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And God blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make.

And man saide: this is nowe bone of my bones, and fleshe of my fleshe, she shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.

And the lord god said vnto ye serpent: Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the fielde: vpon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy lyfe.

Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe.

And Adam called his wyfes name Heua, because she was the mother of all lyuyng.

And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.

And Noah came, and his sonnes, and his wyfe, and his sonnes wyues with him to the arke, because of the waters of the fludde.

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.

But the Lorde plagued Pharao and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wyfe.

And the Lordes angell said vnto her: See, thou art with chylde, and shalt beare a sonne, and shalt cal his name Ismael: because the Lorde hath hearde thy tribulation.

And the vncircumcised manchylde, in whose fleshe the foreskyn is not circumcised, that soule shalbe cut of from his people, because he hath broken my couenaunt.

And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous:

For we wyl destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the face of God: for the Lorde hath sent vs to destroy it.

For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.

And this saying was very greeuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.

And God sayde vnto Abraham, let it not be greeuous in thy sight, because of the lad and of thy bonde woman: In al that Sara hath said vnto thee, heare her voyce, for in Isahac shall thy seede be called.

Moreouer, of the sonne of the bonde woman wyll I make a nation, because he is thy seede.

Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.

And sayd: by my selfe haue I sworne, sayeth the Lorde, because thou hast done this thyng, and hast not spared yea thyne onlye sonne,