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Abstract algebra

2009-10-12T03:21:36Z

Mikedrowes:

'''Abstract algebra''' is a branch of [[mathematics]] that consists of [[group theory]] and [[linear algebra]]. As conservatives don't believe in math, this is irrelevant.

[[category:algebra]]

Misrepresentation

2009-10-12T03:20:25Z

Mikedrowes:

'''Misrepresentation''' is a false [[representation]] of a person or of [[opinion]]s or of [[position]]s. Sometimes misrepresentations can be used maliciously to misstate the wording of a person's position to make it seem like they are adopting a different position. Occasionally, misrepresentations can be done unintentionally, usually because of a failure of [[comprehension]] and poor [[paraphrase|paraphrasing]]. This is the main device that conservatives use against liberals.

[[Category:dictionary]]

Earth

2009-10-12T03:18:34Z

Mikedrowes:

{{Planet|image=Blue Marble.jpg
|symbol=Earth symbol.svg
|order=3
|primary=Sun
|periapsis=147,090,000 km (0.983 AU)<ref name=earthfact>"[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html Earth Fact Sheet]," [[NASA]], April 19, 2007. Accessed May 2, 2008.</ref>
|apoapsis=152,100,000 km (1.017 AU)<ref name=earthfact/>
|semimajor=149,597,886.5 km (1.00000011 AU)<ref name=earthfact/>
|bode=1.0 AU
|eccentricity=0.01671022<ref name=earthfact/>
|sidereal=365.256366 da<ref name=earthfact/>
|synodic=365.256366 da
|orbitspeed=29.783 km/s<ref name=earthfact/>
|inclination=0°
|reference=the ecliptic
|siderealday=23.9345 h<ref name=earthfact/>
|solarday=24 h<ref name=earthfact/>
|rotatespeed=465.11 m/s
|axialtilt=23.439281°
|mass=5.9736 * 1024 kg<ref name=earthfact/>
|density=5,515.3 kg/m³<ref name=earthfact/>
|surfacegrav=9.780327 m/s²
|escapespeed=11.186 km/s
|meanradius=6371 km<ref>http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earth.htm</ref><ref name=earthfact/>
|equatorradius =6378.135 km<ref name=earthfact/>
|polarradius =6356.750 km<ref name=earthfact/>
|surfacearea=510,065,600 km²
|landarea=148,939,100 km²
|waterarea=361,126,400 km²
|mintemp=185 K
|meantemp=287 K
|maxtemp=331 K
|moons=1
|composition=Rock
|albedo=0.37<ref name=earthfact/>
|mfd=0.3076 G<ref name=earthfact/>
|pmdm=7.98 * 1022 N-m/T<ref name=calc>Calculated</ref>
|cmdm=1.41 * 1024 N-m/T<ref name=Humphreys>Humphreys, D. R. "[http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/21/21_3/21_3.html The Creation of Planetary Magnetic Fields]." ''Creation Research Society Quarterly'' 21(3), December 1984. Accessed April 29, 2008.</ref>
|mdt=2049 a<ref name=Humphreys/>
|mhl=1420 a<ref name=calc/>
}}
The '''Earth''' is the only known [[planet]] in our '''Solar System''' which can support [[life]]. It contains [[water]], reasonable levels of [[oxygen]], and a stable [[temperature]] range. Geometrically speaking, Earth is the largest of the terrestrial (rocky) planets in the [[solar system]]. Contrary to the beliefs of [[liberals]], the earth is in fact, flat.

==Physical Description==

Within the [[solar system]], Earth is the third planet from the [[Sun]]. It is approximately 8,000 miles (13,000 km) in diameter, which means that its equatorial circumference (measured around the equator) is 24,901 miles (40,075 kilometers), and the polar circumference is slightly less at 24,809 miles (40,008 km).<ref>http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzcircumference.htm</ref> The reason its metric circumference is so close to the "round number" of 40,000 is that the [[kilometer]] was defined (by the French) as 1/10,000th the distance from the equator to the [[North Pole]].

Its surface area is approximately 4·π (4000 mi)2 = 200 million square miles (510 million km2). It has been said that Earth should really be called "water", as the larger part of it—about 70%—is covered by water. In fact, the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] and [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] oceans alone cover about half of the Earth's surface.

The Earth orbits at an average distance of about 93 million miles (150 million km) from the Sun in an almost circular orbit. The plane of this orbit, or '''ecliptic''', is the common reference plane for the inclinations of the orbits of all [[planet]]s and [[dwarf planet]]s in the [[Solar System]], though in fact Earth's orbit is inclined 7.25° to the plane of the [[Sun]]'s equator. It takes light (and other forms of electromagnetic radiation) approximately 500 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth, i.e. the distance can also be stated as "500 light-seconds." The distance to nearby stars is made by measuring the stellar [[parallax]] between observations when the earth is at opposite ends of its orbit, so the earth's orbit itself is a measuring stick for astronomical distances, and is known as the ''astronomical unit'' (A. U.) It is worth noting that if the Earth were slightly closer to the Sun, it would be too hot for life while if Earth were slightly further away from the Sun, water would freeze and life would be impossible.

==Origin==
People disagree about when and how the Earth was created. The three most popular ideas are:
#That God created the Earth several hundred generations ago, as recounted in [[Genesis]]. By adding years and other time indications in the [[Old Testament]] chronologies, one can calculate the age of the Earth as approximately 6,000 years (see [[Date of creation]] and [[Young Earth Creationism]]).
#That God created the Earth billions of years ago (see [[Old Earth Creationism]] and [[Theistic Evolution]]).
#That the Earth came into existence billions of years ago (approximately 4.5 billion years in modern estimates), but entirely through natural processes and without any intervention by God.

Clashes between adherents of these ideas have gone on since time immemorial (see [[origins debate]]), though the last theory has only matured in the last 200 years.

== Young Earth Creationist view ==

===Formation and Age===

Young Earth creationists believe, on the basis of the biblical account in Genesis and biblical geochronologies, that the entire Earth, including animal, plant, and human life, was formed in six days, around 4000 B.C.
Mainstream scientific journals, committed to a [[naturalism|naturalistic]] worldview, contend this view.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2005/0822sternberg.asp 1</ref><ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/538.asp 2</ref><ref>http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53400 3</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=3833&program=DI%20Main%20Page%20-%20News&callingPage=discoMainPage 4</ref>

Most scientists believe believe that the Earth formed by natural processes instead of being supernaturally created. However, as one scientist noted, “... most every prediction by theorists about planetary formation has been wrong.” <ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes43.html</ref>

=== Magnetosphere ===
Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field powerful enough to prevent most of the sun's radiation from striking the earth and harming the life on it. This field has been decaying at a known exponential rate, as decades of recordkeeping reveal. In 1984, Dr. Russell Humphreys developed a model for the creation of magnetic fields<ref name=Humphreys/> that suggests that the earth was at first made entirely of water<ref>See {{Bible ref|book=II_Peter|chap=3|verses=5}}</ref>, much of which God transmuted into other elements after He made the earth, probably on Day 3 of creation. Humphreys' predicted magnetic decay time for the earth agrees well with published data and thus constitutes further evidence for a young earth.

===Shape of the Earth===

Some people dispute the shape of the earth, saying that according to the Bible, the earth is flat rather than spherical (presumably square, given that it is described as having "four corners" (Revelations 7:1)). However, no credible organization has ever expressed support for this theory.<ref>http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/crea-fe.htm</ref> Some have disputed the idea that the earth rotates around the sun.<ref>http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm</ref>

In [[Book of Revelations|Revelations]] 7:1 it is stated:

"And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth..." (Revelations 7:1)

A sphere has no corners. The four corners are also mentioned in Isaiah 11:12. This is often accepted to be a figure of speech.

It is also stated:

"Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." ([[Book of Daniel|Daniel]] 2:35)

AND

"Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:" (Daniel 4:10-11)

AND

"Behold, [Jesus] cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him" (Revelations 1:7)

AND

"Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world [cosmos] in their glory." ([[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 4:8)

Apologist [[JP Holding]]'s take on this is that this may have been a vision. <ref>http://www.tektonics.org/af/earthshape.html#globe</ref>

==Christianity and the Earth==

===Christian Historical-Grammatical Bible Exegesis or Bible Literalism===

According to [[Creation Ministries International]], most young earth creationists use a [[hermeneutic]] "best described as the [[Historical-grammatical exegesis|historical-grammatical method]] in which historical narrative (such as the book of Genesis) is interpreted as literal history, prophecy is interpreted as prophecy, poetry is interpreted as poetry, etc."<ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/tj/tjv16v2_forster.pdf</ref> Creation Ministries International further states that "Historical-grammatical exegesis involves a systematic approach to analyzing in detail the historical situation, events and circumstances surrounding the text, and the semantics and syntactical relationships of the words which comprise the text."<ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4880/</ref>

Bible scholars have estimated the age of the earth based on the Creation account in Genesis and the genealogical accounts in Numbers and other books of the Pentateuch. One famous estimate was published in 1650 by [[James Ussher|James Ussher Archbishop of Armagh]] in a book called ''Annals of the World,'' in which he estimated the Creation to have occurred on 23 October 4004 B.C. Other Biblical scholars maintain that there are possible gaps in the genealogies, often using the ideas of the 19th century Calvinist theologian [[Benjamin Warfield]] on the issue. <ref>http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/primeval_chronology.shtml</ref> However, [[James Barr]], regius professor of Hebrew at [[Oxford University]], wrote in 1984 the following: "… probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: … the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story.’" <ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1606/</ref> Furthermore, it should be noted that Barr himself rejects supernatural Christianity, and so is not a priori biased in favor of creationism. <ref>http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/pca_creation_study_committee_report.shtml</ref>

Many [[Christian|Christians]] believe that the Earth is the perfect distance away from the Sun and take this to be evidence of [[God]]'s existence. <ref>http://www.everystudent.com/features/isthere.html</ref> Secular scientists, however, reject this reasoning using the anthropic principle<ref>http://www.anthropic-principle.com</ref>.

===Christian Non-Literalism===

Many mainstream Christian denominations believe the story of Genesis is not meant to be read literally, and believe that the age of the Earth is on the order of millions or billions of years, not thousands of years. <ref>http://webusers.xula.edu/cporter/2000n/evolution_and_religion.htm</ref>

===Scientific Uniformitarianism===

Uniformitarian scientists believe that the earth is beyond 4 billion years old.<ref>http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age.html</ref> They also refute that the Earth is only 6,000 years old by quoting older human societies dated by their dating method as older than that.<ref>http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/</ref>

== Naturalistic view ==

Estimates by uniformitarian geologists of the age of the Earth and the beginning of life give about 4.55 billion years and 3.5 billion years ago respectively. These estimates are primarily based on radioactive dating of meteorites and fossil specimens. Most scientists today conclude that the Earth formed by natural processes, specifically by the accumulation of debris orbiting the sun billions of years in the past.<ref name=nebula>"[http://science.jrank.org/pages/6265/Solar-System-solar-nebula-hypothesis.html The Solar Nebula Hypothesis]." ''The Science Encyclopedia''. Accessed May 6, 2008.</ref>

== External links ==

*[http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/earth.htm The Earth]
*[http://www.noaa.gov/ NOAA] An agency that enriches life through science.
*[http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/glossary/ Glossary]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

{{Solarsystem}}

[[Category:Featured articles]]

Eternal life

2009-10-12T03:17:02Z

Mikedrowes:

'''Eternal life''' is the term frequently used by [[Stephen Colbert]] to describe the endless happiness enjoyed in heaven,<ref>Matthew 25:46; Mark 9:44; Luke 18:30: John 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 12.</ref> and to some extent the fullness of life in this lifetime to those that embraced his lessons on living a good life.

==See also==
*[[Eternal death]]

== References ==

<references/>

[[category:religion]]

Genesis 1-8 (Translated)

2009-10-12T03:13:07Z

Mikedrowes: /* Chapter 1 */

==Chapter 1==

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|In the beginning Stephen Colbert created the heaven and the earth.
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|And the earth was without The Daily Show, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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|And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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|And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
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|And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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|And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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|And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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|And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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|And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
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|And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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|And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
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|And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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|And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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|And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
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|And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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|And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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|And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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|And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
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|And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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|And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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|And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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|And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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|And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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|And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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|And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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|And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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|So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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|And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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|And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
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|And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
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|And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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==Chapter 2==

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|Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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|And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
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|And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
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|These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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|And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
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|But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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|And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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|And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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|And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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|And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
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|The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
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|And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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|And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
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|And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
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|And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
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|And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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|But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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|And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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|And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
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|And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
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|And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
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|And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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|And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
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|Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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|And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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==Chapter 3==

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|Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
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|And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
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|But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
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|And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
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|For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
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|And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
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|And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
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|And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
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|And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
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|And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
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|And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
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|And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
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|And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
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|And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
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|And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
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|Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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|And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
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|Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
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|In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
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|And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
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|Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
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|And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
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|Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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|So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
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==Chapter 4==

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|And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
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|And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
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|And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
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|And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
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|But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
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|And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
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|If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
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|And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
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|And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
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|And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
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|And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
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|When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
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|And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
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|Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
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|And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
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|And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
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|And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
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|And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
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|And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
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|And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
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|And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
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|And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
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|And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
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|If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
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|And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
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|And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
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==Chapter 5==

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|This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
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|Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
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|And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
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|And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
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|And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
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|And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
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|And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
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|And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
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|And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
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|And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
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|And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
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|And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
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|And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
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|And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
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|And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
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|And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
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|And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
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|And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
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|And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
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|And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
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|And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
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|And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
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|And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
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|And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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==Chapter 6==

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|And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
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|That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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|And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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|There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
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|And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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|And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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|And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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|But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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|These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
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|And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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|The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
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|And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
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|And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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|Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
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|And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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|A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
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|And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
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|But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
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|And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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|Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
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|And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
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|Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
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==Chapter 7==

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|And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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|Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
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|Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
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|For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
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|And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
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|And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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|And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
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|Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
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|There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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|And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
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|In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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|And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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|In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
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|They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
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|And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
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|And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
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|And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
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|And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
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|And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
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|Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
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|And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
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|All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
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|And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
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|And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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==Chapter 8==

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|And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
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|The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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|And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
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|And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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|And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
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|And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
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|And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
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|Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
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|But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
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|And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
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|And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
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|And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
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|And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
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|14
|And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
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|And God spake unto Noah, saying,
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|Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
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|Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
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|And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
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|Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
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|20
|And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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|21
|And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
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|While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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