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. THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS; 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.

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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.

BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD. AND GOD SAID UNTO NOAH, MAKE THEE AN ARK OF GOPHER WOOD. 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.

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 EVERY THING THAT IS IN THE EARTH SHALL DIE.

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 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.

AND NOAH DID ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT THE LORD COMMANDED HIM.

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IN THE SIX HUNDREDTH YEAR OF NOAHS LIFE, THE SAME DAY WERE ALL THE FOUNTAINS OF THE GREAT DEEP BROKEN UP, AND THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN WERE OPENED.

AND THE SONS OF NOAH, THAT WENT FORTH OF THE ARK, WERE SHEM, AND HAM, AND JAPHETH. AND SHEM BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS... OF THESE WHO WAS THE GREATEST?
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.

FATHER ABRAHAM!

CORRECT. MAY YOU ALL BE LIKE FATHER ABRAHAM. THE CITY OF HARAN.
AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF FORTY DAYS, THAT NOAH OPENED THE WINDOW OF THE ARK WHICH HE HAD MADE... GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY, AND FROM THY KINDRED, AND FROM THY FATHERS HOUSE, UNTO A LAND THAT I WILL SHEW THEE: AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREAT NATION. BUT THE DOVE FOUND NO REST FOR THE SOLE OF HER FOOT, AND SHE RETURNED UNTO HIM INTO THE ARK. 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:

ABRAM.

YES LORD.

HE SENT FORTH A DOVE FROM HIM, TO SEE IF THE WATERS WERE ABATED FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE GROUND;

SO ABRAM DEPARTED AND TOOK SARAI HIS WIFE, AND LOT HIS BROTHERS SON...

AND HE STAYED YET OTHER SEVEN DAYS; AND AGAIN HE SENT FORTH THE DOVE OUT OF THE ARK;

AND THE DOVE CAME IN TO HIM IN THE EVENING; AND, LO, IN HER MOUTH WAS AN OLIVE LEAF PLUCKT OFF:

AND THE ARK RESTED UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF ARARAT. AND NOAH OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS ON THE ALTAR.

GOD BLESSED NOAH AND HIS SONS, AND SAID UNTO THEM...

...AND ALL THEIR SUBSTANCE THAT THEY HAD GATHERED, AND THE SOULS THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN IN HARAN;

I WILL REMEMBER MY COVENANT; AND THE WATERS SHALL NO MORE BECOME A FLOOD TO DESTROY ALL FLESH. I DO SET MY BOW IN THE CLOUD, AND IT SHALL BE FOR A TOKEN OF A COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND THE EARTH. BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND REPLENISH THE EARTH.

YES, IM FINE THANK YOU, CAPTAIN.

AND THEY WENT FORTH TO GO INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN.

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AFTER THESE THINGS THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ABRAM.

AND IT CAME TO PASS, THERE WAS A STRIFE BETWEEN THE HERDMEN OF ABRAMS CATTLE AND THE HERDMEN OF LOTS CATTLE:

I SAID TO LOT: IF THOU WILT TAKE THE LEFT HAND, THEN I WILL GO TO THE RIGHT; OR IF THOU DEPART TO THE RIGHT HAND, THEN I WILL GO TO THE LEFT.

AND LOT LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND BEHELD ALL THE PLAIN OF JORDAN KNOWN AS SODOM, AND JOURNEYED EAST: AND THEY SEPARATED THEMSELVES THE ONE FROM THE OTHER. AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT THE KINGS OF SHINAR, ELLASAR AND ELAM, MADE WAR WITH THE KINGS OF SODOM, GOMORRAH, ADMAH, ZEBOIIM, AND ZOAR. THE ALLIANCE OF THE KING OF SODOM WAS DEFEATED. ALONG WITH THE SPOILS OF WAR, THE VICTORS TOOK LOT, ABRAMS BROTHERS SON, WHO DWELT IN SODOM, AND HIS GOODS, AND DEPARTED.

LORD GOD, WHAT WILT THOU GIVE ME, SEEING I GO CHILDLESS, AND THE STEWARD OF MY HOUSE IS MINE HEIR.

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; A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS. SARAI SHALL BE A MOTHER OF NATIONS.

AND WHEN ABRAM HEARD THAT HIS BROTHER WAS TAKEN CAPTIVE, HE ARMED THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN OF HIS TRAINED SERVANTS...

...AND PURSUED THEM UNTO DAN AND SMOTE THEM. HE ALSO BROUGHT AGAIN HIS BROTHER LOT, AND HIS GOODS, AND THE WOMEN ALSO, AND THE PEOPLE.

NOW SARAI ABRAMS WIFE BARE HIM NO CHILDREN: AND SHE HAD AN HANDMAID, AN EGYPTIAN, WHOSE NAME WAS HAGAR. 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 MELCHIZEDEK KING OF SALEM BROUGHT FORTH BREAD AND WINE: AND HE WAS THE PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.

BLESSED BE ABRAM OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH:

AND THE KING OF SALEM SAID UNTO ABRAM;

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 HAGAR BARE ABRAM A SON;

GIVE ME THE PRISONERS, AND TAKE THE GOODS TO THYSELF.

AND ABRAM GAVE MELCHIZEDEK TITHES OF ALL THE SPOILS OF WAR.

I WILL NOT TAKE ANY THING THAT IS THINE, LEST THOU SHOULDEST SAY, I HAVE MADE ABRAM RICH.

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ISHMAEL.

THE YEARS PASSETH AND YET, SARAI REMAINED WITHOUT CHILD.

AND IT CAME TO PASS.

ABRAHAM 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 ABRAM WAS NINETY YEARS OLD AND NINE THE LORD APPEARED TO ABRAM;

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. AS FOR SARAI... SARAH THY WIFE SHALL BEAR THEE A SON INDEED; AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME ISAAC.

MY LORD, IF NOW I EVEN MYFAVOUR BROTHERS HAVE FOUND IN THY WILL PRETEND NOT TO SIGHT, PASS NOT AWAY, I PRAY KNOW ME. DRUNKARDS WILL THEE, FROM THY SERVANT: LET A SING SONGS AT ME, LITTLE WATER, I PRAY YOU, BE MY TORTURED FETCHED, AND WASHFLESH YOUR FEET, WILL BECOME MYUNDER AND REST YOURSELVES CLOTHING. THE TREE.

LATER.

WHERE IS SARAH THY WIFE?

NEITHER SHALL THY NAME ANY MORE BE CALLED ABRAM, BUT THY NAME SHALL BE ABRAHAM; FOR A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE THEE.

I WILL CERTAINLY RETURN UNTO THEE ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE; AND, LO, SARAH THY WIFE SHALL HAVE A SON.

BEHOLD, IN THE TENT.

AFTER I AM WAXED OLD SHALL I HAVE PLEASURE, MY LORD BEING OLD ALSO?

WHEREFORE DID SARAH LAUGH?

IS ANY THING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD?

THIS WAS GODS COVENANT, WHICH ABRAHAM KEPT, THAT EVERY MAN CHILD THAT IS EIGHT DAYS OLD AMONG HIM SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED. IT SHALL BE A TOKEN OF THE COVENANT BETWIXT GOD AND ABRAHAM.

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SHALL I HIDE FROM ABRAHAM THAT THING WHICH I DO?

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; AND IF NOT, I WILL KNOW.

IF I FIND IN SODOM FIFTY RIGHTEOUS WITHIN THE CITY, THEN I WILL SPARE ALL THE PLACE FOR THEIR SAKES.

PERADVENTURE THERE SHALL LACK FIVE OF THE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS: WILT THOU DESTROY ALL THE CITY FOR LACK OF FIVE?

IF I FIND THERE FORTY AND FIVE, I WILL NOT DESTROY IT.

PERADVENTURE THERE SHALL BE FORTY FOUND THERE.

I WILL NOT DO IT FOR FORTYS SAKE.

PERADVENTURE THERE SHALL THIRTY BE FOUND THERE.

I WILL NOT DO IT, IF I FIND THIRTY THERE.

TEN? TEN.

WILT THOU ALSO DESTROY THE RIGHTEOUS WITH THE WICKED?

AND THERE CAME TWO ANGELS TO SODOM AT EVEN AND LOT SEEING THEM ROSE UP TO MEET THEM... THE MEN OF THE CITY, EVEN THE MEN OF SODOM, COMPASSED THE HOUSE ROUND, BOTH OLD AND YOUNG, ALL THE PEOPLE FROM EVERY QUARTER:

WHERE ARE THE MEN WHICH CAME IN TO THEE THIS NIGHT? BRING THEM OUT UNTO US, THAT WE MAY KNOW THEM.

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.

BRING THEM OUT UNTO US, THAT WE MAY KNOW THEM.

AND THE ANGELS SMOTE THE MEN THAT WERE AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE WITH BLINDNESS.

BEHOLD NOW, MY LORDS, TURN IN, I PRAY YOU, INTO YOUR SERVANTS HOUSE, AND TARRY ALL NIGHT, AND WASH YOUR FEET, AND YE SHALL RISE UP EARLY, AND GO ON YOUR WAYS.

AND WHEN THE MORNING AROSE, THEN THE ANGELS HASTENED LOT, SAYING, ARISE, TAKE THY WIFE, AND THY TWO DAUGHTERS, WHICH ARE HERE;

THEN THE LORD RAINED UPON SODOM AND UPON GOMORRAH BRIMSTONE AND FIRE FROM THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN;

ESCAPE FOR THY LIFE; LOOK NOT BEHIND THEE, LEST THOU BE CONSUMED IN THE INIQUITY OF THE CITY.

BUT LOTS WIFE LOOKED BACK FROM BEHIND HIM, AND SHE BECAME A PILLAR OF SALT.

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