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CHAP. I.

N the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God faid, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God faid, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters : and let it divide the waters from the

waters.

7 And 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 And God called the firmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God faid, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land ap-pear: and it was so.

10 And God called the. dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the wa

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding feed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God faid, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to givelight upon the earth: and it was fo.

16 And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: be made the stars also.

17 And God fet them in the firmament of the 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 faw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God faid, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the feas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God faid, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and God faw that

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it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image: in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them.

HUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2 And on the feventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the feventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and fanctified it : because that in it he had refted from all his work, which God created and made.

over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God faid, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing feed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding feed: to you it shall be for

meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat and it was fo.

earth, when they were created; in the day that the Lord God made the earth, and the heavens.

5 And every plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord 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 mift from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the Lord God formed man of the duft of the ground, 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the fight, and good for food: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden: and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

I The name of the first is Pifon: that is it which compafsseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx-ftone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the fame is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Affyria, And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to

commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat :

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.

18 And the Lord God faid, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an help meet for him.

19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beaft of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he flept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.

22 And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam faid, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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CHAP. III.

OW the ferpent was more fubtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made: and he faid unto the woman, Yea, hath God faid, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman faid unto the ferpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath faid, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, left ye die. 4 And the ferpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not furely die.

5 For God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened; and ye shall be as gods,

knowing good and evil :

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wife; she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked : and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the prefence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden : and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.

11 And he faid, Who told thee that thou wast naked? haft thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and i did eat.