Genesis - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 6

sin of man increased upon the earth, and that every effort of the thought of his heart was to promote sin every day. And the EvER·L!V1NG sighed for the doings of men upon earth, and it grieved His heart. The Loran there- I will sweep away man whom I created from 0K the surface of the earth, from man to beast and regret that I made them. But Noah found favour in the presence of the EVER-L1v1NG. Mir ihintury uf Qiunh. The following are the genealogxes

from Noah. Noahwas a good mans; he was upright in his age. Noah walked with GOD. And Noah had three sons given to him, Shem, Ham, and }apheth». But the earth corrupted itself in the presence of Goo, and the

rz Earth was full of crime. And Gov looked upon the Earth, and saw its corruption, for all men had corrupted their way upon the Earth. 16 18 Gly: @21uge Snrziulh. I decide to

cut off all men from My sight, for the earth is full of crime from their presence. I will accordingly sweep them from the earth. Make there~ fore for yourself an Ark! of pitch—pine. Make the Ark with decks, and pitch it inside and outside with pitch. You shall make it thus ;—it shall be three hundred cubits2 long, yfifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits deep. Make a ventilating-fan, fixed in a turret of a eublt high above the upper deck, and connected with that make an opening in the sides ofthe Ark, on the second aud third lower decks. You shall make second and third decks: for I Myself will bring a downrush of waters upon the earth to sweep offall beings possessing the breath of life, from under Heaven; all that move upon the land. Then I will establish My Covenant with you ; and you shall go into the Ark yourself with your sons and your wife, and your s0ns' wives along with you. And from every animal of all kinds, two of each shall

1 The Hebrew word pjm, Tuauxra, really means a ship, not a oating house, like the common child‘s toy.·—I·`. F. 2 A cubic was 25 English inches and a fraction over.—~F. F. go into the Ark to live with you; they shall be male and female: of birds by their species, and of animals by their species, and of reptiles moving in the field by their species, two of each shall accompany you, so as to preserve life. And you shall take with- you all kinds of food which is eaten, and store it with you; and it shall be provision for yourself, and Noah accordingly did all that Gon commanded him. He accomplished it. 20 2X 22 £¤al; orhzrzh in enter the 3rk, nr Ship. Afterwards the Loup said to N oah, 7 ‘ Go yourself and all your household into the Ark, for I have seen that you have been righteous in the face of this generation. Take with you of all clean cattle, seven, male and female, and of beasts which are unclean two of them, a male and a female. Also from birds of the sky seven, seven male and female, so as to preserve a seed of life upon the surface of the land. Because at the end of seven days, I will pour on to the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will sweep away every creature that I made from off the And Noah did 11 that the Even-Livmo instructed :im. Noah was six hundred years old

when the downrush of water came upon the earth. Noah with his chil- dren and wife, and the wives of his sons with them went accordingly into the Ark from the face of the waters of the deluge, with the clean cattle and 8 with the unclean cattle, and with the birds, and all that crawls upon the field, who came two by two to the 9 ark, male and female, as GOD had directed Noah, When the seven days had passed, ro then the downrush of water came upon the earth. In the six hundredth II year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the depths of the Great Ocean were heaved uu. and the belts in the heavens were broken, and I2 there was a downrush on to the earth for forty days and forty nights. At 13 the close of that day} Noah, along refers back to the xyth day

f gte month when Noah entered the Ark.-- g