Genesis 9:1-11:32 And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth ² The feare of you, & the dread of you, shalbe vpon euery beast of the earth, and vpon euery foule of the ayre, vpon al that moueth vpon the earth, and vpon all the fishes of the sea, into your hande are they deliuered ³ Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges ⁴ But flesh in the life therof [which is] the blood therof, shall ye not eate ⁵ And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require: at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man ⁶ Who so sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man ⁷ But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein ⁸ God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying ⁹ Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you ¹⁰ And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be ¹¹ And my couenaunt I make with you, that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde, neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more ¹² And God sayde: this is the token of the couenaut which I make betweene me and you, and euery lyuyng creature that is with you, for euer ¹³ I do set my bowe in the cloude, and it shall be for a token betweene me and the earth ¹⁴ And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude ¹⁵ And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you, and euery liuing creature in all fleshe: and it shall no more come to passe, that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe ¹⁶ And the bowe shalbe in the cloude, and I wyll loke vpon it, that I may thinke vpon the euerlasting couenaunt, betweene god and euery liuing creature in all fleshe that is vpon the earth ¹⁷ And God sayd vnto Noah, This is the token of the couenaunt which I haue made betweene me and all fleshe that is vpon earth ¹⁸ The sonnes of Noah goyng foorth of the arke, were Sem, Ham, & Iapheth: and Ham is the father of Chanaan ¹⁹ These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread ²⁰ Noah also began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyarde ²¹ And he drynkyng of the wyne, was dronken, and vncouered within his tent ²² And Ham the father of Chanaan, seeyng the nakednesse of his father, tolde his two brethren without ²³ And Sem and Iapheth takyng a garment, layde it vpon their shoulders, and commyng backwarde, couered the nakednesse of their father, namely their faces beyng turned away, lest they should see their fathers nakednesse ²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knewe what his younger sonne had done vnto him ²⁵ And he sayde: cursed be Chanaan, a seruaunt of seruauntes shall he be vnto his brethren ²⁶ He sayde moreouer: blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt ²⁷ God shall enlarge Iapheth: and he shall dwell in the tentes of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt ²⁸ Noah liued after the fludde three hundred and fiftie yeres ²⁹ And all the dayes of Noah, were nine hundred and fiftie yeres, and he dyed ¹⁰ ¹ These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde ² The children of Iapheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Thubal, Mesech, and Thiras ³ The children of Gomer: Askenas, and Ripath, and Thogarma ⁴ The children of Iauan: Elisa, & Tharsis, Kitthim, and Donanim ⁵ Of these were the Iles of the gentiles deuided in their landes, euery one after his tongue, and after his kinrede, in their nations ⁶ The children of Ham, Chus: and Mizraim, and Phut, and Chanaan ⁷ And the children of Chus: Seba, and Hauilah, and Sabthah, and Raamah, and Sabtheca ⁸ The children of Raamah: Seba, and Dedan, Chus also begat Nimrod ⁹ The same began to be mightie in the earth, for he was a mightie hunter before the Lorde: Wherfore it is sayde, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the Lorde ¹⁰ The begynnyng of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, & Arab, and Calueh, in the lande of Sinar ¹¹ Out of that lande came Assur, and builded Niniue, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah ¹² Resen also betweene Niniue & Chalah, and it is a great citie ¹³ Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Nephthuim ¹⁴ Pathrusim also, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philisthiim) & Capthorim ¹⁵ Chanaan begat Sidon his first borne sonne, and Heth ¹⁶ And Iebusi, and Emori, and Girgasi ¹⁷ And Hiui also, and Arki, and Sini ¹⁸ And Aruadi, and Semari, and Hamathi: and afterwarde were the kinredes of the Chanaanites spread abrode ¹⁹ The border of the Chanaanites was from Sidon as thou commest to Gerar vnto Azah, and as thou goest vnto Sodoma and Gomorra, and Adama, and Seboim, euen vnto Lesa ²⁰ These are the children of Ham in their kinredes, in their tongues, countreys, and in their nations ²¹ Unto Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, and elder brother of Iapheth, there were chyldren borne ²² The chyldren of Sem: Elam, and Assur, Arpharad, and Lud, and Aram ²³ The chyldren of Aram: Us, and Hul, Gether, and Mas ²⁴ Arphaxad begat Selah, and Selah begat Heber ²⁵ Unto Heber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth deuided, and his brothers name was Iactan ²⁶ Iactan begat Almodad, and Saleph, Hazarmaueth, and Ierah ²⁷ And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Dicla ²⁸ Obal also, and Abimael, and Seba ²⁹ And Ophir, and Hauilah, and Iobab, all these were the chyldren of Iactan ³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesa, as thou goest vnto Sapher, a mount of the east ³¹ These are the chyldren of Sem after their kinredes and tongues, in their landes and nations ³² And so these are the kinredes of the chyldren of Noah after their generations in their peoples: and of these were the nations deuided in the earth after the flood ¹¹ ¹ And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache ² And when they went foorth from the east, they founde a playne in the lande of Sinar, and there they abode ³ And one sayd to another: Come, let vs prepare brycke, and burne them in the fire. And they had brycke for stones, and slyme had they in steade of morter ⁴ And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth ⁵ But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded ⁶ And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, and this they begin to do: neither is there any let to them from all those thinges whiche they haue imagined to do ⁷ Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache ⁸ And so the Lorde scattered them from that place into the vpper face of all the earth, and they left of to buylde that citie ⁹ And therfore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord dyd there confounde the language of all the earth: and from thence dyd the Lorde scatter them abrode vpon the face of all the earth ¹⁰ [ These are the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundreth yere old, and begat Arphaxad two yeres after the flood ¹¹ And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad fiue hundreth yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters ¹² Arphaxad liued fiue and thirtie yeres, and begat Selah ¹³ And Arphaxad liued after he begat Selah, foure hundreth and three yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters ¹⁴ Selah liued thirtie yeres, and begat Heber ¹⁵ And Selah liued after he begat Heber, foure hundreth and three yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters ¹⁶ And Heber liued thirtie and foure yeres, and begat Peleg ¹⁷ And Heber liued after he begat Peleg, foure hundreth and thirtie yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters ¹⁸ And Peleg liued thirtie yeres, and begat Reu ¹⁹ And Peleg lyued after he begat Reu two hundreth and nyne yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters ²⁰ And Reu liued two and thirtie yeres, and begat Serug ²¹ And Reu lyued after he begat Serug two hundreth and seuen yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters ²² And Serug liued thirtie yere, and begat Nachor ²³ And Serug liued after he begat Nachor, two hundreth yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters ²⁴ And Nachor lyued nyne and twentie yeres, and begat Tarah ²⁵ And Nachor liued after he begat Tarah an hundreth and nineteene yeres: and begat sonnes and daughters ²⁶ Tarah liued seuentie yeres, and begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran ²⁷ These are the generations of Tarah: Tarah begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran: Haron begat Lot ²⁸ And Haran dyed in the presence of his father Tarah, in the lande of his natiuitie, euen in Ur of the Chaldees ²⁹ Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife [was] Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, [was] Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa ³⁰ But Sarai was baren, and had no chylde ³¹ And Tarah toke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe his sonne Abrams wyfe, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldees, that they myght go into the land of Chanaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there ³² And the dayes of Tarah, were two hundreth and fiue yeres, and Tarah died in Haran