The Bible That Is Free

 In the beginning God made the Bible free. It was His free revealed word. Man put it under copyright to protect his own assets. The first Bible was written on 2 stone tablets, which Moses smashed in his anger at Israel's sin. This is prophetic of Jesus' smashed body of the old sinful Adam man, replaced by the second perfect God Christ salvation redemptive man. God knows all in His amazing perfection. Nothing is wasted. The ASV Bible is public domain and completely free to do whatever you want with, in reverence of God. The ASV came originally from the OKJV, that the Americans brought with them from England. The OKJV is still under copyright in my nation as it still produces revenue for the crown. they are separated from God in every way but they take the money. In 20 years their claim to it will run out. 400 years, like Israel as slaves in Egypt. The OKJV new testament was largely based on Tyndale's sacrificial version, that he was martyred for by the very same who later used it.

I felt God wanted me to start to translate the ASV, which is a beautiful poetic Bible into a more modern sounding speech, but still keeping as much of the original as possible. So that is what this is. The free word of God, as it was when Moses wrote down the words of creation, as dictated by God on the mountain top. God Creator and Narrator. Matthew's words were free, John's words were free. Jesus' salvation to us was free. It cost Him everything. We receive it freely but to walk on with the Lord, we, like Him, will have to carry a cross - in a demonic world.

This work is free to use and redistribute, but do not rename it and pass it off as your own intellectual property. It is copyrighted only to protect it being stolen.

 Old Testament

The First Book of Moses, called Genesis

Genesis 1

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day. 6 God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 God called the firmament Heaven. There was evening and there was morning, a second day. 9 God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, where within is the seed, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, where within is the seed, after their kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day. 14 God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: 15 let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. 20 God said, Let the waters swarm with many living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moves, wherever the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24 God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 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 birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing on the earth. 27 God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them: and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the skies, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. 29 Then God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is over the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit yielding seed; to you it shall be food: 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the skies, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, where within there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so. 31 God saw everything he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2

1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 God blessed the seventh day, and called it holy; because that day he rested from all his work which God had created and made. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven. 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground; 6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground Jehovah God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also was placed in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon: where it compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon: where it compasses the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: where it goes in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, From every tree of the garden you may freely eat: 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat: for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die. 18 Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man be alone; I will make him a helper to help him. 19 Out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them to the man to see what he would call them: and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 Then Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh around it: 22 and the rib, Jehovah God had taken from the man, was formed into a woman, and he brought her to the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she is to be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and will cleave unto his wife: and they will become one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3

1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. He said to the woman, Has God really said, You should not eat from any tree of the garden? 2 The woman said to the serpent, From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: 3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat from it, neither touch it, lest you die. 4 The serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die: 5 For God knows on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as God, knowing good and evil. 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took the fruit, and ate; and she then gave it to her husband who was with her, and he also ate. 7 The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 They heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden. 9 Jehovah God called to the man, and said to him, Where are you? 10 He said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11 He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree, I commanded you not to eat? 12 The man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate. 13 Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? The woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate. 14 Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life: 15 and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel. 16 To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pain and your conception; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be to your husband, but he will rule over you. 17 Then to Adam he said, Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree, which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it: cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat from it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it will bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of the ground you was taken: for dust you are, and to dust you will return. 20 The man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. 21 Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them. 22 Jehovah God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and then live for ever- 23 therefore Jehovah God sent him away from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from where he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden a Cherubim, with a flame of a sword which turned every direction, to keep the way to the tree of life guarded.

Genesis 4

1 The man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have birthed a man with the help of Jehovah. 2 Again she bore his brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 In the process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought the fruit of the ground as an offering to Jehovah. 4 Abel, he also brought an offering of the firstlings of his flock and its fat. Jehovah had respect for Abel and his offering: 5 but Cain and his offering he had no respect for. Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. 6 Jehovah said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don’t do good, sin waits at the door: you shall be its desire, but can you rule over it? 8 Cain told Abel his brother. It came to pass, when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him. 9 Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? He said, I don’t know: am I my brother's keeper? 10 He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand; 12 when you farm the ground, from now on it won’t yield to you its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer you will be in the earth. 13 Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from your face I will be hidden. I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that whoever finds me will kill me. 15 Jehovah said to him, Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him would kill him. 16 Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the eastern side of Eden. 17 Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 18 Then to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad fathered Mehujael: and Mehujael fathered Methushael; and Methushael fathered Lamech. 19 Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20 Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle. 21 His brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all who played the harp and pipe. 22 Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, he was the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron: the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. 23 Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; You wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me: 24 If Cain will be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy sevenfold. 25 Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth. For, she said, God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain killed him. 26 Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 5

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day that God created man, in the likeness of God he made him; 2 male and female he created them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, on that day when they were created. 3 Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and then fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 and the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred years: and he had other sons and daughters. 5 All the days Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and then he died. 6 Seth lived a hundred and five years, and then fathered Enosh: 7 and Seth lived after he had fathered Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters: 8 all the days of Seth’s life were nine hundred and twelve years: and then he died. 9 Enosh lived ninety years, and then fathered Kenan, 10 Enosh lived after he had fathered Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and had other sons and daughters: 11 all the days of Enosh’s life were nine hundred and five years: and then he died. 12 Kenan lived seventy years, and then fathered Mahalalel: 13 Kenan lived after he had fathered Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and had other sons and daughters: 14 all the days of Kenan’s life were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. 15 Mahalalel lived sixty five years, and then fathered Jared: 16 Mahalalel lived after he had fathered Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters: 17 All the days of Mahalalel’s life were eight hundred and ninety five years: and then he died. 18 Jared lived a hundred and sixty two years, and then fathered Enoch: 19 Jared lived after he had fathered Enoch eight hundred years, and had other sons and daughters: 20 All the days of Jared’s life were nine hundred and sixty two years: and then he died. 21 Enoch lived sixty five years, and then fathered Methuselah: 22 Enoch walked with God after he had fathered Methuselah for three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters: 23 all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years: 24 and Enoch walked with God: then he was not; because God took him. 25 Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty seven years, and then fathered Lamech: 26 Methuselah lived after he had fathered Lamech seven hundred and eighty two years, and had other sons and daughters. 27 All the days of Methuselah’s life were nine hundred and sixty nine years: and then he died. 28 Lamech lived a hundred and eighty two years, and then fathered a son: 29 he called his name Noah, saying, This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, that comes because of the ground Jehovah has cursed. 30 Lamech lived after he had fathered Noah five hundred and ninety five years, and had other sons and daughters: 31 All the days of Lamech’s life were seven hundred and seventy seven years: and then he died. 32 Noah was five hundred years old: when he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6

1 It came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men were fair; and they took them as wives for themselves all they chose. 3 Jehovah said, My spirit will not strive with man for ever, for he is flesh: yet still his days will be a hundred and twenty years. 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and after that also, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men, they bore children to them: these were the mighty men of old, the men of renown. 5 Jehovah saw the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 It grieved Jehovah he had made man on the earth, and it wounded him in his heart. 7 Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I created from off the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the sky; for it repents me I made them. 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah. 9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. 10 Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 All the earth was corrupt before God, and all the earth was filled with violence. 12 God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 13 God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them along with all the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; you will make rooms in the ark, and pitch it within and pitch it without. 15 This is how you will make it: the length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it will be fifty cubits, and the height of it will be thirty cubits. 16 You will make a sky light for the ark, and position it at the top measuring a cubit; and the door of the ark you will set in the side; with lower, second, and third stories make it. 17 Behold, I am bringing the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything in the earth will die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you; and you will come into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives as well. 19 From every living creature from all flesh, two of every kind you will bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they should be male and female. 20 From the birds after their kind, and from the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive. 21 Take with you all food that is eaten, and gather it; then it will be food for you, and for them. 22 So Noah did; according to all God commanded him.

Genesis 7

1 Then Jehovah said to Noah, Come you and all your household into the ark; for I have seen you as righteous before me in this generation. 2 From every clean animal you will take with you seven and seven, the male and his female; and from the animals that are not clean two, the male and his female: 3 from the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep life alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5 Noah did all Jehovah commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came to the earth. 7 Noah went inside, he and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 From clean animals, and from animals that are not clean, and from birds, and from everything that creeps upon the ground, 9 they went two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 It came to pass after seven days, the waters of the flood arrived on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day, all the fountains of the great deep broke open, and the windows of heaven in the sky opened. 12 The deluge rained down on the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On the same day Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, all the sons of Noah, Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons, all entered inside the ark; 14 they, and every animal of its kind, and all the cattle of their kind, and every creeping thing of its kind, and every bird of its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 They went to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. 16 All went in, the males and females of all flesh, as God commanded Noah: then Jehovah shut the door behind them. 17 The flood rains lasted forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and raised up the ark, it was lifted high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; even all the highest mountains under the whole of heaven were covered. 20 The waters continued rising higher still, until even fifteen cubits above and beyond the mountaintops were eventually covered. 21 All the flesh died, that moved on the earth, both birds, and cattle, and of the beasts, and every creeping thing, and every man: 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. 23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the earth, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; all were destroyed from the earth: and Noah alone was left, and they who were with him in the ark. 24 The waters stayed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8

1 God remembered Noah, all the creatures, and the cattle that were with him in the ark: then God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters abated; 2 the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven also were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 the waters returned from off the entirety of the face of the earth: and after the end of the hundred and fiftieth day the waters had decreased. 4 The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible. 6 It came to pass at the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark he had made: 7 Noah sent forth a raven, and it went to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 He then sent forth a dove from the ark, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 but the dove found no rest for her foot, and so she returned to him in the ark; for the waters still covered the whole of the face of the earth: Noah put forth his hand, and took her again, and brought her back into the ark. 10 He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove from the ark; 11 the dove returned to him in the evening time; and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive-leaf: so Noah knew that the waters were gone from off the earth. 12 He waited yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove again; this time she returned not back to him any more. 13 Then it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were completely dried up from off the earth: Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked out, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives. 17 Bring forth with you every living creature that is with you of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing; that they may again breed abundantly on the earth, be fruitful, and multiply on the earth. 18 So Noah went out, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives: 19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moved on the earth, after their kind, went forth out of the ark. 20 Noah built an altar to Jehovah, and took from every clean animal, from every clean bird, and sacrificed burnt-offerings on the altar. 21 Jehovah smelt the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again kill every living thing, as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, there will be seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, none of these shall cease. 

Genesis 9

1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you I will put on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens; With all that is on the ground, and all the fish that are in the sea, into your hands will they be delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; As the green herb I gave you, I have given you all. 4 But flesh with the life in, which is the blood, you will not eat. 5 Surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; At the hand of every beast I will require it. At the hand of every man, even at the hand of a man's brother, I will require the life of another man. 6 Whoever sheds another man's blood, by man his blood will be shed: For in the image of God, God made man. 7 You, be fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly into the earth, and multiply. 8 God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, He said, 9 Behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you. Of all that goes out from the ark, you, and every beast of the earth. 11 I will establish my covenant with you and promise; never again will all flesh be cut off by waters of the flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy all the earth. 12 God said, This is the token of the covenant I make between myself and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual ongoing generations: 13 I, myself, set my bow in the clouds of the sky, and it will be for a token sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 It will come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall appear and be seen in the cloud, 15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me, you, and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The bow will be in the cloud; and I will see it, so I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and all the living creatures of the earth. 17 God said to Noah, This is the token sign of the covenant I have established between me and all flesh on the earth. 18 The sons of Noah, who left the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth: Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 From these three sons of Noah the whole earth was populated. 20 Noah became a gardener and planted a vineyard: 21 he drank from the wine, and got drunk. Asleep, he lay uncovered in his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, happened to see the nakedness of his father, and then told his two brothers outside. 23 Shem and Japheth then took for themselves a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, and entering in backwards, they covered the nakedness of their father. Their eyes were faced away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and heard what his youngest son had done to him. 25 He said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers. 26 He further said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant. 27 God enlarge and establish Japheth, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; May Canaan be his servant. 28 Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty more years. 29 All the days of Noah amounted to nine hundred and fifty years: Then he died. 

Genesis 10

1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, those fathered from Shem, Ham, and Japheth: to them were born sons after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 Of these men were the isles of the nations divided and proportioned in their lands, every clan after his own tongue, after their own families, in these their nations. 6 The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were: Sheba, and Dedan. 8 Then Cush fathered Nimrod: he began to be a mighty man in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: in that it was said of him, As like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah. 10 The beginning of Nimrod’s kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 Out of those lands he went forwards into Assyria, and built for himself Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, 12 and Resen which was between Nineveh and Calah, that being the great city. 13 Mizraim fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim - from there came the Philistines - and Caphtorim. 15 Canaan fathered Sidon his first-born, Heth, 16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, 17 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, 18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: after this were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 19 The border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as you travel toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you travel toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and from Admah, Zeboiim, to Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, born after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations. 21 Shem, fathered all the children of Eber, he was the elder brother of Japheth, and to him children were born as well. 22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah further fathered Eber. 25 To Eber were born two sons: The name of the first being Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab: all of these were sons of Joktan. 30 Their dwelling was from the land of Mesha, as you travel towards Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 32 These are the families that derived from the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and from these were all the nations of the world divided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11

1 The whole earth was of one language and one speech. 2 It came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 They said to each other, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. They had brick for stone, and pitch for mortar. 4 They said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower, whose top may reach into the sky of heaven, and let us make ourself a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth. 5 Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, the children of men had built. 6 Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they have begun to do: now nothing will be withheld from them, they purpose to put into action. 7 Come, let us go down there, and confound their language, so they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from that place over the whole earth: and halted them building the city. 9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel; because Jehovah confounded the language of all the earth: and from that time Jehovah scattered them abroad over the whole earth. 10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood. 11 Then Shem lived after he had fathered Arpachshad five hundred more years, and had other sons and daughters. 12 Arpachshad lived thirty five years, and fathered Shelah. 13 and Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah four hundred and three more years, and had other sons and daughters. 14 Shelah lived thirty years, and fathered Eber: 15 and Shelah lived after he had fathered Eber four hundred and three more years, and had other sons and daughters. 16 Eber lived thirty four years, and fathered Peleg: 17 and Eber lived after he fathered Peleg four hundred and thirty more years, and had other sons and daughters. 18 Peleg lived thirty years, and fathered Reu: 19 and Peleg lived after he fathered Reu two hundred and nine more years, and had other sons and daughters. 20 Reu lived thirty two years, and fathered Serug: 21 and Reu lived after he fathered Serug two hundred and seven more years, and had other sons and daughters. 22 Serug lived thirty years, and fathered Nahor: 23 and Serug lived after he fathered Nahor two hundred more years, and had other sons and daughters. 24 Nahor lived twenty nine years, and fathered Terah: 25 and Nahor lived after he fathered Terah a hundred and nineteen more years, and had other sons and daughters. 26 Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father to Lot. 28 Then Haran died before his father Terah had passed away in the land of his birth, that land was Ur of the Chaldees. 29 Abram and Nahor took women as wives: The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was, Milcah, she was the daughter of Haran, he fathered both Milcah, and Iscah. 30 Sarai was barren; She had no child. 31 Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, Sarai his daughter-in-law, who was his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, they travelled to go to the land of Canaan; when they came to the land of Haran, they stopped and dwelt there. 32 All the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and then Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 12

1 Now Jehovah said to Abram, Get out of this country, away from your kindred, and away from your father's house, and go into the land I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; I will be a blessing to you; 3 and I will bless them who bless you, and the one that curses you I will curse. In you shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram went, as Jehovah had instructed him; and Lot went along with him: Abram was seventy five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their substance they had gathered, and the people who were part of them in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and so into the land of Canaan they arrived. 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then inhabiting the land. 7 Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed I will give this land: and so there he built an altar to Jehovah, who appeared to him. 8 Abram left there and went to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, Beth-el being on his west, and Ai on the east: There he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah. 9 Abram journeyed on still, going toward the south. 10 There was a famine in the land: Abram went down to stay in Egypt; for the famine was severe in the land. 11 It came to pass, when he was about to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a fair woman to look on: 12 and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me on account of you, and keep you alive. 13 Say, I ask you, that you are my sister; that it may be well with me for your sake, and then my soul may live because of you. 14 It came to pass, that, when Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians did indeed behold the woman was very fair. 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and so the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 Pharaoh dealt well with Abram for her sake: and Abram had sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys, men-servants, maid-servants, and camels. 17 Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her in error to be my wife? Now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your own way. 20 Pharaoh gave men charge concerning Abram: and those men made sure he moved away, his wife, and all that he had.

Genesis 13

1 Abram went from Egypt, he, his wife, all he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 2 Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold. 3 He went onwards in his journeys from the south to Beth-el, the place where his tent had been at the start, between Beth-el and Ai, 4 to the place of the altar, he had made there before: and there Abram called again on the name of Jehovah. 5 Lot also, who had gone with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents. 6 It happened that the land was not able to bear them both, that they might dwell together: for their substance was that great, so they could not dwell together. 7 There arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. The Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 8 Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I beg you, between you and me, between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are kin. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself, I ask, from me. If you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left. 10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was like the garden of Eden, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. 11 So Lot chose for himself all the Plain of the Jordan; Lot journeyed eastward: and they separated. 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were extremely wicked sinners against Jehovah. 14 Jehovah said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are, north and south, east and west: 15 For all the land you see, I will give to you, and to your seed for ever. 16 I will make your seed as numerous as the dust of the earth. So if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may your seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land, the length of it, the breadth of it; for to you I give it. 18 Abram moved his tent, and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar to Jehovah.

Genesis 14

1 It came to pass in the days of Amraphel the king of Shinar, Arioch the king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of Goiim, 2 these kings all joined together, to war against Bera the king of Sodom, Birsha the king of Gomorrah, Shinab the king of Admah, Shemeber the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3 All these kings joined forces together in the vale of Siddim, the Salt Sea. 4 For twelve years the five kings and their kingdoms had loyally served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they finally rebelled. 5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer, and the other kings who were in league with him, set out together and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 6 and the Horites in mount Seir, all the way to Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 7 Then they returned again, back through En-mishpat which is Kadesh, and attacked all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, who were in Hazazon-tamar. 8 There the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, who is also Zoar; they made their stand of independence. They went out in battle and attacked at the vale of Siddim; 9 against Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, Tidal the king of Goiim, Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar; five kings fighting against four. 10 Now the vale of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah faired badly in the fight and so fled, falling in the tar, and all the others who remained with them ran to the mountain for safety. 11 The victorious 4 kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, their inhabitants, and then departed on their way. 12 Lot, Abram’s nephew, who dwelt in Sodom, was also captured, along with all his goods. 13 One man managed to escape, he fled to Abram who was dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, telling Abram the Hebrew everything what happened, and those who were allied with him, that being Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and Aner. They were aligned with Abram. 14 When Abram heard Lot had been taken captive, he took his trained men, born in his house, they numbered three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 15 He attacked the 4 kings by night, he and his servants, and killed their armies, then he went on and pursued to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 Abram prevailed still and retrieved all the goods, he also brought back his nephew Lot, the goods, women, and people. 17 The king of Sodom went out to meet the patriarch, along with the other defeated kings who were with him, at the vale of Shaveh, which is the King's Vale - after Abram’s successful victorious return from the slaughter of king Chedorlaomer. 18 Melchizedek the king of Salem also came out to Abram with bread and wine: he was the priest of Most High God. 19 He blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all he had. 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me only the people, and you can keep the goods for yourself. 22 Abram answered the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, 23 and swore that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-lace, nor anything of yours, lest you say, I made Abram rich. 24 Except only what the young men ate, and the portion belonging to the men that went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them keep their portion.

Genesis 15

1 After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward. 2 Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and my heir of all I own will be Eliezer of Damascus? 3 Behold, to me you have given no son: and, one who is related of my kindred is my heir. 4 Behold, the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, This man shall not be your heir; But he who shall come forth out of your own loins shall be your heir. 5 God led Abram outside, and said, Look now towards the heavens of the night sky, and number the stars, if you are able to number them: and he further said to him, So shall your descendants be. 6 Abram believed in Jehovah, what he said; and God reckoned it to him as righteousness. 7 He said again to him, I am Jehovah who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you all this land to inherit it. 8 Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, how can I know that I will inherit it? 9 God answered him, Get a heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10 Abram gathered all these sacrifices, and then divided them in the middle, laying each half next to one another: but the birds he didn’t divide. 11 The surrounding birds of prey came down to attack the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 12 When the sun finally went down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and, behold, a great horrific darkness descended on him. 13 God said to Abram, Know for certain that your descendants will be temporary residents in a land which is not theirs, and you will serve that nation with hardship; they shall afflict your offspring for four hundred years. 14 Further still that nation, who you have served, I will judge harshly: after that judgement your children will come out with great substance. 15 But as for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here again; the iniquity of the Amorite people is not yet fully ripe. 17 So it came to pass, that, when the sun had gone down, and it was completely dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch appeared and passed between these animal pieces down the middle. 18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, promising, To your seed I have given this land, from the border of the river of Egypt to the great river of the Euphrates. 19 The Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaims, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites - who live there now are all in your hands.

Genesis 16

1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, could bare no children: she had a handmaid, who was an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has restrained me from bearing; please go in, I ask you, to my handmaid; maybe perhaps I can obtain children through her. Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai and agreed with her plan. 3 So after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, brought Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, and gave Hagar to Abram her husband to be his new wife. 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived: when the handmaid saw that she had conceived, she felt contempt for her mistress and despised her. 5 Sarai said to Abram, This fault is on you: I gave my handmaid to you as your wife; and when she saw she has conceived, I was despised in her eyes. May Jehovah judge between me and you. 6 But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, this maid is in your hands; do to her what is right in your own eyes. So Sarai dealt harshly with her, and Hagar fled from her mistress’ face. 7 The angel of Jehovah found Hagar by a fountain of water in the wilderness, the fountain was on the way to Shur. 8 He said to her, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where have you come from and where are you going? She answered the angel, I am running from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 The angel of Jehovah said back to her, Return to your mistress, and submit yourself into her hands. 10 I will greatly multiply your seed, so that it cannot be numbered for multitude. 11 Behold, you are pregnant with child, you shall bare a son; and you are to name him Ishmael, because Jehovah has heard your troubles. 12 Your son will be a wild ass among men; his hand will be raised against every man, and every man's hand raised up against him. He will dwell as an outcast enemy against all his brethren. 13 She defined the name of Jehovah who spoke to her as, You are a God who sees. She went on to say, Have I actually seen him who sees me? 14 So because of that the well she drank from was named Beer-lahai-roi; it is located between Kadesh and Bered. 15 In due time Hagar bore Abram’s son: Abram called the name of the child, who Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty six years old, when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.

Genesis 17

1 When Abram was ninety nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty; walk before me perfectly. 2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly. 3 Abram fell to the ground on his face: God talked with him, saying, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations. 5 No longer will your name be Abram, but instead your name will be changed to Abraham; for I have made you the father of many nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, even kings shall come from you. 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, so that I might be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8 I will give to you, and to your generations after you, the land you’ve lived in, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 9 God said to Abraham, As for you, you should keep my covenant, you, and your sons after you throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant, you are to keep, between me and you and your descendants that come after you. This applies to every male among you, they are to be circumcised. 11 You are to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it is to be a token of this covenant between me and you. 12 He who is eight days old is to be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born, whether in the house, or bought with money of a foreigner but not your kin. 13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, both need to be circumcised. My covenant mark will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, their soul must be cut off from his people; because he has broken my covenant command. 15 God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai, but Sarah is her name to be. 16 I will bless her, and further still I will give you a son through her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be mother to nations; the kings of peoples will come from her. 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed heartily. He wondered in his heart, Will a child really be born to me when I am one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old really be able to bear a child? 18 Abraham exclaimed to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before you as well! 19 God said, No, Sarah your wife will bear you a son; and you are to call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, for his children after him. 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard your request: behold, I will bless him, and make him fruitful. I will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes will be born to him, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear for you at the set time next year. 22 God stopped talking, and then went up from Abraham. 23 Abraham took his son Ishmael, all who had been born in his house, and all who had been bought with his money. Every one of the males who were among the men of Abraham's house, were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin on the same day, as God had commanded him. 24 Abraham was ninety nine years old, when he became circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 His son Ishmael was thirteen years old, when he became circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 On the same day Abraham was circumcised, Ishmael his son was also circumcised. 27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with the money from a foreigner, were circumcised along with him.

Genesis 18

1 Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, he was sat inside the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there were three men stood close by him. When he saw them, Abraham ran out from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth, 3 he said, My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, do not depart, I beseech you, from your servant. 4 Let me now fetch you some water to wash your feet, please rest yourselves under the tree. 5 I will fetch some bread, and it will strengthen your heart; after that you may pass on: for you have come to the tent of your servant. They answered him, Do as you have said. 6 Abraham quickly entered into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready with haste three measures of fine meal, knead it, and bake cakes. 7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched the best calf, a calf tender and good, and gave it to his servant; the servant hurried to dress and ready it. 8 He took butter, milk, and the calf that had been dressed, and set the meal before them. Then he stood under the tree, close to them, and they ate. 9 They said to Abraham, Where is Sarah your wife? He answered, Behold, she is in the tent. 10 Jehovah said to him, I will certainly return to you when the season comes round; and, behold, Sarah your wife will have had a son. Sarah heard what was said from inside the tent door, which was behind where they were meeting. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, of advanced age; Sarah had ceased to have the time of women’s mensuration. 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have become so old, and my lord old also, will I have pleasure? 13 Jehovah turned to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Will I who am old, actually for real bear a child? 14 Is anything too difficult for Jehovah? At the set time I will return here to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have had her son. 15 Then Sarah denied, her laughter, I laughed not; she was frightened. Jehovah insisted, No; but you did laugh. 16 The men rose up from there, and looked out towards Sodom, Abraham travelled with them and escorted the men along the way. 17 Jehovah said, Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do; 18 seeing how Abraham will for certain surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth are to be blessed in him? 19 For I have seen and known him, even to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may also keep the ways of Jehovah. To do what is righteous and just; to the end result that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham all what he has spoken about him. 20 Jehovah revealed, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and because their sin is so very grievous; 21 I will go down now to them, and see whether they have done everything as it has been reported to me, the cries which have arisen up to me. If not, I will know it. 22 The men turned from there, and went on towards Sodom: but Abraham stood yet longer still before Jehovah. 23 Abraham drew near to God, and asked, Will you consume the righteous along with the wicked? 24 Perhaps there are fifty righteous found within the city: will you consume them and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are within? 25 Far be it from you that you would act in this manner, to judge and kill the righteous along with the wicked, that the righteous should be seen as the wicked; far be it from you. Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right? 26 Jehovah answered, If I find within Sodom fifty righteous inside the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake. 27 Abraham asked again, Behold now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, I am but dust and ashes. 28 Perhaps there are only forty five righteous, will you destroy the whole city for the lack of only five? He said, I will not destroy it, if I find there are forty five righteous within. 29 He spoke to him yet again, and asked, Perhaps there are forty found there. He said, I will not do it for the forty's sake. 30 Abraham said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak further, perhaps only thirty are found there. Jehovah answered, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 31 He said, Behold now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there are only twenty found there. The Lord said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. 32 Abraham finally asked, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak this last time. Perhaps ten righteous are to be found there. The Lord said, I will not destroy the city for the sake of ten. 33 Then Jehovah went his way. As soon as he had left from communing with Abraham, Abraham returned to his home.

Genesis 19

1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening; Lot was sat by the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 2 He said, Behold now, my lords, please come inside to your servant's house, and stay the night, wash your feet, then you can rise early and be on your way. They answered, No; we will camp in the street outside for the night. 3 Again he urged them greatly; so they relented and went in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, they ate their fill. 4 But before they got to lay down, the men of the city, all the men of Sodom, surrounded the house on every side around them. Both young men and old, all the people from every quarter came out to them; 5 and they called to Lot, Where are the men who came inside your home tonight? Bring them out to us, so we can have sex with them. 6 Lot went to them outside the door, and closed the door behind him. 7 He said, please, my brothers, do not do such wickedness. 8 Look, here are my two daughters, they have never been known by any man;. Let me, I ask you, bring them out to you, and you can do whatever to them is pleasurable in your eyes. But do not do as you said to these men, for they have come in refuge under the shadow and protection of my roof. 9 They angrily exchanged, Stand back. This fellow came in to stay with us, and now he wants to be our judge. Now we will deal worse with you, than with them. They pressed hard against the man, Lot, and came close to break down the door. 10 But the angels within thrust out their hands, and pulled Lot inside the house with them, then shut the door. 11 They struck the men of the city at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so they wearied themselves groping to find the door. 12 The men said to Lot, Have you any here besides you? Any sons-in-law, or any of your sons, any of your daughters? If there are any at all you have in the city, bring them out of this place: 13 for we will destroy it. The cry of them has risen up great before Jehovah: and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it. 14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters. He urged, Up, get out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as though he was joking. 15 When the morning arose, the angels pressed Lot, saying, Arise, quickly take your wife, and your two daughters here, or else you will be consumed along with the iniquity of the city. 16 But Lot hesitated; so the men seized hold of his hand, and grabbed the hand of his wife, and also the hand of his two daughters. Jehovah showed mercy to him; and the angels brought him out of the city, and took him to safety. 17 It came to pass, when they had taken them outside away, that the angel warned, Escape for your life; do not look back behind you, neither stay here in the plain. But instead, quickly escape to the mountain, or you will be consumed. 18 Lot said to them, Oh, may it not be so, my lord. 19 Look now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown great lovingkindness, you have demonstrated this to me by saving my life; I cannot escape all the way to the mountain. I am sure evil will overtake me, and I will die. 20 Behold now, this city is near to us for us to flee to, and it is only a small one. Please let me escape there as it is only a small one, and my soul shall survive. 21 The angel answered him, See, I have accepted this thing you have petitioned concerning me not overthrowing the city that you pointed out. 22 Quick, you must escape there; for I am unable to act until you get there. So the name of the city was called Zoar. 23 The sun had now risen high on the earth when Lot got to Zoar. 24 Then Jehovah rained down fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, fire from Jehovah out of heaven. 25 God overthrew those cities, all the plain, and everyone of the inhabitants of the cities, and all that grew on the ground. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, she was walking behind him, and as a result she became a pillar of salt. 27 Abraham got up early in the morning. He went back to the place where he had stood talking with Jehovah before. 28 He gazed out towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the land of the plain. Smoke covered the land and went up to the sky as the smoke of a furnace. 29 It came to pass, when God had destroyed the cities of the plain, God had remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the area of the judgement, when he God overthrew the cities where Lot had lived. 30 Lot left Zoar, and continued on to then live in the mountain, he and his two daughters. For he feared to stay permanently in Zoar: so he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 31 The first-born said to her younger sister, Our father is old, and there are no men left in the earth to come in to us to reproduce. 32 Come, let us make our father drink much wine, and when he is drunk we will lay down with him, so we may be able to preserve our line. 33 So they had their father drink much wine that night, and the first-born went in to him, and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 Then it came to pass on the next night, the first-born said to her younger sister, Last night I lay with my father, let us make him drunk on much wine again this night. Then you can go in to him, and lie with him, that we may preserve our line. 35 So they had their father drink much wine that night again, and then the younger arose. She lay with him; but he didn’t know when she laid down, nor when she arose. 36 So in this way both the daughters of Lot became pregnant with child by their father. 37 The first-born had a son, and called his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 The younger, she also had a son, and called his name Ben-ammi, he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

Genesis 20

1 Abraham journeyed from there towards the land of the south, and stayed between Kadesh and Shur. He stayed at Gerar. 2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, that she was his sister. So Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah for himself. 3 But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and warned him, You are indeed a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife. 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her yet. He said, Lord, will you destroy a righteous nation? 5 Did not Abraham say to me, She is my sister? She, even said herself, He is my brother. I have acted in the integrity of my heart and I am innocent. 6 God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know you have acted in the integrity of your heart, I also withheld you from sinning against me. I did not allow you to touch her. 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you refuse to restore her, know this, you will surely die, you, and all who are yours. 8 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called together all his servants. He told them these grave things he had heard. The men were greatly afraid. 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What is this you have done to us? How have I sinned so greatly against you that you would bring on me and my kingdom such a sin? You have done deeds to me that never should be done. 10 Abimelech said again to Abraham, What did you see here that you have done this thing? 11 Abraham answered, I did this because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's beauty sake. 12 Moreover she actually is my sister, she’s the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. She became my wife, 13 and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander away from the safety of my own father's house, that I said to her, Grant this kindness to me which you can show me. Everywhere we go, say of me, He is my brother. 14 Abimelech took sheep oxen, men-servants and women-servants. He gave them to Abraham, and restored back to him Sarah his wife. 15 Abimelech said, Look, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you. 16 Then to Sarah he added, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is for you as a covering, in the sight of all those who are with you. In regards to all, you are restored and upright. 17 Abraham then prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and all his maid-servants. Then they could again bare children. 18 For Jehovah had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech with barrenness, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.