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And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.

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.

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.

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 man’s heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:

For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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.

Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together.

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.

All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.

For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they revolted from him.