²And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.

³And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:

⁴Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

⁵For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

⁶Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

⁷But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.

⁸Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:

⁹Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:

¹⁰And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.

¹¹I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.

¹²And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.

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

¹⁴And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds:

¹⁵And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.

¹⁷And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth.

¹⁸And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.

¹⁹These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.

²⁰And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.

²¹And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.

²²Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

²³But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

²⁴And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him,

²⁵He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

²⁶And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

²⁷May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant.

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

²⁹And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

Chapter 10

These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.

²The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.

³And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma.

⁴And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

⁵By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

⁶And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

⁷And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.

⁸Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

⁹And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.

¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.

¹¹Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

¹²Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.

¹³And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim and Laabim, Nephthuim.

¹⁴And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim.

¹⁵And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,

¹⁶And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.

¹⁷The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,

¹⁸And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.

¹⁹And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.

²⁰These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.

²¹Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

²²The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

²³The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes.

²⁴But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber.

²⁵And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother’s name Jectan.

²⁶Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,

²⁷And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,

²⁸And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,

²⁹And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Jectan.

³⁰And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the east.

³¹These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in their nations.

³²These are the families of Noe, according to their people and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.

Chapter 11

And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.

²And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

³And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:

⁴And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

⁶And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.

⁷Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

⁸And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.

⁹And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

¹⁰These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

¹¹And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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

¹³And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.

¹⁵And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years: and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁶And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.

¹⁷And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters.

¹⁸Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

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

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

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

²²And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.

²³And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁴And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.

²⁵And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁶And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.

²⁷And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.

²⁸And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor’s wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.

³⁰And Sarai was barren, and had no children.

³¹And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

³²And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran.

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