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But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put foorth his hand, and tooke her, and pulled her in vnto him, into the Arke.

And Noah went foorth, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him:

And the LORD smelled a sweete sauour, and the LORD said in his heart, I will not againe curse the ground any more for mans sake; for the imagination of mans heart is euil from his youth: neither will I againe smite any more euery thing liuing, as I haue done.

And God blessed Noah, and his sonnes, and said vnto them, Bee fruitfull and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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

And God spake vnto Noah, and to his sonnes with him, saying;

And he dranke of the wine, and was drunken, and hee was vncouered within his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakednesse of his father, and told his two brethren without.

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

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

And hee saide, Blessed bee the LORD God of Shem, and Canaan shalbe his seruant.

God shall enlarge Iaphet, and he shal dwel in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shalbe his seruant.

By these were the Iles of the Gentiles diuided in their lands, euery one after his tongue: 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.

And Canaan begate Sidon his first borne, and Heth,

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

And Haran died, before his father Terah in the land of his natiuity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And 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 went foorth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to goe into the land of Canaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.

And Abram tooke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, and they went foorth to goe into the land of Canaan: and into the land of Canaan they came.

And he remoued from thence vnto a mountaine, on the East of Beth-el, and pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the West, and Hai on the East: and there hee builded an altar vnto the LORD, and called vpon the Name of the LORD.