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THEBOOKovJASHER:WITHTESTIMONIES AND NOTES,CRITICALAND HISTORICAL, EXPLANATORY OF THE TEXT.TO WHICHISPREFIXED,VARIOUS READINGS,ANDA PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION,PROVING THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE WORK.Translated into English from the Hebrew,By FLACCUS ALBINUS ALCUINUS, of BRITAIN,ABBOT OF CANTERBURY,who wenta Pilgrimage into the"Holy Land, and Persia, where he discovered this volume,Is not this written in the" Behold,it isBook of Jasher"?"written in theJoshuaBook of Jasher."in the cityof Gazna.x. 13.2 Sam.i.18.BRISTOL:PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR, BY PHILIP ROSE, 20, BROADME\DSOLD BY LONGxMAN, LONDON; RICHARDSON, BRISTOL; AND BY\LIOTHER BOOKSELLERS.MDCCCXXIX.EnteredJat Stationers Hall.
ADVERTISEMENT.THEfollowingof "translationThe Book of Jasher," was discovered by aNorth of England, in 1721. It lay by him forwas a rumour of a new translation of the Bible,gentleman in a journey through theseveral years, until, in 1750, therewhen helaiditwork of greatitOnbefore a noble Earl.andsincerity, plainness,perusal, he highly approved oftruth.as ait,His lordship's opinion was, thatshould have been placed in the Bible, before the Book of Joshua.He further adds, " By a writing on the outside of the manuscript, it should seemthat this translationread theourlaid beforeBook of Jasher twice over; rs, becausemuch approvecannot assert, thatitof:'Ihaveas a piece of greatmadea part of the"WICKLIFFE.'Signed,of Scripture.it,should besaysitSince 1751, the manuscript has been preserved with great care, by a gentlemanadvanced age, and died some time since. On the event of hisdeath, a friend to whom he had presented it, gave it to the present Editor, who,wholived to a veryconceiving thatliterature,andsovaluable a piece of antiquity shouldbiblical students,has committeditthat the attention of the learned will be attractedThe Editor cannotassertany thing fromitsauthenticity.works, publishedinlosttomenofto so singular a volume.own knowledge, beyondAlcuin'ssuch an air of probability and truth, that he doesSome account of this volume may be found in Alcuin'saccount, but that carries withnot doubthisnot beto the press, not doubting butitone volume,fol.in theyear 1600, in Paris.Should any gentleman possess a transcript, or copy ofobliged by any communicationmadeto him,it,Hedied in 804.the Editor will be greatlythrough the medium of the Printer.1318616
PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONON TDEANTIQUITY AXD AUTHENTICITYTHE BOOK OF JASHEH.WHENuworkof this naturedient to adduce evidence ofbrought before the pubhc,isauthenticity' itsexternal and historical, and then, the internal proofs ofAsto the former of these,of Joshua, and thatPsalmist, David.itItisitisitshighly expeitself intotheoriginality.evident, that such a book existed in the daysRoyalhave been preserved by the Judges, first, andalso continued to beappears toitwhich must resolvereferred to in the time of theafterward, by the kings of Judah, until the period of the Babylonish Captivity;which event, it is not referred to, either by the Prophets, or by the Chroa full proof that it was not brought back to Judea.nologists of the Jewish nationIt must then, of course, have been possessed by the kings of Persia, in which countrygreatit was found by Alcuin, who was the honour of our own country, and .ornament of the Court ofHeattendance on his person, and received instruction in the sciences from him.and, as a reward of hisalso was present with him at the Council of Frankfortafter;;endowed him with three rich abbies. When he left his courtEngland, he was further promoted to be Abbot of Canterbury.distinguished merit,and returned toAlcuin founded the University of Paris,The accounthimself.inof his pilgrimage to theHis object800.Holy Land, and toin remaining at Gazna, for three years,isgiven byhisobtainingPersia,waswhich cost him in wedges of gold, at least 500,Hewhich, at this distance of time, would have amounted to four times that ndescribes the rollearliest form, as being two feet nine inches wide, and nine feet in length, and,according to his relation, preserved in the original ark of gopher wood, adornedthis single piece of antiquity,with Mosaic work, thoughina state of decay,fromthe injuries of time.
to invalidate this authentic statement, and, consequently,Nothing can be producedcould not be brought forward by him, to answer anyend of a secular nature, as it appears he never made it public, beyond the circleaof his friends, and when grown old, he left it, with his other manuscripts, toitmerits our credence.Itfriend, a priest in Yorkshire.manycenturies,isaccountedeasilyfrom one hand to another, for soboth from its intrinsic merit, and itsIts preservationfor,extraordinary character.having been known to ourfirstthat illustrious leader, VVickliflfe.ItsItsbeen caused from the very few learnedof Popish ignorance;whentheir missals,andlitanies,Httlereformers,isevident from the testimony ofafterward into neglect, might havewho Hved in the following dark agesfallingmenwas known, even bythepriesthood,beyondbreviaries.about a century since, was quiteaccidental ; but then being laid before a distinguished nobleman, who appears tohave been high in office, on the most important occasion, that of a newtranslation of the sacred Scriptures, when he dehvered his judgment of it, as aThe mannerofbeing brought to light,itswork of great sincerity, plainness, and truth, and whose opinion of it was, thatthe book of Jasher ought to have been printed in the Bible before the bookof Joshua.Fromthat time,curiosity,sawtillitfellitappears to have been preserved only forinto the present Editor'ssufficient reason foritspublication,possession,especially asititsantiquity andon perusing it,supplies a chasm in thewho,from the death of Joshua, including the elders who outThese are Caleb, who judged Israel twelve years;lived him, and judged Israel.Jasher, who succeeded him, and Othniel, who saved Israel from Chushan Rishhistory of the Judges,athaimand then the;events are recordedinregularofsuccessionthesuc-ceeding Judges.Oneof the most remarkable circumstancesis,that this bookquently referred to, but that I account for on this principle,regarded as an inspired work, as the books of Moses were.Itisnot morefre-it was notmakes no claimthatof that nature, Jasher declaring that he received his information from Caleb, hisand Hezron, his grandfather, and from Azuba, his mother. This applieswhich occurred before his own times. He afterwards records facts,they arose, and states them with the simplicity and force of truth. Theyfather,to the eventsas
VIagree, ingeneral, with the statementsthe books of Moses, and where theyinappears that he rehites one series of facts, which are not narrated byMoses, although likely to have occurred at the same time. But it is remarkable,that Jasher does not ascribe the causes which gave birth to the events narratedby him, nor does he introduce his commands with the authority of a lawgiver,diller,itor proclaim them, asAsMosesa book of record,itdid,with " Thus saith the Lord."appears to have truth without mixture of error, forpeculiar object and design.itsname, Jasher, or the Upright, seems to stampall his words and actions, and his counsels and laws are dictated by love to hiscountrymen, zeal for the honour of God, and a regard to the welfare of hispeople and nation, and their posterity, for whom he prays with ardour andaffection toItime of his death,thecome nowIJisto thework, and provesinternal evidence,theitformationof light,in aTherewhich heverifies theauthenticity of thisgenuine production of Jasuek.verythe creation of the world, and,production of this system.whichissays,mannersimilar toHebegins withMoses, relates thefirsta perfect accordance in his account of theshoneforthfrom the firmament anden-lightened the abyss; and the abyss fled before the face of the light, and dividedbetween the light and the darkness; so that the face of nature was formed aThen he proceeds to relate the formation of the sun and moon,which he says appeared in the firmament, the one to rule the light, and the othersecond time.His account of the creation of man is truly sublime, anddetermines a point of the highest importance, the immortality of the soul.Thequestion has long been agitated as to the sense in which the image of God, into rule the darkness.which man was made, consisted.Here is a testimony of infinite value in thesolution of this point, and worthy of being recorded in every language under theface of the iicavens.It answers all the learned arguments of Doctor Warburton,in his divinelegation of Moses, proving the great doctrine of the immortality ofthe soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, to have been the undoubtedjudgment of thehumanfirstpatriarchs.The grandeur"And whenof this passage exceedsallthewere fulfilled, beholdJehovah appeared in Eden, and created man. and made him to be an image ofhis own eternity."This passage ))roves that the first ages were fully convincedthat man is formed for eternity, capable of immortality, and ordained for a never-strains ofdescription,allthese thingsending existence, and, consequently, an heir of everlasting happiness or misery.
VllThis doctrine established,flow fromit.Manalltheofficesof religion,morality, andmust be an accountable being, and ordained byhumanityhis gloriousCreator to live for ever.Itisman, the promise of the woman's seed, andare not mentioned by Jashernor does he atto be observed, that the fall ofthe early predictions of a deliverer,;any of the predictions in the books of Moses, excepting those of hissong, in which the future fates of the tribes are predicted.Shall we determinethis to have arisen from his knowledge, that these subjects were designed to berevealed by the Hebrew lawgiver, or from his ignorance of them ? It appearsto me, that his book is simply a work of record, and not of revelation or preallallude todiction,and that the divine mysteries were appointedhis master and teacher.greater than Jasher,to bemade known by one
The wordsof Alcuin, which are to be read beforeThe Book of Jasher.Alcuin, of Britain, was minded to travel into the Holy Land, and into the province of Persia, in search of holy things, and to see the wonders of the east. And Itook unto me two companions, who learned with me, under able teachers and masters,all those languages which the people of the east speak ; namely, Thomas of Malmsbury, and John of Huntingdon: and though we went as pilgrims, yet we took withus, silver, and gold, and riches.And when we came unto Bristol, we went into aship bound for Rome, where we tarried six months, and learned more perfectly theHere the Pope blessed us, and said, Be of resolution, for theold Persic language.work ye have undertaken is of the Lord. From Rome we went to Naples, andtarried there three days, and from thence to Salermo, and from thence to Palermo.went through Sicily, and took Melita in our way, where we abode six days.Hence we sailed for the Morea, visited Athens, Thessalonia, Constantinople, Philadelphia, Pergamus, Smyrna, Ephesus, Antioch, Coloss, Cappadocia, Alexandria,Damascus, Samaria, Bethel, and Jerusalem. Here we stayed six weeks, and theAnd after having visited every part of the Holypatriarch John received us kindly.Land, particularly Bethlehem, Hebron, Mount Sinai, and the like, we crossed anarm of the Persic Gulph at Bassora, and went in a boat to Bagdad, and from thenceby land to Ardevil, and so to Casbin. Here we learnt from an Ascetic, that at thefurthermost part of Persia, in the city of Gazna, was a manuscript, wrote in Hebrew, of The Book of Jasher. He stimulated us to this undertaking, by observing,that The Book of Jasher was twice mentioned in the Holy Bible, and twice appealedto as a book of Testimony, and that it was extant before the writings which areimmediately undertook the journey, going bynow stiled. The Books of Moses.wherewetarriedthree weeks ; at length we arrived at Gazna.the way of Ispahan,pilgrims'thedress,andI hired a house, where we dwelt duringasideHere we laidwhichwasaboutthreeyears.city,inthisour staywhich belongs to theI soon became acquainted with the keeper of the librarycommunity of this city, and enquired of him concerning The Book of Jasher, whichthe recluse at Casbin had told us of. He said, he had read of such a manuscript inthe catalogue of the library, but had never seen it, though he had been custos forJWeWe* Alcuin livedinthe eighth century.See Biography of Alcuinus Flaccus.
The Words of ALCUIX.ixforty-five years, but that it was locked up in a chest, and kept among the pieces ofAs I lived nigh the custos, so I soonantiquities in a separate part of the library.became familiar in his family ; wherefore one day I took the opportunity to tell thecustos, that I was very much obliged to him for the civilities he had shewn me, andparticularly for the free access he had given me to the library ; at the same time Imade him a present of a wedge of gold, in value fifty pounds, which he readilyThe next time I went to the library, I begged the favour I might seeaccepted.The Book of Jasher. He then immediately turned to the catalogue, where it wasHe conducted me into a long room, where heITie Volume of Jasher.shewed me the chest it was in. He now informed me, that the key was in thehands of the city-treasurer, and that, upon proper application, I might see thevolume. The custos introduced me to the treasurer, and related to him the subHe smiled, and said, he was not then at leisure, but hestance of my request.The next morning I sent John of Huntingdon to the treasurerffould consider of it.with a wedge of gold of the value of one hundred pounds, by way of a present. ByJohn, he sent me word, that he would meet me at the library about the ninth hour.The time being come, the treasurer, the custos, and I, met at the library, whenthe treasurer having unlocked the chest, shewed me the book, which he called. TheVolume of Jasher. And then he locked the chest, and gave the key to the custos,telling him, that it was permitted that I might read in the volume, as often as Iwritten,and in the library.a great scroll, in width, two feet three inches, and inlength about nine feet. It is written in large characters, and exceeding beautiful.The paper on which it is written is for thickness the eighth of an inch. To the touchit seemed as soft as velvet, and to the eye as white as snow.The ark is of Mosaic work, finely and curiously wrought, but time and accidentshave very much defaced the external ornaments of it.After this I had free access to The Book of Jasher. The first thing which commanded my attention was a little scroll, intitled. The story of the Volrme of Jasher. This informed me,that Jasher was born in Goshen, in the land of Egypt,that he was the son of the mighty Caleb, who was general of the Hebrews, whilstMoses was with Jethro in Midian ; that on the embassy to Pharaoh, Jasher was appointed virger to Moses and Aaron, to bear the rod before them that as he alwaysaccompanied Moses, Jasher must have the greatest opportunities, of knowing thefacts he hath recorded ; that from his great attachment to truth and uprightness, heearly received his name, "la"; that it was a common saying in Israel ot him. Beholdthe upright man ; that Jasher wrote the volume which bears his name ; that the arkwas made in his life-time ; that he put the volume therein with his own hands ; thatthat the princes of JudahJazer, the eldest son of Jasher, kept it during his lifesuccessively were custoes thereofthat the ark and book in the last Babylonish Captivity was taken from the Jews, and so fell into the hands of the Persian monarchsand that the city of Gazna had been the place of its residence for some hundredwould,in the pre. ;ence of the custos,The Book of Jasheris;;;years.b
The Words of ALCUIN.XThis excited in ine a great desire of reading the volume itself. The work was dividedinto thirty-seven parts or portions.One of these portions I read at this time, andso two every day until I had read the whole through. The custos then informed me,that there were in the two side boxes of the chest, certain notes or remarks, whichsome of the ancients had made on several passages contained in The Book of Janher.These also I read.I had now conceived a great desire of returning to England,with a transcript ofThe Book of Jai her, and of the Notes. Hereupon, I and my companions petitionedthe commonalty of the city, that we might have the liberty of taking a transcriptthereof.Here we were opposed by the treasurer, and our petition was rejected.Some months after this, it camo into my mind, that we would petition to haveleave to make an l ]nglish translation of the said Book and Notes.Accordingly,one morning, having drawn up the petition, I sent John of Huntingdon with it,and a wedge of gold to the treasurer, with a letter desiring his opinion of it. Aftersome days, I received for answer, that he had considered of my request, and wouldshortly relate the affair to the recorder of the city, and take his opinion thereon.Upondespatched Thomas of ]\Ialmsbury with a wedge of gold, as a presenttogether with a copy of the petition I had sent the treasurer.Afew days after this, I received directions from the recorder, to attend the nextcourt, and then our petition was granted.The order of court ran thus "grantunto Alcuin, and his two assistants, full liberty and power of translating out of theoriginal Hebrew, The Volume of Jas/ier, with the Notes appertaining thereto, nowcontained in a chest in the public library of Gazna, into English, and into no otherlanguage whatever. And we likewise order, that the said Englisii translation bemade in the library, and in the presence of the custos at such times of tlie day asshall be most, convenient to the said custos."We soon began the translation in this manner: The manuscript was laid on aThe custos opened the volume, and wetable, round which the custos and we sat.read the first part or portion, and were permitted to set it down in the originalfrom whence we made each a translation, and then the custos burnt the part wehad so transcribed. And this was the manner in which we proceeded, but thecustos would not suffer us to carry home any of our papers.In fine, after the labour of near a year and six months, v/e completed the transThe treasurerlation of the Book and Notes, to which translation this is prefixed.and custos burnt all other papers wrote by either of us, and took from us the translation we had made.In this dilemma we remained for some time, till, by a proper application, and bypetitioning the court a second time, after having been solemnly sworn, that v.'e hadtaken no other copy, nor were possessed of any other papers, besides that translation of The Volatne of Jasher, then before the court, the translation was deliveredto us, with a charge, that we should not let any person take a copy thereof in anywhich we solemnly promisedplace we passed through in our return to Englandand then we were dismissed, with proper credentials for our return through Persia.this,Ito the recorder,:We;;;
The WokdsofALCUIN.'xiWe nowre-assuined the pilgrims' dress, and after a stay of almost three years,Gazna, and came to Ispahan, from thence to Casbin, and so back to Rome.Here we stayed some time, and I had an audience of the Pope, when I related tothat I had seen The Book of Jasher, spoken of in Joshua, and in the\ his Holiness,The holy father, who was now ninety-five years of age,\ Second Book of Samuel./turned to the places I referred to, and then cried out, / have lived to the days ofleftforgetfulness.After a short stay atwe had beenRome, weabsent iseven years.sailed forEngland, and landed atBristol,after
VARIOUS READINGSChap.vcr.i.IN1.6.19.20.the head of time.the one that did rule thelight, the other that didrule whilst it was dark.and who made the harp andthe organ.in his time men began, &c.Chap.X. ver.ii-ver.2.and whoto29.between twohastcision.xi.ver. 3.Andstraits.the sun and thegavetra-theirChap.customs, &c.xii.ver. 18.Seeing ye will not be ablefoodthe desert.to findiii.fromdeviatedver. lOut of thee26.a great nation.a great dearth of grain inaltershallcomeforthChap.xiv. V. 2.3.Egypt.8.thatwhom Moseshadcausedand they pitched their tentsthefootofmountHoreb.5.V. ver.Chap.and when we shall departfrom hence we know not.atininto return,that land.was advancedthemforme.13.20.27.moonwhilstand why should we abolishtheChap.lightthese things were hereforethou thus/undertaken tilead us out of Egypt.unto the enemies of circum-1opened the womb.this,mythoudaughter Zipporah,taken to be thyiiastwife,Chap.vi.ver. 79.17.22.neither will we bow downto Pharaoh one day more.for he had been gone outof the land, &c.seemed as strangers toMoses.behold ourdeliveranceis26.32.Chap.Chap.xvi. ver. 4.xvii.v. 2.in him.vii.Chap.viii.ver. 8.1never before heard of thesayings of your fathers.ver. 13. thatIamamessengerhadleft off tobexviii.Chap.xxi. ver. 2.v. 7-ix. ver. 16.Chap. X. ver.8.Andthe people were sorelyvexed.ThemenJacobites '3i?V' areable to fly from us.to hearand speakyou.his s])iritwas moved with-him.But Aaron stood aghast.goodfor the comof Israel.Labour, industry, and painstaking, will they be alienIs notmonwealso.3.Chap.wisetovou.19.even according to the planJetliro had laid down.inChap,stink,find useful.shallfor20.Chap.and his name shallnotto.Are notallthe tribes of Is-rael sanctified ?
VARIOUS READINGS.Chap.Chap.Chap,V.\xi.xxii. v.7-the words ofspeak.e*»iltromyou now10.Depart14.those tliat are with him.and they fled every one tohis dwelling.4.xxiii. v. 24.Korah,Chap, xxxii.Cutoff the flesh of thy foreskin, then shalt thou begetv. 4.andwerefamiliar with the sonsof Israel.a son.Take sharpwomb.Chap,andxxxiii. V. 8.v.4.6.12.the thoughts of the evil oneagainst this people.Chap. xxvi.v. I/-inChap.xxvii.V. 12.whomin14.Be15.WhomItxxviii. v. 10.19.25.for them.cancommand theReubenites, the Gadites,and all the people ofWho10.Israel,Andtogo uptothewar.on their side.tlieChap. XXXV.v. 2.whoChap,built thiswere too strongChap, xxxiv. v.".dwelt discernment.advice of onehas discovered ournakedness.issotabernacle and this altar?Surely to defy Joshua andthe elders of Israel,turned away the anger ofPhinehas, &c.not angry, () King.thou dost not wor-ship, is20.theirpleasing to the eye.him.Judah may be manynumber.I'hatforWherefore have yebring a description ofthe land,their dwellings shall youin(hem ask of themand behold they were well9.tonumber.Caleb hath the truthletthe rccisondoing,11.Chap. xxiv.knives.he cometh out of theafter10.the bridge.Who shall be judge in18.then shouldweIsrael ?be able todrive out the nations.Chap, xxxvi.v. 5.and it became separated toholy uses.put an end to the designs ofItseemetl) well unto me,ye gather vourselvestogether'at Bethel, that 1,and the elders of Israel,thatAchan.may makean agreementwith you.Chap. xxix.v. 2.letno man escapealive.Chap, xxxvii.Chap. XXX.V. 11.on Gibeon,and shine thou, moon, onSun, restv. 16.tliouthe valley of Ajalon.17-Andthere was a great wantof grain in Canaan.seated Joseph on his righthand.
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The formation ofandthe world,1JIThe formalion of(he liglU shineth.THE BOOK OFACHAP.Sthe world.3earth isthe creation of ' andthe1. ffei. theprime i/ef . the desert'Heb. the atomsconfusedof matter.'lleb.masii"Hfi.theor,flarae,burning.'Hei. the bottomless pit.WHILSTit was the -beginning, darkness overspread the face of "'nature.2 And the ''ether moved upon the surface of the ''chaos.3 And it came to pass, thata great iight shone forth fromthe firmament, and enlightened the " abyss.4 And the abyss fled beforethe face of the light, and divided between the light andthe darkness.6 So that the face of naturewas formed a second time.6 And behold there appeared in the firmament two greatlightsthe one to rule thelight, and the other to rulethe darkness.1 And the ground brought1:cHei.theearth,«r, nature.JI i/rf. Theforth grass the herb yieldingseed, and the fruit-tree afterhis kind.8kindAnd everyUp-right.A.:productive.11man. 13 the birth of CainAbel.2317 of Enoch.death of Adam.A.M.HERI.7creation of man.M.1.beast after hisand every thing that:creepeth, after their kind.9 And the waters broughtforth the moving creatures, after their kind.10 And the ether broughtforth every winged fowl, afterhis kind.And when all these11things were ''fulfilled, behold'Jehovah appeared in ''Eden,and created man, and madehim to be an 'image of his own Heb.finished.nieb. IIamthatam.''//c*.delighted'i/ei. likenese.eternity.12Andtohim was givenpower and""lordship over allliving creatures, and over every herb, and over every treeof thefield.Andit came to pass, inprocess of time, that the manbegat "Cainand he also begat his brother "Abel.14 And Cain was the firstman who tilled the ground13"Ileb. rule.::B Hdi. the po» sessed."//ei. the feeder
The death of AdamA.M.61.rllrb.percjp-i-natiun.'//fi.the civi-lized.ASH ER.J;15 And Abel was a i'eederof sheep.16 And Cain went out anddwelt on the east of Eden, inthe land of i-Nod.17 And Cain begat lEnochthen did men begin to build:cities.Ihb.the18incanspirited.'Heb.the ex-] erienced.bornfirstAndunto 'Lamech wastheJabalhe waswho taught men to build":19lleb. the eniu-AndLamechunto'llcb. all kindsthe "harp and the organ.music.the regular.r lleb.the despondent. '(lesh.And20llcb.Ihb. the alsowas bom 'Tubal-Cain: he wasthe first who wrought in brassand iron, and who builded upi fSeth"Enosthenby name to:begatbegan mencallon theLord.21 And all the days of thelife of 'Adam, there was rest,and peace, and quiet, unto allmen.22 For they listened untoall things, concerning whichhe spake unto them.23 And Adam lived ninehundred and thirty years, andhe died.i)30.CHAP.1theW«A.of death. Ilei. rest.1of Noah. 2 he fimthiiildelh the ship. 4 all the peoplespeak one language.8 Noahdies.10 Peleg is born.11 hedivideth the land.13 NinwodA soil' II.birthT/ieopposeth Pek'g,are cUspersed.1056.And Noah wasthe firstthe shipandsojourned upon the greatwaters.3 And he was the father ofthose who go down into thedeep, and who occupy themselves in much water.4 At this time the wholewas of one " lip, and of oneword and there was peacewhowhobuildedandiliepeopleLamech, the son ofjNIethuselah,Noah.begatA.M.1537.:1757.'llcb. tonjfue.:untotents.'2and of Noah'5thatall. Andcameittopass,men weremultiplied before the face of the earth ; andthey became mighty, and menof renown.6 AndJaphet, and his''and his sons' sons, saidunto Noah, Behold, thou artsons,our " fallierpermit us, webeseech thee, seeing the landis not able to bear us, our children, and our herds, and ourflocks, to pass over and dwellin the plain ofShinar.7And Noah said, Be itunto you, as ye list only thisthing I command ye, that yeworship the God of your fathers,observing all things!''lleb.the p«r-euader.'iia,.mier.'//(}. vigilanoa.:which ye have received.8 And Noah lived nine hundred and thirty yearsand he2010.:died.9And fromthesemenofrenown rose up great nations,by whom the isles of the Gentiles Mere peopled.10 And it came to pass,process of time, that therestood up among men, ''Peleg,the sou of Eber.*Or, sirangeri1729.in Ilrb. the divider.''Z/cJ. the2ful.wrath-
Nimrodopposeth Pehg.A.M.1750.Chap.11 It was he who first invented the hedge and ditch,andthe wall and bulwarkwho by lot divided the lands:among*Heb. theheadstrong.his brethren.And12Nimrod''said,Wherefore should we obeyPelegand why should ehear-kened unto himfor Nimrod was a mighty hunter, anda man of renown.:And14there arose a greatthe peopleandthey were scattered upon theamongstrife:earth.himcities:buildedand he .themultitude.Heb. the discontented. Hd).the lleb.6his riches.goesfriiitlul.1 1:ways.*delight-morose.Ildt.Ileb,Out ofthee shall comeforth a great'nation. Heb. bondage.Heh. the un-Pharaoh,7willing.And Pharaoh gavein cattle,removes(tissuadesAND:''into16 circumctscs him-SarahIM. vants.8 And Abraham was theand 'Sason of TerahwifeAbraham.ofrah was the2 And Abraham said, Lo,the nations are full of confuand the inhabitants ofsionthe earth have perverted their1'ful.nation.And Abraham went6and he abodeintoEgyptthercj and found favour with4 hehimfrom slaying his son Isaac. 3941 Isaac dies.his death.43a famine in Canaan. 48 Pharaoh sends for Jacob into Egypt.51 Jacob goes. 53 his deathself.2098.untoand oxenand he-asses and she-asses, andmen-servants and maid-ser-and SarahleavesEgypt.A. M.''Abraham,laud.to3 Thus saith Abraham, theson of Terah, I have spiediniquity among the Gentiles,and evil among the sons ofCain.4 And Abraham departedfrom his brethren, and passedthrough the land of Canaan,he and his wife ; and he pitched his tent on the plain of Moriah.5 And as he journeyed stillon to the south, he heard a'voice saying unto him,Iwill make of thee a great:Nimrodtogether the scattered of the1into*"'And16Abraham goesiii.sheep:Abraham wasandrichmen-servantsand maid-servants, and in silver and gold and Abrahamwent up out of Egypt, evenunto Bethel did he go.9 And the herds and posin:'sessions ofAbraham:'''Ueb.Ileb.tressed.ther.Then Abraham11his wife,tent,Ileb.his servants,arose,andhisand he removed hisand he came and dwelt:houseincreasedexceedingly so that the " landwas not able to bear them.10 Insomuch that the servants of Abraham, and theservants of Lot strove toge-flocks'of God.spot.the di«-
AbrahamJcircumciseth himself;A. M.in the plain of2103.unto "Hebron.Now so12 fT",r//fI!'*"' 'llrb. charm.thatpass,AS"Mamre, nigh .came to«Abrahamsitiic*arah,iplained, and said ; Unto methou hast not given an hei
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