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But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote: therefore she returned vnto him into the Arke (for the waters were vpon the whole earth) and he put forth his hand, and receiued her, and tooke her to him into the Arke.

So Noah came forth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him.

And the Lord smelled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.

And God blessed Noah and his sonnes, and said to them, Bring foorth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish the earth.

Who so sheadeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.

God spake also to Noah & to his sonnes with him, saying,

And he drunke of ye wine and was drunken, & was vncouered in the middes of his tent.

And when Ham the father of Canaan sawe the nakednesse of his father, he tolde his two brethren without.

Then Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his yonger sonne had done vnto him,

And said, Cursed be Canaan: a seruant of seruants shall he be vnto his brethren.

He said moreouer, blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.

God perswade Iapheth, that he may dwell in the tentes of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.

Of these were the yles of the Gentiles deuided in their landes, euery man after his tongue, and after their families in their nations.

And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Also Canaan begat Zidon his first borne, and Heth,

Vnto Eber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg: for in his dayes was the earth diuided: and his brothers name was Ioktan.

Then Haran died before Terah his father in the land of his natiuitie, in Vr of the Caldees.

Then Terah tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran, his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife: and they departed together from Vr of the Caldees, to goe into the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

Then Abram tooke Sarai his wife, & Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they possessed, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, & they departed, to goe to the land of Canaan: & to the land of Canaan they came.

Afterward remouing thence vnto a moutaine Eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the Westside, & Haai on the East: and there he built an altar vnto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.