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• One Language in the World. 3 The building of Babel. 5 The Confufon of Tongues. 10 The Generations of Shem, The Generations of Ierah, the Father of Abram. 31 Terab goeth from Ur to Haran.

ND the whole Earth was
of one Speech.

of one Language, and

2 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the East, that they found a Plain in the Land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

• And they said one to another, Go to, let us make Brick, and burn them throughly. And they had Brick for Stone, and Slime had they for Morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a City and a Tower, whose Top may reach unto Heaven, and let us make us a Name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the Face of the whole Earth.

5 And the Lord came down to see the City and the Tower, which the Children of Men builded.

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the People is one, and they have all one Language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their Language, that they may not understand one anothers Speech.

8 So the LORD scattered

them abroad from thence upon the Face of all the Earth: and they left off to build the City.

• Deut. xxxii. 7 Remember the Days of confider the YEARS of

many Generations: ask thy Father, and he will shew thee, thy Elders, and they will tell thee.

8 When the MOST HIGH divided to the NATIONS their Inheritance, when he SEPARATED the Sons of Adam, he fer the BOUNDS of the People according to the Number of the Children of Ifrael.

9d Therefore is the Name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there CONFOUND the LANGUAGE of all the Earth.

a Atsii. 3 And there appeared un

to them CLOVEN TONGUES, like as of

FIRE, and it fat npon each of them :

4 And they were all filled with the HOLY GHOST, and began to SPEAK with other TONGUES, as the SPIRIT gave them UTTERANCE.

10 These are the Generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred Years old, and begat Arphaxad

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Arphaxad two Years after the Flood, and lived after five hundred Years.

Arphaxad begat Salah, Salah begat Eber, Eber begat Peleg, Peleg begat Reu, Reu begat Serug, Serug begat Nahor, Nahor begat Terah.

26 And Terah lived seventy Years and begat ABRAM, Nahor and Haran, and Haran begat Lot.

29 And Abram and Nahor took them Wives: and the Name of Abram's Wife was Sarai.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no Child.

31 And Terah took ABRAM, and Lot and Sarai, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the Land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the Days of Terah were two hundred and five. Years: and Terah died in Haran,

The

The Third Period:

From the Call of Abram to the Deliverance of the Ifraelites from the Egyptian Bondage, containing about the Space of 430 Years.

CHAP. XII.

1 GOD calleth Abram, and blesseth him with a Promise of CHRIST. 4 He departeth with Lot from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, 7 which is promised him in a Vifion. 10 He is driven by a Famine into Egypt. maketh him feign his Wife to be his Sister. 14 Pharaoh having taken her from him, by Plagues is compelled to restore ber.

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OW the LORD had faid unto Abram, Get thee out of thy Countrey, and from thy Kindred, and from thy FATHER'S HOUSE into a Land that I will SHEW thee.

2 And I will make of thee a great Nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy Name great; and thou shalt be a Bleffing.

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.

II Fear

4 So Abram departed, as him; and Lot went with him five Years old when he departed

5 And Abram took Sarai his Wife, and Lot his Brother's Son, and all their Substance that they had gathered, and the Souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the Land of Canaan, and into the Land of Canaan they came.

6 f And Abram passed thro' the Land into the Place of Sichem, into the Plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the Land.

7 And the LORD APPEARED unto Abram, and faid, Unto thy SEED will I give this Land, and there builded he an Altar unto the Lord, who APPEARED unto him.

* Acts vii. 2 And Stephen said, Men, Brethren, and Fathers, hearken, The God of Glory APPEARED unto our Father ABRAHAM, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy COUNTREY, and from thy Kindred, and come into the Land which

I shall SHEw thee.

4 Then came he out of the Land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his Father was dead, he removed him into this Land wherein ye now dwell.

5 And he gave him none INHERITANCE in it, no not so much as to set his Foot on: yet he PROMISED that he would give it him for a PosSESSION, and to his SEED after him, when as yet he had no CHILD.

8 And he removed from thence unto a Mountain on the East of Beth-el, and pitched his Tent, having Beth-el on the West, and Hai on the East: and there he builded an Altar unto the Lord, and called upon the Name of the LORD.

9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. 10 And there was a Famine in the Land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the Famine was grievous in the Land.

11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he faid unto Sarai his Wife, Behold, now I know that thou art a FAIR Woman to look upon.

12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall fee thee, that they shall say, This is his Wife: and they will kill me, but they will fave thee alive.

13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my Sister: that it may be well with me for thy Sake; and my Soul shall live because of thee.

14 And it came to pass, that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the Woman, that she was

17 & And the LORD PLAGUED Pharaoh and his House with great Plagues, because of Sarai Abram's Wife.

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and faid, What is this that thou hast done unto me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy Wife ?

8 Pfal. cv. 12 When they were but a Few Men in Number: yea, very few, and STRANGERS in it.

13 When they went from one NATION to another, from one Kingdom to another People.

14 He suffered no Man to do them WRONG: yea, he REPROVED KINGS for their Sakes.

Is Saying, Touch not mine ANOINTED, and do my Prophets no Harm.

19 Why faidst thou, She is my Sister? so I might have taken her to me to Wife: now therefore behold thy Wife, take her, and go thy Way.

20 And Pharaoh commanded his Men concerning him: and they fent him away, and his wife, and all that he had..

CHAP. XIII.

1 Abram and Lot return out of Egypt. 7 By Disagreement they part afunder. 10 Lot goeth to Sodom. 14 GOD reneweth the Promise to Abram. 18 He removeth to Hebron, and there buildeth an Altar.

Ver. 14

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ND the LORD said unto Abram after that Lot was feparated from him, Lift up now thine Eyes, and look from the Place where thou art, North-ward, and South-ward, and East-ward, and West-ward.

15 For all the LAND which thou seest, to thee will I GIVE it, and to thy SEED for ever.

16 And I will make thy Seed as the Dust of the Earth: so that if a Man can NUMBER the Dust of the Earth, then shall thy Seed also be NUMBRED.

17 Arife, walk through the Land in the Length of it, and in the Breadth of it for I will give it unto thee.

18 Then Abram removed his Tent, and came and dwelt in the Plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an ALTAR unto the LORD.

CHAP. XIV.

• The Battle of four Kings against five. foner: 14 Abram rescueth him. 18 Abram. 20 Abram giveth him Tithe.

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12 Lot is taken PriMelchifedek bleffseth 22 The rest of the

Spoil,