the whole earth ouerspred.
Gen 9:20 Noah also began to be an husband man and planted a vineyard.
Gen 9:21 And he drunke of ye wine and was drunken, & was vncouered in the middes of his tent.
Gen 9:22 And when Ham the father of Canaan sawe the nakednesse of his father, he tolde his two brethren without.
Gen 9:23 Then tooke Shem & Iapheth a garment, and put it vpon both their shoulders, and went backwarde, and couered the nakednesse of their father with their faces backwarde: so they sawe not their fathers nakednesse.
Gen 9:24 Then Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his yonger sonne had done vnto him,
Gen 9:25 And said, Cursed be Canaan: a seruant of seruants shall he be vnto his brethren.
Gen 9:26 He said moreouer, blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.
Gen 9:27 God perswade Iapheth, that he may dwell in the tentes of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.
Gen 9:28 And Noah liued after the flood three hundreth and fiftie yeeres.
Gen 9:29 So all the dayes of Noah were nine hundreth and fiftie yeeres: and he died.
Gen 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Shem, Ham and Iapheth: vnto whom sonnes were borne after the flood.
Gen 10:2 The sonnes of Iapheth were Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Gen 10:3 And the sonnes of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Gen 10:4 Also the sonnes of Iauan, Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Gen 10:5 Of these were the yles of the Gentiles deuided in their landes, euery man after his tongue, and after their families in their nations.
Gen 10:6 Moreouer, ye sonnes of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
Gen 10:7 And the sonnes of Cush, Seba and Hauilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: also the sonnes of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
Gen 10:8 And Cush begate Nimrod, who began to be mightie in the earth.
Gen 10:9 He was a mightie hunter before the Lord. wherefore it is saide, As Nimrod the mightie hunter before the Lord.
Gen 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Gen 10:11 Out of that land came Asshur, and builded Niniueh, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah:
Gen 10:12 Resen also betweene Niniueh and Calah: this is a great citie.
Gen 10:13 And Mizraim begate Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim.
Gen 10:14 Pathrusim also, & Casluhim (out of whom came the Philistims) and Caphtorims.
Gen 10:15 Also Canaan begat Zidon his first borne, and Heth,
Gen 10:16 And Iebusi, and Emori, and Girgashi,
Gen 10:17 And Hiui, and Arki, and Sini,
Gen 10:18 And Aruadi, and Zemari, and Hamathi: and afterwarde were the families of the Canaanites spred abroade.
Gen 10:19 Then the border of the Canaanites was from Zidon, as thou commest to Gerar vntil Azzah, and as thou goest vnto Sodom, & Gomorah, and Admah, and Zeboijm, euen vnto Lasha.
Gen 10:20 These are the sonnes of Ham according to their families, according to their tongues in their countries and in their nations.
Gen 10:21 Vnto Shem also the father of all the sonnes of Eber, and elder brother of Iapheth were children borne.
Gen 10:22 The sonnes of Shem were Elam and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
Gen 10:23 And the sonnes of Aram, Vz and Hul, and Gether and Mash.
Gen 10:24 Also Arpachshad begate Shelah, and Shelah begate Eber.
Gen 10:25 Vnto Eber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg: for in his dayes was the earth diuided: and his brothers name was Ioktan.
Gen 10:26 Then Ioktan begate Almodad and Sheleph, and Hazarmaueth, and Ierah,
Gen 10:27 And Hadoram, and Vzal, and Dicklah,
Gen 10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
Gen 10:29 And Ophir, and Hauilah, and Iobab: all these were the sonnes of Ioktan.
Gen 10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest vnto Sephar a mount of the East.
Gen 10:31 These are the sonnes of Shem according to their families, according to their tongues, in their countreis and nations.
Gen 10:32 These are the families of the sonnes of Noah, after their generations among their people: and out of these were the nations diuided in the earth after the flood.
Gen 11:1 Then the whole earth was of one language and one speache.
Gen 11:2 And as they went from the East, they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and there they abode.
Gen 11:3 And they said one to another, Come, let vs make bricke, and burne it in the fire. So they had bricke for stone, and slyme had they in steade of morter.
Gen 11:4 Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.
Gen 11:5 But the Lord came downe, to see the citie and towre, which the sonnes of men builded.
Gen 11:6 And the Lord said, Beholde, the people is one, and they all haue one language, and this they begin to doe, neither can they now be stopped from whatsoeuer they haue imagined to do.
Gen 11:7 Come on, let vs goe downe, and there confound their language, that euery one perceiue not anothers speache.
Gen 11:8 So ye Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth, & they left off to build the citie.
Gen 11:9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lorde did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.
Gen 11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundreth yeere olde, & begate Arpachshad two yeere after the flood.
Gen 11:11 And Shem liued, after he begate Arpachshad, fiue hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:12 Also Arpachshad liued fiue and thirtie yeeres, and begate Shelah.
Gen 11:13 And Arpachshad liued, after he begate Shelah, foure hundreth and three yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:14 And Shelah liued thirtie yeeres, and begat Eber.
Gen 11:15 So Shelah liued, after he begat Eber, foure hundreth and three yeeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:16 Likewise Eber liued foure & thirtie yeres, and begate Peleg.
Gen 11:17 So Eber liued, after he begate Peleg, foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters
Gen 11:18 And Peleg liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Reu.
Gen 11:19 And Peleg liued, after he begate Reu, two hundreth and nine yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:20 Also Reu liued two and thirtie yeeres, and begate Serug.
Gen 11:21 So Reu liued, after he begate Serug, two hundreth & seuen yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:22 Moreouer Serug liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Nahor.
Gen 11:23 And Serug liued, after he begate Nahor, two hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:24 And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, and begate Terah.
Gen 11:25 So Nahor liued, after he begate Terah, an hundreth and nineteene yeeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Gen 11:26 So Terah liued seuentie yeeres, and begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Gen 11:27 Nowe these are the generations of Terah: Terah begate Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begate Lot.
Gen 11:28 Then Haran died before Terah his father in the land of his natiuitie, in Vr of the Caldees.
Gen 11:29 So Abram and Nahor tooke them wiues. The name of Abrams wife was Sarai, & the name of Nahors wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Gen 11:30 But Sarai was barren, and had no childe.
Gen 11:31 Then Terah tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran, his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife: and they departed together from Vr of the Caldees, to goe into the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.
Gen 11:32 So the dayes of Terah were two hundreth and fiue yeeres, and Terah died in Haran.
Gen 12:1 For the Lorde had said vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house vnto the land that I will shewe thee.
Gen 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
Gen 12:3 I will also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Gen 12:4 So Abram departed, euen as ye Lorde spake vnto him, and Lot went with him. (And Abram was seuentie and fiue yeere olde, when he departed out of Haran)
Gen 12:5 Then Abram tooke Sarai his wife, & Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they possessed, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, & they departed, to goe to the land of Canaan: & to the land of Canaan they came.
Gen 12:6 So Abram passed through the land vnto the place of Shechem, and vnto the plaine of Moreh (and the Canaanite was then in ye land)
Gen 12:7 And the Lord appeared vnto Abram, and said, Vnto thy seede will I giue this land; there builded he an altar vnto the Lord, which appeared vnto him.
Gen 12:8 Afterward remouing thence vnto a moutaine Eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the Westside, & Haai on the East: and there he built an altar vnto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.
Gen 12:9 Againe Abram went forth going & iourneying toward the South.
Gen 12:10 Then there came a famine in the land: therefore Abram went downe into Egypt to soiourne there: for there was a great famine in the lande.
Gen 12:11 And when he drewe neere to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Beholde nowe, I know that thou art a faire woman to looke vpo:
Gen 12:12 Therefore it will come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keepe thee aliue.
Gen 12:13 Say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, & that my life may be preserued by thee.
Gen 12:14 Nowe when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman: for she was very faire.
Gen 12:15 And the Princes of Pharaoh sawe her, and commended her vnto Pharaoh: so the woman was taken into Pharaohs house:
Gen 12:16 Who intreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheepe, and beeues, and hee asses, and men seruants and maide seruants, and shee asses, and camelles.
Gen 12:17 But the Lorde plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wife.
Gen 12:18 Then Pharaoh called Abram, and saide, Why hast thou done this vnto me? Wherefore diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?
Gen 12:19 Why saidest thou, She is my sister, that I should take her to be my wife? Nowe therefore beholde thy wife, take her and goe thy way.
Gen 12:20 And Pharaoh gaue men commaundement concerning him: and they conueyed him forth, and his wife, and all that he had.
Gen 13:1 Then Abram went vp from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him toward the South.
Gen 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer and in golde.
Gen 13:3 And he went on his iourney from ye South toward Beth-el, to the place where his tent had bene at ye beginning, betweene Beth-el & Haai,
Gen 13:4 Vnto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the Lord.
Gen 13:5 And Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheepe, and cattell and tentes,
Gen 13:6 So that the land coulde not beare them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they coulde not dwell together.
Gen 13:7 Also there was debate betweene ye heardmen of Abrams cattell, & the heardmen of Lots cattell. (and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.)
Gen 13:8 Then saide Abram vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene thee and me, neither betweene mine heardmen & thine heardmen: for we be brethren.
Gen 13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? depart I pray thee from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will goe to the right: or if thou goe to the right hand, then I will take the left.
Gen 13:10 So when Lot lifted vp his eyes, he saw that all the plaine of Iorden was watered euery where: (for before the Lorde destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, it was as the garden of the Lorde, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest vnto Zoar)
Gen 13:11 Then Lot chose vnto him all the plaine of Iorden, and tooke his iourney from the East: and they departed the one from the other.
Gen 13:12 Abram dwelled in the lande of Canaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent euen to Sodom.
Gen 13:13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and exceeding sinners against the Lord.
Gen 13:14 Then the Lord saide vnto Abram, (after that Lot was departed from him) Lift vp thine eyes nowe, and looke from the place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastwarde, and Westward:
Gen 13:15 For all the land, which thou seest, will I giue vnto thee and to thy seede for euer,
Gen 13:16 And I will make thy seede, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede be numbred.
Gen 13:17 Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.
Gen 13:18 Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelled in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar vnto ye Lorde.
Gen 14:1 And in the dayes of Amraphel King of Shinar, Arioch King of Ellasar, Chedor-laomer King of Elam, and Tidal king of the nations:
Gen 14:2 These men made warre with Bera King of Sodom, and with Birsha King of Gomorah, Shinab King of Admah, and Shemeber King of Zeboiim, and the King of Bela, which is Zoar.
Gen 14:3 All these ioyned together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt Sea.
Gen 14:4 Twelue yeere were they subiect to Chedor-laomer, but in the thirteenth yeere they rebelled.
Gen 14:5 And in the fourteenth yeere came Chedor-laomer, and the Kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaueh Kiriathaim,
Gen 14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, vnto the plaine of Paran, which is by the wildernesse.
Gen 14:7 And they returned and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the countrey of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelled in Hazezon-tamar.
Gen 14:8 Then went out the King of Sodom, and the King of Gomorah, and the King of Admah, and the King of Zeboiim, and the King of Bela, which is Zoar: and they ioyned battell with them in the vale of Siddim:
Gen 14:9 To wit, with Chedor-laomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar: foure Kings against fiue.
Gen 14:10 Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits, & the Kings of Sodom & Gomorah fled and fell there: and ye residue fled to the mountaine.
Gen 14:11 Then they tooke all the substance of Sodom and Gomorah, and al their vitailes and went their way.
Gen 14:12 They tooke Lot also Abrams brothers sonne and his substance (for he dwelt at Sodom) and departed.
Gen 14:13 Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Ebrew, which dwelt in the plaine of Mamre ye Amorite, brother of Eshcol, & brother of Aner, which were confederat with Abram.
Gen 14:14 When Abram heard that his brother was taken, he brought forth of them that were borne and brought vp in his house, three hundreth and eighteene, and pursued them vnto Dan.
Gen 14:15 Then he, and his seruants deuided them selues against them by night, & smote them and pursued them vnto Hobah, which is on the left side of Damascus,
Gen 14:16 And he recouered all the substance, and also brought againe his brother Lot, & his goods, and the women also and the people.
Gen 14:17 After that he returned from the slaughter of Chedor-laomer, and of the Kings that were with him, came the King of Sodom foorth to meete him in the valley of Shaueh, which is the Kings dale.
Gen 14:18 And Melchi-zedek King of Shalem brought foorth bread and wine: and he was a Priest of the most high God.
Gen 14:19 Therefore he blessed him, saying, Blessed art thou, Abram, of God most high possessour of heauen and earth,
Gen 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath deliuered thine enemies into thine hand. And Abram gaue him tythe of all.
Gen 14:21 Then the King of Sodom saide to Abram, Giue me the persons, and take the goodes to thy selfe.
Gen 14:22 And Abram said to the King of Sodom, I haue lift vp mine hand vnto the Lorde the most hie God possessor of heauen and earth,
Gen 14:23 That I will not take of all that is thine, so much as a threde or shoolatchet, lest thou shouldest say, I haue made Abram riche,
Gen 14:24 Saue onely that, which the yong men haue eaten, and the partes of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their partes.
Gen 15:1 After these things, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Abram in a vision, saying, Feare not, Abram, I am thy buckler, and thine exceeding great reward.
Gen 15:2 And Abram said, O Lord God, what wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse, and the steward of mine house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
Gen 15:3 Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.
Gen 15:4 Then beholde, the worde of the Lorde came vnto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heire, but one that shall come out of thine owne bowels, he shalbe thine heire.
Gen 15:5 Moreouer he brought him forth and said, Looke vp nowe vnto heauen, and tell ye starres, if thou be able to number them: and he said vnto him, So shall thy seede be.
Gen 15:6 And Abram beleeued the Lorde, and he counted that to him for righteousnesse.
Gen 15:7 Againe he saide vnto him, I am the Lord, that brought thee out of Vr of the Caldees, to giue thee this land to inherite it.
Gen 15:8 And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?
Gen 15:9 Then he said vnto him, Take me an heifer of three yeeres olde, and a shee goate of three yeeres olde, and a ramme of three yeeres olde, a turtle doue also and a pigeon.
Gen 15:10 So he tooke all these vnto him, and deuided them into the middes, & laid euery piece one against an other: but the birdes deuided he not.
Gen 15:11 Then foules fell on the carkases, and Abram droue them away.
Gen 15:12 And when the sunne went downe, there fell an heauie sleepe vpon Abram: and loe, a very fearefull darkenes fell vpon him.
Gen 15:13 Then he saide to Abram, Knowe for a suretie, that thy seede shalbe a stranger in a land, that is not theirs, foure hundreth yeeres, and shall serue them: & they shall intreate them euill.
Gen 15:14 Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall serue, will I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Gen 15:15 But thou shalt goe vnto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good age.
Gen 15:16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither againe: for the wickednes of the Amorites is not yet full.
Gen 15:17 Also when the sunne went downe, there was a darkenes: & behold, a smoking fornace, and a firebrand, which went betweene those pieces.
Gen 15:18 In that same day the Lord made a couenant with Abram, saying, Vnto thy seede haue I giuen this lande, from the riuer of Egypt vnto the great riuer, the riuer Euphrates.
Gen 15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizites, and the Kadmonites,
Gen 15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
Gen 15:21 The Amorites also, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Iebusites.
Gen 16:1 Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.
Gen 16:2 And Sarai said vnto Abram, Beholde now, the Lorde hath restrained me from childe bearing. I pray thee goe in vnto my maide: it may be that I shall receiue a childe by her; Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.
Gen 16:3 Then Sarai Abrams wife tooke Hagar her maide the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelled ten yeere in the land of Canaan, and gaue her to her husband Abram for his wife.
Gen 16:4 And he went in vnto Hagar, & she conceiued; when she sawe that she had conceiued, her dame was despised in her eyes.
Gen 16:5 Then Sarai saide to Abram, Thou doest me wrong. I haue giuen my maide into thy bosome, and she seeth that she hath conceiued, and I am despised in her eyes: the Lorde iudge betweene me and thee.
Gen 16:6 Then Abram saide to Sarai, Beholde, thy maide is in thine hand: doe with her as it pleaseth thee. Then Sarai dealt roughly with her: wherefore she fled from her.
Gen 16:7 But the Angel of the Lord founde her beside a fountaine of water in the wildernesse by the fountaine in the way to Shur,
Gen 16:8 And he saide, Hagar Sarais maide, whence commest thou? and whither wilt thou goe? And she said, I flie from my dame Sarai.
Gen 16:9 Then the Angel of the Lorde saide to her, Returne to thy dame, and humble thy selfe vnder her hands.
Gen 16:10 Againe the Angel of the Lorde saide vnto her, I will so greatly increase thy seede, that it shal not be numbred for multitude.
Gen 16:11 Also the Angel of the Lord said vnto her, See, thou art with childe, and shalt beare a sonne, and shalt call his name Ishmael: for the Lorde hath heard thy tribulation.
Gen 16:12 And he shalbe a wilde man: his hande shall be against euery man, and euery mans hand against him. and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Gen 16:13 Then she called the name of the Lorde, that spake vnto her, Thou God lookest on me: for she said, Haue I not also here looked after him that seeth me?
Gen 16:14 Wherefore the well was called, Beerlahai-roi. lo, it is betweene Kadesh and Bered.
Gen 16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a sonne, and Abram called his sonnes name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Gen 16:16 And Abram was foure score and sixe yeere olde, when Hagar bare him Ishmael.
Gen 17:1 When Abram was ninetie yeere olde and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said vnto him, I am God all sufficient. walke before me, and be thou vpright,
Gen 17:2 And I will make my couenant betweene me and thee, & I will multiplie thee exceedingly.
Gen 17:3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,
Gen 17:4 Beholde, I make my couenant 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 Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.
Gen 17:6 Also I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and will make nations of thee: yea, Kings shall proceede of thee.
Gen 17:7 Moreouer I wil establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee and to thy seede after thee.
Gen 17:8 And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Gen 17:9 Againe God said vnto Abraham, Thou also shalt keepe my couenant, thou, and thy seede after thee in their generations.
Gen 17:10 This is my couenant which ye shall keepe betweene me & you, & thy seede after thee, Let euery man childe among you be circumcised:
Gen 17:11 That is, ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, and it shalbe a signe of the couenant betweene me and you.
Gen 17:12 And euery man childe of eight dayes olde among you, shalbe circumcised in your generations, aswell he that is borne in thine house, as he that is bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seede.
Gen 17:13 He that is borne in thine house, & he that is bought with thy money, must needes be circumcised: so my couenant shall be in your flesh for an euerlasting couenant.
Gen 17:14 But the vncircumcised man childe, in whose flesh the foreskin is not circumcised, euen that person shall be cut off from his people, because he hath broken my couenant.
Gen 17:15 Afterward God said vnto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shalbe her name.
Gen 17:16 And I will blesse her, & will also giue thee a sonne of her, yea, I will blesse her, and she shall be the mother of nations: Kings also of people shall come of her.
Gen 17:17 Then Abraham fell vpon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a childe be borne vnto him, that is an hundreth yeere olde? and shall Sarah that is ninetie yeere olde beare?
Gen 17:18 And Abraham saide vnto God, Oh, that Ishmael might liue in thy sight.
Gen 17:19 Then God saide, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Izhak: and I will establish my couenant with him for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seede after him.
Gen 17:20 And as concerning Ishmael, I haue heard thee: loe, I haue blessed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiplie him exceedingly: twelue princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.
Gen 17:21 But my couenant will I establish with Izhak, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, the next yeere at this season.
Gen 17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went vp from Abraham.
Gen 17:23 Then Abraham tooke Ishmael his sonne and all that were borne in his house, and all that was bought with his money, that is, euery man childe among the men of Abrahams house, and he circumcised the foreskinne of their flesh in that selfe same day, as God had comaunded him.
Gen 17:24 Abraham also himselfe was ninetie yeere olde and nine, when the foreskinne of his flesh was circumcised.
Gen 17:25 And Ishmael his sonne was thirteene yeere olde, when the foreskinne of his flesh was circumcised.
Gen 17:26 The selfe same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his sonne:
Gen 17:27 And all the men of his house, both borne in his house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
Gen 18:1 Againe the Lord appeared vnto him in the plaine of Mamre, as he sate in his tent doore about the heate of the day.
Gen 18:2 And he lift vp his eyes, and looked: and lo, three men stoode by him, and when he sawe them, he ranne to meete them from the tent doore, and bowed himselfe to the grounde.
Gen 18:3 And he said, Lord, if I haue now founde fauour in thy sight, goe not, I pray thee, from thy seruant.
Gen 18:4 Let a litle water, I pray you, be brought, and wash your feete, and rest your selues vnder the tree.
Gen 18:5 And I will bring a morsell of bread, that you may comfort your hearts, afterward ye shall go your wayes: for therefore are ye come to your seruant; they said, Do euen as thou hast said.
Gen 18:6 Then Abraham made haste into the tent vnto Sarah, and saide, Make ready at once three measures of fine meale: kneade it, and make cakes vpon the hearth.
Gen 18:7 And Abraham ranne to the beastes, and tooke a tender and good calfe, and gaue it to the seruant, who hasted to make it ready.
Gen 18:8 And he tooke butter and milke, and the calfe, which he had prepared, and set before them, and stoode himselfe by them vnder the tree, and they did eate.
Gen 18:9 Then they saide to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he answered, Beholde, she is in the tent.
Gen 18:10 And he saide, I will certainely come againe vnto thee according to ye time of life: and loe, Sarah thy wife shall haue a sonne; Sarah heard in the tent doore, which was behinde him.
Gen 18:11 (Nowe Abraham and Sarah were old and striken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the maner of women)
Gen 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within her selfe, saying, After I am waxed olde, and my lord also, shall I haue lust?
Gen 18:13 And ye Lord saide vnto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah thus laugh, saying, Shall I certainely beare a childe, which am olde?
Gen 18:14 (Shall any thing be hard to the Lord? at the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, euen according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.)
Gen 18:15 But Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraide; he said, It is not so: for thou laughedst.
Gen 18:16 Afterwarde the men did rise vp from thence and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Gen 18:17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I doe,
Gen 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shalbe in deede a great and a mightie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in him?
Gen 18:19 For I knowe him that he will commande his sonnes and his houshold after him, that they keepe the way of the Lord, to doe righteousnesse and iudgement, that the Lord may bring vpon Abraham that he hath spoken vnto him.
Gen 18:20 Then the Lorde saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,
Gen 18:21 I will goe downe nowe, and see whether they haue done altogether according to that crie which is come vnto me: and if not, that I may knowe.
Gen 18:22 And the men turned thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stoode yet before the Lord.
Gen 18:23 Then Abraham drewe neere, & said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Gen 18:24 If there be fiftie righteous within the citie, wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fiftie righteous that are therein?
Gen 18:25 Be it farre fro thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be euen as the wicked, be it farre from thee. shall not the Iudge of all the worlde doe right?
Gen 18:26 And the Lord answered, If I shall finde in Sodom fiftie righteous within the citie, then will I spare all the place for their sakes.
Gen 18:27 Then Abraham answered and said, Behold nowe, I haue begun to speake vnto my Lord, and I am but dust and ashes.
Gen 18:28 If there shall lacke fiue of fiftie righteous, wilt thou destroy all the citie for fiue? And he saide, If I finde there fiue and fourtie, I will not destroy it.
Gen 18:29 And he yet spake to him againe, and saide, What if there shalbe found fourtie there? Then he answered, I will not doe it for fourties sake.
Gen 18:30 Againe he said, Let not my Lord nowe be angry, that I speake, What if thirtie be founde there? Then he saide, I will not doe it, if I finde thirtie there.
Gen 18:31 Moreouer he said, Behold, now I haue begonne to speake vnto my Lord, What if twentie be founde there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for twenties sake.
Gen 18:32 Then he saide, Let not my Lord be nowe angrie, and I will speake but this once, What if tenne be found there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for tennes sake.
Gen 18:33 And the Lord went his way when he had left communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned vnto his place.
Gen 19:1 And in the euening there came two Angels to Sodom: and Lot sate at the gate of Sodom, and Lot sawe them, and rose vp to meete them, and he bowed himselfe with his face to the ground.
Gen 19:2 And he saide, See my Lords, I pray you turne in nowe into your seruants house, and tarie all night, and wash your feete, & ye shall rise vp early and goe your wayes. Who saide, Nay, but we will abide in the streete all night.
Gen 19:3 Then he preassed vpon them earnestly, and they turned in to him, and came to his house, and he made them a feast, and did bake vnleauened bread, and they did eate.
Gen 19:4 But before they went to bed, the men of the citie, euen the men of Sodom compassed the house rounde about from the yong euen to the olde, all the people from all quarters.
Gen 19:5 Who crying vnto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? Bring them out vnto vs that we may knowe them.
Gen 19:6 Then Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doore after him,
Gen 19:7 And said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
Gen 19:8 Beholde nowe, I haue two daughters, which haue not knowen man: them will I bring out now vnto you, and doe to them as seemeth you good: onely vnto these men doe nothing: for therefore are they come vnder the shadowe of my roofe.
Gen 19:9 Then they said, Away hence, and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he iudge and rule? We will nowe deale worse with thee then with them. So they preassed sore vpon Lot himselfe, and came to breake the doore.
Gen 19:10 But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them & shut to ye doore.
Gen 19:11 Then they smote the men that were at the doore of the house with blindnes both small and great, so that they were wearie in seeking the doore.
Gen 19:12 Then the men said vnto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either sonne in lawe, or thy sonnes, or thy daughters, or whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring it out of this place.
Gen 19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the Lorde, and the Lord hath sent vs to destroy it.
Gen 19:14 Then Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe, which maried his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the citie: but he seemed to his sonnes in lawe as though he had mocked.
Gen 19:15 And when the morning arose, the Angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the citie.
Gen 19:16 And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him and his wife, and his two daughters by the hands (the Lord being mercifull vnto him) and they brought him foorth, and set him without the citie.
Gen 19:17 And when they had brought them out, the Angel said, Escape for thy life: looke not behinde thee, neither tarie thou in all the plaine: escape into ye mountaine, least thou be destroyed.
Gen 19:18 And Lot saide vnto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.
Gen 19:19 Behold now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauing my life: and I cannot escape in the mountaine, least some euill take me, and I die.
Gen 19:20 See nowe this citie hereby to flee vnto, which is a litle one: Oh let me escape thither: is it not a litle one, and my soule shall liue?
Gen 19:21 Then he said vnto him, Beholde, I haue receiued thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast spoken.
Gen 19:22 Haste thee, saue thee there: for I can doe nothing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the citie was called Zoar.
Gen 19:23 The sunne did rise vpon the earth, when Lot entred into Zoar.
Gen 19:24 Then the Lord rained vpon Sodom and vpon Gomorah brimstone, & fire from the Lord out of heauen,
Gen 19:25 And ouerthrewe those cities and all the plaine, and all the inhabitants of the cities; and that that grewe vpon the earth.
Gen 19:26 Now his wife behind him looked backe, and she became a pillar of salt.
Gen 19:27 And Abraham rising vp earely in ye morning went to the place, where he had stand before the Lord,
Gen 19:28 And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.
Gen 19:29 But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction, when he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.
Gen 19:30 Then Lot went vp from Zoar, & dwelt in the mountaine with his two daughters: for he feared to tarie in Zoar, but dwelt in a caue, he, and his two daughters.
Gen 19:31 And the elder saide vnto the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth, to come in vnto vs after the maner of all ye earth.
Gen 19:32 Come, wee will make our father drinke wine, and lie with him, that we may preserue seede of our father.
Gen 19:33 So they made their father drinke wine that night, and the elder went and lay with her father: but he perceiued not, neither whe she lay downe, neither when she rose vp.
Gen 19:34 And on the morowe the elder saide to the yonger, Behold, yester night lay I with my father: let vs make him drinke wine this night also, and goe thou and lie with him, that we may preserue seede of our father.
Gen 19:35 So they made their father drinke wine that night also, and the yonger arose, & lay with him, but he perceiued not, when she lay downe, neither when she rose vp.
Gen 19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with childe by their father.
Gen 19:37 And the elder bare a sonne, and she called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites vnto this day.
Gen 19:38 And the yonger bare a sonne also, and she called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the Ammonites vnto this day.
Gen 20:1 Afterward Abraham departed thence toward the South countrey and dwelled betweene Cadesh and Shur, and soiourned in Gerar.
Gen 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. Then Abimelech King of Gerar sent and tooke Sarah.
Gen 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dreame by night, and said to him, Beholde, thou art but dead, because of the woman, which thou hast taken: for she is a mans wife.
Gen 20:4 (Notwithstanding Abimelech had not yet come neere her) And he said, Lord, wilt thou slay euen the righteous nation?
Gen 20:5 Said not he vnto me, She is my sister? yea, and she her selfe said, He is my brother: with an vpright minde, and innocent handes haue I done this.
Gen 20:6 And God saide vnto him by a dreame, I knowe that thou diddest this euen with an vpright minde, and I kept thee also that thou shouldest not sinne against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touche her.
Gen 20:7 Now then deliuer the man his wife againe: for he is a Prophet, and he shall pray for thee that thou mayest liue: but if thou deliuer her not againe, be sure that thou shalt die the death, thou, and all that thou hast.
Gen 20:8 Then Abimelech rising vp early in ye morning, called all his seruants, and tolde all these things vnto them, and the men were sore afraid.
Gen 20:9 Afterward Abimelech called Abraham, and said vnto him, What hast thou done vnto vs? and what haue I offeded thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdome this great sinne? thou hast done things vnto me that ought not to be done.
Gen 20:10 So Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What sawest thou that thou hast done this thing?
Gen 20:11 Then Abraha answered, Because I thought thus, Surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wiues sake.
Gen 20:12 Yet in very deede she is my sister: for she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she is my wife.
Gen 20:13 Nowe when God caused me to wander out of my fathers house, I said then to her, This is thy kindnes that thou shalt shewe vnto me in all places where we come, Say thou of me, He is my brother.
Gen 20:14 Then tooke Abimelech sheepe & beeues, & men seruants, & women seruants, & gaue them vnto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
Gen 20:15 And Abimelech saide, Beholde, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Gen 20:16 Likewise to Sarah he said, Beholde, I haue giuen thy brother a thousand pieces of siluer: behold, he is the vaile of thine eyes to all that are with thee, and to all others: and she was thus reproued.
Gen 20:17 Then Abraham prayed vnto God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his women seruants: and they bare children.
Gen 20:18 For the Lorde had shut vp euery wombe of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abrahams wife.
Gen 21:1 Nowe the Lord visited Sarah, as he had saide, and did vnto her according as he had promised.
Gen 21:2 For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.
Gen 21:3 And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, which Sarah bare him, Izhak.
Gen 21:4 Then Abraha circumcised Izhak his sonne, when he was eight dayes olde, as God had commanded him.
Gen 21:5 So Abraham was an hundreth yeere olde, when his sonne Izhak was borne vnto him.
Gen 21:6 Then Sarah said, God hath made me to reioyce: all that heare will reioyce with me.
Gen 21:7 Againe she said, Who would haue saide to Abraham, that Sarah shoulde haue giuen children sucke? for I haue borne him a sonne in his olde age.
Gen 21:8 Then the childe grewe and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Izhak was weaned.
Gen 21:9 And Sarah sawe the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian (which she had borne vnto Abraham) mocking.
Gen 21:10 Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.
Gen 21:11 And this thing was very grieuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.
Gen 21:12 But God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy bonde woman: in all that Sarah shall say vnto thee, heare her voyce: for in Izhak shall thy seede be called.
Gen 21:13 As for the sonne of the bond woman, I will make him a nation also, because he is thy seede.
Gen 21:14 So Abraham arose vp early in ye morning, and tooke bread, and a bottell of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the childe also, and sent her away: who departing wandred in the wildernesse of Beer-sheba.
Gen 21:15 And when the water of the bottell was spent, she cast the childe vnder a certaine tree.
Gen 21:16 Then she went and sate her ouer against him a farre off about a bowe shoote: for she said, I will not see the death of the child; she sate downe ouer against him, and lift vp her voyce and wept.
Gen 21:17 Then God heard the voyce of ye childe, and the Angel of God called to Hagar from heauen, and said vnto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? feare not, for God hath heard the voyce of the childe where he is.
Gen 21:18 Arise, take vp the childe, and holde him in thine hand: for I will make of him a great people.
Gen 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she sawe a well of water. so she went and filled the bottell with water, and gaue the boy drinke.
Gen 21:20 So God was with the childe, and he grewe and dwelt in the wildernesse, and was an archer.
Gen 21:21 And he dwelt in the wildernesse of Paran, and his mother tooke him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Gen 21:22 And at that same time Abimelech and Phichol his chief captaine spake vnto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.
Gen 21:23 Nowe therefore sweare vnto me here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my children, nor my childrens children: thou shalt deale with me, and with the countrey, where thou hast bene a stranger, according vnto the kindnesse that I haue shewed thee.
Gen 21:24 Then Abraham said, I will sweare.
Gen 21:25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken away.
Gen 21:26 And Abimelech saide, I knowe not who hath done this thing: also thou toldest me not, neither heard I of it but this day.
Gen 21:27 Then Abraham tooke sheepe and beeues, and gaue them vnto Abimelech: and they two made a couenant.
Gen 21:28 And Abraham set seuen lambes of the flocke by themselues.
Gen 21:29 Then Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What meane these seuen lambes, which thou hast set by themselues?
Gen 21:30 And he answered, Because thou shalt receiue of mine hand these seuen lambes, that it may be a witnes vnto me, that I haue digged this well.
Gen 21:31 Wherefore the place is called Beer-sheba, because there they both sware.
Gen 21:32 Thus made they a couenant at Beer-sheba: afterward Abimelech and Phichol his chiefe captaine rose vp, and turned againe vnto the land of the Philistims.
Gen 21:33 And Abraham planted a groue in Beer-sheba, and called there on the Name of ye Lord, the euerlasting God.
Gen 21:34 And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistims land a long season.
Gen 22:1 And after these things God did proue Abraham, and said vnto him, Abraham. Who answered, Here am I.
Gen 22:2 And he said, Take nowe thine onely sonne Izhak whom thou louest, and get thee vnto the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering vpon one of the mountaines, which I will shewe thee.
Gen 22:3 Then Abraham rose vp early in the morning, and sadled his asse, and tooke two of his seruants with him, and Izhak his sonne, and cloue wood for the burnt offering, and rose vp & went to the place, which God had tolde him.
Gen 22:4 Then the third day Abraham lift vp his eyes, and sawe the place afarre off,
Gen 22:5 And said vnto his seruants, Abide you here with the asse: for I and the childe will go yonder and worship, and come againe vnto you.
Gen 22:6 Then Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offering, and layed it vpon Izhak his sonne, and he tooke the fire in his hand, and the knife: and they went both together.
Gen 22:7 Then spake Izhak vnto Abraham his father, and said, My father; he answered, Here am I, my sonne; he said, Behold the fire & the wood, but where is the lambe for ye burnt offring?
Gen 22:8 Then Abraham answered, My sonne, God will prouide him a lambe for a burnt offering: so they went both together.
Gen 22:9 And when they came to the place which God had shewed him, Abraham builded an altar there, & couched ye wood, and bound Izhak his sonne and laid him on the altar vpon the wood.
Gen 22:10 And Abraham stretching forth his hand, tooke the knife to kill his sonne.
Gen 22:11 But the Angel of the Lord called vnto him from heauen, saying, Abraham, Abraham; he answered, Here am I.
Gen 22:12 Then he said, Lay not thine hand vpon the childe, neither doe any thing vnto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing for my sake thou hast not spared thine onely sonne.
Gen 22:13 And Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and behold, there was a ramme behind him caught by the hornes in a bush. then Abraham went and tooke the ramme, and offered him vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne.
Gen 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place, Iehouah-ijreh. as it is said this day, In the mount will the Lord be seene.
Gen 22:15 And the Angel of the Lorde cryed vnto Abraham from heauen the second time,
Gen 22:16 And saide, By my selfe haue I sworne (saith ye Lord) because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine onely sonne,
Gen 22:17 Therefore will I surely blesse thee, and will greatly multiplie thy seede, as the starres of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon the sea shore, and thy seede shall possesse the gate of his enemies.
Gen 22:18 And in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voyce.
Gen 22:19 Then turned Abraham againe vnto his seruants, and they rose vp & went together to Beer-sheba: and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
Gen 22:20 And after these things one tolde Abraham, saying, Beholde Milcah, she hath also borne children vnto thy brother Nahor:
Gen 22:21 To wit, Vz his eldest sonne, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
Gen 22:22 And Chesed and Hazo, and Pildash, and Iidlaph, and Bethuel.
Gen 22:23 And Bethuel begate Rebekah: these eight did Milcah beare to Nahor Abrahams brother.
Gen 22:24 And his concubine called Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gahan, and Thahash and Maachah.
Gen 23:1 When Sarah was an hundreth twentie and seuen yeere olde ( so long liued she).
Gen 23:2 Then Sarah dyed in Kiriath-arba: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan; Abraham came to mourne for Sarah and to weepe for her.
Gen 23:3 Then Abraham rose vp from the sight of his corps, & talked with the Hittites, saying,
Gen 23:4 I am a stranger, & a forreiner among you, giue me a possession of buriall with you, that I may burie my dead out of my sight.
Gen 23:5 Then the Hittites answered Abraham, saying vnto him,
Gen 23:6 Heare vs, my lorde: thou art a prince of God among vs: in the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbid thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy dead therein.
Gen 23:7 Then Abraham stoode vp, and bowed him selfe before the people of the land of the Hittites.
Gen 23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your minde, that I shall bury my dead out of my sight, heare me, and intreate for me to Ephron the sonne of Zohar,
Gen 23:9 That he would giue me ye caue of Machpelah, which he hath in the ende of his field: that he would giue it me for as much money as it is worth, for a possession to bury in among you.
Gen 23:10 (For Ephron dwelt among the Hittites) Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of all the Hittites that went in at the gates of his citie, saying,
Gen 23:11 No, my Lorde, heare me: the fielde giue I thee, and the caue, that therein is, I giue it thee: euen in the presence of the sonnes of my people giue I it thee, to bury thy dead.
Gen 23:12 Then Abraham bowed himselfe before the people of the land,
Gen 23:13 And spake vnto Ephron in the audience of the people of the countrey, saying, Seeing thou wilt giue it, I pray thee, heare me, I will giue the price of the fielde: receiue it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
Gen 23:14 Ephron then answered Abraham, saying vnto him,
Gen 23:15 My lord, hearken vnto me: ye land is worth foure hundreth shekels of siluer: what is that betweene me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Gen 23:16 So Abraham hearkened vnto Ephron, and Abraham weyed to Ephron the siluer, which he had named, in the audience of the Hittites, euen foure hundreth siluer shekels of currant money among marchants.
Gen 23:17 So the fielde of Ephron which was in Machpelah, and ouer against Mamre, euen the field and the caue that was therein, and all the trees that were in the fielde, which were in all the borders round about, was made sure
Gen 23:18 Vnto Abraham for a possession, in ye sight of the Hittites, euen of all that went in at the gates of his citie.
Gen 23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the caue of the fielde of Machpelah ouer against Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Gen 23:20 Thus the fielde and the caue, that is therein, was made sure vnto Abraham for a possession of buriall by the Hittites.
Gen 24:1 Nowe Abraham was olde, and striken in yeeres, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Gen 24:2 Therefore Abraham saide vnto his eldest seruant of his house, which had the rule ouer all that he had, Put nowe thine hand vnder my thigh,
Gen 24:3 And I will make thee sweare by ye Lorde God of the heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites among who I dwel.
Gen 24:4 But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, & take a wife vnto my sone Izhak.
Gen 24:5 And the seruant saide to him, What if the woman will not come with me to this land? Shall I bring thy sonne againe vnto the lande from whence thou camest?
Gen 24:6 To whom Abraham answered, Beware that thou bring not my sonne thither againe.
Gen 24:7 The Lord God of heauen, who tooke me from my fathers house, and from the land where I was borne, and that spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, Vnto thy seede wil I giue this land, he shall send his Angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife vnto my sonne fro thence.
Gen 24:8 Neuertheles if the woman wil not followe thee, then shalt thou bee discharged of this mine othe: onely bring not my sonne thither againe.
Gen 24:9 Then the seruant put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him for this matter.
Gen 24:10 So the seruant tooke ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed: (for he had all his masters goods in his hand:) and so he arose, and went to Aram Naharaim, vnto the citie of Nahor.
Gen 24:11 And he made his camels to lye downe without the citie by a well of water, at euentide about the time that the women come out to draw water.
Gen 24:12 And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I beseech thee, send me good speede this day, & shew mercy vnto my master Abraha.
Gen 24:13 Lo, I stand by the well of water, whiles the mens daughters of this citie come out to drawe water.
Gen 24:14 Graunt therefore that ye maide, to whom I say, Bowe downe thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drinke: if she say, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also: may be she that thou hast ordeined for thy seruant Izhak: and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed mercy on my master.
Gen 24:15 And nowe yer he had left speaking, beholde, Rebekah came out, the daughter of Bethuel, sonne of Milcah the wife of Nahor Abrahams brother, and her pitcher vpon her shoulder.
Gen 24:16 (And the maide was very faire to looke vpon, a virgine and vnknowen of man) and she went downe to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came vp.
Gen 24:17 Then the seruant ranne to meete her, and said, Let me drinke, I pray thee, a litle water of thy pitcher.
Gen 24:18 And she said, Drinke sir: and she hasted, and let downe her pitcher vpon her hand and gaue him drinke.
Gen 24:19 And when she had giuen him drinke, she said, I will drawe water for thy camels also vntill they haue drunken inough.
Gen 24:20 And she powred out her pitcher into the trough speedily; and ranne againe vnto the well to drawe water, and she drewe for all his camels.
Gen 24:21 So the man wondred at her, and helde his peace, to knowe whether the Lord had made his iourney prosperous or not.
Gen 24:22 And when the camels had left drinking, the man tooke a golden abillement of halfe a shekell weight, and two bracelets for her hands, of ten shekels weight of golde:
Gen 24:23 And he said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, I pray thee, Is there roume in thy fathers house for vs to lodge in?
Gen 24:24 Then she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcah whom she bare vnto Nahor.
Gen 24:25 Moreouer she said vnto him, We haue litter also & prouender ynough, & roume to lodge in.
Gen 24:26 And the man bowed himselfe and worshipped the Lord,
Gen 24:27 And said, Blessed be the Lorde God of my master Abraham, which hath not withdrawen his mercie and his trueth from my master: for when I was in the way, the Lord brought me to my masters brethrens house.
Gen 24:28 And the maide ranne and tolde them of her mothers house according to these wordes.
Gen 24:29 Now Rebekah had a brother called Laban, and Laban ranne vnto the man to the well.
Gen 24:30 For when he had seene the earings and the bracelets in his sisters hands, and when he heard the wordes of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus said the man vnto me, then he went to the man, and loe, he stoode by the camels at the well.
Gen 24:31 And he saide, Come in thou blessed of the Lord: wherefore standest thou without, seeing I haue prepared the house, & roume for ye camels?
Gen 24:32 Then the man came into the house, and he vnsadled the camels, and brought litter and prouender for the camels, and water to wash his feete, and the mens feete that were with him.
Gen 24:33 Afterward the meate was set before him: but he saide, I will not eate, vntill I haue saide my message: And he said, Speake on.
Gen 24:34 Then he said, I am Abrahams seruant,
Gen 24:35 And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, that he is become great: for he hath giuen him sheepe, and beeues, and siluer, and golde, and men seruants, and maide seruants, and camels, and asses.
Gen 24:36 And Sarah my masters wife hath borne a sonne to my master, when she was olde, and vnto him hath he giuen all that he hath.
Gen 24:37 Now my master made me sweare, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land 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 Then I saide vnto my master, What if the woman will not followe me?
Gen 24:40 Who answered me, The Lord, before who I walke, will send his Angel with thee, and prosper thy iourney, and thou shalt take a wife for my sonne of my kinred and my fathers house.
Gen 24:41 Then shalt thou be discharged of mine othe, when thou commest to my kinred: and if they giue thee not one, thou shalt be free from mine othe.
Gen 24:42 So I came this day to the well, and said, O Lorde, the God of my master Abraham, if thou nowe prosper my iourney which I goe,
Gen 24:43 Behold, I stand by the wel of water: when a virgine commeth forth to drawe water, and I say to her, Giue me, I pray thee, a litle water of thy pitcher to drinke,
Gen 24:44 And she say to me, Drinke thou, and I will also drawe for thy camels, let her be ye wife, which the Lord hath prepared for my masters sonne.
Gen 24:45 And before I had made an end of speaking in mine heart, beholde, Rebekah came foorth, and her pitcher on her shoulder, and she went downe vnto the well, and drewe water. Then I said vnto her, Giue me drinke, I pray thee.
Gen 24:46 And she made haste, and tooke downe her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also. So I dranke, and she gaue the camels drinke also.
Gen 24:47 Then I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she answered, The daughter of Bethuel Nahors sonne, whom Milcah bare vnto him. Then I put the abillement vpon her face, and the bracelets vpon her hands:
Gen 24:48 And I bowed downe and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had brought me the right way to take my masters brothers daughter vnto his sone.
Gen 24:49 Now therefore, if ye will deale mercifully and truely with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me that I may turne me to the right hand or to the left.
Gen 24:50 Then answered Laban and Bethuel, and said, This thing is proceeded of the Lorde: we cannot therefore say vnto thee, neither euill nor good.
Gen 24:51 Beholde, Rebehak is before thee, take her and goe, that she may be thy masters sonnes wife, euen as the Lord hath said.
Gen 24:52 And when Abrahams seruant heard their wordes, he bowed himselfe toward the earth vnto the Lord.
Gen 24:53 Then the seruant tooke foorth iewels of siluer, and iewels of golde, and raiment, and gaue to Rebekah: also vnto her brother and to her mother he gaue gifts.
Gen 24:54 Afterward they did eate & drinke, both he, and the men that were with him, and taried all night; when they rose vp in the morning, he said, Let me depart vnto my master.
Gen 24:55 Then her brother and her mother answered, Let the maide abide with vs, at the least ten dayes: then shall she goe.
Gen 24:56 But he said vnto them, Hinder you me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my iourney: send me away, that I may goe to my master.
Gen 24:57 Then they said, We will call the maide, and aske her consent.
Gen 24:58 And they called Rebekah, and saide vnto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she answered, I will go.
Gen 24:59 So they let Rebekah their sister goe, & her nourse, with Abrahams seruant and his men.
Gen 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and sayde vnto her, Thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousands, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies.
Gen 24:61 Then Rebekah arose, & her maydes, and rode vpon the camels, and followed the man; the seruant tooke Rebekah, and departed.
Gen 24:62 Nowe Izhak came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi, (for he dwelt in the South countrey)
Gen 24:63 And Izhak went out. to pray in the fielde toward the euening: who lift vp his eyes and looked, and behold, the camels came.
Gen 24:64 Also Rebekah lift vp her eyes, & when she saw Izhak, she lighted downe from the camel.
Gen 24:65 (For shee had sayde to the seruant, Who is yonder man, that commeth in the fielde to meete vs? and the seruant had said, It is my master) So she tooke a vaile, and couered her.
Gen 24:66 And the seruant tolde Izhak all things, that he had done.
Gen 24:67 Afterward Izhak brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he tooke Rebekah, and she was his wife, and he loued her: So Izhak was comforted after his mothers death.
Gen 25:1 Nowe Abraham had taken him another wife called Keturah,
Gen 25:2 Which bare him Zimran, and Iokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Gen 25:3 And Iokshan begate Sheba, and Dedan: And the sonnes of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
Gen 25:4 Also the sonnes of Midian were Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, & Eldaah all these were the sonnes of Keturah.
Gen 25:5 And Abraham gaue all his goods to Izhak,
Gen 25:6 But vnto the sonnes of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gaue giftes, and sent them away from Izhak his sonne (while he yet liued) Eastward to the East countrey.
Gen 25:7 And this is the age of Abrahams life, which he liued, an hundreth seuentie & fiue yeere.
Gen 25:8 Then Abraham yeelded the spirit, and died in a good age, an olde man, and of great yeeres, & was gathered to his people.
Gen 25:9 And his sonnes, Izhak and Ishmael buryed him in the caue of Machpelah, in the fielde of Ephron sonne of Zohar the Hittite, before Mamre.
Gen 25:10 Which fielde Abraham bought of the Hittites, where Abraham was buryed with Sarah his wife.
Gen 25:11 And after the death of Abraham God blessed Izhak his sonne, and Izhak dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.
Gen 25:12 Nowe these are the generations of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, whome Hagar the Egyptian Sarahs handmayde bare vnto Abraham.
Gen 25:13 And these are the names of the sonnes of Ishmael, name by name, according to their kinreds; the eldest sonne of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Gen 25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Gen 25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Ietur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Gen 25:16 These are the sonnes of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their townes and by their castles: to wit, twelue princes of their nations.
Gen 25:17 (And these are the yeeres of the life of Ishmael, an hundreth thirtie and seuen yeere, and he yeelded the spirit, and dyed, and was gathered vnto his people)
Gen 25:18 And they dwelt from Hauilah vnto Shur, that is towardes Egypt, as thou goest to Asshur. Ishmael dwelt in the presence of all his brethren.
Gen 25:19 Likewise these are the generations of Izhak Abrahams sonne Abraham begate Izhak,
Gen 25:20 And Izhak was fourtie yeere olde, when he tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite of Padan Aram, and sister to Laban the Aramite.
Gen 25:21 And Izhak prayed vuto the Lorde for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiued,
Gen 25:22 But the children stroue together within her: therefore shee sayde, Seeing it is so, why am I thus? wherefore she went to aske the Lord.
Gen 25:23 And the Lord sayd to her, Two nations are in thy wombe, and two maner of people shalbe diuided out of thy bowels, and the one people shall be mightier then the other, and the elder shall serue the yonger.
Gen 25:24 Therefore when her time of deliuerance was fulfilled, behold, twinnes were in her wombe.
Gen 25:25 So he that came out first was red, and he was all ouer as a rough garment, and they called his name Esau.
Gen 25:26 And afterward came his brother out, and his hande helde Esau by the heele: therefore his name was called Iaakob. Nowe Izhak was threescore yeere olde when Rebekah bare them.
Gen 25:27 And the boyes grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, and liued in the fields: but Iaakob was a plaine man, and dwelt in tentes.
Gen 25:28 And Izhak loued Esau, for venison was his meate, but Rebekah loued Iaakob.
Gen 25:29 Nowe Iaakob sod pottage, and Esau came from the fielde and was wearie.
Gen 25:30 Then Esau sayd to Iaakob, Let me eate, I pray thee, of that pottage so red, for I am wearie. Therefore was his name called Edom.
Gen 25:31 And Iaakob sayd, Sell me euen nowe thy birthright.
Gen 25:32 And Esau sayd, Lo, I am almost dead, what is then this birthright to me?
Gen 25:33 Iaakob then said, Sweare to me euen now; he sware to him, and solde his birthright vnto Iaakob.
Gen 25:34 Then Iaakob gaue Esau bread and pottage of lentiles: and he did eate and drinke, and rose vp, and went his way: So Esau contemned his birthright.
Gen 26:1 And there was a famine in the lande besides the first famine that was in the dayes of Abraham. Wherefore Izhak went to Abimelech King of the Philistims vnto Gerar.
Gen 26:2 For the Lord appeared vnto him, and sayde, Goe not downe into Egypt, but abide in the land which I shall shewe vnto thee.
Gen 26:3 Dwell in this lande, and I will be with thee, and will blesse thee: for to thee, and to thy seede I will giue all these countreys: and I will performe the othe which I sware vnto Abraham thy father.
Gen 26:4 Also I wil cause thy seede to multiply as the starres of heauen, and will giue vnto thy seede all these countreys: and in thy seede shall all the nanations of the earth be blessed,
Gen 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voyce and kept mine ordinance, my commandements, my statutes, and my Lawes.
Gen 26:6 So Izhak dwelt in Gerar.
Gen 26:7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he sayd, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife, least, sayde he, the men of the place shoulde kill me, because of Rebekah: for she was beautifull to the eye.
Gen 26:8 So after hee had bene there long time, Abimelech King of the Philistims looked out at a windowe, and loe, he sawe Izhak sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Gen 26:9 Then Abimelech called Izhak, and sayde, Loe, shee is of a suertie thy wife, and why saydest thou, She is my sister? To whom Izhak answered, Because I thought this, It may be that I shall dye for her.
Gen 26:10 Then Abimelech said, Why hast thou done this vnto vs? one of the people had almost lien by thy wife, so shouldest thou haue brought sinne vpon vs.
Gen 26:11 Then Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man, or his wife, shal die the death.
Gen 26:12 Afterwarde Izhak sowed in that lande, and founde in the same yeere an hundreth folde by estimation: and so the Lord blessed him.
Gen 26:13 And the man waxed mightie, and stil increased, till he was exceeding great,
Gen 26:14 For he had flockes of sheepe, and heards of cattell, and a mightie housholde: therefore the Philistims had enuy at him.
Gen 26:15 In so much that the Philistims stopped and filled vp with earth all the welles, which his fathers seruantes digged in his father Abrahams time.
Gen 26:16 Then Abimelech sayde vnto Izhak, Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then wee a great deale.
Gen 26:17 Therefore Izhak departed thence and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen 26:18 And Izhak returning, digged the welles of water, which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father: for the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and hee gaue them the same names, which his father gaue them.
Gen 26:19 Izhaks seruantes then digged in the valley, and found there a well of liuing water.
Gen 26:20 But the herdmen of Gerar did striue with Izhaks herdmen, saying, The water is ours: therefore called he the name of the wel Esek, because they were at strife with him.
Gen 26:21 Afterwarde they digged another well, and stroue for that also, and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Gen 26:22 Then he remoued thence, and digged an other well, for the which they stroue not: therefore called hee the name of it Rehoboth, and sayde, Because the Lorde hath nowe made vs roome, we shall increase vpon the earth.
Gen 26:23 So he went vp thence to Beer-sheba.
Gen 26:24 And the Lord appeared vnto him the same night, and sayde, I am the God of Abraham thy father: feare not, for I am with thee, and wil blesse thee, and will multiplie thy seede for my seruant Abrahams sake.
Gen 26:25 Then he builte an altar there, and called vpon the Name of the Lorde, and there spred his tent: where also Izhaks seruauntes digged a well.
Gen 26:26 Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friendes, and Phichol the captaine of his armie.
Gen 26:27 To whom Izhak sayd, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate mee and haue put mee away from you?
Gen 26:28 Who answered, Wee sawe certainely that the Lorde was with thee, and wee thought thus, Let there be nowe an othe betweene vs, euen betweene vs and thee, and let vs make a couenant with thee.
Gen 26:29 If thou shalt do vs no hurt, as we haue not touched thee, and as we haue done vnto thee nothing but good, and sent thee away in peace: thou nowe, the blessed of the Lord, doe this.
Gen 26:30 Then hee made them a feast, and they dyd eate and drinke.
Gen 26:31 And they rose vp betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: then Izhak let them go, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen 26:32 And that same day Izhaks seruantes came and tolde him of a well, which they had digged, and said vnto him, We haue found water.
Gen 26:33 So hee called it Shibah: therefore the name of the citie is called Beer-sheba vnto this day.
Gen 26:34 Nowe when Esau was fourtie yeere olde, he tooke to wife Iudith, the daughter of Beeri an Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon an Hittite also.
Gen 26:35 And they were a griefe of minde to Izhak and to Rebekah.
Gen 27:1 And when Izhak was olde, and his eyes were dimme (so that he coulde not see) he called Esau his eldest sonne, and sayde vnto him, My sonne; he answered him, I am here.
Gen 27:2 Then he sayd, Beholde, I am nowe olde, and knowe not the day of my death:
Gen 27:3 Wherefore nowe, I pray thee take thine instrumentes, thy quiuer and thy bowe, and get thee to the fielde, that thou mayest take mee some venison.
Gen 27:4 Then make mee sauourie meate, such as I loue, and bring it me that I may eat, and that my soule may blesse thee, before I die.
Gen 27:5 (Nowe Rebekah heard, when Izhak spake to Esau his sonne) and Esau went into the fielde to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Gen 27:6 Then Rebekah spake vnto Iaakob her sonne, saying, Beholde, I haue heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, saying,
Gen 27:7 Bring mee venision, and make mee sauourie meate, that I may eate and blesse thee before the Lord, afore my death.
Gen 27:8 Nowe therefore, my sonne, heare my voyce in that which I command thee.
Gen 27:9 Get thee nowe to the flocke, and bring me thence two good kids of the goates, that I may make pleasant meate of them for thy father, such as he loueth.
Gen 27:10 Then shalt thou bring it to thy father, and he shal eate, to the intent that he may blesse thee before his death.
Gen 27:11 But Iaakob sayde to Rebekah his mother, Beholde, Esau my brother is rough, and I am smoothe.
Gen 27:12 My father may possibly feele me, and I shal seem to him to be a mocker: so shall I bring a curse vpon me, and not a blessing.
Gen 27:13 But his mother sayd vnto him, vpon me be thy curse, my sonne: onely heare my voyce, and go and bring me them.
Gen 27:14 So he went and set them, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made pleasant meat, such as his father loued.
Gen 27:15 And Rebekah tooke faire clothes of her elder sonne Esau, which were in her house, and clothed Iaakob her yonger sonne:
Gen 27:16 And she couered his hands and the smoothe of his necke with the skinnes of the kiddes of the goates.
Gen 27:17 Afterward she put the pleasant meate and bread, which she had prepared, in the hand of her sonne Iaakob.
Gen 27:18 And when he came to his father, he sayd, My father. Who answered, I am here: who art thou, my sonne?
Gen 27:19 And Iaakob sayde to his father, I am Esau thy first borne, I haue done as thou badest me, arise, I pray thee: sit vp and eate of my venison, that thy soule may blesse me.
Gen 27:20 Then Izhak said vnto his sonne, Howe hast thou founde it so quickly my sonne? Who sayde, Because the Lorde thy God brought it to mine hande.
Gen 27:21 Againe sayde Izhak vnto Iaakob, Come neere nowe, that I may feele thee, my sonne, whether thou be that my sonne Esau or not.
Gen 27:22 Then Iaakob came neere to Izhak his father, and he felt him and sayd, The voyce is Iaakobs voyce, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Gen 27:23 (For he knewe him not, because his hands were rough as his brother Esaus hands: wherefore he blessed him)
Gen 27:24 Againe he sayd, Art thou that my sonne Esau? Who answered, Yea.
Gen 27:25 Then said he, Bring it me hither, and I will eate of my sonnes venison, that my soule may blesse thee; he brought it to him, and he ate: also he brought him wine, and he dranke.
Gen 27:26 Afterward his father Izhak sayd vnto him, Come neere nowe, and kisse me, my sonne.
Gen 27:27 And hee came neere and kissed him. Then he smelled the sauour of his garmentes, and blessed him, and sayde, Behold, the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a fielde, which the Lorde hath blessed.
Gen 27:28 God giue thee therefore of the dewe of heauen, and the fatnesse of the earth, and plentie of wheate and wine.
Gen 27:29 Let people bee thy seruantes, and nations bowe vnto thee: be Lorde ouer thy brethren, and let thy mothers children honour thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Gen 27:30 And when Izhak had made an ende of blessing Iaakob, and Iaakob was scarce gone out from the presence of Izhak his father, then came Esau his brother from his hunting,
Gen 27:31 And hee also prepared sauourie meate and brought it to his father, and sayd vnto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his sonnes venison, that thy soule may blesse me.
Gen 27:32 But his father Izhak sayde vnto him, Who art thou? And he answered, I am thy sonne, euen thy first borne Esau.
Gen 27:33 Then Izhak was stricken with a marueilous great feare, and sayde, Who and where is hee that hunted venison, and brought it mee, and I haue eate of all before thou camest? And I haue blessed him, therefore he shalbe blessed.
Gen 27:34 When Esau heard the wordes of his father, he cryed out with a great crye and bitter, out of measure, and sayde vnto his father, Blesse me, euen me also, my father.
Gen 27:35 Who answered, Thy brother came with subtiltie, and hath taken away thy blessing.
Gen 27:36 Then he sayde, Was hee not iustly called Iaakob? for hee hath deceiued mee these two times: he tooke my birthright, and loe, nowe hath he taken my blessing. Also he sayd, Hast thou not reserued a blessing for me?
Gen 27:37 Then Izhak answered, and sayd vnto Esau, Beholde, I haue made him thy lorde, and all his brethre haue I made his seruants: also with wheate and wine haue I furnished him, & vnto thee now what shall I doe, my sonne?
Gen 27:38 Then Esau sayde vnto his father, Hast thou but one blessing my father? blesse mee, euen me also, my father: and Esau lifted vp his voyce, and wept.
Gen 27:39 Then Izhak his father answered, and sayde vnto him, Behold, the fatnesse of the earth shal be thy dwelling place, and thou shalt haue of the dewe of heauen from aboue.
Gen 27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou liue, and shalt be thy brothers seruant. But it shall come to passe, when thou shalt get the masterie, that thou shalt breake his yoke from thy necke.
Gen 27:41 Therefore Esau hated Iaakob, because of the blessing, wherewith his father blessed him; Esau thought in his minde, The dayes of mourning for my father will come shortly, then I will slay may brother Iaakob.
Gen 27:42 And it was told to Rebekah of the wordes of Esau her elder sonne, and shee sent and called Iaakob her yonger sonne, and sayd vnto him, Beholde, thy brother Esau is comforted against thee, meaning to kill thee:
Gen 27:43 Now therefore my sonne, heare my voyce, arise, & flee thou to Haran to my brother Laban,
Gen 27:44 And tarie with him a while vntill thy brothers fiercenesse be swaged,
Gen 27:45 And till thy brothers wrath turne away from thee, and hee forget the thinges, which thou hast done to him: then will I sende and take thee from thence: why shoulde I bee depriued of you both in one day?
Gen 27:46 Also Rebekah said to Izhak, I am weary of my life, for the daughters of Heth. If Iaakob take a wife of the daughters of Heth like these of the daughters of the lande, what auaileth it me to liue?
Gen 28:1 Then Izhak called Iaakob and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto him, Take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Gen 28:2 Arise, get thee to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and thence take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.
Gen 28:3 And God all sufficient blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, and multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people,
Gen 28:4 And giue thee the blessing of Abraham, euen to thee & to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest inherite the lande (wherein thou art a stranger,) which God gaue vnto Abraham.
Gen 28:5 Thus Izhak sent forth Iaakob, & he went to Padan Aram vnto Laban sonne of Bethuel the Aramite, brother to Rebekah, Iaakobs and Esaus mother.
Gen 28:6 When Esau sawe that Izhak had blessed Iaakob, and sent him to Padan Aram, to set him a wife thence, and giuen him a charge when he blessed him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,
Gen 28:7 And that Iaakob had obeyed his father & his mother, and was gone to Padan Aram:
Gen 28:8 Also Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan displeased Izhak his father,
Gen 28:9 Then went Esau to Ishmael, & tooke vnto the wiues, which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, the sister of Nabaioth, to be his wife.
Gen 28:10 Now Iaakob departed from Beer-sheba, and went to Haran,
Gen 28:11 And he came vnto a certaine place, and taried there al night, because the sunne was downe, and tooke of the stones of the place, and layde vnder his head and slept in the same place.
Gen 28:12 Then he dreamed, & behold, there stoode a ladder vpon the earth, and the top of it reached vp to heauen: and loe, the Angels of God went vp and downe by it.
Gen 28:13 And behold, the Lord stoode aboue it, & sayd, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak: the land, vpon the which thou sleepest, wil I giue thee and thy seede.
Gen 28:14 And thy seede shall be as the dust of the earth, & thou shalt spread abroad to the West, and to the East, & to the North, & to the South, and in thee and in thy seede shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Gen 28:15 And lo, I am with thee, and wil keepe thee whithersoeuer thou goest, and will bring thee againe into this lande: for I will not forsake thee vntill I haue performed that, that I haue promised thee.
Gen 28:16 Then Iaakob awoke out of his sleepe, & sayde, Surely the Lorde is in this place, and I was not aware.
Gen 28:17 And he was afraid, & said, How fearefull is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heauen.
Gen 28:18 Then Iaakob rose vp early in the morning, and tooke the stone that hee had layde vnder his head, and set it vp as a pillar, and powred oyle vpon the top of it.
Gen 28:19 And he called ye name of that place Bethel: notwithstanding the name of the citie was at the first called Luz.
Gen 28:20 Then Iaakob vowed a vowe, saying, If God will be with me, and will keepe me in this iourney which I go, & wil giue me bread to eate, and clothes to put on:
Gen 28:21 So that I come againe vnto my fathers house in safetie, then shal the Lord be my God.
Gen 28:22 And this stone, which I haue set vp as a pillar, shall be Gods house: and of all that thou shalt giue me, wil I giue the tenth vnto thee.
Gen 29:1 Then Iaakob lift vp his feete and came into the East countrey.
Gen 29:2 And as he looked about, behold there was a well in the field, and lo, three flocks of sheepe lay thereby (for at that well were the flockes watered) & there was a great stone vpon the welles mouth.
Gen 29:3 And thither were all the flockes gathered, & they rolled the stone from the welles mouth, and watered the sheepe, and put the stone againe vpon the welles mouth in his place.
Gen 29:4 And Iaakob sayde vnto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they answered, We are of Haran.
Gen 29:5 Then he sayd vnto them, Know ye Laban the sonne of Nahor? Who said, We know him.
Gen 29:6 Againe he sayd vnto them, Is he in good health? And they answered, He is in good health, and beholde, his daughter Rahel commeth with the sheepe.
Gen 29:7 Then he sayd, Lo, it is yet hie day, neither is it time that the cattell shoulde be gathered together: water ye the sheepe and go feede them.
Gen 29:8 But they sayde, We may not vntill all the flocks be brought together, and till men rolle the stone from the welles mouth, that we may water the sheepe.
Gen 29:9 While he talked with them, Rahel also came with her fathers sheepe, for she kept them.
Gen 29:10 And assoone as Iaakob saw Rahel ye daughter of Laban his mothers brother, and the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother, then came Iaakob neere, & rolled the stone fro the welles mouth, & watered ye flocke of Laban his mothers brother.
Gen 29:11 And Iaakob kissed Rahel, and lift vp his voyce and wept.
Gen 29:12 (For Iaakob tolde Rahel, that he was her fathers brother, & that he was Rebekahs sonne) then she ranne and tolde her father.
Gen 29:13 And when Laban heard tell of Iaakob his sisters sonne, he ranne to meete him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house: and he tolde Laban all these things.
Gen 29:14 To whome Laban sayd, Well, thou art my bone and my flesh; he abode with him the space of a moneth.
Gen 29:15 For Laban sayde vnto Iaakob, Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therfore serue me for nought? tell me, what shalbe thy wages?
Gen 29:16 Now Laban had two daughters, the elder called Leah, and the yonger called Rahel.
Gen 29:17 And Leah was tender eyed, but Rahel was beautifull and faire.
Gen 29:18 And Iaakob loued Rahel, and sayde, I will serue thee seuen yeeres for Rahel thy yonger daughter.
Gen 29:19 Then Laban answered, It is better that I giue her thee, then that I should giue her to another man: abide with me.
Gen 29:20 And Iaakob serued seuen yeres for Rahel, and they seemed vnto him but a few dayes, because he loued her.
Gen 29:21 Then Iaakob sayde to Laban, Giue me my wife, that I may goe in to her: for my terme is ended.
Gen 29:22 Wherefore Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Gen 29:23 But whe the euening was come, he tooke Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in vnto her.
Gen 29:24 And Laban gaue his mayde Zilpah to his daughter Leah, to be her seruant.
Gen 29:25 But when the morning was come, behold, it was Leah. Then sayde he to Laban, Wherefore hast thou done thus to mee? did not I serue thee for Rahel? wherfore then hast thou beguiled me?
Gen 29:26 And Laban answered, It is not the maner of this place, to giue the yonger before the elder.
