Genesis 11 Cross References - MSTC

¹ And all the world was of one tongue and one language. ² And as they came from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and there they dwelled. ³ And they said, one to another, "Come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire." So brick was their stone and slime was their mortar. ⁴ And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth." ⁵ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had built. ⁶ And the LORD said, "See, the people is one and have one tongue among them all: And this have they begun to do, and will not leave off from all that they have purposed to do. ⁷ Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth." ⁸ Thus the LORD scattered them from thence upon all the earth. And they left off to build the city. ⁹ Wherefore the name of it is called Babel, because that the LORD there confounded the tongue of all the world; and because that the LORD, from thence, scattered them abroad upon all the earth. ¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood. ¹¹ And Shem lived, after he had begot Arpachshad, five hundred years and begat sons and daughters. ¹² And Arpachshad lived thirty five years and begat Shelah, ¹³ and lived, after he had begot Shelah, four hundred years and three and begat sons and daughters. ¹⁴ And Shelah was thirty years old and begat Eber, ¹⁵ and lived, after he had begot Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. ¹⁶ When Eber was thirty four years old, he begat Peleg, ¹⁷ and lived, after he had begot Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. ¹⁸ And Peleg when he was thirty years old begat Reu, ¹⁹ and lived after he had begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁰ And Reu, when he had lived thirty two years, begat Serug, ²¹ and lived after he had begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. ²² And when Serug was thirty years old, he begat Nahor, ²³ and lived, after he had begot Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁴ And Nahor, when he was twenty nine years old, begat Terah, ²⁵ and lived, after he had begot Terah, a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁶ And when Terah was seventy years old, he begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. ²⁷ And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before Terah his father, in the land where he was born, at Ur in Chaldea. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took them wives. Abram's wife was called Sarai. And Nahor's wife, Milcah the daughter of Haran; which was father of Milcah and of Iscah. ³⁰ But Sarai was barren and had no child. ³¹ Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there. ³² And when Terah was two hundred years old and five he died in Haran.

¹⁸ In that day shall the five cities of Egypt speak with the Canaanites' tongue, and swear by the LORD of Hosts: the city of desolation shall be called one of them.

⁹ And then will I cleanse the lips of the people, that they may every each one call upon the name of the LORD, and serve him with one shoulder.

⁶ When this was noised about, the multitude came together and were astonished, because that every man heard them speak his own tongue.

¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar:

⁹ Wherefore the name of it is called Babel, because that the LORD there confounded the tongue of all the world; and because that the LORD, from thence, scattered them abroad upon all the earth.

¹¹ Then Lot chose all the coasts of Jordan and took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other.

¹ And it chanced within a while, that Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of the nations:

¹¹ At the same time shall the LORD take in hand again, to conquer the remnant of his people which are left alive: From the Assyrians, Egyptians, Arabians, Ethiopians, Elamites, Chaldeans, Antiochians and Islands of the sea.

² and the LORD delivered Jehoiakim the king of Judah into his hand, with certain ornaments of the house of God, which he carried away into the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and there brought them into his god's treasury.

¹¹ And he said unto me, 'Into the land of Shinar, to build them a house: which when it is prepared, the measure shall be set there in his place.'

⁴ And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth."

⁷ Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth."

¹⁰ And that vale of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains.

¹⁴ and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.

³ And when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and pitch, and laid the child therein, and put it in the flags by the river's brink.

⁷ "See that ye give the people no more straw to make brick withal, as ye did in time past: let them go and gather them straw themselves. ⁸ And the number of bricks which they were wont to make in time past, lay unto their charge also, and minish nothing thereof. For they be idle and therefore cry, saying, 'Let us go and do sacrifice unto our God.' ⁹ They must have more work laid upon them, that they may labour therein, and then will they not turn themselves to false words." ¹⁰ Then went the taskmasters of the people and the officers out and told the people, saying, "Thus sayeth Pharaoh, "I will give you no more straw, ¹¹ but go yourselves and gather you straw where ye can find it, yet shall none of your labour be minished.'" ¹² Then the people scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt for to gather them stubble to be instead of straw. ¹³ And the taskmasters hasted them forward, saying, "Fulfill your work day by day, even as when straw was given you." ¹⁴ And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. And it was said unto them, "Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as well as in times past?" ¹⁵ Then went the officers of the children of Israel and complained unto Pharaoh saying, "Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ There is no straw given unto thy servants, and yet they say unto us, 'make brick.' And lo, thy servants are beaten, and thy people is foul intreated." ¹⁷ And he answered, "Idle are ye idle, and therefore ye say, 'Let us go and do sacrifice unto the LORD.' ¹⁸ Go therefore and work, for there shall no straw be given you, and yet see that ye deliver the whole tale of brick."

³¹ And he brought out the people that was therein and sawed them and drew harrows of iron upon them, and shred some of them with shredding knives of iron, and thrust some into furnaces. And so he served all the cities of the children of Ammon. And then David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

⁵ They have devised mischief, and communed among themselves how they may lay snares. "Tush," say they, "Who shall see them?"

¹¹ if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

¹ Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also:

⁵ Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.

¹⁰ "The tile work is fallen down, but we will build it with squared stones. The Mulberry timber is broken, but we shall set it up again with Cedar."

⁶ Every man exhorted his neighbour, and brother, and bad him be strong. ⁷ The Smith comforted the molder, and the Ironsmith the hammer man, saying, 'It shall be good, that we fasten this cast work,' and then they fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

³ To a people that is ever defying me to my face. They make their oblations in gardens, and their smoke upon altars of brick;

¹⁴ Draw water now against thou be besieged, make up thy strongholds, go into the clay, temper the mortar, make strong brick:

¹³ but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you wax hard hearted through the deceitfulness of sin.

²⁴ and let us consider one another to provoke unto love, and to good works:

¹³ Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win,"

¹ Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.

⁴ There were tyrants in the world in those days. For after that the children of God had gone in unto the daughters of men and had begotten them children, the same children were the mightiest of the world and men of renown.

⁸ Thus the LORD scattered them from thence upon all the earth. And they left off to build the city. ⁹ Wherefore the name of it is called Babel, because that the LORD there confounded the tongue of all the world; and because that the LORD, from thence, scattered them abroad upon all the earth.

²⁸ How shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying the people is greater and taller than we, and the cities are great and walled even up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.'

²⁷ And the LORD shall scatter you among nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the people whither the LORD shall bring you:

¹ Hear, Israel: thou goest over Jordan this day, to go and conquer nations greater and mightier than thyself: and cities great and walled up to heaven,

¹³ And David made him a name after he returned from the slaughter of the Syrians in the valley of salt where he slew eighteen thousand men.

¹¹ And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names. ¹² Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them. ¹³ This way of theirs is very foolishness, and yet their posterity praise it with their mouth. Selah.

⁹ For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, lo, thine enemies shall perish, and all the workers of wickedness shall be scattered abroad.

⁷ The memorial of the just shall have a good report; but the name of the ungodly shall stink.

¹¹ which was very high, great and mighty. The height reached unto the heaven, and the breadth extended to all the ends of the earth:

²² Even thou, O king, art the tree: great and strong. Thy greatness increaseth, and reacheth unto the heaven, so doth thy power to the ends of the earth.

³⁰ and said, "This is the great city of Babylon, which I myself, with my power and strength, have made a king's court, for the honour of my majesty."

⁵¹ He showeth strength with his arm, he scattereth them that are proud in the imagination of their hearts.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh of God only?

²¹ I will go down and see whether they have done altogether according to that cry which is come unto me or not, that I may know."

⁸ and am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, and unto a land that floweth with milk and honey: even unto the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and of the Jebusites.

¹¹ that they may be ready against the third day. For the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

¹⁸ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding fearful.

²⁰ And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, even in the top of the hill, and called Moses up into the top of the hill. And Moses went up.

⁴ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's seat is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor, and his eyelids try the children of men.

¹³ The LORD looked down from heaven, and beheld all the children of men; ¹⁴ from the habitation of his dwelling, he considereth all them that dwell on the earth.

²³ Am I then God that seeth but the thing, which is nigh at hand, and not that is afar off? sayeth the LORD. ²⁴ May any man hide himself so, that I shall not see him, sayeth the LORD? Do not I fulfill heaven and earth, sayeth the LORD?

¹³ And no man ascendeth up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, that is to say, the son of man which is in heaven.

¹³ Neither is there any creature invisible in the sight of it. For all things are naked and bare unto the eyes of him, of whom we speak.

²² And the LORD God said, "Lo, Adam is become as it were one of us, in knowledge of good and evil. But now lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live ever -"

⁵ And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,

²¹ And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.

¹⁹ These are the three sons of Noah, and of these was all the world overspread.

¹ And all the world was of one tongue and one language.

¹⁴ But go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen, and let them save you in the time of your tribulation."

²⁷ And at noon Elijah mocked them, and said, "Call loud, for he is a god: but he is talking, or occupied, or in the way, or haply he sleepeth, that he may awake!"

¹ W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things? ² The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers came together against the LORD, and against his Christ. ³ Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us. ⁴ He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision.

⁹ Be glad then, O thou young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart be merry in thy young days; follow the ways of thine own heart, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shall bring thee into judgment for all these things.

²⁶ and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath assigned before: how long time, and also the ends of their inhabitation.

²⁶ And God said, "Let us make man in our similitude and after our likeness: that he may have rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over all worms that creep on the earth."

⁵ Of these came the Isles of the gentiles in their countries, every man in his speech, kindred and nation.

²⁰ These were the children of Ham in their kindreds, tongues, lands and nations.

³² These are the kindreds of the sons of Noah, in their generations and nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the flood.

⁵ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had built.

²³ They were not aware that Joseph understood them, for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

⁴⁹ "And the LORD shall bring a nation upon thee from afar, even from the end of the world, as swift as an eagle flyeth: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

¹² Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand; ¹³ which compasseth the wise in their own craftiness, and overthroweth the counsel of the wicked.

²⁰ He taketh the verity from out of the mouth, and disappointeth the aged of their wisdom.

⁴ He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision.

¹⁰ The LORD bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to naught, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes.

⁹ Destroy their tongues, O LORD, and divide them; for I see unrighteousness and strife in the city.

⁸ After this I heard the voice of the LORD, taking advisement on this manner, "Whom shall I send, and who will be our messenger?" Then I said, "Here am I, send me."

¹⁵ Lo, I will bring a people upon you from far, O house of Israel, sayeth the LORD; a mighty people, an old people, a people whose speech thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

⁴ and they were all filled with the holy ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, even as the spirit gave them utterance. ⁵ And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, which were of all nations under heaven. ⁶ When this was noised about, the multitude came together and were astonished, because that every man heard them speak his own tongue. ⁷ They wondered all, and marveled: saying among themselves, "Behold, are not all these which speak of Galilee? ⁸ And how hear we every man his own tongue wherein we were born? ⁹ Parthians, Medes, and Elamites and the inhabiters of Mesopotamia, of Jewry and of Cappadocia, of Pontus and of Asia; ¹⁰ Phrigia, Pamphylia, and of Egypt, and of the parts of Libya, which is beside Cyrene; And strangers of Rome; ¹¹ Jews and converts, Greeks and Arabians: We have heard them speak with our own tongues the great works of God."

² For he that speaketh with tongues speaketh not unto men, but unto God. For no man heareth him: Howbeit, in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. ³ But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men, to edifying, to exhortation, and to comfort. ⁴ He that speaketh with tongues, profiteth himself: he that prophesieth, edifieth the congregation. ⁵ I would that ye all spake with tongues: but rather that ye prophesied. For greater is he that prophesieth, than he that speaketh with tongues, except he expound it also, that the congregation may have edifying. ⁶ Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues: what shall I profit you? Except I speak to you, either by revelation, or knowledge, or prophesying, or doctrine. ⁷ Moreover when things without life give sound: whether it be a pipe, or a harp — except they make a distinction in the sounds — how shall it be known what is piped or harped? ⁸ And also if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself to fight? ⁹ Even so, likewise, when ye speak with tongues, except ye speak words that have signification, how shall it be understood what is spoken? For ye shall but speak in the air. ¹⁰ Many kinds of voices are in the world, and none of them are without signification. ¹¹ If I know not what the voice meaneth, I shall be unto him that speaketh an alien: and he that speaketh shall be an alien unto me.

²³ If therefore when all the congregation is come together, and all speak with tongues, there come in they that are unlearned, or they which believe not: will they not say that ye are out of your wits?

²⁵ And Eber begat two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his time the earth was divided. And the name of his brother was Joktan.

⁷ Cursed be their wrath for it was strong, and their fierceness for it was cruel. I will therefore divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

⁸ When the most highest gave the nations an inheritance, and divided the sons of Adam, he put the borders of the nations fast by the multitude of the children of Israel.

³¹ These are the sons of Shem in their kindreds, languages, countries and nations. ³² These are the kindreds of the sons of Noah, in their generations and nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the flood.

¹ This is the heavy burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos did see. ² Lift up the banner upon the high hill, call unto them; hold up your hand, that the princes may go in at the door. ³ For I will send for my deputies and my giants, sayeth the LORD, and in my wrath I will call for such as triumph in my glory. ⁴ There is a noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people, a rushing as though the kingdoms of all nations had come together. And the LORD of Hosts mustereth his army to battle. ⁵ They come not only out of far countries, but also from the ends of the heavens: Even the LORD himself with the ministers of his wrath, to destroy the whole land. ⁶ Mourn therefore, for the day of the LORD is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty. ⁷ Then shall all hands be letten down, and all men's hearts shall melt away; ⁸ they shall stand in fear, carefulness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and their faces shall burn like the flame. ⁹ For lo, the day of the LORD shall come: terrible, full of indignation and wrath, to make the land waste, and to root out the sinners thereof. ¹⁰ For the stars and planets of heaven shall not give their light; the sun shall be quenched in the rising, and the moon will not shine with his light. ¹¹ And I will punish the wickedness of the world, and the sins of the ungodly, sayeth the LORD. The high stomachs of the proud will I take away, and will lay down the boasting of tyrants. ¹² I will make a man dearer than fine gold, and a man to be more worth than a golden wedge of Ophir. ¹³ Moreover, I will so shake the heaven, that the earth shall remove out of her place. Thus shall it go with Babylon in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts in the day of his fearful indignation. ¹⁴ And Babylon shall be as a hunted or chased doe, and as a flock without a shepherd. Every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one into his own land.

¹ The words that the LORD spake unto the prophet Jeremiah, concerning Babylon, and the land of the Chaldeans: ² "Preach among the Gentiles, let your voice be heard, make a token: cry out, keep no silence, but say, 'Babylon shall be won, Bel shall be confounded, and Merodach shall be overcome. Yea their gods shall be brought to shame and their images shall stand in fear.' ³ For out of the north there shall come a people against her, which shall make her land so waste that nobody shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast; for they shall flee and depart from thence. ⁴ In those days, and at that time, sayeth the LORD, the children of Israel shall come; they and the children of Judah, weeping and making haste, and shall seek the LORD their God. ⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion; thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant that never shall be broken. ⁶ My people hath been a lost flock. My shepherds have deceived them, and have made them go astray upon the hills. They have gone from the mountains to the little hill, and forgotten their fold. ⁷ All they that came upon them, have devoured them: and their enemies said, 'We have made no fault against them, for they have displeased the LORD, yea even the LORD which is the beauty of their righteousness, and that defended their fathers.' ⁸ Yet shall ye flee from Babylon, and depart out of the land of the Chaldeans, and ye shall be as the rams that go before the flock. ⁹ "For lo, I will make up a host of people from the northern land, and bring them upon Babylon: these shall lay siege to it, and win it. Their arrows shall not miss, like as a cunning archer shooteth not wrong. ¹⁰ And the Chaldeans shall be spoiled; and all they that spoil them, shall be satisfied, sayeth the LORD. ¹¹ Because ye were so cheerful and glad, to tread down mine heritage, and fulfill your pleasures, as the calves in the grass: And triumphed over them like the bulls, when ye had gotten the victory. ¹² Your mothers shall be sore confounded; and they that bare you, shall come to shame. She shall be the least set by among the nations, void, waste, and dried up. ¹³ No man shall be able to dwell there, for the fear of the LORD, but she shall be whole desolate. All they that go by Babylon, shall stand still, and be abashed, and shall wonder at all her plagues. ¹⁴ Go forth in your array against Babylon round about, all ye that can handle bows: shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she hath sinned against the LORD. ¹⁵ Cry out: upon her, upon her, against her round about: she shall yield herself, her foundations shall fall, and her walls shall come down, for it shall be the vengeance of the LORD. Yea vengeance shall be taken of her, and as she hath done, so shall she be dealt withal. ¹⁶ They shall root out the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in Harvest. For fear of the sword of the enemy, every man shall get him to his own people, and every man shall flee to his own land. ¹⁷ Israel is a scattered flock, the Lions have dispersed them. First the king of the Assyrians devoured them, last of all this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath bruised all their bones. ¹⁸ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will visit the king of Babylon and his kingdom, as I have visited the king of the Assyrians. ¹⁹ And will bring Israel again to his pleasant pasture, that he may feed upon Carmel and Bashan, and be satisfied upon the mount of Ephraim and Gilead. ²⁰ In those days and at the same time, sayeth the LORD, if the offense of Israel be sought for, there shall none be found. If men inquire for the sin of Judah, there shall be none: for I will be merciful unto them, whom I suffer to remain over. ²¹ "Go down, O thou avenger, into the enemies' land, and visit them that dwell therein: down with them, and smite them upon the backs, sayeth the LORD. Do according to all, that I have commanded thee. ²² There is gone about the land a cry of a slaughter and great murder, namely on this manner: ²³ How happeneth it that the hammer of the whole world is thus broken and bruised in sunder? How chanceth it that Babylon is become a wilderness among the Heathen on this manner? ²⁴ I myself have laid wait for thee, and thou art taken. Unawares art thou trapped and snared. For why, thou hast provoked the LORD unto anger: ²⁵ The LORD hath opened his house of ordinance, and brought forth the weapons of his wrath. For the thing that is done in the land of the Chaldeans, it is the LORD of Hosts' work. ²⁶ These things shall come upon her at the last: they shall break into her privy chambers, they shall leave her as bare as stones that be laid together upon heaps. They shall so destroy her that nothing shall be left. ²⁷ They shall slay all her mighty soldiers, and put them to death. Woe be unto them, for the day and the time of their visitation is at hand. ²⁸ Methink I hear already a cry of them that be fled and escaped out of the land of Babylon, which show in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God; the vengeance of his temple. Yea, a voice of them that cry against Babylon: ²⁹ 'Call up all the archers against Babylon! Pitch your tents round about her, that none escape!' Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so deal with her again. For she hath set up herself against the LORD, against the holy one of Israel. ³⁰ Therefore shall her young men fall down in the streets, and all her men of war shall be rooted out in that day, sayeth the LORD. ³¹ Behold, I speak unto thee, O thou proud, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts: for thy day shall come, even the time of thy visitation. ³² And the proud shall stumble and fall, and no man shall help him up. I will burn up his cities with fire, and it shall consume all that is round about him. ³³ "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The children of Israel and Judah suffer violence together. All they that have them in captivity, keep them fast and will not let them go. ³⁴ But their avenger and redeemer is mighty, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: he shall maintain their cause, he shall make the land shake, and judge them that dwell therein, one with another. ³⁵ The sword shall come upon the Chaldeans, sayeth the LORD; upon them that dwell in Babylon; upon their princes; and upon their wise men. ³⁶ The sword upon their soothsayers: as for those, they shall become fools. The sword upon their worthies: so that they shall stand in fear. ³⁷ The sword upon their horsemen and chariots, and upon all the common people that dwell under them: so that they all shall become like women. The sword upon their treasure: so that it shall be stolen away. ³⁸ The sword upon their waters: so that they shall be dried up. For the land worshippeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things. ³⁹ Therefore shall wild beasts, Apes, and Ostriches dwell therein: for there shall never man dwell there, neither shall any man have his habitation there for evermore. ⁴⁰ Like as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, with the cities that lay there about, sayeth the LORD: So shall no man dwell there also, neither shall any man have there his habitation. ⁴¹ Behold, there shall come a people from the North, with a great bound of men, and many kings shall stand up from the ends of the earth. ⁴² They bear bows and bucklers, cruel are they and unmerciful. Their voice roareth like the raging sea, they ride upon horses, and come weaponed to fight against thee, O Babylon. ⁴³ As soon as the king of Babylon heareth tell of them, his hands shall wax feeble: Sorrow and heaviness shall come upon him, as a woman travailing with child. ⁴⁴ Behold, like as the Lion cometh up from the pleasant meadows of Jordan unto the green pastures of Ethan, so will I drive them forth, and make them run against her. But whom shall I choose out, and ordain to such a thing? For who is like me, or who will strive with me? Or what shepherd may stand against me? ⁴⁵ Therefore hear the counsel that the LORD hath given upon Babylon, and the device that he hath taken upon the land of the Chaldeans. The least among the people shall tear them in pieces, and look: what pleasant thing they have, they shall lay it waste. ⁴⁶ The noise at the winning of Babylon shall move the earth, and the cry shall be heard among the Gentiles."

²¹ And Shem the father of all the children of Eber and the eldest brother of Japheth, begat children also. ²² And his sons were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.

²⁷ And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.

¹⁷ The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech. ¹⁸ And Arpachshad begat Shelah and Shelah begat Eber. ¹⁹ And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because that in his days the land was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan. ²⁰ Joktan begat Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth and Jerah; ²¹ Hadoram, Uzal, and Diklah; ²² Ebal, Abimael, and Sheba; ²³ Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. ²⁴ Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah; ²⁵ Eber, Peleg, Reu; ²⁶ Serug, Nahor, Tereh; ²⁷ Abram, otherwise called Abraham.

³⁴ which was the son of Jacob: which was the son of Isaac: which was the son of Abraham: which was the son of Terah: which was the son of Nahor: ³⁵ which was the son of Serug: which was the son of Reu: which was the son of Peleg: which was the son of Eber: which was the son of Shelah: ³⁶ which was the son of Cainan: which was the son of Arphaxad: which was the son of Shem: which was the son of Noah: which was the son of Lamech:

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.

⁴ And the days of Adam, after he begat Seth, were eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. ⁵ And all the days of Adam which he lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died. ⁶ And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos. ⁷ And after he had begot Enos he lived eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. ⁸ And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and died. ⁹ And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. ¹⁰ And Enos, after he begat Kenan, lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: ¹¹ and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and then he died. ¹² And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel. ¹³ And Kenan, after he had begot Mahalalel, lived eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: ¹⁴ and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and then he died. ¹⁵ And Mahalalel lived sixty five years, and begat Jared. ¹⁶ And Mahalalel, after he had begot Jared, lived eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: ¹⁷ and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years, and then he died. ¹⁸ And Jared lived a hundred and sixty two years, and begat Enoch: ¹⁹ and Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁰ And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty two years, and then he died. ²¹ And Enoch lived sixty five years, and begat Methuselah. ²² And Enoch walked with God, after he had begot Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years, ²⁴ and then Enoch lived a godly life, and was no more seen - for God took him away. ²⁵ And Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty seven years and begat Lamech: ²⁶ and Methuselah, after he had begot Lamech, lived seven hundred and eighty two years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁷ And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty nine years, and then he died. ²⁸ And Lamech lived a hundred eighty two years and begat a son, ²⁹ and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed." ³⁰ And Lamech lived, after he had begot Noah, five hundred, ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters. ³¹ And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy seven years, and then he died. ³² And when Noah was five hundred years old, he begat Shem, Ham and Japheth.

⁷ See that ye increase, and wax, and be occupied upon the earth, and multiply therein."

³ Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb are a heritage and gift, that cometh of the LORD. ⁴ Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children.

³ Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table. ⁴ Lo, thus shall the man be blessed, that feareth the LORD.

¹² that our sons may grow up as the young plants, and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple;

³⁶ which was the son of Cainan: which was the son of Arphaxad: which was the son of Shem: which was the son of Noah: which was the son of Lamech:

²¹ And Shem the father of all the children of Eber and the eldest brother of Japheth, begat children also.

²⁴ The ships shall come out of the coast of Kittim and subdue Assyria and subdue Eber, and he himself shall perish at the last."

¹⁹ And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because that in his days the land was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.

³⁵ which was the son of Serug: which was the son of Reu: which was the son of Peleg: which was the son of Eber: which was the son of Shelah:

² And Joshua said unto all the people, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the water in old time even Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, and served strange gods.

³⁴ which was the son of Jacob: which was the son of Isaac: which was the son of Abraham: which was the son of Terah: which was the son of Nahor:

⁴ And Abram went as the LORD bade him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy five years old, when he went out of Haran. ⁵ And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, with all their goods which they had gotten, and souls which they had begotten in Haran. And they departed to go into the land of Canaan. And when they were come into the land of Canaan,

²⁰ And it chanced, after these things, that one told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz his eldest son and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of the Syrians, ²² and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel." ²³ And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. ²⁴ And his concubine called Reuma she bare also Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacha.

⁴ And Jacob said unto them, "Brethren, whence be ye?" And they said, "Of Haran are we." ⁵ And he said unto them, "Know ye Laban, the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him."

³¹ Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there.

⁴ And Abram went as the LORD bade him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy five years old, when he went out of Haran.

¹ Then Abram departed out of Egypt; both he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him unto the south. ² Abram was very rich in cattle, silver and gold. ³ And he went on his journey from the south even unto Bethel, and unto the place where his tent was at the first time between Bethel and Ai, ⁴ and unto the place of the altar which he made before. And there called Abram upon the name, of the LORD. ⁵ Lot also, which went with him, had sheep, cattle and tents: ⁶ so that the land was not able to receive them that they might dwell together. For the substance of their riches was so great, that they could not dwell together. ⁷ And there fell a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. Moreover, the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land. ⁸ Then said Abram unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between my herdsmen and thine, for we be brethren. ⁹ Is not all the whole land before thee? Depart, I pray thee, from me. If thou wilt take the lefthand, I will take the right: or if thou take the righthand I will take the left." ¹⁰ Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt. ¹¹ Then Lot chose all the coasts of Jordan and took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other.

¹² And they took Lot also; Abram's brother's son, and his goods, for he dwelled at Sodom; and departed.

¹ And there came two angels to Sodom at even. And Lot sat at the gate of the city. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself to the ground with his face. ² And he said, "See lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house; and tarry all night and wash your feet, and rise up early and go on your ways." And they said, "Nay, but we will bide in the streets all night." ³ And he compelled them exceedingly. And they turned in unto him and entered into his house, and he made them a feast and did bake sweet cakes, and they ate. ⁴ But before they went to rest, the men of the city of Sodom compassed the house round about both old and young, all the people from all quarters. ⁵ And they called unto Lot and said unto him, "Where are the men which came into thy house tonight? Bring them out unto us that we may do our lust with them." ⁶ And Lot went out at doors unto them and shut the door after him, ⁷ and said, "Nay. For God's sake, brethren, do not so wickedly. ⁸ Behold, I have two daughters which have known no man; them will I bring out unto you: do with them as it seemeth you good: Only unto these men do nothing, for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof." ⁹ And they said, "Come hither." And they said, "Camest thou not in to sojourn, and wilt thou be now a judge? We will surely deal worse with thee than with them. And as they pressed sore upon Lot and began to break up the door, ¹⁰ the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut to the door. ¹¹ And the men that were at the door of the house, they smote with blindness — both small and great, so that they could not find the door. ¹² And the men said moreover unto Lot, "If thou have yet here any son-in-law or sons or daughters or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of this place: ¹³ for we must destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the LORD. Wherefore he hath sent us to destroy it." ¹⁴ And Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which should have married his daughters, and said, "Stand up and get you out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!" But he seemed as though he had mocked, unto his sons-in-law. ¹⁵ And as the morning arose, the angels caused Lot to speed him, saying, "Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city." ¹⁶ And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him, his wife and his two daughters by the hands; because the LORD was merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and set him without the city. ¹⁷ When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish." ¹⁸ Then said Lot unto them, "Oh nay my lord: ¹⁹ behold, inasmuch as thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, now make thy mercy great which thou showest unto me in saving my life. For I cannot save myself in the mountains, lest some misfortune fall upon me and I die. ²⁰ Behold, here is a city by, to flee unto, and it is a little one, let me save myself therein: is it not a little one, that my soul may live?" ²¹ And he said to him, "See, I have received thy request as concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken. ²² Haste thee, and save thyself there, for I can do nothing till thou be come in thither." And therefore the name of the city is called Zoar. ²³ And the sun was upon the earth when Lot was entered into Zoar. ²⁴ Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven, ²⁵ and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth. ²⁶ And Lot's wife looked behind her, and was turned in to a pillar of salt. ²⁷ Abraham rose up early and got him to the place where he stood before the LORD, ²⁸ and looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and toward all the land of that country. And as he looked: behold, the smoke of the country arose as it had been the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹ But yet when God destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraham: and sent Lot out from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot dwelled.

⁷ And just Lot, vexed with the uncleanly conversation of the wicked, delivered he -

⁷ And he said unto him, "I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur in Chaldea to give thee this land to possess it."

⁷ Thou art the LORD, the God that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of Ur in Chaldea, and called him Abraham:

² And he said, "Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hearken to. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham while he was yet in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, ³ and said unto him, 'Come out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show unto thee.' ⁴ Then came he out of the land of Chaldea and dwelt in Haran. And after that, as soon as his father was dead, he brought him into this land, in which ye now dwell,

¹⁵ And God said unto Abraham, "Sarai, thy wife, shall no more be called Sarai: but Sara shall her name be.

¹² yet in very deed she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not of my mother: and became my wife.

²⁰ And it chanced, after these things, that one told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor:

¹⁵ And it came to pass, yer he had left speaking, that Rebekah came out — the daughter of Bethuel, son to Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother — and her pitcher upon her shoulder.

² And Abram answered, "LORD Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? I go childless, and the cater of mine house, this Eliezer of Damascus, hath a son." ³ And Abram said, "See, to me hast thou given no seed: lo, a lad born in my house shall be mine heir!"

¹ Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. ² Wherefore she said unto Abram, "Behold the LORD hath closed me, that I can not bear. I pray thee go in unto my maid, peradventure I shall be multiplied by means of her." And Abram heard the voice of Sarai.

¹¹ Abraham and Sara were both old and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it is with wives. ¹² And Sara laughed in herself saying, "Now I am waxed old, shall I give myself to lust, and my lord old also?"

¹ The LORD visited Sara as he had said, and did unto her according as he had spoken. ² And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age, even the same season which the LORD had appointed.

²¹ And Isaac made intercession unto the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

³¹ When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.

¹ When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead." ² Then was Jacob wroth with Rachel saying, "Am I in God's stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy womb?"

² And there was a man in Zorah of the kindred of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was barren and bare not.

² which had two wives, the one called Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

⁹ Which maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

⁷ And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren; And both were well stricken in age.

³⁶ And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age. And this is her sixth month, though she be called barren,

¹⁹ And the coasts of the Canaanites were from Sidon till thou come to Gerar and to Gaza, and till thou come to Sodom, Gomorrah, Adma, Zeboiim: even unto Lasha.

²⁶ And when Terah was seventy years old, he begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. ²⁷ And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before Terah his father, in the land where he was born, at Ur in Chaldea.

³² And when Terah was two hundred years old and five he died in Haran.

¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed, and had of all manner goods of his master with him, and stood up and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

⁴³ Now therefore my son hear my voice, make thee ready, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran:

² And Joshua said unto all the people, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the water in old time even Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, and served strange gods. ³ But I took your father Abraham from the other side of the water, and brought him into the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

⁸ By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out into a place which he should afterward receive to inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he should go.