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5 ¶ This is the book of the descendants of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;
2 male and female created he them and blessed them and called their name Man, in the day when they were created.
3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own 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 begat sons and daughters;
5 and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
6 ¶ And Seth lived one hundred and five years and begat Enos.
7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters;
8 and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
9 And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan,
10 and Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years and begat sons and daughters;
11 and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel;
13 and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years and begat 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 begat Jared;
16 and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters;
17 and all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety-five years and he died.
18 And Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years and he begat Enoch;
19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters;
20 and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, and he died.
21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty-five years and begat Methuselah;
22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters;
23 and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
25 ¶ And Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and begat Lamech;
26 and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years and begat sons and daughters;
27 and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died.
28 ¶ And Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years and begat a son;
29 and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety-five years and begat sons and daughters;
31 and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old; and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6 ¶ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them,
2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose.
3 ¶ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for certainly he is flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.
4 ¶ 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 bore sons to them, the same became mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 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.
6 ¶ And the LORD repented of having made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the animals and the fowls of the air; for I repent of having made them.
8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 ¶ The earth corrupted itself before God, and the earth filled itself with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
13 ¶ 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.
14 Make thee an ark of cedar trees; rooms shalt thou make in the ark and shalt reconcile it within and without covering it over with pitch. {Heb. ransom or atonement}
15 And this is the fashion of which thou shalt make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 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.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the spirit of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee I will establish my covenant; and thou shalt come 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 fowls after their kind and of beasts after their kind, of every animal of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 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.
22 ¶ Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
7 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Enter thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean animal thou shalt take to thee seven pairs, the male and his female; but of animals that are not clean, two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the heavens by seven pairs, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every substance that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 ¶ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon 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 animals and of animals that are not clean and of fowls and of every thing that moves upon the earth,
9 there went in two by two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 ¶ 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 the heavens were opened.
12 And there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 ¶ In that same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered into the ark,
14 they and every animal after its kind and all the beasts after their kind and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every thing with wings.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.
16 And those that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him, and the LORD shut him in.
17 ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.
21 ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;
22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that was in the dry land died.
23 And every substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle and the animals and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah remained alive and those that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
7 ¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who taught you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance
9 and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father, for I say unto you that God is able to raise up children unto Abraham of these stones.
10 And now the axe is also laid unto the root of the trees; therefore, every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
11 I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,
12 whose fan is in his hand; and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with fire that shall never be quenched.
13 ¶ Then Jesus came from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him.
14 But John resisted him much, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now, for thus it is expedient for us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
16 And Jesus, after he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water; and, behold, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him;
17 and, behold, a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
4 ¶ Then Jesus was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones be made into bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil took him up into the holy city and set him on a pinnacle of the temple
6 and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them
9 and said unto him, All these things I will give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then Jesus said unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil left him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
1 ¶ LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! Many are they that rise up against me.
2 There are many who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory and the lifter up of my head.
4 ¶ I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he answered me out of the mountain of his holiness. Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for the LORD sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about.
7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God, for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the jawbone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
8 Salvation belongs unto the LORD; thy blessing shall be upon thy people. Selah.
10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause.
12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole as those that go down into the pit;
13 We shall find all kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil.
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, do not walk in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet shall run to evil and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.
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