13 In the self-same day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark: 14 They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly, 15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. 18 For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters. 8 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth. 9 But she, not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark. 10 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him. 13 Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried. 14 In the second month, the seventh and twenun-tieth day of the month, the earth was dried. 15 And God spoke to Noe, saying: 19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains der the whole heaven were covered. 20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered. 2 21 And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men. 22 And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died. 16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee.. 17 All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee and go ye upon the earth: 'increase and multiply upon it. 18 So Noe went out, he and his sons: his 23 And he destroyed all the substance that was wife, and the wives of his sons with him. upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the 19 And all living things, and cattle, and creepcreeping things and fowls of the air: and they ing things that creep upon the earth, according were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only re-to their kinds, went out of the ark. mained, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days. CHAP. VIII. The deluge ceaseth. Noe goeth out of the ark, and offereth a sacrifice. God's covenant to him. 20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of AND God remembered Noe, and all the live man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: ing creatures, and all the cattle which were therefore I will no more destroy every living with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon soul as I have done. the earth, and the waters were abated. 2 The fountains also of the deep, and the flood-gates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained. 3 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days. а 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventh and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. 5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. 6 And after that forty days were passed, Noe, opening the window of the ark which he had made, sent forth a raven: 7 Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth. Wis. 10. 4. Eccli. 39. 28. 1 Pet. 3. 20. Supra, 1. 28. Infra, 9. 1.- Supra, 6. 5. Mat. 15. 19.-d Supra, 1. 22. & 8. 17.- Supra, 1. 29.- Lev. 17. 14. Acts, 15. 29. Ch. 8. v. 7. Did not return. The raven did not return into the ark; but (as it may be gathered from the Hebrew) went to and fro; sometimes going to the mountains, where it found carcasses to feed on; and 22 All the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter night and day, shall not cease. CHAP. IX. God blesseth Noe : forbiddeth blood, and promiseth never more to destroy the world by water. blessing of Sem and Japheth. ND God blessed Noe and his sons. The And he said to them; Increase and multiply, and fill the earth. all 2 And let the fear and dread of you be upon the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand. 3 And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you: 4 Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.f other times returning, to rest upon the top of the ark. V. 20. Holocausts, or whole burnt offerings. In which the whole victim was consumed by fire upon God's altar, and no part was reserved for the use of priest or people. Ver. 21. Smelled, &c. A figurative expression, denoting that God was well pleased with the sacrifices which his servant offered. 5 For I will require the blood of your lives at turned away, and they saw not their father's the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, nakedness. at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. 6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God. 7 But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth, and fill it. 8 Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him. 9 Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you: 10 And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth. 11 I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth. 12 And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations. 13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth. 14 And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear in the clouds: 15 And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh and there shall no more be waters of a flood, to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth. 17 And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh upon the earth. 18 And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan. 19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth. 20 And Noe, a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard. 21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent. 24 And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his younger son had done to him, 25 He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his servant. 28 And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years: 29 And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. CHAP. X. The genealogy of the children of Noe, by whom the world was peopled after the flood. THE HESE are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood." 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma. 4 And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim. 5 By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations. 6 And the sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesraim, and Phuth, and Chanaan. 7 And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba and Dadan. 8 Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth, 9 And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. 11 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale. 12 Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city. 13 And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Laabim, Nepthuim, 14 And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim. 15 And Chanaan begot Sidon, his first born, the Hethite. 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite and the Gergesite. 22 Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without. 23 But Shem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were Mat. 26. 52-b Apoc. 13. 19.- Supra, 1. 28. & 8. 17.-But why should Chanaan be cursed for his father's fault? d Isa. 54. 2.- Eccli. 43. 12.-1 Par. 3. 5. Ch. 9. v. 21. Drunk. Noe by the judgment of the fathers was not guilty of sin, in being overcome by wine: because he knew not the strength of it. Ver. 23. Covered the nakedness. Thus, as St. Gregory takes notice L. 35. Moral. c. 22, we ought to cover the nakedness, that is, the sins of our spiritual parents and superiors. Ver. 25. Cursed be Chanaan. The curses, as well as the blessings, of the patriarchs, were prophetical: And this in particular 18 here recorded by Moses, for the children of Israel, who were to possess the land of Chanaan. 17 The Hevite and the Aracite: the Sinite, The Hebrews answer, that he being then a boy was the first that saw his grandfather's nakedness, and told his father Cham of it; and joined with him in laughing at it: which drew upon him, rather than upon the rest of the children of Cham, this prophetical curse. Ch. 10. v. 5. The islands. So the Hebrews called all the remote countries, to which they went by shipa from Judea, to Greece, Italy, Spain, &c. Ver. 9. A stout hunter. Not of beasts but of men: whom by violence and tyranny he brought under his dominion. And such he was, not only in the opinion of men, but before the Lord, that is, in his sight who cannot be deceived. 18 And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the scattered them abroad upon the face of all coun Chanaanites were spread abroad. tries. 19 And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrah and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa. 20 These are the children of Cham in their kindreds, and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations. 21 Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born. 22 The sons of Sem: * Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram: Us and Hull, and Gether and Mess. 24 But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber. 25 And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name Jectan. 26 Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare, 27 And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla, these were the sons of Jectan. All stead of mortar. 4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building; 6 And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. 7 Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. с 8 And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city. 9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole 1 Par. 1. 17.-b Wis. 10. 5.- A. M. circiter 1800, & A. C. 2204. d 1 Par. 1. 17.- 1 Par, 1. 19.- 1 Par. 1. 26.- Jos. 24. 2. Neh. 9. 7.-h Judith, 5. 6. Acts, 7. 2. Acts 7. 3. Ch. 11. v. 9. Babel. That is Confusion. 10 These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood. 11 And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale. 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters. 14 Sale also lived thirty years and begot Heber. 15 And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters. 16 And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg. 17 And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty years: and begot sons and daughters. 18 Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu. 19 And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters. 20 And Reu lived thirty two years, and begot Sarug. 21 And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years: and begot sons and daughters. 22 And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor. 23 And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years: and begot sons and daughters. 24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare. 25 And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years: and begot sons and daughters. 26 And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran. 27 And these are the generations of Thare: Aran begot Lot. Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And 28 And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Ñachor married wives, the name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife, Melsha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melsha, and father of Jescha. 31 And Thare took Abram, his son, and Lot 30 And Sarai was barren, and had no children. the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran. CHAP. XII. The call of Abram, and the promise made to him. He sojourneth in Chanaan, and then by occasion of a famine, goeth down to Egypt. 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and CHAP. XIII. I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and Abram and Lot part from each other. God's promise thou shalt be blessed. 3 I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and "IN THEE shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed: 4 So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran. 5 And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it, 6 Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8 And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name. 9 And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south. 10 And there came a famine in the country; and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land. 11 And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman: 12 And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee. 13 Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake. 14 And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful. 15 And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao. 16 And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants and maid servants, and she-asses, and camels. 17 But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with the most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19 For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now, therefore, there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way. ΑΝ to Abram. ND Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. . 2 And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver. 3 And he returned by the way that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai: 4 In the place of the altar which he had made before; and there he called upon the name of the Lord. 5 But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents. 6 Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together. 7 Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country. 8 Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen : for we are brethren. 9 Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left. 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor. 11 And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other. 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan; and Lot abode in the towns that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom. 13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord, beyond measure. 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: "Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west. 15 All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also. 17 Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee. 18 So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord. CHAP. XIV. 20 And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away, and his The expedition of the four kings; the victory of wife, and all that he had. Abram; he is blessed by Melchisedech. Infra, 18. 18. & 22. 18. & 26. 4. Gal. 3. 8. Heb. 11. 8.-b A. M. 2093. A. C. 921. Gal. 3. 17. Infra, 13. 14. & 15. 18. & 26. 2 Deut. 34. 4. A. M. 2084. A. C. 1920. Infra, 20. 11. 1 Supra, 12. 7.- Infra, 36. 7.- Supra, 12. 7. Infra, 15. 18. & 26. 4. Deut. 34. 4. Ch. 12. v. 13. My sister. This was no lie; because she was his niece, being daughter to his brother Aran, and therefore, in the style of the Hebrews, she might truly be called his sister; as Lot is called Abram' brother, Gen. 14. 13. See Gen. 20. 12. ΑΝ ND it came to pass at that time, that Am-ing forth bread and wine, for he was raphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of of the most high God, Pontus, and Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal King of nations, 2 Made war against Bara king of Sodom, and against Bersa king of Gomorrha, and against Sennaab king of Adama, and against Semeber, king of Seboim, and against the king of Bala, which is Segor. 3 All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea. 4 For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they revolted from him. 5 And in the fourteenth year 'came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that were with him: and they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and the Zuzim with them, and the Emim in Save of Cariathaim. 6 And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness. 7 And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar. 8 And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Adama, and the king of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which is Segor, went out and they set themselves against them in battle array in the woodland vale: 9 To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal King of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pontus: four kings against five. 10 Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs and were overthrown there: and they that remained fled to the mountain. 11 And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and Gomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way: 12 And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance. 13 And behold one that had escaped told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and the brother of Aner: for these had made league with Abram. 14 Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen well appointed: and pursued them to Dan. 15 And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night: and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with him in the vale of Save, which is the king's vale. 18 But Melchisedech the king of Salem, bring Infra, 19. 24.-b A. M. 2092. A. C. 1912.- Heb. 7. 1.— A. M. 2092, A. C. 1912. Rom. 4. 18. Rom. 4. 3. Gal. 3. 6 James, 2. 23. Jer. 34. 18.- Acts, 7. 6. 19 Blessed him, and said: Blessed be the most high God, who created heaven 20 And blessed be the most high whose protection the enemies are in t And he gave him the tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said to Give me the persons, and the rest take 22 And he answered him: I lift up to the Lord God the most high, the po heaven and earth. 23 That from the very woof thread shoe latchet, I will not take of any th are thine, lest thou say I have enriche 24 Except such things as the young eaten, and the shares of the men that c me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these their shares. NOW when these things were de word of the Lord came to Abram by saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy] and thy reward exceeding great. 2 And Abram said: Lord God, what give me? I shall go without children: son of the steward of my house is this cus Eliezer. 3 And Abram added: But to me thou given seed: and lo my servant, born in n shall be my heir. 4 And immediately the word of the L to him, saying: He shall not be thy he that shall come out of thy bowels, thou have for thy heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, to him: Look up to heaven and nur stars, if thou canst. And he said to l shall thy seed be. 6 Abram believed God, and it was re him unto justice. 7 And he said to him: I am the L brought thee out from Ur of the Chal give thee this land, and that thou might sess it. 8 But he said: Lord God, whereby may that I shall possess it? 9 And the Lord answered, and said: T a cow of three years old, and a she-goat years, and a ram of three years, a turt and a pigeon. 10€ And he took all these, and divided the midst, and laid the two pieces of e against the other; but the birds he divi 11 And the fowls came down upon casses, and Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was setting, a de fell upon Abram, and a great and darkso ror seized upon him. 13 And it was said unto him: "Know tho hand that thy seed shall be a stranger in not their own, and they shall bring them bondage, and afflict them four hundred 14 But I will judge the nation which the Ch. 14. v. 10. Of Slime. Bituminis. This wa of pitch, which served for mortar in the buildin bel, Gen. 11. 3., and was used by Noe in pitching |