ADULT SUPERVISION RECOMMENDED FOR MINORSISBN 978-0-393-06102-4 USA $24.95 Can. $31.00 FROM THE CREATION TO THE DEATHL OF JOSEPH, HERE ARE ALT. FIFTY CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS, REVEALINGLY ILLUSTRATED AS NEVER BEFORE. Envisioning the first book of the Bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, retells the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that he would do a takeoff of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible’s language, “a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions,” that he decided instead to do a primarily from the translations of Robert Alter and the King Jame: INow readers of every persuasion—Crumb fans, comic book lovers, and believers—can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing. tragic, and even juicy stories. GCrumb’s Book of Genesis reintroduces us to the bountiful tree-lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire that rained from the heavens, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh, where Joseph's embalmed body is carried in a coffin, in a scene as clegiac as any in Genesis. Using clues from the text and peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations that have iteral interpretation assembled s Version. often obscured the Bible’s most dramatic stories, Crumb fleshes out a parade of biblical originals. Nothing is left to the imagination——from the serpent in Eden, a humanoid reptile who appears like an alien out of a science fiction movie. to Jacob, a “kind of depressed guy who doesn’t strike you as physically courageous,” and his brother, Esau, “a rough and kick-ass guy,” to Abraham's wife, Sarah. far more fetching than most woman at ninety, to God himself, “a standard Charlton Heston—like (continued on back flap)SIS Hage Peay Pratt yrs) maggieGries uF ILLUSTRATEDILLUSTRATED by R.Crumb ‘WW. NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK. LiFrom Genesis: Translation and Commentary, translated by Robert Alter. Copyright © 1996 by Robert Alter Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Ine. Copyright © 2009 by Robert Crumb All rights reserved Printed inthe United States of America First Edition For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, ite to Permissions, W.W. 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AND STILL, THESE VARIOUS COWvICBGOK BIBLES ALL CLAIM TO POMERE TO THe BELIEF THAT THE BIBLE 15 “THE WORD OF GoD""oRINSPIRED GY GOD)! WHEREAS 1, IRONICAL” LY, 00 NOT BELIEVE THE BIBLE 1S "THe WORD OF GOD!” 1 BELIEVE IT 1S THE WORDS oF MON. IT 15, HONETHE” LESS, A POWERAA. TEXT WITH LAVERS OF MEANING THAT REACH DEEP INTO QUR COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, OUR HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, (F YOU WILL. [7 SEEMS INDEED TO BE AN INSPIRED WORK, OUT | BELIEVE THAT TTS POWER DERIVES FROM ITS HAVING BEEN A COLLECTIVE ENDEAVOR THAT EVOLVED AND CONDENSED ONE, MANY GENERATIONS BEFORE REACHING (TS FINAL, FIXED FORM AS WE KNOW IT DURING THE BABYLONIAN EXILE,” CIRCA G00 B.CE. FT WAS Me PRIESTLY CASTE WHO, IN THAT PERIOD, COWALED AND PUT INTO A COMESIVE ORDER TWIS COLLECTION OF STORIES, LEGENDS, AND TRIBAL LINEAGES, SOMETIMES WEAVING TOGETHER TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME. STORY, AND PROCLAIMED THE FINISHED PRODUCT A SACRED, HOLY DOCUMENT, THE SCROLLS THAT BE COME OBJECTS OF VENERATION, FOR PRIVILEGED EYES ONLY. "THE STORES oF THIS PEOPLE, THE HIEBREWS, WERE THEM ‘SOMETANG MORE THAN JUST STORIES, THEY WERE THE FOUNDDON, THE SOURCE, IN WAITING, OF REUGOKS AND POUTICL POWER, HANDED DOWN BY GOD HIMSELF. "THIS DOCUMENT WAS WRITTEN PROOF THAT YOU WERE ONE OF THE CHO- SEN PEOPLE, SPECIBL, AND DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER PEOPLES, MODERN SCHOLARS SA THAT THE PRIESTS IN— TERIECTED WORDS AND DOCTORED THE ALREADY ANCIENT STORIES To STRENGTHEN THER POLITICAL PURPOSES, Many ScnocaRS, EYAMINING CLOSELY THE TERSELY WORDED CHAPTERS OF GENESIS, PERCEVE IN THEM EARLIER, Lost MEANINGS. AND INTENTIONS, THINGS THAT HAD BEEN ALTERED GY THE INCREASINGLY ENTRENCHED PRIESTS, OTHE TRIUMPH OF PATRIARCHY OVER AN ANCIGNT AND EVER MORE DINILY REMEMBERED MATRIARCHY, ‘Muol nas @ECH LOST IN THE MISTS OF TIME, Muce of WHAT THE SCHOLARS SAY IS EDUCATED GUESSWORK, AS AMET PORE OVER THE CLUES AND HINTS AND TRY To FILL IN THE MISSING FRAGMENTS, THE DEALS THAT GOT LosT of WERE SUPPRESSED TOO LONG AGO TO EVER BE RETRIEVED. WHKE WORKING ON THIS BOOK J READ Some oF THESE ECHOLARLY EXAMINATIONS OF GENESIS AN FOUND THEM HELPFUL IN ENRICHING THE BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR THE CONTENT OF THE DRAWINGS. ‘Te MY VSUAL, LITERAL INTEAPRETRTION OF THE Book oF GENESIS OFFENDS OR OUTRAGES SOME READERS, WHICH SEEMS INEVITABLE CONSIDERING THAT THE TEXT (5 (REVERED BY MANY PEOPLE, ALL { CAN SAY IN 1 DE TENSE (5 THAT 1 APPROACHED THIS AS A STRAIGHT ILLUSTRATION JOB, WITH NO INTENTION TO FIDICULE OR MAKE VISUAL JOKES. THat SAID, | KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T PLEASE EVERYBODY. [woud Une 70 PUBLICLY ACKHOALEDBE Mit GAATTUDE TO RloseRt ALTER For ALLOWING ME TO LIBENALLY USE, AND HOPERDLLY NOT ABUSE, HIS TRANSLATION, AND To PETE POPLASKY FOR PROVIDING Me WITH AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT. OF VISUAL SOURCE MATERIAL To WORK FROM, INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS From HoLLXWaO0 BIBLICAL EPICS WHICH HE TOOK BY FREEZE-FRAMING THEM oH A TELEMSION SCREEN, FROM DV.D'S OR VIDEO TAPES. BEING AN ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR HIMSELF, Pere KWEW WHAT 1 WAS UP AGAINST WITH THIS PROJECT. Roses THaTAN, ANOTHER FRIEND, WAS ALSO VERY HELPRUL WITH VISUAL SOURCE MATERIAL. IT WAS HE WHO COM” PELLED Me TO GO BACK AND CORRECT SOME OF THE ARTWORK ON THE EARLIER PAGES APTER HE LAUGHED At HOW NO DRAWN “HE CLOTHING, WHICH HE SAID LOOKED LIKE. MODERN BATHROBES, AND HOW THE TENTS L0OKED LiKE THEY CAME FROM A SPORTING GOODS STORE. 1 WAS IGNORANT. | HADALOT To LeRAN. AIAN GREW UP WW MoROccO AND WAS VERY HELPFUL WITH THE DETAILS OF EVERYOAY UFE IN THE PRE-MODERN WORLD OF HIS CHILDHOOD, AND, HAVING [A PROFESSIONAL INTEREST (W INDIGENOUS ARCHITECTURE. IN NORTH AFRICA, LENT ME BOOMS FULL OF PHOTOS OF STRANGE, "BIBLICAL-LOOKING CITIES, PEOPLE WEARING RO3E5 AND USING IMPLEMENTS THAT HADN'T CHANGED OVER MILLENNIA. I ALSO WANT TO PUBLICLY THANK BETSY SANOUN, AN O10 FRIEND, WHOSE KNOWLEDGE OF Hiepnew HELPED CLARIFY CERTAIN AWKWARD PASSAGES. SOME OF IT \S QUITE DIFFICULT. EVEN THE MOST DEOI- CATED SCHOLARS WIL AOMIT THEY'RE NOT SURE WHAT, PRECISELY, 1S MEANT BY SOME OF THE OLD WORDS, or. “THE CONTEXT IN WHIGH THEY ARE USCD. THERE'S DISAGREEMENT AMONG THEM OVER SOME OF THESE WORDS. "THE ‘Text 15, AFTER ALL, $0 VERY, ver OLD! ——~ R. CRUMB, san, 2009She Huok of @xviiesis ILLUSTRATEDTHE WORLD OF CIRCA 2000-1600 B.C.E. 200 mites © to 2dOKUOMETERSEARTH, THE EARTH WAS THEN WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID, AND DARKNESS WAS OVER THE DEEP, AND Gop's BREATH HOVERING OVER THE WATERS. {4.0 HEN Gop BEGAN To J CREATE HEAVEN AND PAno Goo sai, “LET ruere Be Licuts | Axo Goo mace Tue Two GREAT LIGHTS, IN THE VAULT OP THE HEAVENS TO DIVIDE THE GREATER LIGHT TO DOMINATE THE DAY ‘THE DAY FRM THE NIGHT, AND LET THEM | AND THE LESTER. LIGHT TO DOMINATE THE BEFOR SIGNS SNS FORTHE FUED 7 "IME: THE STARS. ae IN'TRE VAUUT OF THE, HEAVEN: LIGHT UPON THE EARTH.” ANDSOIT Anpv God w IH Paver 1 HEAY- IVING CRBATURES AND | FUL AND MULTIPLY AND FILL THB WATER IN ‘BIRDS THAT PLY OVER THE EARTH ACROSS THE) ‘THE SEAS AND LET THE BIRDS MULTIPLY IN WUT OF THE HEAVENS.” AND Gop CREATED) THE EAeTH.” AND I WAS EVENING AND IT THE GREAT SEA MONSTERS, AND Aw Goo saip, “Ler Tae warers BRING | AND Gop BLESSED THEM, SAVING, “BE FRUT- FORTH SWARMS OP LI\ EVERY | WAS MORNING, A FIFTH DAY. ‘THAT CRAWLS, WHICH THE = WATER HAD BROUGHT FORTH IN Sars, ALL THE WINGED BIRDS OF EVERY AND GoD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.bso SoS Aa Anp Gop sap, “Ler Us MAKE Mai in OUR OWN IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS; AND LET ‘THEM HAVE DOMINION OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA AND OVER THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS, AND ‘THE CATTLE, AND OVER THE EARTH, AND OVER. EVERY CRAWLING THING THAT CRAWLS UPON THE EARTH.” = PE, Ap Gop CREATED MAN in His OWN IMAGE, IN THE LMAGE OF opie CREATED HIM, MALE AND FEMALE. CREATED THEM. S GE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY. AND FILL THE EARTH AND MASTER IT, AND HAVE DOMINION OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA, AND OVER ‘THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS: AND EVERY BEAST THAT CRAWLS UPON THE EARTH, <2 BEHOLD, T GIVE YoU EVERY PSY SEED-BEARING PLANT ON THE FACE OF ALL THE EARTH AND EVERY TRE! Re={ THAT HAS FRUIT-BEARING SEED» YOURS THEY SHALL BE FOR FOOD.“Ap 10 BVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH, AND TO EVERY BIRD OP THE HEAVENS, AND TO BVERYTHING THAT CRAWLS BREATH TO } AND Gop saw ALL THAT HE HAD MADE, AND BEHOLD, I WAS VERY GOOD. AND IT WAS EVEN- ON THE BI ING AND Ut WAS MORNING, ‘THE SIXTH DAY. OP LIFE WITHIN IT, [ GIVE ALL THE GREEN PLANTS FOR FOOD.” “AND SO TT WAS. Ow tie nav mis Loe Gon Mave EARTH AND HEAVEN, WREN NO SHRUB OF THE FIGLD WAS Yer ON EARTH AND NO GRASSES OF THE FIELD HAD YET SPROUTED, BECAUSE THE LORD GOD HAD NOT SENT RAIN UPON ‘THE EARTH AND THERE WAS NOMAN To TILL THE SOIL, BUT WETNESS WOULD WELL UP FROM THE GROUND TO WATER ALL THE WHOLE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, THEN THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN FROM THE DIRT OF ‘THE GROUND, AND BLEW INTO HiS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, AND MAN BECAME A LIVING CREATURE. . =Alp rus Lorp Goo pLanreD a GARDEN IN EDEN, To THE EAST, AND ‘THERE He PUT THE MAN WHOM HE HAD FORMED. AND OUT OF THE GROUND THE LORD Go cAUSED ‘TO GROW EVERY TREE THAT WAS PLEASING TO THE SIGHT AND GOOD FOR FooD, WITH THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN, AND THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD ANb BVI. AL RIVER RUNS OUT OF Bpen TO WATER THE GARDEN, AND 1T 'REAMS. THE NAME OF THE FIRST’ 1S PISHON, THE ONE THAT WINDS THROUGH THE WHOLE LANDOF HAV: FS ILAH, WHERE THERE IS GOLD, THE GouD OF THAT LAND IS GOOD; BDBL- LIUM Is THERE, AND LAPIS LAZULI. HE BAST OF ASHUR, AND ‘THE FOURTH RIVER 1S EvPurares.Awp tHe Lorp Gop Took Tg MAN ANDSET ...BUT FROM THE TREE HIM DOWN IN THE GARDEN OF Even,'To TILL IT GE’ KNOWLEDGE, GOOD AND AND TO WATCH OVER IT. AND THE Lorp Goo EVIL, YoU SHALL COMMANDED THE MAN, SAYING... (OF EVERY FRUIT OF THE GARDEN YoU MAY FREELY Anp "1 iG sa... IT IS NOT GooD A FORTHE MAN TO ee BACH To THE: SEE WHAT HE, ‘WOULD CALL I?, AND WHATEVER, ‘THE MAN CALLED A LIVING CREA~ ‘TURE, THAT WAS ITS NAMB. SLEEP UPON THE AND He TOOK ONE OF’ HIS RIBS, AND’ CLOSED OVER THE FLESH WHERE IT HAD BEEN,Ano ‘THE SERPENT SALD_ [Oo THE WOMAN = AND THE EYES OF THETWO WERE OPENED, AND THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE NAKED. Ann ‘THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF THe Lor Gop WALKING, ABOUTT IN THE GARDEN. IN THE BVENING BREEZE, AND ‘THE MAN AND HIS WOMAN HID FROM Tie Lon Gop iN The MDT OF THE ‘TREES OF THE GARDEN. hig kl Bis1 HEARD THE SOUND \e OF YOU IN THE GARDEN, BY AND 1 WAS AFRAID BE- BRl CAUSE 1 WAS NAKED, AND 1 HID, ‘i Axp rue Lorp Gop saip as SERPENT.» e T Witt: TERRIBLY \USE_YOU HAVE DONE THIS, ILL. THE N, oy CunseD BEVOU OF Au THe’ fA Yo PENAL \\ PANGS /N PAIN SHALL, cy Vou 'aeAn CHILDREN! OUR ‘SEED AND HERS! HE WILL TRAMPLE’ YOUR HEAD, AND You WILL GITE HIS HEEL FacetmiLe. CAIN WAS A TILLER THE SOIL. Anb THE MAN UEW Eve, HIS WOMAN, AND SHE CONCEIVED, AND BORE Cain, AND SHE SAID... Ghapter 4) sogees yn user HERDER OF SHEEI Aup mt CAME 70 PASS IN THE COURSE OF TIME. ‘That Cain BRouch'T FROM THE FRUIT OF THE. SOIL AN OFFERING T0 THE LorD. Awo te Lorp sai To Cain... WHY ARE YOU DISTRESSED, AND RG Wiris your” & ~ FACE FALLEN? FS Ap tHe ID HEED To ABEL, AND HIS OFFERING, BUT To CAIN AND HIS OFFERING He PAID NO HEED.«FOR WHETHER You oFFeR ) AND CAIN SAID To HIS WELL,OR WHETHER YOU BROTHER ..., 0 NOT, SIN CROUCHES AT THE TENT FLAP, AND FOR YOU 1s 11s DESIRE, YET You CAN GE ITS MASTER. ALND WHEN THEY WERE IN THE FIELD, CAIN ATTACKED HIS BROTHER ABEL AND . KILLED HIM. [eens Ano He sar... AM | MY BROTHER'S 5 KEEPER ? AND So, CURSED SHALL YOU BE BY THE GROUND THAT MY PUNISHMENT (5 “TOO GREAT To BEAR! NOW ‘THAT YOU HAVE BANISHED (ME FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND FROM YOUR FACE | MUST HIDE, AND 7 ‘A VAGABOND, WHOEVER FINDS ME WILL SLAY Me? TILL THE SOIL, ITWILL NO LONGER YIELD UNTO You ITS STRENGTH! A RESTLESS ‘WANDERER YOU SHALL BE ON THE EARTHSAno Enos LIVED AFTER “Sahl YE Becor: Kenan 815 YEARS, AND He BEGOT ) SONS AND | DAUGHTERS. Ano Seta Liven 105 years ann | Ano Sera ke BecoT Enosh. - oT eM HE BEcOT es Awp Mawataten uiven 65 YEARS AND HE BEGOT JARED. AnD Kenan Liven 70 vEaRS AND HE BEGOT MAHALALEL. Ano Enock uiveD 65 vears BEGOT METHUSELAH. Avo Lamecs Liven 182 YEARS AND HE BEGOT A. Gop AND HE WAS NO MORE, FOR Gop TOOK HIM. Anp Mernusetan | Anp Metuu- LIVED 187 YEARS AND } SELAH LIVED HE BEGOT Lamecu. 782 Years,»-.As 1 10 SAY, "THIS ONE WILL CONSOLE ‘US FOR THE. OF OUR HANDS’ WORK FROM THE SOIL WHICH THE LorD HAS cuRseD?" * Ann Noan was 500 OLD AND HE BEGOT SHeM, HAM, AND JapuetH. Chapter GAno THE Loxp saw THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF THE HUMAN CREAT TURE WAS GREAT ON THE, EARTH, AND THAT EVERY SCHEME OF His HEART'S DEVISING WAS ONLY PERPETUALLY EVIL. Ap ‘tae Logo REGRETTED HAVING MADE MAN ON EARTH, AND IT GRUEVED Him tv His HEART. AND ‘THE LORD SAID... I witt wire our rom THE FACE OF THE EARTH THE MEN WHOM I HAVE CREATE GAN i ‘Ano NaH BeGoT THREE SONS, ‘Suem AND HAM AND eJAPHETH. FOUND FAVOR IN ‘THE EYES OF THE LoRD—Noaw era W IMELESS IN HIS 1 OF THE HEAVENS, FOR . T REGRET THAT 1 ef NOAH WALKED WITH GoD. HAVE MADE THEM! ies CATTLE TO CRAWLINGAwo Gop saw 10 Noan... “THE END OF ALL FLESH 1S COME EARTH BEFORE ME, FOR THE THEM, WITH THE EARTH. “THIS 15 HOW YOU SHALL MAKE 11 300 CuBiTs, THE ARK'S LENGTH; 50 CUBITS, rrs WIDTH; 3O cuBITS, (TS HEIGHT. MAKE AN OPENING FOR DAYLIGHT IN THE ARK, WITHIN A, (CUBrT OF THE TOP YOU SHALL FINISH FROM THE FOWL OF EACH KIND AND FROM THE CATTLE OF EACH KIND AND FROM ALL THAT CRAWLS ON THE EARTH OF EACH KIND, TWO OF EACH THING SHALL, FOOD THAT \S EATEN AND STORE \T BY YOU, TO SERVE FOR YOU AND THEM AS FOOD. YOU SHALL MAKE THE ARK, AND 1s ULK IT INSIDE AND OUT WITH FILLED WITH QUTRAGE BY THEM, eit v ‘AND TAM NOW ABOUT TO DESTROY FOR My paRt, LAM ABOUT TO. BRING THE FLOOD, WATER UPON THE EARTH, TO DESTROY ALL FLESH WHEREIN IS THE BREATH OF LIFE FROM UNDER THE HEAVENS» EVERYTHING ON EARTH SHALL PERISH! bor T wit EsTaBLisH MY COVENANT WITH YOU, AND YoU SHALL ENTER THE ARK, YOU AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR WIFE AND ‘THE WIVES OF VOUR SONS WITH YOU. AND FROM ALL THAT LIVES, FROM ALL FLESH, TWO OF EACH ‘THING YOU SHALL BRING TO THE ‘ARK TO KEEP ALIVE WITH YOU, MALE AND FEMALE THEY ‘SHALL BE. fOF EVERY CLEAN ANIMAL ANIMAL THAT IS NOT CLEAN, ONE PAIR, | COME INTO THE ARK, YOU AND EACH WITH ITS MATE. OF THE FOWL ALL YOUR HOUSEHOLD, FOR YOU OF THE HEAVENS AS WELL SEVEN ALONE Have I FOUND RIGH - PAIRS, MALE AND FEMALE, TO S| Teous BEFORE Me IN THIS KEEP SEED ALIVE UPON! GENERATION. A EARTH. S FOR IN SEVEN DAYS’ “See TIME I WILL MAKE IT RAIN ‘THE EARTH ALL EXISTING ‘THINGS THAT T HAVE MADE. eae my Hel BEE FEF I aaON THE EARTH FORTY DAVS AND FORTY NIGHTS. COMMANDED HIM, AND THE Lorp SHUT HIM IN. Ano ‘raz Puoop was Forty pays over THe EARTH, | AND THE WATERS SURGED MOST MIGHTILY XD THE WATERS MULTIPLIED AND BORE THE ARK” | OVER THE EARTH, AND ALL THE HIGH MOUN- UPWARD, AND IT ROSE ABOVE THE EARTH. AND | ‘TAINS UNDER THE HEAVENS WERE, Ct ‘THE WATERS SURGED AND MULTIPLIED MIGHTILY \ FIFTEEN CUBITS ABOVE ‘THEM THE WATERS SURGED AS THE MOUNTAINS WERE COVERED.Ano AbL FLESH THAT ‘STIRS ON ‘PE EARTH PERISHED, THE FOWL AND THE CATTLE AND ‘THe BEASTS AND ALL WS SE SS ENING IN ITS NOSTRILS, OF ALL THAT WAS ON DRY LAND, DIED. AND He WIPED our ALL EXISTING THINGS FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, FROM HUMANS: ‘TO CATTLE, To CRAWL- ING THINGS TO THE. FOWL OF THE HEAVENS, ‘TREY WERE WIPED OUT FROM THE EARTH. LI AY Aw NoaH ALONE REMAINED, AND "THOSE WITH HIM INTHE ARK. ‘Ao Gop nempupenen Nonsianp aut me neasns } AT THE END OF 150 DAYS THE ARK CAME TO AND ALL THE CATTLE THAT WERE WITH HIM IN THE a, ON AE SA EBNTH | OF THE SEV- ‘ARK. Axo Gop SENT A WIND OVER THE EARTH AND ( ENTH MONTH, ON THE MOUNTAINS OF ARARAT. ‘THE WATERS CONTINUED TO EBB, UNTIL THE. TeNTH MONTH, ON THE FINST DAY OF THE "TENTH MONTH, THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS APPEARED.Aap it came 70 Pass ar THE END oF ForTY Days | AND HE SENT OUT ‘THE RAVEN, AND It’ WENT THAT Noax OPENED THE WINDOW OF THE ARK. FORTH 'TO AND FRO UNTIL THE WATERS SHOULD DRY UP FROM THE EARTH. oy Vibe) Ano ue sent OUT THE DOVE To ‘SEG WHETHER THE WATERS HAD ‘ABATED PROM THE SURFACE, OF ‘THE GROUND. Wes per ST eb ROARS. ‘THEN HE WAITED STILL ANOTHER SEVEN DAVS AND SENT OUT THE DOVE, AND IT DID NOT RETURN AND IN. NoaH KNEW ROM THE, EARTH.Arp Noa puiut AN ALTAR 70 Aro me Lorp smeuuep THe [ ... ano [ wits Not AGAIN ‘THE Lono, AND HE. TOOK FROM. » AND THE Lond | STRIKE DOWN ALL LIVING EVERY CLEAN CATTLE AND SAID IN HIS HEART... THINGS ASI pip. As LONG EVERY CLEAN FOWL AND OF - (ears AS THE EARTH ENDURES, FERRED BURNT OFFERINGS ON a SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, ‘THE ALTAR. AND COLD AND HEAT, AND” ‘SUMMER AND WINTER, AND DAY AND NIGHT ‘SHALL NOT wy, ii BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH. HEAVENS, IN ALL THAT CRAWLS ON THE GROUND AND IN ALL ‘THE FISH OF THE SEA. INTO b YOUR HANDS THEY ARE EVERY Beast I Witt REQUIRE. TT, AND FRO! hom EVERY Man FOR. TWAT OF HIS FELLOW‘Ano I, Tam agour TO ‘ASTOR. VOU, BE FOOTE PUL: To ESTABLISH My COVENANT WITH You AND MULTIPLY, SWARM [AND WITH YOUR SEED AFTER YOU, AND THROUGH THE EARTH AND WITH EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT HOLD SWAY OVER IT? oe EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH WITH YOU, ALL THAT HAVE COME OUT OF THE ARK, EVERY BEAST ‘OF THE EARTH. MIS 15-TME SIGN OF THE OM COVENANT WHICH I MAKE BETWEEN Me an VOU AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT IS WITH YoU, FOR EVERLASTING GENERATIONS. My gow I Have SET IN THE CLOUDS TD BE A SIGN OF "THE COVENANT BETWEEN Me AND THE EARTH, AND HENCEFORTH, WHEN T SEND CLOUDS OVER THE EARTH, TW6 BOW SHAUL APPEAR wi THE! CLOUD. THen Twice, AND THE BOW SHALL REMEMBER MY BE IN THE CLOUD AND I witt ‘COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND (SEE 1, THaT I may REMEM- THIS IS THE SIGN OF f, YOU AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE BER THE EVERLASTING COVE- THE COVENANT I HAVE Hf OF ALL FLESH, AND THE WATERS [| NANT BETWEEN GOD AND. ESTABLISHED BETWEEN ME SHALL NO LONGER BECOME A EVERY LIVING CREATURE AND ALL FLESH THAT IS A Ft000 To DESTROY ALL FLESH. OF ALL FLESH THAT 1SAno THE SONS OF NoaH WHO CAME OUT OF THE ARK’ WERE. ‘Suen ano HAM AND JAPHETH, ‘AND HAM WAS THE, FATHER OF CANAAN. THESE THREE WERE, ‘THE SONS OF NOAH, AND FROM ‘THESE THE WHOLE EARTH SPREAD OUT. Ano Norn, A MAN OF THE Ano Ham, THE FATHER OF CANAAN, SAW HIS FATHER’S! NAKEDNESS AND TOLD HIS ‘TWO BROTHERS OUTSIDE. {CAME DRUI AND EXPOSED HIMSELF WITHIN: HIS TENT. Awp Noax woke FROM HIS WINE AND HE iQlEW WHAT HIS YOUNGEST SON HAD DONE To Him, AND HE SAID..- = CURSED BE CANAAN! THE LOWLIEST OF SLAVES may Goo ENLARGE JAPHETH, MAY HE DOWELL INTHE TENTS OF SHEM, UNTO THEM SHALL. ‘Canaan BE SLAVE! Ano Noni LIVED AFTER, ‘THE FLooD 350 YEARS, AND ALL THE DAYS OF Noas WERE 950 VEARS. THEN HI .jONS OF eTH, GENERATIONS OF THE, IM THEIR sons of Noak, SHEM, SNS LANDS, anv JaPHETH. Sons EACH A 8 AND SONS oF JAVAN: ELISHAH AND TarsHisH, THE Kirrires AND THE "THe BEGINNING OF HIS 1UNGDOM. was BABYLON AND ERECH AND Aegon or mu IN THE LAND Ni MIGHTY MAN ON EARTH. He WAS AMIGHTY HUNTER. BE- PORE THE » SEMEREFORE Tt 1g SAID, LIKE NIMROD, AA MIGHTY HUNTER BEFORE THE LORD.” From THAT LAND AssHUR. CAME PORTH, | AND AND He BUILT NINEVEH AND Renopomi-| MIZRAIM Ik AND CALAH, AND RESEN, BETWEEN NIWEVEH. ap Cat, WHICH 1S THE GREAT CITY.‘Axo THe BORDER OF THE CANAANITE. ‘was FROM SIooW TILL YOU COME "TO GERAR, As FAR AS GazA, TILL ‘You Come To Sopom AND Gomor- ‘FAH AND Apman AND ZEBOLM, AS par aS Lasua. Tyese ARE THE NG ‘Anp To EBER TWO SONS WERE BORN. THE NAME OF ONE WAS PELEG} FOR IN HIS DAVS THE EARTH WAS SPLIT APART;... ANTS OF EBERS AND OLDER BION BR OF Japweri. THE SONS OF ‘AND Ho anp Ge7er ano MasH. AND ARPACHSHAD BEGOT SHELAH AND Suexan BeGoT EBER, we FEBER: mom wuom awe HeEREW = "Fane Toon Sem Name * PELsa: m cu HeoREW THE THREE con- ‘SoNnIeS "OF Te Nae PELEG Foret Oe ‘Sean Roor Tae MEMS "TO SPLIT -.. AND Wig BROTHERS NAME was JoxTAN. Axp Joicrax pecor ALMODAD AND ‘SueterH anp HazaRMAVETH AND JERAH AND: Ano Uzab AND Dik- Lak mi OBAL AND ABIMAEL AND SuEBA AND OPHIR Anp THEIR SETTLE- MENTS WERE FROM MESHA TILL YOU COME TO SEPHAR, IN Aino ALL THE BARTH WAS ONE LANGUAGE, ONE SET OF WORDS. AND IT CAME To PASS, AS THEY JOURNEYED FROM ‘THE EAST, THAT THEY FOUND A PLAIN IN THE LAND OF SHINAR, AND THEY SETTLEDANp THEY SAID, “COME, LET US BUILD USA CITY AND A TOWER WiTH ITS TOP IN THE HEAVENS, THAT WE MAY MAKE US A NAME, LEST WE BE SCH "TERED OVER THE FACE OF ALL THE EART Ano tie Lorp came Down To see THE CITY AND THE TOWER THAT COME, LeT US GO DowN iE HUMAN CREATURES HAD BUILT, AND THE LORD SAID... AND CONFOUND THEIR (0S ONE PEORLE wiTH OnE Laneunce FoR, YM Tay a S] ALL, IF THIS 1S WHAT THEY HAVE BEGUN " DO,NOW WOTHING THEY SCHEME TO _}4\ ONE ANOTHER'S SPEECH f DO WiLL ELUDE THEM! 4 OF ALL THE EARTH AND FROM THERE THE. Ezy ET - LoD SCATTERED THEM OVER THE FAC! OF ALL THE EARTH. Ano rae Leeo | SCATTERED THEM FROM THERE} ‘Trnerore [ST calLeD BABEL, BECAUSE OVER EARTH, AND THERE THE LORD U1 LEPT OFF BUILDING THE cron THEY ORD CONFOUNDED THE LANGUAGE i Jrygrmaia‘Ths 1s THE LINEAGE or Suem. | Ano Axpacusuap ive Tuirty- |} Ano Sxevak vive rHirry YEARS AND HE BEGOT EBER. Anp SHELAH LIVED APTER BE- GeTtiné EBeR 403 YEARS AND ‘WHEN HE BEGOT ARPACHSHAD, ‘Two YEARS APTER THE FLOOD. Ano Eper viveD Tant'y-FouR. Anp Pauec uivep THirry years) Aro Rev vive Tuirry-TWwo YEARS AND HE BecoT Peves. Anp | AND HE BeGoT Rev. AND PEueG | YEARS AND HE BEGOT SERUG. EBER LIVED APTER BEGETTING PeL-} Live APTER BEGETTING Rev 209 | Ap Rev LiveD AFTER BEGET TING BG 430 YEARS AND HE BeGOT Sons | YEARS AND HE BEGOT SONS AND } SERUG 207 VEARs AND HE BEGOT AND DAUGHTERS. DAUGHTERS. 5 ASAE — [oR bs Awp Seruc tiven THIRTY YEARS AND HE BEGOT NAHOR. Ano Ser- | NINE YEARS AND HE BEGOT UG LIVED AFTER BEGETTING NAHOR | TERAH. AnD NaHoR LIVED 200 YEARS AND HE BEGOT SONS | APTER BEGETTING TERAH 119 AND DAUGHTERS. Ano Terai LIVED SEVENTY YEARS AND HE BEGoT ABRAM,md Ano THis Is THE LINEAGE OF Tera: Terran Besor | Anp HaRAN DIED IN THE LIFETIME OF TeRAK HIS Asnam, NAHOR, AND HARAN, AND HaRAN BEGOT Lor. | FATHER, INTHE LAND OP HIS BIRT, UR. OP THE tt 4 HE, Ser OUP WiTH THEM FROM UR oF THE CHAL- | ‘THEY DEES TOWARD THE LAND OF CANAAN.LAND AND YOUR BIRTHPLACE AND YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE TO THE LAND I wiLt SHOW Your T Witt BLEss THOSE WHO BLESS YOU AND CURSE HIM THAT CURSES YOU; AND ALL THE CLANS OF THE EARTH THROUGH YOU SHALL BE BLESSED: ace ‘Took Sarat His WIFE AND Lor 1s NEPHEW AND ALL THE GOODS THEY HAD GOTTEN: AND THE. ‘THEY HAD BOUC PEOPLE, jGHT IN HARAN, AND ‘THEY SET OUT ON THE WAY TO THE LAND OP CA- NAAN, AND THEY CAME 70 THE LAND OF CANAAN. s-AND I Wilt MAKE OF YOU A GREAT NATION AND I WILL BLESS YoU. I WILL MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT =< oS AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING / ‘PASSED THROUGH THE LAND ‘TO THE SITE OF SHECHEM, TO THE ‘TeReBINTH OF MoREH.* Tue CANAAN- ITE WAS THEN IN THE LAND.AND WE PULLED UP HIS STAKES FROM THERE FoR THE HIGH COUNTRY EAST OF BETHEL AND PITCHED HIS TENT WITH BETHEL TO THE WEST AND At TO THE EAST, AND HE BUILT THERE AN ALTAR TO THE LORD, AND HE INVOKED THE NAME. OF THE LORD. {Aww ue BUILT AN AWNo IT CAME TO PASS AS HE DREW NEAR To THE BORDER OF EGYPT THAT HE SAID To SARAT HIS WIFE... za LOOK HERE Now, I KNOW THAT MY WIFE IS BEAUTIFUL To BEHOLDAno Tne, Lorp ArFLICTED PHARAOH AND His HousE- HOLD WITH TERRIBLE [BRAM . "ie ay 6 TED PLAGUES BECAUSE OF SARAI THE | SAID. WIFE OF Ak > Wuy 01D vou NOT TELL ME SHE WAS YouR WIFE?! WHY DID YOU SAY, "SHE'S MY. SISTER) SO THAT 1 TOOK HER To ME AS WIFE ? 3-.-To THE PLACE OF THE ALTAR HE HAD ‘MADE THE FIRST TIME, AND ABRAM IN- VOKED THERE THE NAME; OF THE LORD. LET THERE BE NO CONTENTION, I PRAY You, Fy1S NOT THE WHOLE LAND : Ano Lot LIFTED Hig EYES AND BEHELD ALL THE PLAIN BEFORE YOU? PRAY, KINDLY. OF JORDAN, SAW THAT ALL OF tf WAS WELL-WATERED— PART FROM Me! IF YOU TAKE THE BEFORE THE LORD'S DESTRUCTION oF SoDOM AND GOMOR- LEFT HAND, TWEN 1 SHALL GO RIGHT, J) RAHLIKE THE GARDEN OF THE LORD, LIKE THE, LAND OF AND IF YOU TAKE THE RIGHT HAND, Ever, TILL You COME TO ZOAR. U SHALL GO LEFT. = one Lor CHOSE FOR HIMSELF THE WHOLE PLAIN” oF JORDAN, AND Li sw FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH You SEE, TO | LIFT uP your eves © “ou weld owe AND LOOK OUT FROM THE PLACE WHERE YoU ARE, ‘TO THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH, TO THE EASTAno I wit MaKe YOUR SEED UKE Ano Asram 100K UP HIS TENT AND CAME 'TO. DWELL BY THE TEREBINTHS OF MAMRE, WHICH ARE IN HEBRON, AND HE BUILT ‘THERE AN ALTAR 'TO THE, ‘Lop. oe COUNT "THE DUST OF THE EARTH, SO TOO, ff YOUR SEED MIGHT BE. COUNTED! ARISE, FI H WALK ABOUT THE LAND THROUGH ITS "AY AL LENGTH AND ITS BREADTH, FOR TO You T WiLL GIVE IT! Ano 17 CAME, To PASS IN mM KING, OF GoMORRAH, ON SHINAB, KING OF ‘THAT IS, ZOAR. THESE FIVE JOINED FORCES UN THE VALLEY OF YEAR THEY REBELLED. AND IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR CAME CHEDOR- LAOMER AND THE KINGS ‘THAT WERE WITH HIM, Bi] AND STRUCK DOWN THE 4] REPHAIM IN ASHTEROTH- KARNAIM, AND THE fj Zuzim at HAM AND ‘THE Emm ar SHAVEH- ‘KIRIATHAIM, AND THE HoRITE IN THE HIGH COUNTRY OF SEIR AS ) FAR As EL-PARAN, WHICH IS BY THE, WILDERNESS -GoMoRRAH FLED THERE AND LEAPED INTO THE! WHILE THE REST FLED TO THE HIGH COUNTRY.JAN AFTER HE CAME BACK FROM. STRIKING DOWN CHEDORLAOMER AND THE KINGS THAT WERE WITH HINI, THE KING OF SoDOM CAME OUT TO MEET HIM IN THE, yaiey' OF SHAVEH, THAT IS, THE VALLEY OF THE Awo MeLcnizepek, KING OF SALEM, BROUGHT OUT BREAD AND WINE, FOR HE WAS A PRIEST TO EL BLYON. > vs , Ur ase Zs 5 NF NN 2. coon: semen a Net see INAANITE. PANTHEON. Awo Asram Gave HIM A TENTH OF EVERY- ‘THING. AND THE KING OF Sovom SAID TO BLESSED BE ABRAM To EL ELVON, POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND BLESSED BE ELBLYON, WHO A DELIVERED YOUR FOES INTO iQ i Wa can FOR ME, NOTHING BUT WHAT THE LADS HAVE CONSUMED. AND AS FOR | g1 THE SHARE OF THE MEN WHO WENT. Ba) WITH ME, ANER, ESHKOL, AND MAMRE, ty LET THEM TAKE THEIR SHARE. 15 Z WHO HAVE MADE ABRAM RICH"/FEAR NOT, Asram! 1am YOUR SHIELD! BEHOLD, TO Me You HaVe GIVEN NO SEED, AND HERE A SERVANT OF MY HOUSEHOLD |S TO BE MY HEIRS SO SHALL, BE YOUR O MY MASTER, LORD! WHAT CAN YOU GIVE ME, SEEING THAT I SHALL GO TO MY END CHILDLESS, AND “THE STEWARD OF MY HOUSEHOLD 15 THIS DAMMESEK *. ELIEZER?! LOOK UP TO THE HEAVENS AND COUNT THE STARS, 1 YOU CAN COUNT THEM S SEED. Out OF UR OF THE cinerea aves) ga Mass. You THIS LAND -{" suatt | ANOW INHERIT. THAT T SHALL. INHERIT (T?TAKE ME A HEIFER ‘THREE YEARS OLD, A TURTLE- ‘O0VE, AND A YOUNG -,AND EACH SET HIS PART OPPOSITE THE OTHER, BUT THE BIRDS HE DID NOT CUT UP.BUT UPON THE NATION, AS FOR YOU, YOU SHALL GO 7" “9 FOR WHOM THEY SLAVE I ‘TO VOUR FATHERS IN PEACE + 3 . WILL BRING JUDGMENT, AND YOU SHALL BE BURIED IN RIPE SMO ELL THAT YOUR "A! prrexwnno tev Swat COME. {| OLD ACE. AND iW THE FOURTH OUT WITH GREAT SUBSTANCE J GENERATION THEY SHALL COME TWey SHALL BE ENSLAVED MERE AAR, FORTHE EQUITY 3 NOT YET FULL, FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT TO THE GREAT RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES :THE KENITE AND THE KENIZITE AND THE KADMONITE AND THE HITTITE AND THE PERIZZITE AND THE REPHAIM AND THE AMORITE AND THE CANAANITE AND THE GIRGA- ‘SHITE AND THE JEBUSITE. “Axp JUST AS THE SUN HAD SBT, THERE WAS A THICK | ON THAT Day THE LORD MADE A COVE- GLOOM. AMD, BEHOLD, A SMOKING BRAZIER WITH A} NANT WITH ABRAM, SAYING... FLAMING "TORCH PASSED BETWEEN THOSE PART: =i VOURseao T'was GWENT GS LAS LOOK HERE, THE Lorp WAS KEPT ME FROM BEARING CHILDREN.Anp Asram HEEDED THE worps OF Saral. AND Sarat, ABRAM’S WIFE, TOOK HAGAR THE Eeypt- JAN, HER HANDMAID, AFTER ABRAM HAD DWELT "TEN YEARS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND SHE GAVE HER TO ABRAM HER HUSBAND, ASA WIFE. Ao WHEN SHE SAW THAT SHE HAD | Anp Sarat sai 10 ABRAM... Ler THE LoRD CONCEIVED, HER MISTRESS SEEMED DIMINIS! HER EYES. YUDGE BETWEEN ME IS BECAUSE OF YOU! YOU AND MES Bi 1 MYSELF PUT MY HAND- MAID IN YOUR ZAR AND NOW THAT SHE SEES THAT SHE HAS CONCEIVED, I'VE BECOME D/MINISHED IN HER EYES? Loox, Your, HANDMAID 15 IN YOUR HANDS! Do To HER WHATEVER YOU THINK RIGHT?Ano THe Lorp's MesseNceR FOUND HER BY A ‘SPRING OF WATER IN THE WILDERNESS, BY THE 7 HAGAR, HANDMAID SPRING ON THE WAY TO SHUR. SE{ OF Sanat, WHERE HAVE You COME FROM AND WHERE ARE YOU GOING 2 ‘ x Ano THe Logp's MESSENGER, " ee SAID TO HER... FLEEING y FROM THE FACE RETURN TO YOUR MISTRESS Twit surery J OF MY MISTRESS, AND SUBMIT YOURSELF TO HER MULTIPLY YOUR SEED “Y HARSH TREATMENT... AND IT WILL BE BEYOND ft, ALL_COUNTING J yy ay... AND HE WILL BE A WILD ASS FF BEHOLD, vou Have conceived PSE 3 TICUAN OF ALL Scent EME ‘AND WILL BEAR A SON AND - Be EVEN So, HE SHALL ENCAMP IN Poe IE CAEL RE WANE x THE FACE OF ALL HIS KIN S Tsumaet * FORTHE LORD x A HAS HEEDED . Pr VP! FISHMAEL: THE Name MEANS "GOD WAS HEARD.”CALLED THE NAME. OFTHE, HAD SPOKEN TO HER,"EtRol, Ano Apram FLUNG HIMSELF ON HIS FACE, [AND Gob SPOKE TO HIM, SAYING..~ ‘AS FORME, THIS 1s MY COVENANT. ‘WITH YOU! YOU SHALL BE FATHER TO A MULTITUDE OF NATIONS! AND NO LONGER SHALL YOUR NAME BE CALLED ABRAM, BUT YOUR NAME SHALL BE ABRAHAM, FoR I HAVE MADE YOU ANp I witt MaKe You MOST ABUNDANTLY FRUITFUL AND MAKE NATIONS OF YOU, AND KINGS SHALL COME FORTH FROM You! AND T WiLL MAINTAIN MY COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND YoU AND YOUR SEED AFTER YOU THROUGH THEIR GENERATIONS AS AN EVERLASTING COVENANT To BE GOD TO YOU AND TO YOUR SEED AFTER YOU!< ‘AS FOR You, You SHALL AND YOUR SEED AFTER YOU THIS: KEEP MY COMMANDMENT, YOU LAND IN WHICH YOU SOJOURN, THE Big [AND YOUR SEED AFTER YOU, THROUGH WHOLE LAND OF CANAAN, AS AN THE GENERATIONS. THIS 1s MY EVERLASTING HOLDING, AND I COVENANT WHICH YOU SHALL KEEP, BE~ WILL BE THEIR GOD? Aj TWEEN ME AND YOU ANO YOUR SEED AFTER YoU EVERY MALE AMONG You MUST BE C/RCUMCISED. YOU SHALL CIRCUMCISE THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKIN, AND IT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THE EIGHT DAYS OLD, EVERY MALE AMONG AND A MALE WITH A FORESKIN, ‘WHO HAS MOT CIRCUMCISED THE FLESH OF HIS FORESKIN, THAT PERSON SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE! HE HAS YOU SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS, EVEN SLAVES BORN IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND THOSE PURCHASED WITH SILVER FROM ANY FOREIGNER, WHO ARE NOT OF YOUR SEED, THOSE BORN IN YOUR HOUSE- HOLD AND THOSE PURCHASED WITH SILVER MUST BE CIRCUMCISED. THUS SHALL MY COVENANT ‘BE IM YOUR FLESH AS AN EVERLASTING ‘Ann ABRAHAM FLUNG HIMSELF ON HIS FACE, NO LONGER CALL HERSELF AND HE LAUGHED, SAYING TO HIMSELP..- ‘Sanat, FOR SARAH 15 HER To A HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD ‘Ano I Witt sLess WILL_A CHILD BE BORN? WILL HER! Inpce, I WILL GIVE NINETY-YEAR-OLD SARAH GIVE YOU A SON BY HER, AND. I WILL BLESS #/M1, AND SHE SHALL BECOME NA~ TIONS! KINGS OF PEO-Isaac, ano Twit es- ‘TaBLisH My COVENANT WITH HIM AS AN EVER- LASTING COVENANT, Ano Aaravam wAs NINETY-NINE YEARS OLD WHEN THE FLESH OF HIS FORESKIN WAS CIRCUMCISED. AnD ISHMAEL WAS ‘THIRTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN THE FLESH OF HIS FORESKIN WAS CIRCUMCISED. sur My covenanr I MAKE HIM FRUITFUL, AND WILL MULTIPLY HIM MOST ABUNDANTLY! TWELVE CHIEFTAINS SHALL HE BE- GET, ANDI WILL MAKE. HIM A GREAT NATION! On tuar very pay ABRAHAM WAS CIRCUMCISED, AND ISHMAEL, HIS SON, AND ALL THE, MEN OF HIS HOUSE- HOLD, THOSE BORN IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND THOSE, PURCHASED WITH SILVER FROM THE FOREIGNERS , WERE CIRCUMCISED WITH HIM.He SAW, AND HE RAN ‘TO MEET THEM FROM THE TENT FLAP, AND BOWED To THE GROUND. AND HE SAID. MY LORD, IF 1 HAVE FOUND FAVOR IN YOUR EYES, 1 PRAY YOU DO NOT GO ON PAST. LET A LITTLE WATER BE FETCHED, AND BATHE YOUR FEET, AND STRETCH OUT UNDER THE TREE, AND LET ME FETCH A MORSEL OF BREAD, AND REFRESH YOURSELVES, THEN GO ON- FOR HAVE You NOT COME BY YOUR SERVANT ? = Anv Aprauam HASTENED TO THE TENT TO SERRE; AND HE} SAID; HURRY! KNEAD THREE MEASURES OF CHOICE SEMOLINA FLOUR AND MAKE LOAVES![AND HE FETCHED CURDS AND MILK AND THE CALF ‘AND HE SET THESE BEFORE ‘BY THEM UNDER THE TREE, Twit surety RETURN TO You AT af THis very SEASON AND, BEHOLD, SARAH, YOUR WIFE, SHALL m HAVE A SONS AT THE TENT FLAP, WHICH WAS BEHIND HIM...1S ANYTHING BEYOND THE Lonp ?? iN DUE TIME F Witt RETURN TO YOU, AT THIS VERY SEASON, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON? SHOULD. I CONCEAL FROM ApRaHAM THAT WHICH T AM ABOUT TO DO? For Asrawam Wilt SURELY BECOME A GREAT ‘AND MIGHTY NATION, AND ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED RO LORD To DO RIGHTEOUS- NESS AND JUSTICE, THAT J May BRING ron AB‘THE OUTCRY OF SoDOM LET Me GO DOWN THERE ‘AND GOMORRAH — AND SEE WHETHER THEIR OFFENSE HOW GREAT IS HAS BEEN ALTOGETHER AS GRAVE AS THE OUTCRY THAT HAS THEIR . COME TO ME, AND IF NOT; OFFENSE T wie know! 1S VERY, AND THE TWO MEN TURNED FROM THERE AND WENT ON TOWARD SODOM, BUT ABRAHAM YET STOOD BEFORE THE LORD. wie You REALLY WIPE OUT THE INNOCENT ALONG WITH THE GUILTY? FAR 8 1 FROM YOU. TO DO SUCH A THING! UT TO DEATH THE INN} nc ouLD FIND CENT WITH THE GUILTY, Sopoe AIST INNOCENT, MAKING INNOCENT AND FO00M AICTY: INNOCENT, GUILTY THE SAME! WHOLE PLACE FOR “THEIR SAKE. 17 COULD BE THAT “THERE ARE FIFTY INNOCENT WITHIN THE CITY, WILL You REALLY DESTROY THE PLACE AND NOT SPARE IT FOR THE SAKE OF THE FIFTY INNOCENT WITHIN PRAY, | PRE- ‘SUME TO SPEAK TO my LORD, 1 WHO AM BUT DUST AND ASHES! PERHAPS THE FIFTY INNOCENT WILL Lack F/VE! WOULD YoU DESTROY THE WHOLE CITY FOR THE FIVE P?PLEASE, LET Nor my LORD BE INCENSED, AND ALLOW ME TO SPEAK... PERHAPS THERE ACCOUNT OF arene THE FORTE WILL BE FOUND THIRTY, TO SPEAK TO MY Lor... PERHAPS THERE WILL BE FOUND TWEWTY... PLEASE, LET NOT My LORD BE ANGRY, AND ALLOW ME TO SPEAK THIS LAST TIME...PER- HAPS THERE WILL BE FOUND TEN... Twit not DESTROY FOR THE SAKE 1 THE TENS mY low Bea nah Anb tue Lorp WENT OFF WHEN He FINISHED SPEAK- ING WITH ABRAHAM, AND ABRAHAM RETURNED TO HIS PLACE.NO, WELL SPEND THE NIGHT IN THE SQUARE. Bhve Le Stan 9 i tose:T0 oem min, AND BOWED WITH HIS FACE TO THE GROUND. ©, PLEASE, Mv LonDS, WH ‘TURN ASIDE TO YOUR SER- VaNT'S HOUSE AND BATHE YOUR FEET, AND YOU CAN RISE EARLY AND SET OFF ON YOUR way?‘Ano HE PRESSED THEM HARD, AND THEY TURNED HIS | AND HE PREPARED THEM A FEAST, AND BAKED UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND THEY DID EAT. “They wad WoT Ver LAINE DOWN WHEN THE TOWNSMEN, THE MEN’ OF SopOM, FROM LADS TO ELDERS, EVERY LAST MAN OF THEM, GATH- BRED ABOUT THE HOUSE. Axo Lor went our To THEM AT THE ENTRANCE, CLOSING ‘THE DOOR BEHIND im Hint, AND ‘HE SAID. PLease MY BROTHERS, DO NO HARM! Look, | HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS WHO HAVE. KNOWN NO MANS LET ME BRING THEM ‘OUT TO YOU, AND YOU CAN DO TO. THEM HOWEVER, WHERE ARE THE MEN WHO CAME To You TONIGHT 27? ONLY TO THESE MEN DO. NOTHING, FOR HAVE THEY NoT COME UNDER THE SHADOWP THIS FELLOW Ne of CAME AS A’SOUOURNER L AND NOW HE SETS HIMSELF UP TO JUDGE f/ ‘THEY HARD AGAINST THE PERSON OF Lor, [AND PUSHED FORWARD TO BREAK DOWN THE DOOR. x GN ‘ AND THE MEN AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE HOUSE THEY STRUCK WITH } COULD NOT FIND THE ENTRANCE. BLINDING LIGH'FORE THE LORD, AND THE LORD Has SENT US TO DESTROY IT? AND SPOKE, MARRIED Hi5 DAUGHTERS, AND HE SAID. BT RISE! GET OUT OF THIS PLACE, FOR THE LORD (s ABOUT TO DE-’ STROY THIS CITY If ‘TAKE YOUR WIFE AND YOUR TWO DAUGHTERS WHO REMAIN WITH YOU, LEST YOU BE WIPED OUT IN THE PUNISH-Ayo meu ‘THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM OUT, SAID... FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE! ‘NOT LOOK BEHIND HIGH COUNTRY, LEST Vou Twererone 1s ‘THE NAME OF ‘THE TOWN CALLED "THE SUN HAD JUST COME OUT QWER THE EARTH WHEN LOT ARRIVED AT Nott No, my LORD! BEHOLD,NOW, YOU HAVE SHOWN TO ME IN SAVING MY LIFE, BUT T CAN- NOT FLEE TO THE HIGH EVIL (, LEST ‘OVERTAKE ME AND I DIE LT HURRY! FLEE = THERE! FOR 1 can D0 NOTHING UNTIL You HAVE ARRIVED THERE!AND xis WIFE LOOKED Ap ABRAHAM HASTENED EARIW IN | AND RE LOOKED ouT OVER Sopom anp GoMoRRAH AND ‘THE MORNING TO THE PLACE WHERE | OVER ALL THE LAND OF THE PLAIN, AND HE SAW, AND BEHOLD, HE HAD STOOD IN THE PRESENCE, SMOKE WAS RISING LIKE THE SMOKE FROM A KILNS OF THE LoD. ~ =Ano THE OLDER ONE SAID TO THE YOUNGER. COME, LET'S GIVE OUR FATHER WINE TO DRINK, AND Ler’s | OUR FATHER (5 OLD. AND THERE IS NO. THAT WE IW EP R MAN ON EARTH TO COME To BED WITH US UE Wind Hie, 50. ie fs LIKE THE WAY OF ALL THE WORLD! ok eee een Ue fener! | ..AND THE OLDER ONE CAME AND LAY WITH HER FATHER, AND HE KNEW NOT WHEN SHE. LAY DOWN OR WHEN SHE AROSE. AND ON THE NEXT DAY ‘THE OLDER ONE, | AND ON THAT NIGHT AGAIN THEY GAVE THEIR SAID TO THE YOUNGER... FATHER WINE TO DRINK, AND THE YOUNGER ONE. AROSE, AND LAY WITH HIM, AND HE KNEW NOT BEHOLD, LAST NIGHT I LAY WITH MY : FATHER. LET's GIVE HIM WINE TO oRINK {WHEN SHE LAY DOWN OR WHEN SHE AROSE. AGAIN TONIGHT, AND VOU GO AND LIE WITH HIM, SO THAT WE MAY KEEPAxo ABIMELECH, THE KING OF GERAR, SENT AND TOOK SARAH. aah mv Loro, witt You stay a WY NATION EVEN IF WWNOCENT-?? KX"AND Gop SAID To HIM IN ‘THE DREAM... ~7 NOW SEND BACK THE MAN'S WIFE, FOR HE 15.4 Tose, Tewow Taar wir VL ZOCHET, AND HE WIL A DURE HEART YoU HAVE DONE THIS, YEU way ZY? ‘no I on My PART HAVE PREVENTED i ‘YOU FROM OFFENDING AGAINST ME, aND Sok HAVE NOT An ABIMELECH ROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND CALLED TO ALL HIS SERVANTS.WHAT WRONG HAVE I DON YOU-TAr YOU SHOULD BRING SO GREAT A GUILT UPON ME BE DONE / of AND, IN POINT OF FACT, AND $0 IT HAPPENED, WHEN SHE /S Mv SISTER, MY (UE GODS Mave ME A FATHt RER FROM MY FATHER'S: House, mar rove Hen "THIS 1S THE KINDNESS WHICH YOU SHALL DO FOR ME: IN EVERY PLACE TO WHICH WE COME, SAV OF ME, HEIS my BROTHER’? BEHOLD, MY LAND 1S { Berore You! SETTLE WHEREVER VOU WANTSSo Asrauam pravep 70 Gop, anD Gop HEALED ABIMELECH AND HIS WIFE AND His SLAVE-WOMEN, AND THEY GAVE BIRTH. For THE LORD HAD SHUT FAST EVERY WOMB IN. THE HOUSE OF ABIMELECH BECAUSE OF SARAH, THE WIFE OF ABRAHAM. ‘BEHOLD, 1 HAVE GIVEN A THOU- ‘SAND PIECES OF SILVER TO YOUR, BROTHER. LET IT HEREBY SERVE YOUAS A SHIELD AGAINST AC- CUSING EYES FOR EVERYONE WHO IS WITH YOU, AND YOU ARE NOW PUBLICLY VINDICATED, Ano THe Lorp sINGLED our SARAH AS HE HAD SAID, AND THE LORD Dip FOR SARAH AS HE, ‘SPOKEN. AND HAM CIRCUMCISED ISAAC HIS SON WHEN HE WAS EIGHT DAYS OLD, AS AND THE CHILD GREW AND WAS WEANED, AND ABRAHAM MADE A GREAT FEAST ON THE DAV ISARC WAS WEANED. CS e RAH IS SUCKLING SONS!” FOR I'VE BORNE HIM A SON IN HIS OLD AGE!AND Saran SAW THE SON OF Hacar THE EGYPTIAN, ‘WHOM SHE HAD BORNE. To ABRAHAM, MOCKING... a : ip CAST OUT THIS: SLAVEG/RL AND HER ‘SON, FOR THE a GIRL'S SON SHALL NOT INHERIT WITH MY SON, with Isaac! Avo THE THING SEEMED EVIL IN 'S EVES BECAISE IT CONCERNED A SON OF HIS. Gob sup To ABRAHAM... ‘To YOU, LISTEN TO HER VOICE, FoR Isaac SHALL YOUR SEED BE ACCLAIMED, BUT THE SLAVEGIRL'S SON, ‘TOO, I WILL MAKE A NATION, FOR HE IS YOUR SEED. "THE MORNING A SKIN OF WATER. AND GAVE, THEM AND HE GAVE HER THE CHILD AND SENT HER AWAY.Ano THE WATER IN THE SKIN WAS SPENT, AND SHE ‘AND SHE WENT AND SAT DOWN A GOOD WAY FLUNG 71 uD OFE, A BOWSHOT AWAY, FOR SHE THOUGHT... Aino sue SAT AT A DISTANCE AND ..AND GOD'S MESSENGER. RAISED HER VOICE AND WePT. CALLED OUT FROM THE HEAV- F THE ENS AND SAID TO HER... FEAR NOT, FoR GoD. HAS HEARD THE LAD’ voll IERAno SHE WENTAND PILLED THE | Ano Gob WAS WITH THE LAD, | AND HE DWELT IN THE WILDER- SKIN WITH WATER AND GAVE IT } AND HE GREW UPAND ABIDED IN } NBSS OF PARAN, AND HIS MOTHER TO ‘THE LAD TO DRINK. z Took HIM A WIFE FROM THE AND PHICOL, ‘THE CHIEP. cl oF His TRoops F-4 WITH HIM, ‘SPOKE TO ABRAHAM, ‘SAYING...INTAKE Now YOUR SON. YOUR * ’ fF ONLY ONE, WHOM YOU LOVE, ISAAC, hapter: 22 Ano it CAME To PASS AFTER ‘THESE THINGS THAT GOD ) AiO GO FORTH TO THE LAND OF TESTED ABRAHAM. AND ID OFFER Hil Be BURNT OFFERING ON ONE OF THE =) MOUNTAINS WHICH T SHALL TEL . You! | gS. La Ayo tHe Lorps MESSENGER. ‘THE HEAVENS AND SAID. SAN Anp ApraHAM RAISED HIS EYES AND LOOKED, AND, For Now I KNow ‘HAT 2, AND, YOU FEAR GOD, AND YOU HAVE: BEHOLD, ‘A RAM WAS CAUGHT IN THE THICKET BY ITS NOT HELD BACK YOUR SON, YOUR es PFS = ONLY ONE, FROM ME!Aino ApRAHAM CALLED THE NAME, OF THE PLACE YHWH-Yinen? AS TP 1S SAID TO ‘THIS DAY, "ON "THE. Ano Tue Loro's MESSENGER. CALLED OUT To ABRAHAM ONCE A- GAIN FROM ‘THE HEAVENS, AND ‘ey My OWN Seu T SWEAR, DECLARES THE LORD, WILL GREATLY BLESS YoU AND WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY: YOUR SEED, AS THE STARS IN THE HEAV- ENS, AND AS THE SAND ON THE ‘SHORE OF THE SEA. BROTHER. Uz, HiS FIRST- BORN, AND BUZ, HIS BROTH- ER, AND KEMUEL , THE FATHER, OF ARAM, AND CHES- epanv Hazo anp PiLDASH ‘ANDAIDLAPH, AND BETHUBL. ‘Ano BETHUEL BEcOT RE:Axo THe Hires answerep Aprauam, SAYING... HEAR US.MY LORD! YOU ARE A PRINCE OF GOD AMONG US! IN THE pir OF OUR GRAVES BURY YOUR DEAD! NO MAN AMONG US wile DENY YOu Wis GRAVE: =H f 1_ AMA SOJOURNING SETTLER, WITH YOU...GRANT ME A BURIAL~ HOLDING WITH You, AND LET MER GURY MY DEAD NOW BEFORE Mi IF YOU HAVE IT IN YOUR HEARTS THAT I SHOULD BURY MY DEAD NOW BEFORE ME, HEAR ME, ENTREAT FOR ME, EPHRON, SON OF ZOHAR AT THE FULL PRICE LET HIM GRANT IT-TO MEIN YOUR. MIDST AS A BURIAL- HOLDING! Axo Epuron. WAS SITTING IN THE MIDST OF THE arrives, ano EPHRON THE HITTITE ANSWERED. OF THE Hirnites, ALL ASSEMBLED IN THE GATE OF HIS TOWN, SAVING. THE F={ LORD, HEAR SS MEL 6 aks \PRAY, MY LORD, HEAR, Me? LAND FOR 400. SILVER SHEKELS BETWEEN ME AND YOU, WHAT DOES IT COME TO ?F 'F YOU WOULD BUT HEAR ME—I GIVE You THE PRICE OF THE FIELD. TAKE IT FROM ME, AND LET ME BuRY MY DEAD THE HITTITES, 400 SILVER SHEKELS (AU THE GOING MERCHANT: oF THe Hirrires, ALL THE, AS: IN THE GATE OF HIS . HITTITES.PUT YOUR HAND, UNDER MY THIGH, MAY MAKE YOU SWEAR ORD, GOD oF THE To MV’ BIRTHPLACE You SHALL GO, AND YOU SHALL TAKE AL WIFE FORMY SON, FOR Tsaacl “tue Lorp Goo oF THE HEAVENS, WHo TOOK ME FROM MY ‘AND IF THE WOMAN FATHER’ SHOULD NOT WANT TO GO AFTER YOU, YOU SHALL BE CLEAR OF THIS VOW OF MINE, ING,"To Your SeeD T WILL GIVE ONLY YoU MUST NOT ‘THIS LanDy He SHALL SEND His MESSENGER BEFORE YOU AND. YOU SHALL TAKE A WIFE FOR (MY SON THERE. YOU BRING MY SON GACK THERES AND THE SERVANT PUT HIS ‘tha, AND Ne SWORE HIM CONCERNING THIS ‘THING. AND HE SWORE TOLET IT Be THAT THE YOUNG, WOMAN TO WHOM I SAY, "PRAY, TIP DOWN YOUR JUG THAT I MAY DRINK? IF SHE SNS, "DRINK, AND YOUR, CAMELS,TOO,1 SHALL WATER, SHE (715 wom You HAVE MARKED FORYOUR SERVANT, FOR ISAAC, AND BY THIS I SHALL KNOW Tat You HAVE SHOWN KIND- NESS UNTO MY MASTER I ‘Lorn, Gop oF my MASTER IBRAHAM, PRAY GRANT ME. GOOD SPEED THIS DAY, AND 00 KINDNESS To My MAS- TER, ABRAHAM! HERE, T AM POISED BY THE SPRING OF WATER, AND THE OAUGH- TERS OF THE MAN OF THE TOWN ARE COMING OUT TO DRAW WATER. AnD THE YOUNG WomaN was | AND SHE CAME BACK UP, AND THE ‘WAS COM} VERY COMELY TO LOOK AT,A | SERVANT RAN TOWARD HER AND ING OUT, wiO WS BORW tO BETH a » SON OF THE, % (5 BROTHER, NAWOR wa Pray, LET ME SIP A HER JUG ON HER SHOULDER. 5 - BIT OF WaTER FR, 1 To CAMELS HAD DRUNK THEIR FILL, THATAND Saray, MY MASTER'S WIFE, BORE SON To MY MAS~ TER AFTER SHE HAD GROWN OLD, AND He HAS AND 1 SAID-TO MY MASTER, “PERHAPS THE WOMAN WILL NOT COME AFTER ME" AND HE. SAID TO ME,"THE LORD, IN WHOSE PRES- ENCE L HAVE WALKED, SHALL SEND HIS MESSENGER WITH YOU, AND HE SHALL GRANT SUCCESS TO YOUR JOUR- NEY, AND You SHALL TAKE & WIFE FOR, My SON FROM MY KINDRED AND (MWe FATHER'S: 1_AM THE SERVANT OF ABRAHAM. THe LORD HAS BLESSED MY MASTER A- BUNDANTLY AND HE HAS GROWN GREAT! THe LorD HAS GIVEN HIM SHEEP AND CATTLE?! SILVER, AND GOLD! MALE AND FEMALE, Staves! AND AND My MASTER MADE ME SWEAR , SAYING, "YOU SHALL NOT TAKE A WIFE FOR NV SON FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CANAANITE IN WHOSE LAND I DWELL, BUT To MY FATHER'S HOUSE YOU SHALL GO, AND TO MY KINDRED, AND “THEN YOU SHALL BE CLEAR OF MY OATH; EVEN IF You COME To IM KINORED AND THEY REFUSE YOU, YOU SHALL BE CLEAR OF MV OATH? AND TODAY T CAME TO THE SPRING AND. SAID, *O Lor, Gop oF MY MASTER ABRA- HAM, 1F You ARE GOING To cRaNT SUCCESS TO THE JOURNEY ON WAIGH T COME, HERE | am, STANDING BY THE SPRING. OF WATER!”"AND LET (T BE THAT THE 1 HAD BARELY FINISHED YOUNG WOMAN WHO COMES OUT SPEAKING IN MY HEART AND, BEHOLD, TO DRAW WATER, TO WHOM 1 REBEKAH WAS COMING OUT, HER JUG SAN, ‘LET ME DRINK A BIT | ON HER SHOULDER, AND SHE WENT ‘OF WATER FROM YOUR JUG’, AND SHE SAYS TO DOWN TO THE SPRING AND DREW WATER, AND I SAID TO HER,”PRAY, ME, “DRINK, AND FOR Let Me YOUR CAMELS, TOO, 1 DRINK!” SHALL DRAW WATER’, THAT SWE 1S THE WIFE WHOM THE Loro HAS MARKED. FOR MY MASTER'S SON!’ AND SHE HURRIED AND TIPPED DOWN THE JUG THAT SHE CARRIED, AND SAID, “DRINK, AND YOUR CAMELS, TOO, 1 SHALL WATERY AND THE CAMELS, TOO, SHE WATERED, AND 1 ASKED HER, SAVING,”"WHOSE DAUGHTER ARE You?" AND SHE SAID, “THE DAUGHTER OF Bemvet, son oF Nawor, whom MILcaH Bore HIM? "AND $0, IF YOU MEAN To ACT WITH STEADFAST MINONESS TOWARD my MAAS Tea, TELL ME, AND IF NOT, TELL ME, THAT 1 MAY TURK TO THE RIGHT HAND OR Resevay BEFORE You... ‘aie Her and ( 0, AND Let Wea Be WFE To Your MASTER'S Son AS THE Toro Has AND I PUT THE RING IN HER NOSE AND THE BRACE- /”...AND I WORSHIPPED AND BOWED TO THE ‘LORD AND BLESSED THE LORD, GoD OF my masTER ABRAHAM, WHO GUIDED ME ON. THE RIGHT WAY TO TAKE THE DAUGHTER OF MY MASTER'S BRoTER FOR Sh HIS SON? AND If CAME To PASS THAT FROMTHE waen AsRauam’s SERVANT MATTER WAS DECREED; We CAN SPEAK TO You NETHERAno THE SERVANT RECOUNTED 7O ISARC ALL AND sue TOOK HER VEIL AND | SE TUNGS HE BAD COVERED HER Reser FACE. oe Z A HIS MOTHER.Tae LeTUSHIM AND Tae LEUM~ WIFE, Mum. AND THE AND HER, SONS OF MIDIAN WERE EPHAH AND Keruran. EPHER AND fon se ENOCH AND paar 4 Apia aND esha Evpaan. Auu JousHAN THESE WERE ne een ‘THE DESCEND- AND MIDIAN. KETURAH. AAnp AsraliAM GAVE BVERYTHING He HAD To ‘sarc. AND TO THE SONS OF HIS CONCUBINES GAVE GIFTS WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE, AND SENT THEM AWAY FROM ISAAC, HIS SON, EASTWARD, TO THE LAND OF THE EAST.-ANo THIS IS THE LINEAGE OF ISAAC, SON OF ABRAHAM. ABRAHAM BEGOT I:Axo tHe Loro ee, AND SHE WENT TO INQUIRE OF THE LoRD. AND ‘THE HER. SHALL PREVAIL, THE ELDER THE YOUNGER’S SLAVE AND WHEN HER Time was come To ave BIRTH, BEHOLD, [ Anp ‘THERE WERE TWINS IN HER WOMB. AND THE FIRST ONE CAME OUT RUDDY, LIKE A HAIRY MANTLE ALL OVER, AND ESAU. THEN HIS BROTHER,SELL ME FIRST YOUR BIRTHRIGHT*! AND HE SWORE TO HIM, AND } THEN JACOB ‘HE SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT TO JACOB.STAY IN TONG OF THE PHILISTINES IN. GERAI DWELT IN GERAR. AND THE OF THE PLACE ASKED OF HIS WIFE, AND HE SAID,"SHE IS MY SISTER” FEARING TO SAY, LL } “My WIFE”—"Lesr THE MEN OF THE PLACE, HOLL ME OVER REBEHAK, FOR SHE {5 COMELY SEED LsTENED To MY Voice Kept My CHarce, NIV ay M, NOUR FATHER. AND AND T WILL MULTIPLY YOUR ‘com- SEED UIE THE STARS IN THE HEAVENS ? Ano IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE HAD BEEN THERE FOR SOME TIME, THAT ABI- MELECH, KING OF THE PHILISTINES, LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW AND SAW...SAY, “SHE 15 MY SISTER"? ‘ ACCOUNT OF HER! Ano Asmeiech T we WELL, BEHOLD! BECAUSE 1 summoneo Isane TEP ish Wire? =P mioucnt MIGHT HOW THEN COULD YOU re LOSE MY LIFE ON, ss Anp AsimetecH [J COMMANDED ALL PY _WHOEVER MOLESTS WHAT IS THIS YOU HAVE DONE "THE PEOPLE, PR THIS MAN OR HIS WIFE ‘SAVING BE PUT TO DEATH Jf TOUS 2? ONE OF MY PEOPLE MIGHT WELL HAVE LAIN WITH YOUR WIFE, AND YOU WOULD. HAVE BROUGHT GUILT UPON Us!AND ALL THE WELLS THAT His FATHER'S | Anp ABIMELECH SERVANTS HAD DUG IN THE DAYS OF ABRA- | SAID To IsARC..- HAM Wis PRTHER/ TUE PHILISTINES SEOPPED UP, FILLING THEM WITH GO Away From Us! E YOU'VE GROWN FAR Too J PCa na ee oe | Ese} FOR THEY HAD CONTENDED WITH HIM. Ano HE PULLED UP STAKES FROM THERE AND DUG a ee ere ee ‘Tf, AND HE CALLED ITs NAME RERIOOR ES AND HETae THe Goo 3 oF AgAaHam, hi Z| INVOKED THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND HE Ano ‘Your FATHER. FEAR [ TENT THERE. AND Isaac's sER- BE WENT Nor, For Tam ~ s UP FROM WITH You, AND T ‘THERE 0 ‘WILL BLESS YOU, BEERSHEBA. [Ano T wut ANo THe MULTIPLY Your Lorp SEED FOR THE APPEARED [Ml Saxe oF Apranam, UNTO HIM My SERVANT I CAPTAIN OF His TROOPS. HIS COUNCILOR, AND. ISAAC SAID TO'THEM... WRY HAVE YOU come - TO Me WHEN You've BEEN Hoste f} Sac a oar i y ve AND LET US SEAL A PACT WITH YoU, THAT YOU WILL 00 NO HaRM To US, JUST AS WE HAVE NOT TOUCHED YOU, AND JUST AS WE'VE DONE TOWARD YoU ONLY GOOP, SENDING YOU ‘Away IN PEACE.AND THEY ROSE BARLY IN TRE MOBNING AND SWORE TO EACH OTHER, AND Isanc SEN? THEM AWAY, AND THEY WENT FROM HIM IN PRACE. ANo rr CAME TO PASS ON THAT DAY THAT Isanc's SERVANTS CAME AND TOLD KIM OF ‘THE WELL THEY HAD DUG, AND ‘THEY SAID TO HIM... BEERI THE, Horrire, ano %, ‘THE DAUGHTER oF Eton Terre. — fh Ano Tey were ¥ A souRcE OF PROVOCATION 170 Isanc AND 70 REBEKAN. Chapter 27 Ano 1? CAME TO PASS WHEN ISAAC WAS OLD, THAT HIS EYES: GREW TOO BLEARY TO SEE, AND HE CALLED To Esau, HIS ELDER SON, AND SAID TO HIM... SOON 1 ‘SHALL DIE {!AND SHE PLACED THE DISH AND ‘THE BREAD SHE HAD MADE IN. THE, HAND OF JACOB, HER SOX, AND HE CAME TO HIS FATHER AND SAID... HOW IS Ir "MAT You FOUND IT SO SOON, MY ‘SON ?? BECAUSE THE ‘Lorp, your Gop, GAVE ME GOOD r Bor ue pip Nor RECOGNIZE HIM, FOR HIS HANDS WERE LIKE ESAU’S ‘AND HE BLESSED HIM. 1 am BS4U, VOuR FIRST- BORN! I'VE DONE AS YOU TOLD Ann Jacos came cLase To sane HIS PATHER AND HE FELT HIM, AND HE SAID... SO THAT ‘YOU THE SOLEMN BLESSING FROM MY SOULCOME CLOSE, PRAY, AND KISS Me, 'MY SON may Goo aRANT You FROM THE DEW OF THE HEAV— ENS AND THE FAT OF THE EARTH AND ABUNDANCE OF GRAIN ‘AND DRINK! MAY PEOPLES To YOUR BROTHERS, ‘AND MAY YOUR MOTHER'S: SONS BOW DOWN TO Your THOSE WHO CURSE YOU BE CURSED, AND THOSE WHO BLESS YOU, BLESSED! AND HE CAME CLOSE AND fOSSED HIM, AND HE SMBLLED HIS GARMENTS, AND HE BLESSED HIM, AND HE SAID.., ‘SEE, THE SMELL OF MY SONS LIKE THE SMELL OF THE FIELD THAT THE LORD HAS BLESSED/ a AND IT CAME TO PASS AS SOON AS ISAAC FINISHED BLESSING JACOB, AND FRCOB HAD BARELY LEFT THE PRESENCE. OF ISARC HIS FATHER, ‘THAT ESAU HIS BROTHER CAME BACK FROM THE HUNT. AND HE, 00, MADE A DISH ANDAno Isaac was SEIZED WITH A GREAT TREMGLING, AND He SAID... ‘WHO IS IT THEN WHO CAUGHT GAME AND BROUGHT IT TO ME, AND 1 ATE EVERY- THING BEFORE YOU CAME, AND BLESSED HIM 2? BROTHER HAS ‘COME IN DECEIT AND Has “TAKEN YOUR, BLESSING! WAS HE RIGHTLY NAMED JACOBS THAT HE SHOULD TRIP. ME NOW TWICE OY THE HEELS 79 ‘STWIGATLY NAMED JACDO": AF URTH HE NAME YAAGOB wns ANOTHER FLAY OM HEBREW MARES THE NAME WTO A VERB Manin “cxooxto; wrt mie OBVIOUS SesSE OF DEVIOUE fom becareinDeautic, BEHOLD, 1 MADE HIM OVERLORD TO YoU, AND 1 GAVE HIM ALL HIS. BROTHERS AS SLAVES, AND 1 ENOOWED HIM. ‘WITH GRAIN AND WINE f Ano Esau sab To His. FATHER... DO WOU HAVE ONLY ONE BLESSING, FATHER ? ‘Wren ESAU HEARD HIS FATHER'S WORDS HE CRIED OUT WITH A GREAT AND EXCEEDINGLY BITTER HAVE YOU NOT RESERVED A BLESSING‘Anp Isarc HIS FATHER, BY YOUR SWORD You RUSWERID AND SAID TOHIM...| SWALL LIVE, AND YOUR» BROTHER SHALL YO! F BENOLD, FROM THE Fa WML fan when WoO REBEL YOU (OF THE EARTH BE YOUR DWELL- ING, AND FROM THE DEW OF THE HEAVENS ABOVE... ‘Ap Resekan was ToL Tas WORDS of Esau HER ELDER SON, AND SHE SENT AND Si JACOB HER YOUNGER SON, AND SAID TO HIM. BEHOLD, YouR oromHEn ESAU Is CONSOLING HIMSELE WITH THe IDEA THAT KUL Your WHY SHOULD UNTIL Your J BE BEREFT OF BROTHER'S RAGE AGAINST YoU SUBSIDES, AND WE FORGETS WHAT You 01> To HIM, AND 7 AND ESAU SEETHED WITH RESENT- MENT AGAINST JACOB OVER THE ‘BLESSING HIS FATHER HAD BLESSED HIM, AND ESAU SAID IN HIS HEART. WHAT G00D TO ME'IS LIFE!P JESSAxo, BEHOLD, ‘A RAMP Was SET AGAINST THE GROUND WITH Its TOP RBACHING THE HEAVENS, AND, BEHOLD, ‘MESSENGERS ‘OF Gop were GoINa UP AND COMING DOWN IT! I Am THE LoRD, THE Gop oF ABRAHAM YOUR FATHER, AND THE GoD oF Isaac. ‘THE GROUND ON WHICH YoU LIE, To YoU TWILL GIVE IT; AND SaaS "AND VouR seep SHALL WY GE LIKE THE DUST OF THE EARTH, AND YOU SHALL BURST FORTH TO THE WEST AND TO “THE EAST, AND To THE NORTH ANO THE SOUTH, AND ALL THE CLANS OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED THROUGH VOU, AND THROUGH YOUR SEED! BEHOLD, THE LorD Was STANDING On IPS AANo, 6eHoto, I am wit You, AND T wit PROTECT YOU WHEREVER YOU GO, AND I WILL BRING YOU BACK TO THIS LAND, FoR TWILL NOT LEAVE YOU UN- TILT HAVE CONE THAT WHICH T HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU!Wy Lo? ’ Ne s Wa af ANY ILL SPEAKING WITH THEM WE CANNOT UNTIL ALL ews ona CAME WITH HER FATHER’S 5. ‘THE FLOCKS HAVE GATHERED. SHEEP, FOR WAS A SHEPHERDE: AND THEN THE STONE IS ROLLED ’ 7 SHE WAS 2 si FROM THE MOUTH OF THE WELL, AND THEN WE WATER iE SHEED.«.-AND LIFTED UP HIS VOICE. Al . Ao cane 70.785, WHEN LABAN HEARD HE REPORT OF JACCB, HIS SISTER'S SON, HE, RAR TO KIM AND EMBRACED HIM AND FUSSED HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM TO HIS HOUSE. WATERED THE SHEEP OF CABANG, 18 MOTRERSS BROTHER. Ano Jacob ToD RACHEL, THAT HE, WAS HER FATHER'S KIN, AND THAT = ed ‘Resarans SON. AND TOLD HER FATHER. INDEED, YOU ARE My BONE. MVPLESHa ? BETTER I * ef HER To You oan ‘THAN GIVE HER m TO ANOTHER é ha MAN: GIVE ME MY WIFE, FOR MY TIME 1S DONE, AND LET ME COME TO. BED WITH HER!AND WHEN NCIGHE CAME HE TOOK HIS DAUGHTER | AND WHEN LEAH AND BROUGHT HER TO MORNING CAME, Ena GAvE Tis GUAVEGIRE, ZiLPadt TO BEHOLD, IT LEAH To BE HER HANDMAID. was LEAH WHAT 1S THIS YOU'VE. TQ Me 20 WASN'T PLACE To GIVE THE YOUNGER GIRL BEFORE THE FIRSTBORN. Axo so Tacoe Dip. AND WHEN HE HAD FINISHED BRIDAL WEEK WITH THE ONE HE GAVE, HIM RACHEL, HIS OTHER DAUGHTER, AS WIFE.Ano SHE Gave Him BILHAH, nER [AND Bias, RACHEL'S HAND- HANDMALD, AS A WIFE, AND JACOB | MALD, CONCEIVED AGAIN AND AME 10 GED WITH HER, AND, BORE A SECOND SON'TO JACOB. ‘AND SAID. WITH FIERCE GRAPPLINGS my 1 HAVE WRESTLED WITH MY CAUSE! YES, HE HEARD. SISTER, AND.YES, 1 HAVE. MW VOICE AND GAVE ME WON OUT? A SON! ‘AnoLeaH SAW THAT SHB HAD | ANo Zweax, LEAH'S HANDMAID, { Ano ZivPAH, LEAH'S HANDMAID, CEASED BEARING CHILDREN,AND SHE ) BORE JACOB A SON. AND LEAH | BORE A SECOND SON TO JACOB. ‘TOOK ‘ZILPAH, HER HANDMAID, AND Deer GAVE HER TO Jacop ASA WIFE. WHAT GOOD FORTUNE! FOR THE WOMEN HAVE ACCLAIMED ME. Ry FORTUNATE / i SYZ} Y k ~~ Ano Revsen went our OF THE WHEAT MANDRAKES IN THE FIELD AND BROUGHT ‘THEM To LEAR,Ap JAcos CAME FROM THE FIELD IN THE EVENING, AND LEAH WENT OUT ‘TO MEET HIM AND SAID... Conceivep AsAIN | AND APTERWARD SHE BORE A AND BORE A SIXTH SON TO DAUGHTER AND SHE CALLED Jacop. Anp LEAH SAID... HER NAME DINAH. ‘Goo Has Granted Me a . . GOODLY GIFT. THIS TIME MY HUSBAND WILL EXALT ME, FOR 1 HAVE BORNE HIM, SISSACHAR: A pay ON He wono SaKHAR:-weets’ | *ZEBULUN: A PLAY ON Two WoRD: RACHEL. Gop HEEDED HER AND OPENED HER WOMB, AND SHE CON- CEIVED AND BORE A SON, AND SHE SAID... Gop Has TAKEN AWAY MY SHAME! ‘ANo SHE CALLED HIS NAME JOSEPH, WHICH 1570 SaY,""MAY LORD ADD ME ANOTHER SON!” SEND ME OF THAT I MAY. GO TO MY OWN PLACE AND TO MY COUNTRY? GIVE ME My WIVES AND CHILDREN, FOR.