Charles Thomson

“ Shall the righteous be as the wicked? No, no; Thou who judgest the whole earth; wilt not thou execute judgment? 26And the Lord said, If there be among the Sodomites fifty righteous men in the city, I will spare the whole city and the whole place for their sake. 27Then Abraham answered and said, Now I have taken upon me to speak to my Lord, I who am but dust and ashes! But if the fifty righteous be lessened to forty five wilt thou for want of the five destroy the whole city? ”

“ And Abraham went early in the morning to the place, where he had stood before the Lord, and he looked towards Sodom and Gomorra and towards the circumjacent plain, and he beheld and lo! a flame ascended out of the earth like the smoke of a furnace. But when God destroyed all the cities of that neighborhood he remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out from that destruction.
Now when the Lord had destroyed those cities in which Lot had dwelt, Lot went up out of Segor, and he and his two daughters with him settled in the mountains; for he was afraid to dwell in Segor. ”

“ So when the Lord God saw that the wickedness of the men on the earth was multiplied, and that every one was in his heart studiously and continually bent upon evils, 6 God was grieved that he had made man on the earth. 7 And God came to a determination and said, "I will blot out from the face of this earth the man I have made, both man and beast; both reptiles and birds of the air. 8 For I am grieved that I made them. But Noe found favour in the sight of the Lord God. ”

“ And he said, What is the matter, son? And Isaak said, Here is the fire and the wood; where is the sheep for the whole homage offering? 8And Abraham said, My son! God will provide for himself a sheep for the whole homage offering. ”

“ Though the imagination of man is studiously bent upon evils from his youth, I will not on that account again smite all living flesh, as I have done. 22 While the earth continueth, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, with a succession of day and night shall not cease. ”

“ And Abraham said, I indeed thought, as there is no worship of God in this place, they will kill me for my wife's sake. And indeed of a truth she is my sister by the same father but not of the same mother, so she became my wife. And when God led me out from my father's house I said to her, Thou wilt do me this kindness. Then Abimelech took a thousand didrachms and sheep and oxen and men servants and maid servants and gave them to Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife. And Abimelech said to Abraham, Behold my land is before thee; dwell wherever it may please thee. ”

“ Why didst thou say, She is my sister? I indeed took her to be my wife, but now there is thy wife before thee. 20Take her and begone. And Pharaoh gave strict orders to men touching Abram, to convoy away him and his wife and all that he had. So Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all his substance, and Lot with him, into the wilderness. ”

“ Now, when I came to day to the well, I said, Ο Lord the God of my master Abraham, if thou prosperest the journey in which I am now engaged, Behold I have stopped at this well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water, Let the virgin to whom I shall say, Let me drink a little water out of thy pitcher; and who shall say to me, Drink thou, and I will draw water for thy camels; Let her be the wife whom the Lord hath provided for his servant Isaak; and by this I shall know that thou hast dealt mercifully with my master Abraham. ”

“ And the children of Chet answered and said to Abraham, Nay, Sir, rather hearken to us. Thou art a king from God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury thy dead; for ther is none of us who will deny thee his tomb to bury there thy dead. Then Abraham standing up made obeisance to the people of the land - the children of Chet. And Abraham spoke to them saying, If it be your wish that I should bury this my dead out of my sight, hearken to me and speak for me to Ephron the son of Saar. ”

“ We cannot gainsay thee, be it good or bad. Behold Rebekka is before thee. Take her and go and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken. And when Abraham's servant heard these words, he worshipped the Lord on the ground. Then the servant brought out jewels of silver and gold and raiment and gave them to Rebekka, and made presents to her brother and to her mother. ”

“ IV. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain, and said, 2 "I have gotten a man from God." And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain tilled the ground. 3 And when in process of time Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord, and Abel also brought, he indeed of the firstlings of his flock even some of the fattest of them, God looked upon Abel and on his gifts ”

“ And the midwives said to Pharao, The Hevrew women are not like the Egyptian; for they bring forth instantly. Before the midwives can come to them, they are delivered. And God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew mighty. And because the midwives feared God they established families for themselves. Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the river, but preserve every female alive. ”

“ Because she was taken out of her man, 24 therefore a man is to leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
III. Now the two, both Adam and his wife were naked, and were not ashamed. But the serpent was the wisest of all the beasts on the earth which the Lord God had made, and the serpent said to the woman, "Why hath God said, you must not eat of every tree of the garden?" ”

“ So the woman took the child and suckled it ; and when the boy was grown up she brought him to Pharao's daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, saying, I drew him out of the water.
And after a course of many years, when Moses was become great he went out to his brethren the children of Israel. And as he was observing their distress, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, who was one of his brethren the children of Israel Whereupon looking about on every side and seeing no body he smote the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ”

“ From these were peopled the different countries of the nations on the earth after the flood.
XI. Now when the whole earth was of one lip and all had one voice, 2 it came to pass as they were moving from the east that they found a plain in the land of Sennaar and settled there. 3 And they said one to another, Come let us make bricks and bake them with fire. Now the bricks served them for stone and their mortar was asphaltus. 4 And they said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which shall be up to heaven ”

“ XV.After these things a word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I protect thee. Thy reward shall be exceedingly great. 2Whereupon Abram said, O sovereign Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I die childless, and the son of Masek my servant, this Damascus Eliezer— 3Then Abram said, seeing thou hast not given me seed, this servant of mine is to be my heir. 4And immediately there came a voice of the Lord to him saying, He shall not be thy heir: but one who shall spring from thee shall be thy heir. ”

“ And the water int he skin being spent she laid the boy under the first pine tree and going away sat down over agasint him at the distance of about a bow shot. For she said, I cannot behold the death of my son. So she sat over against him and the lad wept with a loud voice. And God heard the voice of the lad from the place where he was. And an angel of God called to Agar out of heaven and said, What is the matter, Agar? Fear not: For God hath heard the voice of the lad from the place where he is. ”

“ Perhaps when they are multiplied, if a war should happen to us, they will join our enemies and fight against us and depart out of the land. 11So he set task masters over them to afflict them with labours and they built for Pharao fortified cities, namely, Peithouand Rameses and On, which is Heliopolis. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew stronger and stronger. So the Egyptians were abhorred by the children of Israel ”

“ XVI.Sill Sara, the wife of Abram, did not bear him children; 2so having an Egyptian servant whose name was Agar, Sara sadi to Abram, Behold the Lord hath shut me up that I may not bear. 3Go in therefore to my maid that I may have children by her. And Abream hearkened to the voice of Sara. And Sara the wife of Abram took Agar her Egyptian maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 4And he went in unto Agar and she conceived. ”

“ And Chanaan begot Sidon his first born, 15 and Chettaius, and Jebousaius and Amoraius and Gergasaius and Evaius and Aroukaius and Asennaius and Aradius and Samaraius and Amathius. 19 And after this the tribes of the Chananites were dispersed. And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa. 20 These were the children of Cham in their tribes according to their languages in their countries and in their nations. ”

“ When any man among you bringeth gifts to the Lord from your cattle, you shall 3 bring them either from the flocks or the herds. If his gift be a whole burnt offering from the herd, he shall bring a male without blemish to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. ”

“ His hands will be against all, and the hands of all, agaisnt him. 13And he shall dwell in front of all his brethren." So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "Thou the God who lookest upon me;" for said she, I saw plainly him who appeared to me; 14for this cause she called the well, The well before which I saw. 15Lo! it is between Kades and Barad. And Agar bore Abram a son; and Abram called his son whom Agar bore to him Ismael.
XVII.Now Abram was eighty six years old when Agar bore Ismael to Abram. ”

“ And when they came to his house, he made an entertainment for them; and baked for them unleavened cakes, and they did eat. 4But before they went to rest, the men of the city, the Sodomites, surrounded the house, both young and old - all the people in a body. ”

“ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "To thy seed I will give this land." So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him. 8And from that place he went to the mountain east of Baithel and there pitched his tent, having Baithel on the west and Aggai on the east, and built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord. 9And Abram removed and proceeding forward encamped in the wilderness. 10And there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land. ”

“ So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
9 And Enos lived one hundred and ninety years and begot Kainan. And Enos lived after he begot Kainan seven hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
12 And Kainan lived one hundred and seventy years and got Maleleel. And Kainan lived after he begot Maleleel seven hundred and forty years and begot sons and daughters. So all the days of Kainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. ”