The Holy Bible The King James
Version Read by Christopher Glynn The first book of Moses called
Genesis Chapter 1 In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form
and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said,
Let there be light. And there was light. And God
saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from
the darkness. And God called the light Day,
and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day. And God said, Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which were under the firmament from the
waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called
the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning
were the second day. And God said, Let the waters
under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and
let the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called
the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called
he seas. And God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding
fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth. And it was so. And the earth
brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after
his kind. And God saw that it was good,
and the evening and the morning were the third day. And God said,
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the
day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons
and for days and years, and let them be for lights in the firmament
of the heaven, to give light upon the earth. And it was so,
and God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars
also, and God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness, and God saw
that it was good, and the evening and the morning were the fourth
day. And God said, Let the waters
bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and
fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their
kind. And every winged fowl after his
kind, And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying,
Be fruitful, and multiply, And fill the waters in the seas,
And let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the
morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind, Cattle and creeping
thing and beast of the earth after his kind. And it was so. And God made the beast of the
earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. And God saw that
it was good. And God said, Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in
his own image in the image of God created he him male and female
Created he them and God blessed them and God said unto them be
fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and Have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the
air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth And
God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which
is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is
the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for
meat. And to every beast of the earth,
and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth
upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green
herb for meat. And it was so. And God saw everything
that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day. Genesis chapter 2. Thus the heavens
and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And
on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made. And God blessed the seventh day
and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all
his work which God created and made. These are the generations
of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the
day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every
plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb
of the field before it grew. For the Lord God had not caused
it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the
ground. But there went up a mist from
the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord
God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed,
and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life
also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of
good and evil. And a river went out of Eden
to water the garden. And from thence it was parted
and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison.
That is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where
there is gold. And the gold of that land is
good. There is Delium and the Onyx
Stone. And the name of the second river
is Gihon. The same is it that compasseth
the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river
is Hiddekel, that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man
and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep
it. And the Lord God commanded the
man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely
eat. But of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' And the Lord God
said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make
him an help, meat for him. And out of the ground the Lord
God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air,
and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them.
And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the
name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field.
But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the
Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam. And he slept. And he took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the
Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone
of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman,
because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave
his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and
they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the
man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Genesis chapter 3 Now
the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which
the Lord God had made, and he said unto the woman, Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And
the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the
trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in
the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of
it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent
said unto the woman, He shall not surely die. For God doth
know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her,
and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig
leaves together and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice
of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord
God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called
unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said,
I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was
naked, and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that
thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof
I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The
woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree,
and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the
woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said,
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said
unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed
above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of
thy life. And I will put enmity between
thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman
he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall
be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam
he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and
hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In sorrow
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also,
and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the
herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground. For out of it
wast thou taken, for dust thou art, And unto dust shalt thou
return. And Adam called his wife's name
Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also,
and to his wife, did the Lord God make coats of skins, and
clothed them. And the Lord God said, Behold,
the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his
hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for
ever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden
of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove
out the man, and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden
cherubims and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep
the way of the Tree of Life. Genesis chapter 4 And Adam knew Eve his wife, and
she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man
from the Lord. And she again bare his brother
Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep,
but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time
it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an
offering unto the Lord, and Abel he also brought of the firstlings
of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto
Abel and to his offering, but unto Cain and to his offering
he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and
his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain,
Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted. And if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall
be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked
with Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they
were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother
and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper? And
he said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood
crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from
the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's
blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground,
it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. A fugitive
and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto
the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou
hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from
thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond
in the earth, and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth
me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him, Therefore,
whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon
Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from
the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod on the
east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she
conceived and bare Enoch. And he built a city, and called
the name of the city after the name of his son, And unto Enoch
was born Irad, and Irad begat Mehugel, and Mehugel begat Methusel,
and Methusel begat Lamech. And Lamech took unto him two
wives. The name of the one was Adah,
and the name of the other Zillah. And Adar bared Jabal. He was
the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal.
He was the father of all such as handled the harp and organ. And Zillah she also bared Tubal-kain,
an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron. And the sister
of Tubal-kain was Naamah. And Lamech said unto his wives
Adar and Zillah. Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech,
hearken unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding and
a young man to my hurt, if Cain should be avenged sevenfold.
Truly, Lamech, seventy and sevenfold. And Adam knew his wife again,
and she bare a son, and called his name Seth. For God, said
she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain
slew. And to Seth, to him also there
was born a son, and he called his name Enos. Then began men
to call upon the name of the Lord. Genesis chapter 6 And it came to pass, when men
began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were
born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men
that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which
they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit
shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh,
yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were
giants in the earth in those days, and also after that, when
the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they
bare children to them. The same became mighty men which
were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it
repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man
and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air, for
it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in
the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of
Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect
in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat
three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before
God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked
upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end
of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with
violence through them. And behold, I will destroy them
with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood. Rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this
is the fashion which thou shalt make it of. The length of the
ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits,
and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the
ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above, and the door
of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof. With lower,
second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And behold I, even
I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all
flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything
that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish
my covenant. And thou shalt come into the
ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with
thee. And of every living thing of
all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark,
to keep them alive with thee. They shall be male and female. of fowls after their kind, and
of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth
after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to
keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all
food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee, and
it shall be for food for thee and for them. Thus did Noah,
according to all that God commanded him, so did he. Genesis chapter
7 And the LORD said unto Noah,
Come thou and all thy house into the ark, for thee have I seen
righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt
take to thee by sevens, the male and his female, and of beasts
that are not clean, by two, the male and his female, of fowls
also of the air, by sevens, the male and the female, to keep
seed alive upon the face of all the earth. for yet seven days,
and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty
nights, and every living substance that I have made will I destroy
from off the face of the earth. And Noah did according unto all
that the Lord commanded him. And Noah was six hundred years
old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah
went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with
him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean
beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and
of everything that creepeth upon the earth, they went in two and
two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had
commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven
days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six
hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth
day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the
great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth
forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah
and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's
wife and the three wives of his sons with them. into the ark. They and every beast after his
kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every
fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And they went
in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein
is the breath of life. And they that went in went in
male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And
the LORD shut him in. And the flood was forty days
upon the earth, and the waters increased, and bare up the ark,
and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed
and were increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon
the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth, and all the high hills that were under the whole
heaven were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the
waters prevail, and the mountains were covered, and all flesh died. that moved upon the earth, both
of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man, all, in
whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the
dry land, died. And every living substance was
destroyed, which was upon the face of the ground, both man
and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven,
and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah only remained
alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters
prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Genesis chapter
8 And God remembered Noah and every
living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark.
And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged. The fountains also of the deep
and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven
was restrained, and the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of the hundred
and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in
the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month upon the mountains
of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually
until the tenth month. In the tenth month on the first
day of the month were the tops of the mountains seen. And it
came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window
of the ark which he had made, and he sent forth a raven, which
went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off
the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from
him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the
ground. But the dove found no rest for
the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark,
for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put
forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into
the ark. And he stayed yet other seven
days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. And
the dove came into him in the evening, and low in her mouth
was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters
were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven
days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto
him any more. And it came to pass, in the six
hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day
of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering
of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the
seventh and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy
sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living
thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and of cattle
and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that
they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and
multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his
sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, every beast,
every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth
upon the earth after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. And
Noah built an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean
beast and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on
the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet
savour, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse
the ground any more for man's sake. For the imagination of
man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again smite
any more everything living as I have done. While the earth
remaineth, seedtime and harvest and cold and heat and summer
and winter and day and night shall not cease. Genesis chapter
9 And God blessed Noah and his
sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth. 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.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you, even as
the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the
life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall he not eat? And
surely your blood of your lives will I require, at the hand of
every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man, at the
hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by
man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made
he man. And you, be ye fruitful and multiply,
bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. And God spake unto Noah and to
his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant
with you, and with your seed after you, 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. 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. 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. I do set my bow in the cloud,
and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the
earth. And it shall come to pass, when
I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in
the cloud, and I will remember my covenant, which 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. And the
bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may
remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living
creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said
unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have
established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. And the sons of Noah that went
forth of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is
the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah,
and of them was the whole earth overspread. And Noah began to
be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. And he drank of the
wine, and was drunken, and it was uncovered within his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,
and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment
and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered
the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward,
and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from
his wine and knew what his youngest son had done unto him. And he
said, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto
his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord
God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge
Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan
shall be his servant. And Noah lived after the flood,
three hundred and fifty years, and all the days of Noah were
nine hundred and fifty years. And he died. Genesis chapter
11 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they
journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land
of Sheena, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they
had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they
said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top
may reach unto heaven. And let us make a name, lest
we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' And
the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the
children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the
people is one, and they have all one language, and this they
begin to do. And now nothing will be restrained
from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left
off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called
Babel, 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. These are the generations of
Shem. Shem was a hundred years old
and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood. And Shem lived
after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years and begat sons
and daughters. And Arphaxad lived five and thirty
years and begat Selah. And Arphaxad lived after he begat
Selah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Sailor lived thirty years,
and begat Eber. And Sailor lived, after he begat
Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Eber lived four and thirty
years, and begat Peleg. And Eber lived, after he begat
Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And Peleg lived thirty years,
and begat Riu. And Peleg lived, after he begat
Riu, two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Riu lived two and thirty years, and begat Sirug. And Riu
lived, after he begat Sirug, two hundred and seven years.
and begat sons and daughters. And Sirug lived thirty years,
and begat Nahor. And Sirug lived, after he begat
Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And
Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Tira. And Nahor lived,
after he begat Tira, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat
sons and daughters. And Tira lived seventy years,
and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Now these are the generations
of Tira. Tira begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died before his father
Tira in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram
and Nahor took them wives. The name of Abram's wife was
Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milca, the daughter of
Haran, the father of Milca, and the father of Isca. But Sarai
was barren, she had no child. And Tira took Abram his son,
and 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 Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan. And they came
unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two
hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. Genesis chapter
12 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from
thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I
will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless
them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee. And in
thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed
as the Lord had spoken unto him, and Lot went with him. And Abram
was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and
all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan. And into the land of Canaan they
came. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sycam,
unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in
the land. And the Lord appeared unto Abraham,
and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there builded
he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. And he removed
from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched
his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east. And there he builded an altar
unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord. and Abram
journeyed going on still toward the south. 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. 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. Therefore it shall come to pass,
when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This
is his wife, and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 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. And it came to pass that when
Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that
she was very fair. The princes also of Pharaoh saw
her and commended her before Pharaoh, and the woman was taken
into Pharaoh's house. 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. And the Lord plagued
Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's
wife. 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? Why saidst thou, She
is my sister, so I might have taken her to meet a wife? Now
therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. Pharaoh
commanded his men concerning him and they sent him away and
his wife and all that he had Genesis chapter 13 And Abram went up out of Egypt,
he and his wife and all that he had, and lot with him into
the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle,
in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from
the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had
been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai, unto the place
of the altar, which he had make 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. And the land was not
able to bear them that they might dwell together, for their substance
was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there
was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen
of Lot's cattle, and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then
in the land. And Abraham said unto Lot, Let
there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between
my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we be brethren. 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 wilt depart to the
right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot lifted up his
eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered
everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the
garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest
unto Zohar. Then Lot chose him all the plain
of Jordan. And Lot journeyed east, and they
separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled
in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the
plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were
wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. And the Lord
said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift
up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, Northward
and southward, and eastward and westward. For all the land which
thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the
dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of
the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise walk
through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it
for I will give it unto thee Then Abram removed his tent and
came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre which is in Hebron and
built there an altar unto the Lord Genesis chapter 14 And it
came to pass, in the days of Amraphel king of Shina, Arioch
king of Elisha, Kedolaioma king of Elam, and Tidal king of Nations,
that these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Bersha
king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Edmar, and Shemiba king of
Zeboim, and the king of Bila, which is Zohar. All these were
joined together in the Vale of Sidim, which is the Salt Sea. Twelve years they served Keduleoma,
and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. And in the fourteenth
year came Kedileomer and the kings that were with him, and
smote the Rephaeans in Ashteroth, Carneum, and the Zuzims in Ham,
and the Emans in Sheva-Kirithaim, and the Horites in their Mount
Seir unto Elperan, which is by the wilderness. 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 Hazes-Zontema. And they went out the king of
Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the
king of Zeboim, and the king of Bilah, the same is Zohar,
and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddam. with Kedileomer,
the king of Elam, and with Tidal, king of nations, and Amraphel,
king of Shina, and Ariok, king of Eleazar. Four kings with five. And the vale of Siddam was full
of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah
fled and fell there. And they that remained fled to
the mountain. And they took all the goods of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their vittles, and went their way.
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and
his goods, and departed. 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 Anah. And these
were confederate with Abram. And when Abram heard that his
brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born
in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them
unto Dan. 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. And
he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother
Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. And the
king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the
slaughter of Keduleoma and of the kings that were with him
at the valley of Sheva, which is the king's dale. And Melchizedek,
king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was the
priest of the Most High God. And he blessed him and said,
Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heaven
and earth. And blessed be the most high
God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.' And he
gave him tithes of all. And the king of Sodom said unto
Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. And
Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto
the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
that I will not take from a thread, even to a shoe latchet, and that
I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou shouldst
say, I have made Abram rich. Save only that which the young
men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me,
Ana, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.
Genesis chapter 15 After these things the word of
the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am
thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. 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? And Abram
said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed, and lo, one born
in my house is mine heir. 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.'
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven,
and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said
unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord,
and he counted it to him for righteousness. 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. And he said, Lord God, whereby
shall I know that I shall inherit it? And he said unto him, Take
me an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years
old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a
young pigeon.' 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. And when the fowls came down
upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. And when the sun was
going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and lo, an horror
of great darkness fell upon him. 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. And also that nation whom they
shall serve will I judge, and afterward shall they come out
with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers
in peace, thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the
fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the iniquity
of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass that when
the sun went down and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace
and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the
same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy
seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto
the great river, the river Euphrates, the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaan Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children, and
she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai
said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from
bearing. I pray thee, go in unto my maid. It may be that I may obtain children
by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice
of Sarai, and Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar, her maid, the
Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan,
and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. And he went in
unto Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had
conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. And Sarai said unto
Abram, My wrong be upon thee. I have given my maid into thy
bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised
in her eyes. The Lord judge between me and
thee. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold,
thy maid is in thine hand. Do to her as it pleaseth thee.
And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. And the angel of the Lord found
her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain
in the way to Shur. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid,
whence camest thou, and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I
flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. And the angel of the Lord
said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself
under her hands.' And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I
will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered
for multitude. And the angel of the Lord said
unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shall bear a son,
and shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord hath heard thy
affliction. and he will be a wild man, his
hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against
him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.'
And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou
God seest me. For she said, Have I also here
looked after him that seeth me? Wherefore the well was called
Birlehairoi. Behold, it is between Kedesh
and Bered. And Hagar bare Abram a son. And Abram called his son's name,
which Hagar bare, Ishmael. And Abram was fourscore and six
years old when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. Genesis chapter 17. And when Abram was ninety years
old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I
am the Almighty God. Walk before me, and be thou perfect,
and I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply
thee exceedingly. And Abram fell on his face, and
God talked with him, saying, As for me, behold, my covenant
is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abraham, but thy name
shall be Abraham. For a father of many nations
have I made thee. And I will make thee exceeding
fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come
out of thee. And I will establish my covenant
between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations,
for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to
thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee and
to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger,
or the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I
will be their God.' And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep
my covenant therefore, thou and thy seed after thee in their
generations. This is my covenant, which ye
shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee. Every
man-child among you shall be circumcised, and ye shall circumcise
the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token of the covenant
betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old
shall be circumcised among you. Every man-child in your generations,
he that is born in the house or bought with money of any stranger
which is not of thy seed, he that is born in thy house and
he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised. And
my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcised man-child,
whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall
be cut off from his people. He hath broken my covenant. And
God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not
call her name Sarai, but Sara shall her name be. And I will
bless her, and give thee a son also of her. Yea, I will bless
her, and she shall be a mother of nations, kings of people shall
be of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face
and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born
unto him that is a hundred years old, and shall Sarah that is
ninety years old bear? And Abraham said unto God, O
that Ishmael might live before thee! And God said, Sarah thy
wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name
Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting
covenant, and with his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I have
heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him, and
will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. Twelve
princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. But
my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.' And he left
off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. And Abraham
took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house,
and all that were bought with his money, every male among the
men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in
the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. and Abraham was
ninety years old and nine when he was circumcised in the flesh
of his foreskin and Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when
he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin in the self same
day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael his son and all the men
of his house born in the house and bought with the money of
the stranger were circumcised with him Genesis chapter 18 And the Lord appeared unto him
in the plains of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the heat
of the day, and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three
men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran
to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the
ground, and said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy
sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. Let a
little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet,
and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will fetch a morsel
of bread, and comfort ye your hearts. After that ye shall pass
on, for therefore are ye come to your servants. And they said,
So do, as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the
tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures
of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham
ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf, tender and good, and
gave it unto a young man, and he hasted to dress it. And he
took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and
set it before them. And he stood by them under the
tree, and they did eat. And they said unto him, Where
is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly
return unto thee according to the time of life. And lo, Sarah
thy wife shall have a son, And Sarah heard it in the tent door
which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old
and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after
the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my
Lord being old also? And the Lord said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child,
which am old? Is anything too hard for the
Lord? At the time appointed I will
return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall
have a son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I
laugh not, for she was afraid. And he said, Nay, but thou didst
laugh. And the men rose up from thence,
and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to
bring them on the way. And the Lord said, Shall I hide
from Abraham that thing which I do, seeing that Abraham shall
surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of
the earth shall be blessed in him? For I know him, that he
will command his children and his household after him, and
they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment,
that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken
of him. And the Lord said, because the
cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin
is very grievous, I will go down now and see whether they have
done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto
me. And if not, I will know. And
the men turned their faces from thence and went towards Sodom. But Abraham stood yet before
the Lord, and Abraham drew near and said, Will thou also destroy
the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure, there be fifty
righteous within the city. Wilt thou also destroy and not
spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That
be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous
with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked,
that be far from thee. Shall not the judge of all the
earth do right?' And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty
righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for
their sakes. And Abraham answered and said,
Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which
am but dust and ashes. Peradventure, there shall lack
five of the fifty righteous. Wilt thou destroy all the city
for lack of five? And he said, If I find there
forty and five, I will not destroy it. And he spake unto him yet
again, and said, Peradventure, there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it
for forty's sake. And he said unto him, O let not
the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Peradventure, there shall
thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it
if I find thirty there. And he said, Behold thou, I have
taken upon me to speak unto the Lord. Peradventure there shall
be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy
it for twenty's sake. And he said, O let not the Lord
be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure,
ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy
it for ten's sake. And the Lord went his way as
soon as he had left communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned
unto his place. Genesis chapter 19. And there came two angels to
Sodom at even. And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot, seeing them, rose up
to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,
and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your
servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and
ye shall rise up early and go on your ways. And they said,
Nay, but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed
upon them greatly, and they turned in unto him, and entered into
his house, and he made them a feast, and bake unleavened bread, and
they did eat. But before they lay down, the
men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house
round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the
men which came into thee this night? Bring them out unto us,
that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door
unto them, and shut the door after him, and said, I pray you,
brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters
which have not known man. Let me, I pray you, bring them
out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes. Only
unto these men do nothing. For therefore came they under
the shadow of my roof. And they said, Stand back. And
they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will
needs be a judge. Now we will deal worse with thee
than with them. And they pressed sore upon the
man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men
put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them, and
shut to the door. And they smote the men that were
at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great,
so that they wearied themselves to find the door. And the men
said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides, son-in-law, and
thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the
city, bring them out of this place, for we will destroy this
place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face
of the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. Lot went
out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters,
and said, Up, get you out of this place, for the Lord will
destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked
unto his sons-in-law. And when the morning arose, then
the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy
two daughters which are here, lest thou be consumed in the
iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men
laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and
upon the hand of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful unto
him, and they brought him forth and set him without the city.
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,
that he said, Escape for thy life, look not behind thee, neither
stay thou in all the plain, escape to the mountain, lest thou be
consumed. And Lot said unto them, O not
so, my lord! Behold, now thy servant hath
found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy,
which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life, and I cannot
escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die.
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little
one. Oh, let me escape thither. Is it not a little one? And my
soul shall live.' And he said unto him, See, I have accepted
thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this
city, for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither,
for I cannot do anything till thou become thither. Therefore,
the name of the city was called Zohar. The sun was risen upon
the earth when Lot entered into Zohar. Then the Lord rained upon
Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of
heaven, and he overthrew those cities and all the plain and
all the inhabitants of the cities and that which grew upon the
ground. But his wife looked back from behind him and she became
a pillar of salt. And Abraham gath up early in
the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord. And
he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the
plain, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country went up
as the smoke of a furnace. And it came to pass, when God
destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham and
sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew
the cities in which Lot dwelt. And Lot went up out of Zohar
and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for
he feared to dwell in Zohar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and
his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the
younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth
to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth. Come,
let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him,
that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their
father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and
lay with her father. And he perceived not when she
lay down nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow
that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesterday
night with my father. Let us make him drink wine this
night also, and go thou in and lie with him, that we may preserve
seed of our father.' And they made their father drink wine
that night also. And the younger arose and lay
with him, and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she
arose. Thus were both the daughters
of Lot, with child, by their father. And the firstborn bear
a son, and called his name Moab. The same is the father of the
Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bear
a son, and called his name Benamai. The same is the father of the
children of Ammon unto this day.