God's covenant with Noah.

B. C. 2348.

a ch. 1. 28. ver. 7, 19. ch. 10. 32, b ch. 1. 28

Hoз. 2. 18.

c Deut. 12, 15. & 14.3, 9, il. Acts 10. 12, 13

d ch. 1. 29.

eRom. 14. 14,

2).

1 Cor. 10. 23,

26.

Col. 2. 16.

1 Tim. 4.3, 4.

CHAPTER IX.

1 God blesseth Noah, 4 Blood and murder are forbidden. 8 God's covenant, 13 signified by the rainbow. 18 Noah replenisheth the world, 20 planteth a vineyard, 21 is drunken, and mocked of his son, 25 curseth Canaan, 26 blesseth Shem, 27 prayeth for Japheth, 29 and dieth.

ND God blessed Noah and his sons, and A vaid unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

3o Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the d green herb have I given you all things.

4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and hat the hand of man; at the hand of every iman's brother will I reDeut. 12. 23.quire the life of man.

f Lov. 17. 10, 11, 14. & 19. 26.

1 Sam. 14.33,

31.

Acts 15. 20, 29.

g Ex. 21. 28. hch. 4. 9, 10.

Ps. 9. 12.

i Acts 17. 26, Ex,21.12,14. Lev. 24. 17. Matt. 26. 52. Rev. 13. 10. I ch. 1. 27.

m ver. 1, 19. ch. 1. 28.

ù ch. 6. 18. o Is. 51 9.

Pa. 145. 9. q Is. 54, 9.

rch. 17. 11.

s Rev. 4, 3.

t Ex. 28. 12.

45.

Ez. 16. 60.

6&Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

8

And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with liim, saying,

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

10 ? And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12 And God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

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

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which Lev. 26. 42, is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember u ch.17.13,19. | "the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

The generations of Noah. B. C. 2347.

drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of th and coveir faces were backward, and they saw not their father's naked

ness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; fa servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

20 And he said, ƒBlessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Ca- | naan shall be his servant.

28 ¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

The confusion of tongues.

B. C.

about 2218.

† Heb. Azzah.

1 Chr. 1. 17, &c.

† Heb.

packshad.

Ar

ch. 11. 12.

+ Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

24 And Arphaxad begat († Salah; and Sa

Heb. Shelah begat Eber. lah.

25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

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

the whole earth.

5 b And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, "the people is one, and they have all done language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, flet us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called "Babel;

k because the LORD did there confound the

language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the

face of all the earth.

10 ¶These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

|

The generations of Terah.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty | B. C. 2311. years, and begat Salah :

36.

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Sam See Luke 3. lah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

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

16 "And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat "Peleg:

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

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

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

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, begat Serug:

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no u ch. 16.1,2,& child. 18. 11, 12. 31 And Terah "took Abram his son, and | w ch. 12. 1. Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chuldees, to go into the land of Ca-y ch. 10. 19. naan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt about 1923. there.

1 God calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a promise of Christ. 4 He departeth with Lot from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, 7 which is promised him in a vision. driven by a famine into Egypt, 11 Fear maketh him feign his wife to be his sister. 14 Pharaoh, having taken her from him, by plagues is compelled to restore her.

Netthee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

OW LORD had said unto Abram,

26 And I will make of thee a great nation, Cand I will bless thee, and make thy name great; dand thou shalt be a blessing:

2 Neh. 9. 7. Acts 7. 4.

1921.

a ch. 15. 7.

Neh. 9. 7.
Is. 11. 2.
Acts 7. 3.
Heb. 11. 8.

b ch. 17. 6, &
18. 18.
Deut. 26. 5.
1 Kings 3. 8.

ech. 24. 35. deh. 28. 4.

Gal, 3. 14.

e ch. 27. 29. Ex. 23. 22. Num. 21. 9.

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, fch. 18. 18. & and curse him that curseth thee: fand in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had

22.18. & 26.4. Ps. 72, 17. Acts 3. 25. Gal. 3. 8.

| Beth-el and Hai;

Abram and Lot part.

1921. g ch. 14. 14. h ch. 11. 31.

i Heb. 11. 9.

k Deut. 11.30. Judg. 7. 1. ch. 10. 18,19. & 13. 7. m ch. 17. 1.

n ch. 13. 15. & 17. 8. Ps. 105.9, 11. o ch. 13. 4.

p ch. 13. 4. 7 ch. 13. 3.

Heb. in going and jour neying.

* ch. 26. 1.
. Ps. 105, 13.
i ch. 43. 1.

u ver. 14. ch. 26. 7.

6 And Abram ipassed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

7" And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, "Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an "altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

9 And Abram journeyed, 9† going on still toward the south.

10. And there was "a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art "a fair woman to look upon : 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall w ch. 20. 11. & say, This is his wife and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

26. 7.

a ch, 20, 5, 13.

See ch. 26. 7.

about 1920. y ch. 39. 7. Matt. 5. 28.

z ch. 20. 2,

a ch. 20. 14.

6 ch. 20. 18.

13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

14 ¶ And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

16 And he "entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and 1 Chr. 16. 21. his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Ps. 105. 14.
Heb. 13. 4.

c ch.20.9.&26. 10.

d Prov. 21. 1.

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

20 d And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

CHAPTER XIII.

1 Abram and Lot return out of Egypt. 7 By disagreement they part asunder. 10 Lot goeth to wicked Sodom. 14 God reneweth the promise to Abram. 18 He removeth to Hebron, and there

buildeth an altar.

4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And ƒthe land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: hand the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, iLet there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be + brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

10 And. Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD " destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

B. C. about 1918.

deh. 12. 7, 8.

e Ps. 116. 17.

fch. 36. 7.

g ch. 26. 20. ch. 12. 6.

men

a ch. 14. 13. †IIeb. plains.

b ch. 35. 27, & 37. 14,

a ch. 12. 9.

b ch. 24. 35. Ps. 112. 3. Prov. 10. 22. c ch. 12. 8, 9.

and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, "into the south.

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

3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where

3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedor

dch. 19. 22.

e Num.34. 12. Deut. 3. 17. Josh. 3. 16. Ps. 107. 34. fch. 9. 26. about 1913.

Or, The plain of Paran, ch. 21. 21. Num. 12. 16. & 13. 3.

7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt "in Hazezon-ta

mar.

8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, m 2 Chr. 20. 2. and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.

10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that o ch. 19. 17, remained fled to the mountain. 30.

w ch. 15. 3. & 17. 12, 27. Ecc. 2. 7.

x Deut. 31. 1. Judg. 18. 29.

y Is. 41. 2, 3. z ver. 11, 12,

a Judg. 11.34. 1 Sam. 18. 6. ¿ Heb. 7. 1.

c2Sam. 18.18. d Heb. 7. 1. e Ps. 110. 4. Heb. 5. 6.

ƒ Mic. 6. 6. Acts 16. 17. g Ruth 3. 10. 2 Sam. 2. 5. h ver. 22.

Matt. 11. 25. ich. 21. 27. ¿ Heb. 7. 4. † Heb. souls.

¿Ex. 6. 8.

Dan. 12. 7. Rev. 10.5, 6. in ver. 19. ch. 21. 33.

11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

13 ¶ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: tand these were confederate with Abram.

14 And when Abram heard that "his brother was taken captive, he l armed his trained servants, "born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them

*unto Dan.

15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

17 And the king of Sodom "went out to meet him, b after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of ƒ the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

22 Ånd Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, "the possessor of heaven and earth,

23 That "I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not tako 1 So Esth. 9. any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

A son promised to Abram.

CHAPTER XV...

1 God encourageth Abram. 2 Abram complaineth for want of an heir. 4 God promiseth him a son, and a multiplying of his seed. 6 Abram is Justified by faith. 7 Canaan is promised again, and confirmed by a sign, 12 and á vision.

A

FTER these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram "in a vision, saying, 6 Fear not, Abram: I am thy "shield," and thy exceeding great reward.

B. C. about 1913.

a Dan. 10. 1. Acts10.10,11.

b ch. 26. 24.

Dan, 10. 12. Lukel. 13.30.

́c Pa. 3. 3. & 5. 12. & 84. 11. & 91. 4. & 119. 114.

2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?d Pa. 16. 5. & 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

58. 11. Prov. 11. 18. e.Acts 7. 5. fch. 14. 14. 72Sam. 7. 12. & 16. 11. 2 Chr. 32. 21. h Ps. 147. 4.

4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and Jer. 33. 22. said, Look now toward heaven, and I tell the istars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he mcounted it to him for righteousness.

7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that "brought thee out of "Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord GOD, ? whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

9. And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

10 And he took unto him all these, and "divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, ta deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety "that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and "they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

& ch. 22. 17. Ex. 32. 13. Deut. 1. 10. & 10. 22. 1 Chr. 27. 23. Rom. 4. 18. Heb. 11. 12. See ch.13.16.

/ Rom. 4. 3, 9, 22. Gal. 3.6. James 2. 23. m Ps. 106. 31. ch. 12. 1.

o chí. 11. 28,31. pPs. 105.42,44. Rom. 4. 13. 7See ch.24.13, 14. Judg. 6. 17, 37.

1 Sain. 14. 9, 10.

2 Kings 20.8. Luke 1. 18.

rJer.34.18,19.

9 Lev. 1. 17.
í ch. 2. 21.
Job 4. 13.
u Ex. 12. 40.
Ps. 105. 23.
Acts 7. 6.

w Ex. 1. 11. Ps. 105. 25. x Ex. 6. 6. Deut. 6. 22.

15 And thou shalt go "to thy fathers in peace; bthou shalt be buried in a good old age. Ex. 12. 36. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity dof the Amorites is not yet full.

17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and ta burning lamp that f passed between those pieces.

18 In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Ps. 105. 37.
z Jub 5. 26.
a Acts 13. 36.
bch. 25. 8:

ċ Ex. 12, 40.
d1 Kings 21.
26.

eDan. 8. 23.
Matt. 23. 32.
1 Thess. 2.16.

Heb. alamp of fire. fJer.34.18,19.

g ch. 24. 7.

h ch. 12. 7. &
13. 15.& 26.4.
Ex. 23. 31.
Num. 34. 3.
Deut. 1.7. &
11. 24. & 34.4.
Josh. 1. 4.

1 Kings 4.21.
2 Chr. 9. 26.
Neh. 9. 8.
Ps. 105. 11.
Is. 27. 12.
a ch. 15. 2, 3.
b ch. 21. 9.
c Gal. 4, 24.