1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

² And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

³ And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.

⁴ And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

⁶ And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.

⁷ And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so.

⁸ And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning—a second day.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear. And it was so.

¹⁰ And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.

¹² And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed after its kind, and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in them, after their kind. And God saw that it was good.

¹³ And there was evening, and there was morning—a third day.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night,—and the stars.

¹⁷ And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth,

¹⁸ and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—a fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

²¹ And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.

²³ And there was evening, and there was morning—a fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so.

²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.

²⁷ And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

²⁸ And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.

²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;

³⁰ and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so.

³¹ And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

2 And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished.

² And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

³ And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.

⁴ These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,

⁵ and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

⁶ But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground.

⁷ And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

⁸ And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.

⁹ And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four main streams.

¹¹ The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.

¹² And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates.

¹⁵ And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

¹⁶ And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou shalt freely eat;

¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

¹⁸ And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.

¹⁹ And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought [them] to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.

²⁰ And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like.

²¹ And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.

²² And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man.

²³ And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man.

²⁴ Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

²⁵ And they were both naked, Man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

3 And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

² And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

³ but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.

⁴ And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die;

⁵ but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

⁷ 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.

⁸ And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden.

⁹ And Jehovah Elohim called to Man, and said to him, Where art thou?

¹⁰ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I feared, because I am naked; and I hid myself.

¹¹ And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?

¹² And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

¹³ And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

¹⁴ And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.

¹⁶ To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

¹⁸ and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

²⁰ And Man called his wife's name Eve; because she is the mother of all living.

²¹ And Jehovah Elohim made Adam and his wife coats of skin, and clothed them.

²² And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever …!

²³ Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

²⁴ And he drove out Man; and he set the Cherubim, and the flame of the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life.

4 And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah.

² And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman.

³ And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah.

⁴ And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat. And Jehovah looked upon Abel, and on his offering;

⁵ and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

⁶ And Jehovah said to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why is thy countenance fallen?

⁷ If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

⁸ And Cain spoke to 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.

⁹ And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?

¹⁰ And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

¹¹ And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

¹² When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth.

¹³ And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is too great to be borne.

¹⁴ Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a wanderer and fugitive on the earth; and it will come to pass, [that] every one who finds me will slay me.

¹⁵ And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever slayeth Cain, it shall be revenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

¹⁶ And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, toward the east of Eden.

¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city; and he called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.

¹⁸ And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lemech.

¹⁹ And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah.

²⁰ And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents, and [breed] cattle.

²¹ And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of those who handle the harp and pipe.

²² And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, the forger of every kind of tool of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

²³ And Lemech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lemech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for my wound, and a youth for my bruise.

²⁴ If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold.

²⁵ And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: … For God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain has slain him.

²⁶ And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.

5 This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.

² Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

³ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.

⁴ And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

⁵ And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

⁶ And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.

⁷ And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

⁸ And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.

⁹ And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.

¹⁰ And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹¹ And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.

¹² And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel.

¹³ And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴ And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

¹⁵ And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.

¹⁶ And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁷ And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.

¹⁸ And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.

¹⁹ And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁰ And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.

²¹ And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methushelah.

²² And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

²⁴ And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

²⁵ And Methushelah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lemech.

²⁶ And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁷ And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.

²⁸ And Lemech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.

²⁹ And he called his name Noah, saying, This [one] shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.

³⁰ And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.

³¹ And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.

³² And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

6 And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

³ And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

⁴ In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

⁵ And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.

⁶ And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

⁷ And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created, from the earth—from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.

⁸ But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁹ This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.

¹⁰ And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence.

¹² And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.

¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹⁴ Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: [with] cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

¹⁵ And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

¹⁶ A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: [with] a lower, second, and third [story] shalt thou make it.

¹⁷ For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of life: everything that is on the earth shall expire.

¹⁸ But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

¹⁹ 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.

²⁰ Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep [them] alive.

²¹ And take thou of all food that is eaten, and gather [it] to thee, that it may be for food for thee and for them.

²² And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded him, so did he.

7 And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

² Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two, a male and its female.

³ Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

⁴ For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

⁵ And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him.

⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.

⁷ 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.

⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

⁹ there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰ And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

¹² And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On the same day went 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;

¹⁴ they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind—every bird of every wing.

¹⁵ And they went to Noah, into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which was the breath of life.

¹⁶ And they that came, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

¹⁷ And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.

²⁰ Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.

²¹ And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:

²² everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry [land], died.

²³ And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.

²⁴ And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

8 And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

² And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.

³ And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.

⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

⁵ And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

⁷ And he sent out the raven, which went forth going to and fro, until the waters were dried from the earth.

⁸ And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.

⁹ But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.

¹⁰ And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

¹¹ And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the waters had become low on the earth.

¹² And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him.

¹³ And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.

¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵ And God spoke to Noah, saying,

¹⁶ Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

¹⁷ Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.

¹⁸ And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

¹⁹ All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl—everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.

²⁰ And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings on the altar.

²¹ And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

²² Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed [time] and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

9 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

² And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all that moveth [on] the ground; and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

⁴ Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

⁵ And indeed your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each [the blood] of his brother, will I require the life of Man.

⁶ Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.

⁷ And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.

⁸ And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

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

¹⁰ and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark—every animal of the earth.

¹¹ And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.

¹² And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:

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

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

¹⁵ and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth 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 the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁸ And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

¹⁹ These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was [the population of] the whole earth spread abroad.

²⁰ And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.

²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent.

²² And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren outside.

²³ And Shem and Japheth took the upper garment and both laid [it] upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away, that they saw not their father's nakedness.

²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.

²⁶ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

²⁷ Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.

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.

10 And these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and to them were sons born after the flood.

² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

³ And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁴ And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

⁵ From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

⁶ And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah!

¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

¹¹ From that land went out Asshur, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

¹² and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah: this is the great city.

¹³ —And Mizraim begot the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim,

¹⁴ and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim, out of whom came the Philistines, and the Caphtorim.

¹⁵ —And Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,

¹⁶ and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

¹⁷ and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

¹⁸ and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread themselves abroad.

¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as one goes to Gerar, up to Gazah; as one goes to Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, up to Lesha.

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

²¹ And to Shem—to him also were [sons] born; he is the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

²² The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

²³ And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

²⁴ —And Arphaxad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.

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

²⁶ And Joktan begot 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 sons of Joktan.

³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as one goes to Sephar, the eastern mountain.

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 from these came the distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.

11 And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

² And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

³ And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

⁴ And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

⁵ And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

⁶ And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.

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

⁸ And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.

⁹ Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.

¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

¹¹ And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹² And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.

¹³ And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴ And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

¹⁵ And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁶ And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

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

¹⁸ And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

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

²⁰ And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

²¹ And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

²² And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

²³ And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁴ And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.

²⁵ And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷ And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

²⁸ And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

³⁰ And Sarai was barren: she had no child.

³¹ And Terah 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 together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

12 And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

² And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.

³ 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.

⁴ And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

⁵ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶ And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

⁷ And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.

⁸ And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

⁹ And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to 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 to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a woman fair to look upon.

¹² And it will come to pass when the Egyptians see thee, that they will say, She is his wife; and they will slay me, and save thee alive.

¹³ Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.

¹⁴ And it came to pass when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

¹⁵ And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

¹⁶ And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels.

¹⁷ And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

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

¹⁹ Why didst thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her as my wife. And now, behold, there is thy wife: take [her], and go away.

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

13 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, towards the south.

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

³ And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai;

⁴ to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

⁵ And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents.

⁶ And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together, for their property was great; and they could not dwell together.

⁷ And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.

⁸ And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.

⁹ Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if to the left, then I will take the right; and if to the right, then I will take the left.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.

¹¹ And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:

¹² Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom.

¹³ And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.

¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

¹⁵ for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

¹⁶ And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered.

¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land according to the length of it and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.

¹⁸ Then Abram moved [his] tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah.

14 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel the king of Shinar, Arioch the king of El-lasar, Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of nations,

² [that] they made war with Bera the king of Sodom, and with Birsha the king of Gomorrah, Shinab the king of Admah, and Shemeber the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

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

⁴ Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

⁵ And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kirjathaim,

⁶ and the Horites on their mount Seir, to El-Paran, which is by the wilderness.

⁷ And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt at Hazazon-Tamar.

⁸ And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, went out, and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim,

⁹ with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar—four kings with the five.

¹⁰ And the vale of Siddim was full of pits of asphalt. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained fled to the mountain.

¹¹ And they took all the property of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and departed.

¹² And they took Lot and his property, Abram's brother's son, and departed. For he dwelt in Sodom.

¹³ And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. And he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol, and the brother of Aner. And these were Abram's allies.

¹⁴ And Abram heard that his brother was taken captive; and he led out his trained [servants], born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] as far as Dan.

¹⁵ And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is to the left of Damascus.

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

¹⁷ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he had returned from smiting Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, into the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's valley.

¹⁸ And Melchisedec king of Salem brought out bread and wine. And he was priest of the Most High God.

¹⁹ And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heavens and earth.

²⁰ And blessed be the Most High God, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him the tenth of all.

²¹ And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the souls, and take the property for thyself.

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the Most High God, possessor of heavens and earth,

²³ if from a thread even to a sandal-thong, yes, if of all that is thine, I take [anything] …; that thou mayest not say, I have made Abram rich;

²⁴ save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion.

15 After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.

² And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

³ And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.

⁴ And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that will come forth out of thy body shall be thine heir.

⁵ And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!

⁶ And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.

⁷ And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.

⁸ And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?

⁹ And he said to 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 turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

¹⁰ And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did not divide.

¹¹ And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.

¹² And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.

¹³ And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land [that is] not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

¹⁴ But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property.

¹⁵ And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

¹⁶ And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

¹⁷ And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces.

¹⁸ On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to 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.

16 And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him [children]. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

² And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has shut me up, that I do not bear. Go in, I pray thee, to my maidservant: it may be that I shall be built up by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

³ And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife.

⁴ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee!

⁶ And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed her; and she fled from her face.

⁷ And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, whence comest thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

⁹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

¹⁰ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹¹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath hearkened to thy affliction.

¹² And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren.

¹³ And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, Thou art the God who reveals himself, for she said, Also here have I seen after he has revealed himself.

¹⁴ Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

¹⁶ And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

17 And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

² And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

³ And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

⁴ It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

⁵ And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

⁶ And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

⁷ 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 to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

⁸ And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.

⁹ And God said to Abraham, And [as for] thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.

¹⁰ This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee—that every male among you be circumcised.

¹¹ And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

¹² And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you—he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.

¹³ He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

¹⁴ And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.

¹⁵ And God said to Abraham, [As to] Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.

¹⁷ And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

¹⁹ And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

²⁰ And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

²¹ But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

²² And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money—every male among the people of Abraham's house—and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

²⁴ And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

²⁵ And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

²⁶ In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

²⁷ and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

18 And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.

² And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men standing near him. And when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself to the earth,

³ and said, Lord, if now I have found favour in thine eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

⁴ Let now a little water be fetched, that ye may wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

⁵ And I will fetch a morsel of bread; and refresh yourselves; after that ye shall pass on; for therefore have ye passed on towards your servant. And they said, So do as thou hast said.

⁶ And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Knead quickly three seahs of wheaten flour, and make cakes.

⁷ And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf tender and good, and gave [it] to the attendant; and he hasted to dress it.

⁸ And he took thick and sweet milk, and the calf that he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood before them under the tree, and they ate.

⁹ And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this] time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old [and] advanced in age: it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

¹² And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old?

¹³ And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why is this, that Sarah laughs, saying, Shall I indeed bear, when I am become old?

¹⁴ Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year, and Sarah shall have a son.

¹⁵ And Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he said, No; but thou didst laugh.

¹⁶ And the men rose up thence, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to conduct them.

¹⁷ And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?

¹⁸ Since Abraham shall indeed become a great and mighty nation; and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.

¹⁹ For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him.

²⁰ And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grievous,

²¹ I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me; and if not, I will know [it].

²² And the men turned thence, and went towards Sodom; and Abraham remained yet standing before Jehovah.

²³ And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the righteous to perish with the wicked?

²⁴ There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein?

²⁵ Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked—far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?

²⁶ And Jehovah said, If I find at Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sakes.

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.

²⁸ Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy [it].

²⁹ And he continued yet to speak with him, and said, Perhaps there may be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.

³⁰ And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry that I speak! Perhaps there may be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it if I find thirty there.

³¹ And he said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak with the Lord. Perhaps there may be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for the twenty's sake.

³² And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, that I speak yet but this time! Perhaps there may be ten found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for the ten's sake.

³³ And Jehovah went away when he had ended speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

19 And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,

² and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and lodge, and wash your feet; and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will pass the night in the open place.

³ And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house. And he made them a repast, and baked unleavened cakes; and they ate.

⁴ Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest—all the people from every quarter.

⁵ And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.

⁶ And Lot went out to them to the entrance, and shut the door after him,

⁷ and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!

⁸ Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man: let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have they come under the shadow of my roof.

⁹ And they said, Back there! And they said [again], This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man—on Lot; and drew near to break the door.

¹⁰ And the men stretched out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

¹¹ And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and they wearied themselves to find the entrance.

¹² And the men said to Lot, Whom hast thou here besides? a son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city—bring [them] out of the place.

¹³ For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.

¹⁴ And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law.

¹⁵ And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou perish in the iniquity of the city.

¹⁶ And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set him without the city.

¹⁷ And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.

¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Not [so], I pray thee, Lord;

¹⁹ behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.

²⁰ Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small: I pray thee, let me escape thither—is it not small?—and my soul shall live.

²¹ And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.

²² Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

²³ The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

²⁴ And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,

²⁵ and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.

²⁶ And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁷ And Abraham rose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;

²⁸ and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace.

²⁹ 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.

³⁰ And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

³¹ And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

³² come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.

³³ And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

³⁴ And it came to pass on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.

³⁵ And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

³⁶ And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

³⁷ And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

³⁸ And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

20 And Abraham departed thence towards the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned at Gerar.

² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art [but] a dead man, because of the woman that thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

⁴ But Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, wilt thou also kill a righteous nation?